Re: [Sawfish] [ANN] Sawfish 1.13.0 "Bolero"

["Janek Kozicki (yade)" <jkozicki-yade@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is awesome news! Thank you very much :-)

merry christmas and happy new year :)

Janek


Christopher Roy Bratusek said:     (by the date of Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:34:36 +0100)

> Merry christmas everyone,
> 
> 
> more than five years after the last stable release, respectively four 
> since the last beta, version 1.13.0 is now finally official. I'd like to 
> thank anyone who has contributed to the release, still supports users or 
> simply still uses Sawfish.
> 
> 
> Download
> 
> Release Tarballs: https://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/
> 
> Source repository: https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish
> 
> Debian packages: https://apt.nanolx.org/ NOTE: currently I've only 
> uploaded amd64 packages, no i386/armhf yet.
> 
> 
> ChangeLog
> 
> 1.13.0 "Bolero"
> ===============
> 
>     * Bug Fixes
>          - Fix random resize issues with GTK+3 [GSR]
> 
>          - Improved KDE4/5 integration, prevent Plasma and KRunner
>            windows to be tiled.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Update KDE5 session script, use 'startx11-plasma' instead of
>            'startkde' [Christpher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Make 'shring-yank' recognise screen edges when shrinking or
>            yanking windows, when the window crosses screen edges [Michal
>            Nazarewicz]
> 
>          - Add support for '_NET_FRAME_EXTENTS' and
>            '_NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS' properties, fixing issues with
>            HTML5 data element positioning in browsers, and several more
>            [GSR]
> 
>          - Fix wrong detection of GNOME because of other DEs using an old
>            GNOME-related envvar [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>     * Build and Installation
>          - Make build reproducible [Bernhard M. Wiedemann]
> 
>          - Fix cross compilation [Helmut Grohne]
> 
>          - Fix compilation with GCC10 [Kim B. Heino]
>               x allow overriding 'build-info' build time, hostname and
>                 username.
>               x avoid recreating theme tarball for every single file (the
>                 old code was erroneously recreating theme tarballs for
>                 each file contained thus calling 'tar' over 200 times to
>                 create 8 tarballs)
>               x make 'DOC' file reproducibly
>               x other improvements to make builds reproducible
> 
>          - Explicitely check for 'rep' binary, not just 'librep-dev'.
>            [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - First check for 'libgtk2.0-dev' then for 'rep-gtk-dev'.
>            [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Only create session file directories for GNOME 2, KDE 4 or KDE
>            5 if actually requested by user.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Makefile.in 'distclean' target no longer utilizes
>            debian/rules, no longer removes finalized RPM spec file or
>            Gentoo ebuild.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Remove dead code from 'build-info' [Ulrik Haugen]
> 
>          - Revert commit '6ad175d835aee85179259d7c02b3be152d3e4b86', "The
>            problem is that any sticky windows that have been focused…",
>            see https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/pull/49 [Mario
>            Goulart]
> 
>     * New or changes features
>          - Make 'match-window' allow specifying arbitrary functions as
>            filter [Michal Nazarewicz]
> 
>     * Miscellaneous Changes
>          - Various minor changes to the Makefiles, mostly replacing
>            'gitlcean' target with 'distclean' target and adding '.PHONY'
>            section.  Also move theme tarball creation into 'all' target,
>            rather than 'install' target.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Make 'rename-window' throw an actual useful error message if
>            no string (or no usable) was given.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Make 'resize-window-prompt' throw an actual useful error
>            message if one (or both) of the input values was not given.
>            [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Move several modules from 'sawfish.wm.prg' into the Sawfish
>            Extras package [Christopher Bratusek]
>               + 'diodon'
>               + 'fehlstart'
>               + 'idesk'
>               + 'nm-applet'
>               + 'pancake'
> 
>          - Filter out 'Trayer' in 'cabinet'.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Update Lumina integration.  [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Update GNOME integration and explicitely check for GNOME,
>            respectively GNOME-classic [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Update KDE5 integration, check for plasma as desktop session
>            [Christopher Bratusek]
> 
>          - Simplify Frame-Style README parsing.  [OpenBSD patch]
> 
>          - Update Japanese translation..  [Takeshi Hamasaki]
> 
>          - Update Korean translation.  [parkmino]
> 


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