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2004-08-15 Rob Adams <readams@readams.net> * NEWS: 2.8.3 release
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2.8.3
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==
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Some important bug fixes in this release, including somy a11y bugs,
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and a compile issue on Solaris.
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Thanks to Rob Adams, Bill Haneman, Peter O'Shea, Mike Castle, Soeren
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Sandman, Elijah Newren, and Havoc Pennington for fixes in this
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release.
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Fixes
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* Adjust the MRU list when preventing focus stealing (Elijah)
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* Ensure that we maintain a focus window when switching workspaces
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in mouse focus mode (Elijah)
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* Some improvements in the showing desktop mode, and window
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activation (Elijah)
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* Make sure cursors changes are handled correctly (Havoc, Soeren)
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* Some fixes to the window menu (Rob)
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* Fix a compile issue on Solaris (Peter, Mike)
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* Allow struts to go past the middle of the screen, provided there's
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a gap between them, fixing an issue with gnome magnifier (Bill)
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Translations
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* fi (Pauli Virtanen), ja (Takeshi AIHANA), ko (Young-Ho, Cha),
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pl (Gnome PL Team), ru (Dmitry G. Mastrukov), sr (Danilo <20>Å<EFBFBD> egan),
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tk (Gurban M. Tewekgeli), zh_CN (Funda Wang)
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2.8.2
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===
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Many bugfixes and better support for the freedesktop.org EWMH spec.
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Thanks to Rob Adams, Anders Carlsson, Elijah Newren, Soeren Sandmann,
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Emil Soleyman-Zomalan, Michael Terry, and Jeff Waugh for fixes in this
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release.
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- set titlebar_uses_system_font = false (it was ugly)
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- make naming for "move a window"/"move the window"/"move window"
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more consistent (fixes #142235)
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- Add trailing quotes to keybinding explanation text.
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- support for EWMH update counter spec & add compensation events
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when events are ignored. (fixes #143333 and #109362)
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- Fix focus bugs: remove race condition on window close/minimize
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(#131582), make focus choice consistent for each focus mode
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(#135810), choose correct focus window when "un-showing the
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desktop (#144900), make sure correct window is focused when using
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the workspace switcher (#120100).
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- Use meta_topic instead of meta_warning when failing to connect to
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a session manager; reduces metacity verbosity. (fixes #136218)
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- Make meta_window_delete take a timestamp, and be sure to pass it
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one.
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- Add support for EWMH _NET_WM_USER_TIME spec. This enables part of
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preventing focus stealing. (bug #118372) Also fix bug with
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windows not being focused on unminimizing caused by original
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patch. (also bug #118372)
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- Fix some support for EWMH hints, and fix USER_TIME support to
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include the DEMANDS_ATTENTION hint. Also includes some code for
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implementing _NET_RESTACK_WINDOW and _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW, but
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this is disabled pending feature thaw.
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2.8.1
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===
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Thanks to Olivier Crete, Jarrod Johnson, Neil Muller, Elijah Newren,
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Mark McLoughlin, Rob Adams, and foser AT gentoo.org for fixes in this
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release.
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- make the --enable-xinerama switch work properly
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- prevent unwanted grab op from occurring
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- don't down-size nitems from a gulong to an int
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- add a value type check for the visual/audible bell gconf settings
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- make the no sm support warning resizable
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- more translations
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2.8.0
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===
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No code changes in this release, but some new translations.
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2.7.1
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===
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Thanks to Rob Adams for fixes in this release.
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- bug #122016 - fix a focus race
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- Change move_to_workspace_left/right/up/down keybindings to
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<Control><Alt><Shift> arrow to avoid conflicting with new
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keybindings in spacial nautilus.
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- fix dialog stacking order issues so e.g. panel properties
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dialog is above the panel
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2.7.0
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===
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First unstable release tarball for GNOME 2.6.
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Thanks to Anders Carlsson, Elijah Newren, Rob Adams, James Cape,
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Thomas Fitzimmons, Calum Benson for fixes in this release.
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2.6.2
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===
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Thanks to Yukihiro Nakai, Rached Ben Mustapha, Gwenole Beauchesne,
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Padraig O'Briain, Laurent Vivier, Rob Adams for contributions to this
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release.
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- fix to repaint after resize always, so on maximize
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and theme changes we get things drawn properly
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- fix a compile issue on HPUX
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- fix translations of metacity-message output
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- fix to update window icons when they change
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- put a limit on number of characters displayed in
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window titles during Alt+tab
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- fix configure check for Xrandr
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- fix 64-bit bug in property reading that broke
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things badly on 64-bit
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- don't move focus when clicking close button on a window
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- fix a crash in getting pixmap icons
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- spawn dialogs and child processes on the proper
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screen in multihead situations
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- if the focus gets set to None, set it back to
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something sane
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- load accessibility modules and set accessibility roles
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- fix hang after displaying warning dialogs
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- fix a memory corruption when sticking/unsticking windows
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that lead to a frequent crash and windows appearing
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in Alt+tab improperly
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- fix some handling of partial-width panel struts
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- more translations
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2.6.1
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===
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- rebuild with fixed glib-gettext.m4
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2.6.0
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===
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- some additional translations
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2.5.5
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===
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Thanks to Rob Adams, Arvind Samptur, Andreas Volz, Ray Strode, John
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Paul Wallington, Soeren Sandmann for contributions to this release.
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And as always thanks to the translators.
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- fix aspect ratio handling
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- fix "shake loose" functionality for maximized windows
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- handle Xrandr size changes properly again
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- fix fullscreen window detection
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- fix workspace name handling
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- don't steal button press events on root window
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- nuke metacity.spec due to nonmaintenance
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- allow too-large-for-screen windows to move their titlebar offscreen
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- keep an MRU list of windows per-workspace and use it to focus
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the next window when the focused window disappears
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- fix cursor when moving
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- improve appearance of opaque resize
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- make BELOW window state work
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- fix a crash when gdk_pixmap_foreign_new() returned NULL
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2.5.3
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===
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Thanks to Jordi Mallach, Padraig O'Briain, Rob Adams, Julio Merino,
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Ben Jansens, Jurg Billeter, Ray Strode, marcus@freebsd.org, James
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Laska, for contributions to this release. Thanks also to
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all the tireless translators.
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- fixups to .desktop file
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- activate window prior to grab end, avoiding
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extra focus events
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- add support for partial-width panels (fixes corner panel
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and xinerama window position constraints)
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- added keybinding to toggle window as "always on top"
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- support --disable-schemas-install option to configure
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- destroy support for legacy GNOME 1.x hints; metacity
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no longer works with GNOME 1.x
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- disable raise-on-click for mouse focus modes
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- fix bug that broke many Javascript popup menus with mozilla
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- allow "shaking loose" maximized windows, to move them
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between Xinerama heads or whatever
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- honor desktop-wide double click timeout
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- handle window placement properly for windows that
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start out maximized
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- integrate Ximian patch to go ahead and log out after 4 minutes
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even if a dialog is open
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- fix a segfault
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- fix bug where window groups weren't always kept up to date
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- fix bug where focus got confused when switching workspaces
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with mouse focus mode
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- fix 64-bit crash on s390x
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- chdir to user's homedir on startup
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- keep window in fullscreen layer when its transients are focused
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- fix keybindings bug when you had ScrollLock enabled
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- many translation updates
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2.5.2
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===
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Thanks to David Santiago, Julien Olivier, Anders Carlsson, Rob Adams
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for fixes in this release.
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- improved wording/UI for some dialogs
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- while clicking a window button, if you move the mouse outside
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the button such that releasing the mouse button won't activate
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the window button, visually indicate by "popping out" the button.
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- fix some valgrind errors
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- change "show desktop mode" to convert to "everything is minimized
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mode" if you open a new window while showing desktop, rather
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than previous behavior of simply leaving show desktop mode.
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- fix a trivial memory leak
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- change "move to workspace N" so it doesn't switch workspaces,
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just moves the window.
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- translation updates
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2.5.1
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===
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Thanks to Rob Adams, Peter O'Shea, Dafydd Harries, Masahiro Sakai,
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Soeren Sandmann for fixes in this release.
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- fix bug where fullscreen windows were below top panels
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- build fix for Solaris
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- support diagonal window movement with numeric keypad
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- multihead fix
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- build fix for Cygwin
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- place on xinerama containing the pointer
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- fix totally hosed window placement/movement for frameless
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windows
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- improvement to smoothness of window move/resize
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2.5.0
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===
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Thanks to Rob Adams, Owen Taylor, Frederic Crozat, Arvind Samptur,
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Bill Haneman, Akira Tagoh for help with fixes in this release.
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- many new translations
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- fix an infinite loop while holding a server grab triggered by
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some recent Qt versions doing weird stuff
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- fix bug where Alt+rightclick repeatedly on titlebar resulted
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in zillions of menus
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- fix Alt+Tab to *actually* put minimized windows at the end,
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though this was always intended
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- rewrite size/positions constraint code (currently known
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to be quite buggy, e.g. xmms is hosed)
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- enforce size of at least 1x1 on windows
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- reduce latency of managing new windows still further
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by using async properties code in more places
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- don't grab keybindings on docks, so gnome-panel
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can handle them
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- suck in the panel's screenshot and run dialog global
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bindings
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- lots of improvements to window placement
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- sync max number of workspaces with pager applet
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- fix to keep focus when inside window frame in
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strict mouse focus mode
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- make it possible to start a reverse tab with
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shift+alt+tab (vs. alt+tab then shift)
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- fix a multihead issue with constraints between two
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windows on different heads
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- require GTK+ 2.2.0 and fontconfig
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- default theme is now Simple
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- add visual bell feature
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- incorporate many fixes from 2.4.34
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- other stuff
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2.4.13
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===
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- we were making all dialogs skip the taskbar, even non-transient
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ones, though this was supposedly fixed a while ago. Now really
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fixed.
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- change back to Alt+click by default for the window drag feature.
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- assign Alt+F12 to shade window
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- fix not deleting enough workspaces when the number
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was reduced via the pager config dialog (readams@hmc.edu)
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- don't allow windows under the top panel ever, even if they
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are tall windows (Arvind)
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- fix up the window layout for directional workspace nav,
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so you always stop at the edges and always end up
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where you expect (hp, with tweaks from readams@hmc.edu)
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- focus new windows in mouse focus mode (readams@hmc.edu)
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- support xeyes, oclock, etc. by applying shape mask
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to the window manager frame (yeah it resizes slow, deal)
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- fix vertical/horizontal maximize
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- handle crossing events resizing for more opaque resize goodness
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(Soeren)
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- add wacky _METACITY_UPDATE_COUNTER experimental extension
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to do nice opaque resizing (does nothing without a GTK patch)
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- fix a crash setting workspace names
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- fix internationalized WM_NAME reading
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