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Rob Adams 977d7d3b9c 2.8.3 release
2004-08-15  Rob Adams  <readams@readams.net>

	* NEWS: 2.8.3 release
2004-08-15 18:06:51 +00:00

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