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* NEWS: 2.16.2 release
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2.16.2
======
Thanks to Eljah Newren, Maik Beckmann, Christian Hamar, Thomas Andersen,
and Bruno Boaventura de Olevira for changes in this release.
- partial audit to fix timestamp usage (partly fixes #355180) (Elijah)
- remove compilation warnings (#355876) (Maik); (#355490) (Bruno);
(#355489) (Bruno).
- automatic detection of stable/unstable in configure script
(#356122) (Christian/Elijah)
- make windows be stacked correctly before showing them (#332385) (Thomas)
- use guint32 for timestamps (#348305) (Elijah)
Translators
Wouter Bolsterlee (nl), Matic Žgur (sl), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es),
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Jordi Mallach (ca), Ilkka Tuohela (fi),
Rajesh Ranjan (hi), Woodman Tuen (zh_HK, zh_TW), Ani Peter (ml),
Felix (ta), Ankit Patel (gu), Mohammad DAMT (id)
2.16.1
======
Thanks to Elijah Newren, Colin Watson, and Bruno Boaventura de Olevira
Lacerda for changes in this release.
- fix stuck grab, letting focus be transferred between windows (Elijah)
[#354422 partial]
- windows returning from fullscreen are constrained to be onscreen
(Elijah) [#353699]
- Clear the transient_for flag of a window after emitting a warning
(Colin)
- Replace copy_of_gdk_x11_window_set_user_time() with the real thing
(Bruno) [#352293]
Translators
David Lodge (en_GB), Ivar Smolin (et), Matic Žgur (sl),
Vasiliy Faronov (ru)
2.16.0
==
Thanks to Jens Granseuer for changes in this release.
- Fix the build with c89/gcc 2.95.
Translators
Rahul Bhalerao (mr), Runa Bhattacharjee (bn_IN), Woodman Tuen
(zh_HK, zh_TW), Kostas Papadimas (el), Ani Peter (ml),
Jonathan Ernst (fr), Горан Ракић (sr, Gabor Kelemen (hu),
Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Duarte Loreto (pt), Jordi Mallach (ca),
Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
2.15.34
==
Thanks to Stéphane Rosi, Vytautus Liuolia, Will Walker, Baptiste
Mille-Mathias, Elijah Newren, Ed Catmur, and Thomas Andersen for fixes
in this release.
- allow moving maximized windows between xineramas again (Stéphane)
[#338660]
- fix an uninitialized-usage bug with net_wm_user_time that breaks
focus with new windows (Vytautus)
- re-fix accessibility events for the alt-tab popup (Will) [#350624]
- update the close pixmap to fit better with the other pixmaps of the
menu (Baptiste) [#345498]
- fix several fullscreen handling bugs I introduced, causing
fullscreen windows to not actually be shown fullscreen (Elijah)
[#343115]
- fix keybindings with hex-values, coming from special extended
keyboard keys (Ed) [#140448]
- fix metacity-dialog handling of arguments (Thomas) [#340690]
Translators
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Jordi Mallach (ca), Gabor Kelemen (hu),
Mohammad DAMT (id), Wouter Bolsterlee (nl), Daniel Nylander (sv),
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.15.21
==
Thanks to Vincent Untz, Jens Granseuer, Björn Lindqvist, Dmitry
Timoshkov, Thomas Thurman, Vytautas Liuolia, Thomas Andersen, Chris
Ball, and Elijah Newren for fixes in this release.
- kill usage of libegg (Vincent) [#348633]
- fix another C89 vs. C99 issue (Jens) [#347621]
- make it so maximized windows do not have rounded corners (Björn)
[#336850]
- fix the heuristic for determining if windows can be made
fullscreen, needed for WINE and possible also some legacy
applications (Dmitry) [#346927]
- make sure window features get recalculated when the screen is
resized via XRandR (Dmitry) [#346927]
- fitts' law fixes for titlebar buttons on maximized windows (Thomas
Thurman) [#97703]
- react to _NET_STARTUP_ID changes, as proposed for the new
startup-notification/EWMH spec (Vytautas) [#347515]
- return the window to maximized state if the window was "shaken
loose" from maximized state during a resize but the resize is later
aborted (Thomas Andersen) [#346719]
- fix button lighting with dragged clicks (Björn) [#321474]
- don't minimize in response to double clicks on the titlebar when
minimiziation should not be allowed (Chris) [#347377]
- fix some titlebar-not-on-screen constraint issues (Elijah)
[#333328, #345522]
Translators
Mahay Alam Khan (bn_IN), Jakub Friedl (cs), Iñaki Larrañaga
Murgoitio (eu), Yuval Tanny (he), Rajesh Ranjan (hi), Jovan
Naumovski (mk) Kjartan Maraas (nb), Leonid Kanter (ru)
2.15.13
==
Thanks to Björn Lindqvist and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this
release.
- grab alt+shift+button1 when trying to snap-move windows (Björn)
- avoid a case where memory is written after it's freed (Thomas)
Translators
Hendrik Richter (de), Kostas Papadimas (el), Jonathan Ernst (fr),
Satoru SATOH (ja)
2.15.8
==
Known as the "Elijah sucks for not reviewing a couple dozen patches"
release. And for not getting on IRC soon enough to catch Marnanel and
show him how to do the release. So, just translations this time.
Translations
Mahay Alam Khan (bn_IN), Rhys Jones (cy), Francisco Javier
F. Serrador (es), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Rajesh Ranjan (hi), Changwoo
Ryu (ko), Fano Rajaonarisoa (mg), Sanlig Badral (mn), Слободан Д.
Средојевић (sr), Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.15.5
==
Thanks to Björn Lindqvist, Søren Sandmann, Adam Jackson, Elijah
Newren, and Aidan Delaney for improvements in this release.
- code cleanup in resizepopup.c (Björn) [#341648]
- fix a logic bug so that the whole titlebar becomes sensitive to
mouse clicks (Björn) [#336320]
- make mouse cursor when moving windows become a hand (Björn) [#337376]
- lots and lots of compositor improvements -- beginning of a new
layer to abstract transition effects, shrinking and minimizing and
exploding effects, fading in and out, unminimize animation that
reverses minimize one, translucent menus, bounce on window focus,
and all kinds of stuff I don't understand and can't summarize well
(Søren, Adam)
- Fix a crash on exit/logout from assuming a compositor would always
exist (Elijah) [#342166]
- code cleanup in tabpopup.c (Aidan Delaney) [#166890]
Translations
Pema Geyleg (dz), Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu), Theppitak
Karoonboonyanan (th), Clytie Siddall (vi)
2.15.3
==
Thanks to Søren Sandmann, Elijah Newren, Paolo Borelli, Björn
Lindqvist, jylefort at FreeBSD org,
- various code cleanups (Søren)
- prevent long titles from "sticking" in the tasklist (Elijah) [#330671]
- handle sync counter notifications in the compositor (Søren)
- notes/documentation updates (Elijah)
- plug a small leak (Paolo)
- remove a lot of dead code obsoleted by the new edge-resistance
stuff (Björn) [#341561]
- prevent a crash when changing resolution (jylefort) [#340847]
- revert an accessibility module loading workaround from Gnome 2.6
that has long since been fixed for us in gtk+ (Elijah) [#123372]
Translations
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl),
Raivis Dejus (lv), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Funda Wang (zh_CN), Woodman
Tuen (zh_HK), Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)
2.15.2
==
Here's hoping that "third time's a charm." ;-) This release just
fixes the translations-not-included issue. See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-April/msg00483.html
for more details.
- Use gnome-autogen.sh like most other modules (Rodney)
2.15.1
==
This release just fixes the control-center build (which depends upon
libmetacity-private). Thanks to Vincent for catching the problem.
- Include boxes.h in the includes dir (Elijah) [#339708]
2.15.0
==
Thanks to Thomas Thurman, Elijah Newren, Havoc Pennington, Björn
Lindqvist, Gora Mohanty, Alejandro Andres, Andy Morum, Dan Sanders,
Thomas Andersen, Brian Pepple, and Søren Sandmann for improvements in
this release. (Note that "Thomas" below refers to Thomas Thurman if
last name isn't specified)
- An endless array of compositor updates, not all of which are well
explained in the ChangeLog. ;-) Includes an ability to enable and
disable the compositor at runtime, fixed up wobbling effect and new
explosion effect, special magnification handling, different opacity
for different window types like menus, a way of scaling windows,
handling of foreign displays, improved handling of window
moving/resizing, various code restructuring, special runtime checks
for correct extensions and other compositors, lots of bug fixes,
and possibly other stuff I'm missing or not understanding (Søren)
- Removed "move to another workspace" menu when there are exactly two
workspaces (Thomas) [#151183]
- fix type for compositing_manager schema entry (Elijah) [#335901]
- Port more properties to our async system for code cleanliness and
speed improvements (Havoc, Thomas)
- Lots of code cleanup, even more code cleanup, wow our code was
messy (Björn) [#335177, #337507, #336890, #338359]
- Abstract out the functions for setting/unsetting demands attention
hint and avoid doing it when the window isn't obscured (Thomas)
[#305882]
- Change strings to make them more readable, and more
translatable (Gora) [#335720]
- Reduce compiling warnings -- add a number of casts and change
signedness on a number of variables (Björn) [#336032]
- Fixed broken links in README (Alejandro) [#333303]
- Add a tabbing function, bound to alt-f6 by default, to cycle
through the windows of the current application (Thomas) [#94682]
- Fix the build with --disable-xsync (Andy) [#336605]
- Raise windows on maximize/unmaximize (Dan) [#335076]
- Don't have confirmation windows make applications appear to be
locked when closing via the window list (Dan) [#334899]
- Allow any keybinding pref to be specified either with <foo>, a
string, or <foo>_list, a list of strings, or both (Thomas)
[#164831]
- warn and ignore if transient_for is set to a non-top-level window
(Thomas Andersen) [#335524]
- Use po/LINGUAS for listing supported languages (Brian) [#337951]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Jordi Mallach (ca), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Rhys
Jones (cy), Lasse Bang Mikkelsen (da), Frank Arnold (de), Kostas
Papadimas (el), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ivar Smolin (et), Iñaki
Larrañaga (eu), Farzaneh Sarafraz (fa), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Ignacio Casal
Quinteiro (gl), Ankit Patel (gu), Rajesh Ranjan (hi), Gabor Kelemen (hu),
Satoru SATOH (ja), Alexander Didebulidze (ka), Žygimantas Beručka (lt),
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Michiel Sikkes (nl), Åsmund Skjæveland (nn), Gora
Mohanty (or), Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Duarte Loreto (pt), Mugurel Tudor (ro),
Leonid Kanter (ru), Steve Murphy (rw), Laurent Dhima (sq), Слободан Д.
Средојевић (sr), Daniel Nylander (sv), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Maxim
Dziumanenko (uk), Clytie Siddall (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.14.3
==
This release just reverts the widely hated new focus behavior of Metacity
2.14.x to the behavior found in 2.12.x. Patch came from Ron Yorston.
See http://blogs.gnome.org/view/newren/2006/04/13/0 and
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-April/msg00025.html for
more details.
- Add a focus_new_windows gconf key, change the default to 'smart' (2.12
behavior) and add a 'strict' option to get 2.14 behavior. (Ron)
[#326159]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Frank Arnold (de), Francisco
Javier F. Serrador (es), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Tino Meinen (nl), Åsmund
Skjæveland (nn), Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Daniel Nylander (sv)
2.14.2
==
Thanks to Thomas Thurman, Paolo Borelli, Björn Lindqvist, and
Elijah Newren for fixes in this release.
- Fix constraints bug causing negative width windows and crashes
(Elijah) [#336651]
- Fix window grouping with parent/child windows (Björn) [#336184]
- use g_str_has_prefix instead of a local copy of the function
(Paolo) [#334643]
- Make sure pager can refresh when window is minimized on a different
workspace (Thomas) [#315142]
- Add debugging information for edge resistance (Elijah)
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), tangi.bzh (br), Jordi Mallach (ca), Miloslav
Trmac (cs), Rhys Jones (cy), Lasse Bang Mikkelsen (da), Frank
Arnold (de), Mindu Dorji (dz), Kostas Papadimas (el), Francisco
Javier F. Serrador (es), Ivar Smolin (et), Iñaki Larrañaga
Murgoitio (eu), Elnaz Sarbar (fa), Ilkka Tuohela (fi),
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ankit Patel (gu), Rajesh Ranjan (hi)
Gabor Kelemen (hu), Luca Ferretti (it), Satoru SATOH (ja), Vladimer
Sichinava (ka), Žygimantas Beručka (lt), Kjartan Maraas (nb),
Tino Meinen (nl), Kjartan Maraas (no), Gora Mohanty (or), Gnome PL
Team (pl), Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR), Duarte Loreto (pt),
Mugurel Tudor (ro), Leonid Kanter (ru), Laurent Dhima (sq),
Слободан Д. Средојевић (sr), Daniel Nylander (sv), Theppitak
Karoonboonyanan (th), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Clytie Siddall (vi),
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.14.1
==
The only change since 2.14.0 is to remove the "This is the UNSTABLE
branch" warning from configure for those compiling Metacity from
source.
2.14.0
==
Thanks to Ryan Lortie and Thomas Thurman for fixes in this release.
- Mark the app-running-remotely-window-title string for translation
(Thomas) [#334332]
- Only unmaximise window before freeing if the window is actually
maximised (Ryan) [#333563]
Translations
Jordi Mallach (ca), Frank Arnold (de), Luca Ferretti (it), Evandro
Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
2.13.144
==
Thanks to Jens Granseuer, Kristian, Søren Sandmann, Sylvain
Bertrand, and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this release.
- Fix build with gcc 2.95 (Jens) [#331166]
- Compositor improvements [remember, still off by default]: add
unused wobbly (un)minimize animation (Kristian), add support for
turning updates on and off (Søren), use sync counter to make
composited resizing tear free (Søren), add ability to unmanage
the screen (Søren),
- Fix build issue with library search order (Sylvain) [#330695]
- Work around buggy application grouping with transient windows
(Thomas) [#328211]
- Prevent setting cycle_windows to keybindings that won't work.
(Thomas) [#329676]
2.13.89
==
Thanks to Søren Sandmann, Thomas Thurman, Thom May, Akira Tagoh,
Luke Morton, and Philip O'Brien for improvements in this release.
- Compositor improvements [remember that the compositor is still
disabled by default]: New fancy minimize animation that fades in
and out, new debug stuff, various bug fixes (Søren)
- When buggy apps create synthetic button or keypresses without a
timestamp, produce a warning instead of failing an assertion
(Thomas) [#313490]
- Avoid a memory leak when checking which workspace(s) a window is
on (Thomas) [#322059]
- Add a man page for metacity (Thom, Akira, Luke, Philip) [#321279]
- Disable alt-f7 if a window can't be moved, and alt-f8 if it can't
be resized (Thomas) [#328920]
- Allow alt-escape to cancel alt-tabbing, and vice versa (Thomas)
[#141425]
Translations
Miloslav Trmac (cs), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Tino Meinen (nl),
Kjartan Maraas (no), Слободан Д. Средојевић (sr), Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.13.55
==
Thanks to Dick Marinus, Christian Kirbach, and Elijah Newren for
improvements in this release.
- Add a minimize and none double-click-titlebar-action (Dick)
[#300210]
- Prevent a critical warning crasher when switching themes
(Christian) [#327847]
- Fix some uninitialized value problems (Elijah)
- If the mouse enters a window on a different screen, activate the
default window on the new screen (Elijah) [#319348]
Translations
Jordi Mallach (ca), Adam Weinberger (en_CA), Francisco Javier
F. Serrador (es), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl),
Ankit Patel (gu), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Evandro
Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Clytie
Siddall (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.13.34
==
Thanks to Damien Carbery, Havoc Pennington, Søren Sandmann,
Björn Lindqvist, Kjartan Maraas, Elijah Newren for improvements in
this release.
- manually define HOST_NAME_MAX if not already defined to fix Solaris
compilation issue (Damien, Havoc) [#326745]
- compositor improvements: port to changes in libcm, do it again, fix
unrefing, make minimize animation update again (all done by Søren)
- make sure an outline border is shown even if a window decoration's
width is 0 (Björn) [#98340]
- correctly handle window alt-tab outlines in showing desktop mode
(Björn) [#98340]
- fix lots of tiny issues spotted by the intel compiler (Kjartan)
[#321439]
- prevent rapidly repeated visual bells from hanging metacity
(Elijah) [#322032]
- more careful error handling of values returned by GConf (Elijah)
[#326615]
- fix various initialization and default issues, especially for
running with --disable-gconf. Make --disable-gconf actually work.
(Elijah) [#326661]
- fix some reading-from-free'd-data errors (Søren) [#327575]
- fix an unitialized value problem when in raise-on-click mode
(Søren) [#327572]
- avoid flashing original-sized window when closing a maximized
window (Elijah) [#317254]
- prevent windows from sometimes getting shoved and smashed by
sliding (and possibly auto-hiding) panels (Elijah) [#327822]
Translations
Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Tino Meinen (nl),
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.13.21
==
Thanks to Damien Carbery, Ray Strode, Søren Sandmann, Elijah
Newren, Jens Granseuer, and Kyle Ambroff for improvements in this
release.
- Fix Solaris compilation issues (Ray, Damien) [#326281, #326746]
- Merge compositor work from branches to get the beginnings of an openGL
based compositor. Still not ready and thus disabled by default.
(Søren)
- Composite fixes: Only update composite on damage events (Søren), get
non-composite compilation working again (Elijah), Really turn off
draw-in-a-loop (Søren)
- Don't dereference a NULL string (Elijah) [#327013]
- GCC 2.95 fix; remove more C99 style variable initiailizations (Jens)
[#327050]
- Fix accidental overzealous focus holding by the terminal (introduced in
last release) so that windows launched from panel icons, the panel
menu, or global keybindings should get focus now. (Elijah) [#326159]
- If no valid window is found in the MRU list, then set focus to the
desktop window. (Kyle) [#317405]
Translations
Adam Weinberger (en_CA), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ankit
Patel (gu), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th),
Clytie Siddall (vi)
2.13.13
==
Thanks to Jens Granseuer, Björn Lindqvist, and Elijah Newren for
improvements in this release.
- Remove C99 style variable initiailization (Jens) [#322622]
- Fix a logic error (Björn) [#322149]
- Plug a few leaks (Elijah) [#309178]
- Allow edge resistance at both sides of a window and also when edges
don't overlap but are a single pixel away from doing so (Elijah)
[part of #321905]
- Remove the timeout resistance at screen/xinerama edges (Elijah)
[part of #321905]
- Revert to the old edge resistance behavior for keyboard
movement/resizing based resistance (Elijah) [part of #321905]
- Remove the "pull-away" edge resistance (Elijah) [part of #321905]
- Avoid crashing when visual bell is in use and focus window is
closed (Elijah) [#322031]
- Be more strict about what is considered a valid region with partial
struts (Elijah) [#322070]
- Fix reduced resources resize handling for windows with sizing or
resizing constraints (Elijah) [#325774]
- Fix window outline for minimized windows when using alt-esc
(Elijah) [#325092]
- Make the taskbar less flash happy and fix up some related stacking
issues (Elijah) [#326035]
- More thorough handling of source indication (Elijah) [part of #326041]
- Don't "steal" focus from terminal windows for new window mappings
as the difference in usage between terminals and other apps seems
to suggest this difference in treatment. See bug #326159 for
details, feedback welcome (Elijah) [#326159]
- Add a raise on click option, basically only because all the major
distros are patching it in anyway (though each and every one of
them has bugs in their implementations). (Elijah) [#326156]
Translations
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no)
2.13.8
==
Thanks to Kang Jeong-Hee and Elijah Newren for improvements in this
release.
- Fix some compilation warnings and issues (Kang)
- Escape the title since it is going to be treated as Markup (Elijah)
[#324846]
- Make the workspace switcher work with dual-head (non-xinerama)
setups (Elijah) [#319423]
Translations
Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Ankit Patel (gu), Kang Joeng-Hee (ko)
2.13.5
==
Thanks to Davyd Madeley, Kjartan Maraas, and Björn Lindqvist for
improvements in this release.
- Make a debugging message actually correspond to the code (Björn)
[#322051]
- Make the wireframe a bit slimmer (Kjartan) [#320051]
- Display hostname in titlebar for remote X clients (Davyd) [#322202]
Translations
Miloslav Trmac (cs), Adam Weinberger (en_CA), Ankit Patel (gu),
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Marcel Telka (sk)
2.13.3
==
This is a special edition release just for gicmo, code-named 'elijah,
please do a release so magic seb can bring it to me'. It fixes a
number of issues due to the major constraints changes found since the
last release.
Thanks to Davyd Madeley and Elijah Newren for improvements in this release.
- Differentiate between movement towards an edge and movement away from
one for edge-resistance. Pick smaller constants for movement away from
an edge (Elijah)
- Use GPOINTER_TO_INT() macro instead of cast to allow compilation on
64-bit architectures without warning (Davyd)
- compute the frame geometry due to maximization only after actually
maximizing (Elijah) [#321902]
- add some developer documentation on updating struts, workareas, regions,
and edges (Elijah)
- When updating the xinerama due to placement, update which
maximal/spanning rect set to use as well (Elijah) [#322068]
- Relax the partially onscreen constraint to allow the titlebar to touch
the bottom panel in order to make the new constraints code function the
same as the old version (Elijah) [#322071]
- Don't allow removing a window from maximized or fullscreened state to
place the titlebar under the top panel (Elijah) [#322075]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ignacio Casal
Quinteiro (gl), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
2.13.2
==
This release just contains a merge of all the changes on the
constraints_experiments branch.
Thanks to Havoc Pennington for reviewing the gargantuan patch and
suggesting lots of little fixes for making it better, to Rob Adams and
Soeren Sandmann for grilling me on how some of the difficult internals work
-- allowing me to improve the documentation, to Olav Vitters for finding an
easy-to-fix crasher bug in early testing and for repeatedly extending my
deadline for switching from working on Metacity to Bugzilla, to Ray Strode
for finding two crashers and fixing one of them in early testing, to Bryan
Clark for usability advice, to Davyd Madeley and Christian Kellner for
testing Xinerama stuff, to Sebastien Bacher for packaging an early version
and finding some obscure bugs (that I unfortunately still can't duplicate
and will probably still need to fix once I can),
Bugs fixed:
unfiled - constraints.c is overly complicated[1]
unfiled - constraints.c is not robust when all constraints cannot
simultaneously be met (constraints need to be prioritized)
unfiled - keep-titlebar-onscreen constraint is decoration unaware (since
get_outermost_onscreen_positions() forgets to include
decorations)
unfiled - keyboard snap-moving and snap-resizing snap to hidden edges
86644 - resize should have a shift option like move does
109553 - gravity w/ simultaneous move & resize doesn't work
113601 - maximize vertical and horizontal should toggle and be
constrained
122196 - windows show up under vertical panels
122670 - jerky/random resizing of window via keyboard[2]
124582 - keyboard and mouse snap-resizing and snap-moving erroneously
moves the window multidimensionally
136307 - don't allow apps to resize themselves off the screen (*cough*
filechooser *cough*)
142016, 143784 - windows should not span multiple xineramas unless
placed there by the user
143145 - clamp new windows to screensize and force them onscreen, if
they'll fit
144126 - Handle pathological strut lists sanely[3]
149867 - fixed aspect ratio windows are difficult to resize[4]
152898 - make screen edges consistent; allow easy slamming of windows
into the left, right, and bottom edges of the screen too.
154706 - bouncing weirdness at screen edge with keyboard moving or
resizing
156699 - avoid struts when placing windows, if possible (nasty a11y
blocker)
302456 - dragging offscreen too restrictive
304857 - wireframe moving off the top of the screen is misleading
308521 - make uni-directional resizing easier with alt-middle-drag and
prevent the occasional super annoying resize-the-wrong-side(s)
behavior
312007 - snap-resize moves windows with a minimum size constraint
312104 - resizing the top of a window can cause the bottom to grow
319351 - don't instantly snap on mouse-move-snapping, remove
braindeadedness of having order of releasing shift and
releasing button press matter so much
[1] fixed in my opinion, anyway.
[2] Actually, it's not totally fixed--it's just annoying
instead of almost completely unusable. Matthias had a
suggestion that may fix the remainder of the problems (see
http://tinyurl.com/bwzuu).
[3] This bug was originally about not-quite-so-pathological
cases but was left open for the worse cases. The code from
the branch handles the remainder of the cases mentioned in
this bug.
[4] Actually, although it's far better there's still some minor
issues left: a slight drift that's only noticeable after
lots of resizing, and potential problems with partially
onscreen constraints due to not clearing any
fixed_directions flags (aspect ratio windows get resized in
both directions and thus aren't fixed in one of them)
New feature:
81704 - edge resistance for user move and resize operations; in
particular 3 different kinds of resistance are implemented:
Pixel-Distance: window movement is resisted when it aligns with an
edge unless the movement is greater than a threshold number of
pixels
Timeout: window movement past an edge is prevented until a certain
amount of time has elapsed during the operation since the first
request to move it past that edge
Keyboard-Buildup: when moving or resizing with the keyboard, once a
window is aligned with a certain edge it cannot move past until the
correct direction has been pressed enough times (e.g. 2 or 3 times)
Major code changes:
- constraints.c has been rewritten; very few lines of code from the old
version remain. There is a comment near the top of the function
explaining the basics of how the new framework works. A more detailed
explanation can be found in doc/how-constraints-works.txt
- edge-resistance.[ch] are new files implementing edge-resistance.
- boxes.[ch] are new files containing low-level error-prone functions
used heavily in constraints.c and edge-resistance.c, among various
places throughout the code. testboxes.c contains a thorough testsuite
for the boxes.[ch] functions compiled into a program, testboxes.
- meta_window_move_resize_internal() *must* be told the gravity of the
associated operation (if it's just a move operation, the gravity will
be ignored, but for resize and move+resize the correct value is needed)
- the craziness of different values that
meta_window_move_resize_internal() accepts has been documented in a
large comment at the beginning of the function. It may be possible to
clean this up some, but until then things will remain as they were
before--caller beware.
- screen and xinerama usable areas (i.e. places not covered by
e.g. panels) are cached in the workspace now, as are the screen and
xinerama edges. These get updated with the workarea in
src/workspace.c:ensure_work_areas_validated()
Translation
Michiel Sikkes (nl)
2.13.1
==
Thanks to Philip O'Brien, Kjartan Maraas, and Aidan Delaney for
improvements in this release.
- add handling for META_PREF_CURSOR_THEME and META_PREF_CURSOR_SIZE
for more complete debug info (Philip) [#318976]
- Remove possible g_source leak in #ifdef'd out code, in case anyone uses
it in the future (Kjartan) [#320050]
- Changed the 'minimized' field of the MetaTabEntry struct to 'hidden'
(Aidan) [#168455]
Translations
Miloslav Trmac (cs), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Takeshi AIHANA (ja),
Erdal Ronahi (ku), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
2.13.0
==
Thanks to Björn Lindqvist, Kjartan Maraas, Søren Sandmann,
Elijah Newren, Ross Cohen, and Muktha for improvements in this release
since 2.12.1.
- Mave ancestors come along with the transient when moving the window from
one workspace to another (Björn) [#314977]
- Fix the workspace switcher tabpopup to display the right windows and to
fix the pick-a-new-window-to-focus algorithm in order to not select
windows that aren't showing (Björn) [#170475]
- Fix a couple memory leaks (Kjartan, Søren, Elijah) [#313030]
- Make alt-esc (the "switch between windows immediately" keybinding)
actually show minimized windows too (Ross) [#107072]
- Make alt-esc consistent with alt-tab by leaving stacking of unselected
windows unchanged (Ross) [#314285]
- Clarify the meaning of the auto_raise preference (Elijah) [#312421]
- Fix a crash that occurs when removing some virtual desktops and windows
happen to be on those desktops (Elijah) [#318306]
- Make the unfocussed Simple window border visible with high contrast
inverse theme (Muktha) [#121361]
- Fix edge snapping for multi-screen (non-xinerama) setups (Elijah)
[#319425]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Kostas Papadimas (el), Adam Weinberger (en_CA),
Ivar Smolin (et), Michiel Sikkes (nl), Marcel Telka (sk), Funda
Wang (zh_CN)
2.12.1
==
Thanks to Ray Strode, Havoc Pennington, and Elijah Newren for
improvements in this release.
- Truncate ridiculously long titles to avoid crashing or letting the
pager crash (Ray, Havoc, Elijah) [#315070]
- Get the tabbing window outline to work with gtk+ 2.8.4 again
(Elijah) [#317528]
Translations
Mahay Alam Khan (bn), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ivar Smolin (et),
Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu), Luca Ferretti (it), Christian Rose (sv),
Clytie Siddall (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.12.0
==
Thanks to Brent Smith for finding the crasher in the release candidate!
- Fix an uninitialized variable problem causing crashes (Brent) [#315000]
Translations
Bryn Salisbury (cy), Hendrik Richter (de), Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr),
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Norayr Chilingaryan (hy), Young-Ho Cha (ko),
Žygimantas Berucka (lt), Michiel Sikkes (nl), Leonid Kanter (ru), Danilo
Šegan (sr), Baris Cicek (tr)
2.11.3
==
Thanks to Björn Lindqvist and Elijah Newren for improvements in
this release.
- Check for the right versions of glib and gtk+ (Björn) [#314116]
- Avoid obscuring centered-on-desktop windows which are denied focus
(Elijah) [#313234]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Jordi Mallach (ca), Kostas Papadimas (el),
Ivar Smolin (et), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Mohammad DAMT (id), Duarte
Loreto (pt), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Laurent Dhima (sq), Maxim
Dziumanenko (uk)
2.11.2
==
Thanks to Elijah Newren, Jaap Haitsma, Ray Strode, and Brent Smith for
improvements in this release.
- Fix an easy to trigger crasher in 2.11.1 caused by unneeded
debugging spew (Elijah) [#311819]
- Make sure that Metacity dialogs have icons (Jaap) [#309876]
- Fix an infinite restacking flicker loop in sloppy and mouse focus
with fullscreen windows (Elijah) [#311400]
- Change default theme from Simple to Clearlooks (Elijah)
- Vastly improve the behavior of keyboard move/resize and edge
snapping (Ray) [#310888]
- Remove a duplicate string (Brent) [#309774]
Translations
Yuval Tanny (he), Gnome PL Team (pl), Raphael Higino (pt_BR),
Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_TW)
2.11.1
==
Thanks to Elijah Newren, Ken Harris, Matthias Clasen, Christian
Persch, and Billy Biggs for improvements in this release.
- Fix a miscoloring of parts of the titlebar introduced in the last
unstable release (Elijah) [follow-up to #169982]
- Provide a more lenient threshold for drawing rounded corners (Ken)
[#122065]
- Make the Xcursor changes in the last unstable release effective
(Matthias) [follow-up to #308106]
- Revert the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW behavior change made in the 2.9.x
unstable series; activation includes changing a window to the
current workspace again (Elijah) [reversion of #128380]
- Restore original window size if the window was maximized upon
withdrawing it (Elijah, Christian) [#137185]
- Fix a raising bug with a window that has more than one child window
(Elijah, Billy) [part of #307875]
- Try to place windows denied focus near the focus window and fix a
xinerama bug with the placement (Elijah) [part of #307875]
- Avoid modal dialogs being obscured in somewhat pathologically
strange circumstances that Eclipse seems to be good at triggering
(Elijah) [part of #307875]
Translations
Miloslav Trmac (cs), Kostas Papadimas (el), Adam Weinberger (en_CA),
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Christophe
Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ankit
Patel (gu), Yair Hershkovitz (he), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Kjartan
Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Marcel Telka (sk), Theppitak
Karoonboonyanan (th), Clytie Siddall (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN)
2.11.0
==
This release contains all fixes up to Metacity 2.10.2 plus some new goodies.
Thanks to Matthias Clasen, Aivars Kalvans, Björn Lindqvist, and
Andrew Johnson for improvements in this release.
- React to cursor theme changes (Matthias) [#308106]
- Plug a small leak with xinerama information (Aivars) [#307884]
- Split up main() into more manageable chunks and make use of GOpt
(Björn) [#305331]
- Speed up vertical gradients (Andrew) [#169982]
Translations
Hendrik Richter (de), Ivar Smolin (et), Ignacio Casal
Quinteiro (gl), Clytie Siddall (vi)
2.10.2
==
Thanks to Billy Biggs, Greg Hudson, Elijah Newren, Ray Strode, Ryan
Lortie, and Soeren Sandmann for improvements in this release.
- Makes metacity a bit faster when dragging windows around (Soeren) [#141813]
- Fix simple memory error, using the address of a local variable as a
hash key (Ryan) [#307209]
- Fix a small leak in the case of a SYNC_COUNTER property value and
HAVE_XSYNC not defined (Ryan) [#307214]
- Cleanup font data when done with it (Ray) [#306720]
- If the window has a modal transient which is being unmanaged, don't
focus it (Elijah) [#305362]
- Make sure window position is calculated correctly for reconfigure
requests when part of the XWindowChanges structure is uninitialized
(Greg) [#305257]
- Add a resize popup when resizing constrained windows (Ray) [#305564]
- Don't accidentally treat maximize vertically as maximize in both
directions (Elijah) [#302204]
- Put all transients of the new window, if any exist, in the
calc_showing queue (Elijah, Billy) [#303284]
Translations
Kostas Papadimas (el), Priit Laes (et), Pauli Virtanen (fi), Ignacio
Casal Quinteiro (gl), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Canonical
Ltd (xh), Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)
2.10.1
==
This is a stable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.10.0.
Thanks to Dan Winship and Lex Hider for fixes in this release.
- Make sure the "Close" button has the focus in the
buggy-session-management-applications-warning dialog instead of the
table (Dan) [#172703]
- add doc/code-overview.txt and doc/how-to-get-focus-right.txt to the
distributed files (Lex) [#170519]
Translations
Adam Weinberger (en_CA), Christopher Orr (en_GB), Elnaz Sarbar (fa),
Gabor Kelemen (hu), Jyotsna Shrestha (ne), Steve Murphy (rw),
Baris Cicek (tr), Canonical Ltd (xh)
2.10.0
==
This is a stable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.10.0.
The only difference between this version and 2.9.34 is some
translation updates.
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Žygimantas Berucka (lt),
Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Danilo Šegan (sr),
Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)
2.9.34
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome
2.10.0 release candidate 1 (2.9.92).
Thanks to Aidan Delaney, Elijah Newren, and Joe Marcus Clarke for
fixes in this release.
- Fix crash that occurs when stupid apps claim that a window is its
own parent (Elijah, Joe) [#168207]
- Prevent the visual bell from changing the focus window (Elijah)
[#123366]
- Make sure that icons in the alt-tab popup are dimmed for all hidden
windows, not just minimized ones (Aidan) [#168455]
Translations
Elnaz Sarbar (fa), Ankit Patel (gu), Luca Ferretti (it),
Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Gnome PL Team (pl),
Alexandre Folle de Menezes (pt_BR)
2.9.21
==
This is an unstable release heading towards Gnome 2.10. Since there
have been an awful lot of fixes since Gnome 2.10 Beta 2, we are hoping
to get an extra week of wider testing of all these changes before hard
code freeze.
Thanks to Aidan Delaney, Crispin Flowerday, Elijah Newren, and Joe
Marcus Clarke for fixes in this release.
- Make sure we get a valid timestamp if one doesn't come with the
_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message (Elijah, Crispin) [#166728]
- Avoid sending CurrentTime to our XSetInputFocus wrappers, but
handle it better in case we miss any cases (Elijah) [#166732]
- Remove useless function call (Aidan) [#166730]
- Avoid new windows being obscured by the focus window and thus
possibly lost (Elijah) [#166524]
- Don't unconditionally place not-to-be-focused windows, such as
splashscreens, below the focus window (Elijah) [#167042]
- Raise the ancestor of a window instead of the window itself
(Elijah) [#166894]
- Cover half a dozen issues needed to fix a variety of rare timestamp
bugs (Elijah) [#167358]
- Fix a possible crash on logout (Joe) [#167935]
- Fix an obscure xinerama placement bug with windows that are too
large to fit in the workarea in both dimensions (Elijah) [#166757]
- Ignore all focus and focus-stealing-prevention code in
meta_window_show when not showing the window for the first time
(Elijah) [#167199]
- when receiving a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message, switch to the desktop
where the window is located before activating instead of moving the
window to the current desktop (Elijah) [#128380]
- Handle _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP messages that come with timestamps
(Elijah) [#161361]
- Handle keynav vs. mousenav in mouse and sloppy focus modes (Elijah)
[#167545]
Translations
Jordi Mallach (ca), Martin Willemoes Hansen (da),
Kostas Papadimas (el), David Lodge (en_GB),
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Tõivo Leedjärv (et),
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Takeshi AIHANA (ja),
Young-Ho, Cha (ko), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Michiel Sikkes (nl),
Kjartan Maraas (no), Duarte Loreto (pt), Leonid Kanter (ru),
Marcel Telka (sk), Laurent Dhima (sq), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
2.9.13
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome
2.10.0 Beta 2 (2.9.91).
Thanks to Elijah Newren, Balamurali Viswanathan, Stephane Loeuillet,
Benjamin Kahn, Garrett (LeSage?), Jose Moya, Dave Ahlswede, Arvind
Samptur, John Paul Wallington, Tim Herold, Muktha Narayan, Sinisa
Segvic, Owen Taylor, Crispin Flowerday, "RHEL-3", KWin, and Google for
improvements in this release.
- Refuse to focus a window with a modal transient, and focus the
transient instead (Elijah) [#164716]
- Make sure we get gconf notifications about the terminal command
changing (Balamurali) [#160934]
- Specify encoding of src/metacity.desktop.in (Stephane) [#151850]
- New 48x48 default icon (Benjamin, Garrett) [#160660]
- Add man pages for metacity-window-demo and metacity-theme-viewer
(Jose, Dave) [#143513]
- Fix minimized window display in workspace switcher after relogin
with a saved session (Elijah) [#164677]
- Ignore sticky windows for non-active workspaces (Elijah) [#165259]
- Don't wireframe when accessibility is on, it apparently causes a
desktop wide freeze. (Arvind) [#159538]
- Keep tooltip on screen horizontally for xinerama (John) [#165261]
- Stick and unstick transients with their parent automatically
(Elijah) [#152283]
- Shaded windows should not show up in pagers (Elijah) [#165377]
- Treat splashscreens same as other windows for stacking (Elijah)
[#165243]
- Plug a pair of leaks (Elijah) [#165378]
- Take into account the appropriate list of windows when placing a
new one (Elijah) [#165381]
- Correct misleading and inaccurate wording (Elijah) [#165380]
- Handle xcomposite pkgconfig version regression (Tim) [#149368]
- Make the warn-about-buggy-session-management-apps dialog be sticky
(Elijah) [#164745]
- Fix the problem with fullscreen windows on a different xinerama
monitor not staying on top ("RHEL-3") [#156511]
- Make the unfocussed title bar distinguishable in cases where it
otherwise isn't for the Atlanta, Simple, and Bright themes (Muktha)
[#125291]
- Correct the stacking when returning from fullscreen mode (Elijah)
[#165718]
- Focus parents of dismissed transient windows in preference to the
window that most recently had keyboard focus (Elijah) [#157360]
- Make sure window->border_only is initialized so we don't get random
windows without decorations (Elijah, Sinisa, Owen) [#145131]
- Add period to the end of reduced_resources' description (Dave)
[#165780]
- If activation requests are too old, set the demands_attention hint
instead of actually activating (Elijah, Crispin) [#166395]
- Ignore xconfigurerequest events for stacking when it should be safe
to do so (Elijah, Crispin, KWin, Google) [#166395]
- Set a _METACITY_VERSION property (a utf8 string) on the WM check
window (Elijah) [#165350]
Translations
Vladimir Petkov (bg), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Frank Arnold (de),
Adam Weinberger (en_CA), David Lodge (en_GB),
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Pauli Virtanen (fi),
Young-Ho, Changwoo Ryu (ko), Žygimantas Berucka (lt),
Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Duarte Loreto (pt),
Marcel Telka (sk), Christian Rose (sv),
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
2.9.8
==
This is a brown paper bag release to cover up the crash I introduced
in version 2.9.5. Thanks to Sebastien Bacher and the bleeding edge
Ubuntu users for quickly catching the occasional crash that my fix in
#123576 could cause, and for verifying that the patch I made fixed
this issue (I couldn't duplicate).
- Don't forget to initialize display->grab_old_window_stacking
[#165093]
2.9.5
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome
2.10.0 Beta 1 (2.9.90).
Thanks to Vincent Noel, Elijah Newren, and John Paul Wallington for
fixes in this release.
- Restore original stacking when aborting an alt-esc window switch
operation (Elijah) [#123576]
- Fix vertical maximization for second screen (John) [#163420]
- Show labels in bold for windows that demand attention (Vincent)
[#164590]
- In the tab task switcher popup, dim the window icon and put its
name between brackets when the window is minimized (Vincent)
[#136666]
- Correct highlighting of windows in workspace switcher popup
(Elijah) [#163450]
Translations
zh_CN (Funda Wang), nb (Kjartan Maraas), nn (Kjartan Maraas), de
(Frank Arnold)
2.9.3
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.9.4.
Thanks to Leena Gunda, Thomas Fitzsimmons, and mild7 users sourceforge
net, and Elijah Newren for fixes in this release.
- Don't focus the panel on click (Elijah) [#160470, and others]
- Make sure the save session dialog appears focused (Elijah) [#162983]
- Correctly restore size of window when double clicking the titlebar
to unmaximize (Leena) [#161236]
- Install schema data from builddir not srcdir (Thomas) [#161417]
- Provide more documentation to make it easier for people to
contribute to Metacity (Elijah) [#162646]
- Allow users to move the window around immediately after
double-clicking to shade (Elijah) [#90290]
- Focus windows that manually position themselves too (Elijah) [#107347]
- Don't show window menu if all options are invalid (Elijah) [#148915]
- Exclude windows with skip_taskbar hint set from the alt-tab list;
they'll appear in the ctrl-alt-tab list instead. (mild7 users
sourceforge net) [#106249]
- Wrap XSetInputFocus to make display->expected_focus_window more
reliable (Elijah) [#154598]
- Remove conflict between windows on multiple workspaces and hidden
being a global quantity (Elijah) [#156182]
Translations
es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador), sv (Christian Rose), cs (Miloslav
Trmac), ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
2.9.2
==
This is an unstable release to coincide with the release of Gnome 2.9.3.
Thanks to Alex Duggan, ash AT contact bg, Elijah Newren, and Baptiste
Mille-Mathias for fixes in this release.
- Add a missing period at the end of a sentence (Baptiste) [#158210]
- When snap-moving don't snap to hidden windows, such as transients
of minimized windows (Elijah) [#157180]
- Focus the desktop when showing it (Elijah) [#159257]
- Remove deprecated capplet (Alex, ash) [#160753]
Translations
da (Martin Willemoes Hansen), bg (Alexander Shopov), en_CA (Adam
Weinberger)
2.9.1
==
This is an unstable release heading towards Gnome 2.10, released a
little late for Gnome 2.9.2 but there weren't many changes anyway this
time...
Thanks to Benjamin Kahn, Marco Pesenti Gritti, James Henstridge, and
Vincent Untz for fixes/features in this release.
- gnome-panel-screenshot was renamed to gnome-screenshot (Vincent) [#157529]
- Update build stuff (use newer automake, etc.) (James)
- Fix build out of src directory (Marco) [#158325]
- Use a better default application icon (Benjamin) [#160373]
Translations
da (Martin Willemoes Hansen), fr(Christophe Merlet, Baptiste
Mille-Mathias), lt(Žygimantas Berucka), ja(Takeshi AIHANA)
2.9.0
==
This is an unstable release heading towards Gnome 2.10.
Thanks to Rob Adams, Anders Carlsson, Elijah Newren, Soeren Sandmann,
and Vincent Untz for fixes and features in this release.
- Add a keybinding to launch a terminal (Vincent) [#154232]
- Correct the requested number of keycodes (Rob) [#155247]
- Add tracker bugs to rationales.txt file
- Make the "showing desktop" mode be per-workspace instead of
per-screen. (Elijah) [#142198]
- Don't try to use an ARGB visual at all if the depth isn't
32-bit. This caused major slowdowns with Composite
enabled. (Anders)
- Fix the modifier key breakage introduced by an Xorg
change. (Soeren) [#151554]
- Update _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN so the pager on the panel will know
whether to display windows as visible or hidden (Elijah) [#105665]
- Fix the alt-tab order--if the most recently used window is not
focused, start alt tabbing with that window instead of the one
after it (Elijah) [#156251]
- Don't lower newly mapped windows when they're denied focus if they
are transients of the focused window. Instead, defocus the
currently focused window (Elijah) [#151996]
- Re-enable focus stealing prevention (Elijah)
Translations
es(Francisco Javier F. Serrador), sq(Laurent Dhima), sr(Danilo Šegan),
cs(Miloslav Trmac), en_CA(Adam Weinberger), en_GB(David Lodge)
2.8.6
==
This is a stable release for Gnome 2.8.1.
Thanks to the Ken Harris, Kjartan Maraas, and the tireless efforts of
Elijah Newren for fixes in this release.
Fixes
* Ensure the correct window is focused when minimizing (Elijah)
* Fix keynav with mouse focus (Elijah)
* Fix several race conditions in window focusing (Elijah)
* Focus the top window when lowering by frame click (Ken)
* Fix some compiler warnings (Kjartan)
* Fix some valgrind-reported errors (Elijah)
* Fix some potential issues with autoraising windows (Elijah)
Translations
* en_CA(Adam Weinberger), it(Luca Ferretti)
2.8.5
==
This is a stable release for Gnome 2.8. Only translations and some
new developer documentation were added since the last unstable release.
This release boasts improved standards-compliance and a number of
bug fixes since the last stable release.
Translations
* ar(Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj), cs(Miloslav Trmac), cy(Dafydd Harries),
en_GB(David Lodge), fr(Christophe Merlet (RedFox)),
nn(Åsmund Skjæveland), or(Gora Mohanty),
pr_BR(Gustavo Noronha Silva), ro(Mugurel Tudor),
th(Paisa Seeluangsawat), tr(Baris Cicek), zh_TW(Woodman Tuen)
2.8.4
==
This release features a number of bug fixes, and also the disabling of
the focus-stealing-prevention code (we're entering hard code freeze in
Gnome so it's too late to fix the remaining issues, especially since
it requires several patches to modules other than Metacity).
Thanks to Havoc Pennington, Soeren Sandmann, Elijah Newren, and Rich
Wareham for fixes in this release
Fixes
* track the last_xor_rect, for wireframe painting (Havoc)
* Move wireframe code before grab is released to prevent endless
loops with fullscreen windows. (Soeren)
* Make dialogs that Metacity shows follow focus-stealing-prevention
conventions. (Elijah; part of #149028)
* add render extension check to the display, don't build the
compositing manager by default, use an ARGB visual when available
for the window frame (Rich Wareham; various tweaks added later by
Havoc)
* move the have_xrender variable initialization up in the file since
it can be set as part of composite check (Havoc)
* make argb stuff compile, add some code from xcompmgr (Havoc)
* fix an assertion failure that would occur after increasing the
number of workspaces; fix stacking order when a window is denied
focus (Elijah; #150615)
* disable some compositor code that wasn't working, don't grab the
server during repaint, various set_background fixes and
refactoring (Havoc)
Translations
* az(Metin Amiroff), bs(Kemal Sanjta), ca(Jordi Mallach),
el(Kostas Papadimas), es(Francisco Javier F. Serrador),
eu(Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio), fi(Pauli Virtanen),
nb(Kjartan Maraas), sq(Laurent Dhima), uk(Maxim Dziumanenko)
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 Šegan),
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