Window Maker 0.80 Released

An anonymous submitter points out that Window Maker, the window manager behind GNUStep, is now up to version 0.80. There is NEWS which describes some of the recent changes, as well as a Changelog.

Comments

Changelog

[Anonymous Coward]

Changes since version 0.70.0:

- Disabled window birth animation by default (while it was ok with normal
windows, it was very annoying with menus editing in WPrefs.app)
- Added ability to shade/unshade a window using the mouse wheel.
- Fixed compilation for systems that required -lintl for WINGs
(Jim Knoble )
- Removed redundant include/lib paths from the get-*-flags scripts
- Updated slovak .po files (Jan Tomka )
- Added "Save workspace state" switch button on the exit confirmation panel
(based on a patch sent by Jan Tomka )
- Fixed WPrefs crash when clicking on the menu editor to keep the current menu
(Alexey Voinov )
- Added patch to fix some gnome issues (Les Schaffer )
- SIGTERM is now handled and saves the internal state before exiting (like
SIGHUP and SIGINT already do). Now a "kill wmaker_pid" will exit cleanly
saving dock/clip/session information on exit.
- Added an internal strcasecmp() to WINGs (only on systems where's not present)
- Deminiaturizing a window that is also shaded, will perform an unshade too.
(Note that this only applies to deminiaturizing shaded windows. Unhiding
an application will keep the shaded/unshaded state of windows.)
- Removed compile time option for definable cursors and made them available by
default.
- Mapping a new window that belongs to a running application that is hidden,
will unhide the application.
- Removed the collapse appicons thing.
- Added real appicon sharing (apps of the same kind will have a single shared
appicon).
- Fixed user and global defaults domain merging to preserve values present in
global but not in user, in sub-dictionaries.
- Made dock/clip steal appicons of applications that were started from a
shell/xterm or from the main menu, if there is a docked appicon of that
class that is not running at the time the app is launched.
- Added animation to show that the appicon was stolen by the dock (the way
NEXTSTEP did - map an appicon as it normally would have been, then slide it
to the position the docked appicon is).
- Updated the animation constants for scrolling/sliding/shading to better
adapt to newer/faster machines. Also used wusleep(10) when the delay was 0
to get rid of the jerky animation when there was no delay.
- Fixed bug with Unhide mapping windows from other workspaces.
- Saving a domain file will first strip all entries that are also present in
the global domain as well and are exactly the same. This fixes a bug where
settings from the global domain file were merged in the user domain file
and further changes in the global domain file for those merged values was
ignored making a system admin unable to set global defaults for all users
using the global domains.
- Fixed bug with improper setting of root/titlebar cursor (definable cursors).

Just in case

SW release?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this /. or Freshmeat?

umm

[diamondc]

if this was a 1.0 release then for sure i'd probably be
great to put the headline on the front page, but it's only
at .80, with not THAT many improvements+features.

and if you spend too much time playing with it

[self assembled struc]

and you're married you can call it widow-maker as well.