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Window Maker 0.90.0 Released At Long Last

Posted by timothy on from the clean-and-functional dept.

BEI01 writes "From windowmaker.org: After years without a release, we are glad to announce that Window Maker 0.90.0 is out! Highlights are NetWM support (thanks to Peter). This means wmaker should work fine with GNOME 2.x and KDE 3.x. UTF-8 support, antialiased text support via Xft2, Xinerama support, enhanced Alt-Tab window switching, Font configuration in WPrefs, and many fixes."

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  1. Re:Linux? by node+3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A new release of Window Maker is not exactly linux news.

    But it exactly is Linux news. It's news that is related to Linux, and of interest to many Linux users.

    That doesn't mean it's not also X11 news, and Mac OS X news, and Cygwin/X news, and AIX news, etc, but they have to pick a category, and "Linux" isn't an illogical category to choose. It's not like they picked YRO, or Games or something.

    Window Maker can run on pretty much any platform which runs X.

    And Linux is used as a general catch-all category for the Unixey platforms that run X. A bit fuzzy? Sure. Is that too confusing for you?

  2. That's great! by namekuseijin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Despite being simplistic by today standards, the NeXTStep graphical environment, which WMaker emulates, still is one of the most productive and unintrusive environments ever. And it can look damn good with some proper themes and fine-tuning.

    The Xft2 addition is a particularly very welcome one.

    This is great news. I hope the integration with GNUStep is a step further too. :)

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  3. Does anyone else miss... by KilobyteKnight · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a little off topic I suppose, but it got me thinking about when I first started using Linux. It was hard to choose which desktop I wanted to use every time I logged in. Sure Gnome and KDE have made vast improvements over the years, and both are excellent desktops at this point, but I kinda miss that choice.

    Maybe it's just my perception, and not reality, but it seems like all the other desktops have stagnated. I have been excited about the new Enlightenment for a long time, but it still seems to be a long way from completion.

    I don't mean to put down any of the desktops or demean any of the developers. I just miss the old days when the desktop wars had at least 1/2 dozen serious contenders.... *sigh*

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