WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006

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WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 16, 2012 @05:35AM from the now-where-was-I dept.

First time accepted submitter brad-x writes "A new team of developers has recently picked up development of WindowMaker, and they've added many new features, including improved support for the freedesktop standard menu layout and Mac OS X style application and window switching from the keyboard, culminating in a new release, 0.95.2. A basic changelog is available on the newly redesigned website."

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Woooo! by busyqth · 2012-02-16 05:36 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been waiting anxiously for this for, like, 6 years!!!!
Re:Relase? by ackthpt · 2012-02-16 05:42 · Score: 1, Funny

Did you mean release?
It's a more technically sophisticated method of distro - sharks with lasers.
and you thought they were only for weapons!

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Yay? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-16 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

If you really want to make your modern operating system look antiquated, isn't it easier just to go back to doing everything from the command line?
1. Re:Yay? by Spiridios · 2012-02-16 06:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'd imagine CLI-only GIMP would really live up to its name.
2. Re:Yay? by 19thNervousBreakdown · 2012-02-16 07:07 · Score: 2, Funny
  Let's sum up this post:
  
  Using a GUI necessitates giving up the keyboard. Because of shadows.
  The keyboard is the best because the keyboard is the best.
  You can't wait for the old people to die because, once they're all dead and there are no more old people, CLIs will come back into vogue.
  The skill level required for texting while driving is roughly equivalent to the skill level to comfortably use a CLI.
  You don't know much about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display, but it heralds "the return of the keyboard", because, and this is pure conjecture but I imagine it must be your line of reasoning because it's the only thing that ... makes sense ... 2012 is the year of Linux on the desktop.
  Will the tragedies of the amphetamine shortage never end?
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One release in 6 years? by CanHasDIY · 2012-02-16 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Man, I do not envy the person who has to clean up that mess...

(Yes that was a sex joke)

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wrong by Lunix+Nutcase · 2012-02-16 06:04 · Score: 3, Funny

No this would be the second release since 2006. 0.95.1 was released 2.5 weeks ago.
Re:1990 Called by Beelzebud · 2012-02-16 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny

I know! Where is the flash content, and the social media scripts, and tracking cookies that we have all come to love in this modern era!
Cool by itomato · 2012-02-16 06:31 · Score: 5, Funny

I have a bunch of art updates I'd like to push. Real Media or ICQ, anyone?
Re:You see, unlike you, we know that quality count by H0p313ss · 2012-02-16 07:35 · Score: 1, Funny

Working smarter is good
Evolving is good
Staying stuck in 1996 is not

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