Thanks for the new release, especially for fixing that annonying resize bug :) pre7 has been running very smoothly, and installed without any gliches.
On a totally seperate topic, where could I find some more information on NETWM? I'm interested as to what this 'protocol' actually involves. Keep up the good work, & if you need any help I'll see what I can -- Regards, John Kennison On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > pre7 is up. Been stable here for a few days. Any issues, please let me know. > > This is likely a candidate for real release. Other than the resize bug pre6 > introduced (and pre7 fixes) the rest of blackbox's bugs are highly cosmetic (as > we have always known) and require some thought to fix properly. Several of them > are not quite right in any wm I tried, so at least we suck as much as everyone > else. > > I would like to kick 0.61.2 out so the work on 0.70 can begin. O.61.2 should > be a nice stable wm like all of the 0.61.x series. Hopefully you won't be > running it a year from now though (-: > > In the 0.70.x series we hope to add: > > * NETWM support > * internal code audit and restructuring (needed for above) > * work beginning on a common bb class hierarchy so the bbtools can all share the > same code base. this is a correlary of the work above > > and of course fixes for the bugs open against blackbox. > > What this means of course is 0.70 will be broken and not for consumption for > some period of time before pre releases appear. Bascially all of the above > items are related and happen at once, at least for the first two. The 3rd is a > natural extension but not required for 0.70.0. >
