> 
> I may release a blackbox-0.62.1-fix series and a blackbox-0.62.1-x
> series for bugfixes against the current _stable_ version of blackbox,
> and for feature patches against it as well (since patches can conflict
> with eachother, and this way only one person has to spend the time
> sorting this stuff out).
> 

good to see you doing this

> 
> * NOTE! *
> It should be noted that the Xft patch on that site *does not work yet*.
> If anyone can make it go, please do! If not, don't bother downloading it
> yet.
> 

keithp has a version of 0.61.1 in his cvs that he added Xft support to.  Take a
look there.

> Also.. please do not be sending me emails asking what all these patches do.
> If you cannot read it and see, then try it out, or just don't worry
> about it yet, or ask someone who can read the patch and see. An HTML
> page of some sort may need to be constructed. Or perhaps these will all
> just go into blackbox.thelinuxcommunity.org, though that site seems to
> be a ghost town of late. Everything is in the air still.
> 

it would be nice if the Patches tracker at sf.net allowed for a hierarchy. 
That way we could have 0.62.x, 0.61.x, 0.70.x, etc.

> Further Note!
> I think a lot of people loved MrFab's titlebar button-rearranging patch
> for blackbox-0.61.1. I've ported this patch to 0.62.1, it is on the
> above url (http://www.orodu.net/~xor/bb/custom_titlebar.patch).
> Props to MrFab for the great idea and the previous work.
> 

indeed.  MrFab's idea will make it into blackbox proper someday.  It just needs
a little updating (some of which you have already started).

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