This marks the beginning of our transition towards new features and NETWM support. The goal is to get this code base as well tested as possible so the new features will have solid code to build on.
*NOTE* this release does not support NETWM. We wanted to release a new stable version rather than making users wait another two or more months. The release notes: This is release 0.65.0alpha1 of the Blackbox window manager. We are releasing this alpha in the hopes that more users will test this version so that we can make a solid release in short order. Note 0.65.0 is a jump from the previous version 0.62.1. This is meant to reflect that 0.65.0 is halfway to 0.70 and that this is not a simple point release from 0.62.1. New features in this release: * focus handling rewrite * STL based code * initial Strut support, this means that the toolbar and slit will not be covered by a window being placed or maximized without user intervention. Eventually this will be used by the netwm code to allow for apps like bbpager, panels, etc to declare a region of the screen "out of bounds". * bsetroot now sets the _XROOTPMAP_ID so programs which support pseudo-transparency will work with bsetroot and blackbox * ~/ is now valid anywhere in the blackboxrc a filename is used There were also many, many bug fix and behavioural updates. 0.65.0 will be forked in the cvs tree when it is released so that we can make small point releases of it as work progresses on the library code and netwm. The current goal is to make the next release be 0.70.0. This release will be based on a library of common code and support NETWM. When this release is made all of the existing bbtools should have been ported to the new library as well.
