[Fink-beginners] Announce: OroborOSX version 0.8 Beta, now out

[linmu]

Lin here:
New features for version 0.8 preview (available now!):

http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/oroborosx/

� OroborOSX now has its own private version of XDarwin (which is why the download size has increased so much!) This makes it possible to provide some nifty new features:
� Minimise to Dock! -Consider this as a "trial run". It may well be unstable under some circumstances, so let me know how you find it...
� Better tracking of cursor through OSX enter/exit events rather than X11 enter/leave events, thus allowing interleaving of auto-focus windows;
� Above also means that iconbars can now be allowed not to autohide;
� Semi-fix for the "can't type in Preferences window" bug in XDarwin -if you open up XDarwin's prefs window from OroborOSX then all keyboard input is directed to the prefs window (instead of the X11 focus window) until it is closed;
� Optional inactive window dimming;
� Optional inactive window translucency;
� Per-window translucency (see the Properties sub-menu);
� Translucent titlebars/frames for inactive windows (just like 'real' Aqua windows :-)
� Smoother resizing of X11 windows (is it faster, too?)
� Background mouse tracking, so xeyes still move even when another OSX application is in front :-)
� XDarwin's preferences now available from the Options menu (thanks for the pointers Patrik!);
� Middle and right mouse clicks are now sent through to inactive windows, so you can paste into an X11 window (using middle-click, or whatever emulation you have set in XDarwin's preferences) without bringing it forward;
� New Spanish localisation. (Many thanks to Alejandro!)
Anyone for any more...?
� Options now saved to disk, so, for example, iconbar location and the chosen theme will be remembered between launches of OroborOSX (thanks for the code snippets Dave);
� Lots of new alerts when things go wrong (-of course, nobody should notice these ;-)
� Major changes to the themes, but still made it backwards compatible.
� Interleaving can be toggled on and off immediately from the Options menu (no password required);
� Better integration of information: README file, Version history and License file all available from the Help menu;
� Translations for the main README file (starting with French, German, Swedish and Italian, at least -thanks Philippe, Jens, Patrik & Giacomo!)
� Shows the window size in the titlebar when resizing;
� Shows the window location in the titlebar when moving;
� Now correctly makes 'iconic' windows into iconbars when they first appear (eg: xterm -iconic);
� Information about the themes available from the Themes submenu;
� Fixed a major bug which caused a crash if X11 windows disappeared while OroborOSX was hidden;
� Also had to work around the same sort of bug in the OS X window manager! (If an app removes a window while it is hidden, it does not update the Window menu correctly, and the dock icon menu causes a crash...)
� Fixed a problem that gave BadMatch errors and weird behaviour on X11 windows that start in a strange state (xv does this, for example);
� Fixed a problem with theme switching -windows that were iconbars while switching would come back with the content in slightly the wrong place (if the frame size changed between the two themes);
� Fixed a problem with events getting mixed up when there are lots of them (eg, if an app resizes its own window lots of times for some reason);
� Fixed some minor problems with enter/leave events and iconbars;
� Support for ssh-agent (the script that launches the X11 apps from the Launch menu will search for and link to a running ssh-agent -i.e. once you start one manually, any xterms/eterms/etc. you open after that should have everything set up as required);
� Deal correctly with different height iconbars when switching themes.
� Fixed a problem with emulated modifier clicks in the focus window -they were "regaining" the modifier if the click was done quickly.


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