Le Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:40:45 +0200, Maciej Delmanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> Hello! > > Welcome to yet another, long awaited release of FVWM-Crystal project! This > time it's a "development" version, not polished, rather sturdy, but working as > usual. There are new recipes, support for new applications and, of course, > bugfixes (and new bugs). You can grab it from: > http://download.gna.org/fvwm-crystal/3.0.5/ > > But before I'll start listing all of the new features, I want to give huge > thanks to Dominique Michel, the person who almost single handedy created this > version. At first, Dominique started his own fork of Crystal, called "Crystal > Audio", but after a while I've asked him to combine his modifications in the > main tree, and here they are. At one point in the Crystal's development there > were so much different patches in my darcs repository (some of them applied > from Michel's emails, some grabbed from his own darcs repo), that my copy of > the repository became extremely slow and sluggish. I've tried to resolve the > problems, but the easiest way to do that was to abandon my own version of the > repository, and just start from scratch using Dominiques version. Because of > that those of you, who are using Crystal from the darcs repo, may experience > problems on the upgrade; I'm suggesting downloading a new fresh copy of the > repository and applying your changes on it. > > Now it's time to list some of the major features of the upcomming version! > > - two new recipies: SilentHacker (clean and aesthetic), and Thin (modified > version of Nebulae) > > - new default behaviour of the "Default" and "Default with ACPI" window lists; > because many of you wanted to see windows only from the current page, this > mode is used as a standard - you can of course modify it in the recipies > > - some application icons (Mozilla applications, commercial applications like > Acrobat Reader and others) have been removed due to the incompatibility with > GPL license. I'm planning to release a separate package with additional > non-free artwork. I hope that now there will be no problem with including > this release in Debian GNU/Linux - if you will find other icons which need > to be removed, let me know > > - Crystal has now support for session management, it automatically recognizes > that a session manager is active and gives additional controls for saving > and restoring sessions > > - new supported software: MOC, Audacious and alsaplayer music player, amixer > (at last!) audio mixer, stalonetray and mplayer > > - application database has been reorganized to be more friendly with > FreeDesktop.org standards > > - there are many new applications in the app database > > There are also many more numerous bugfixes and improvements, if you want, you > can check out the ChangeLog. > > I hope that you will like this version - there are many things which need > polishing, but I hope that these issues will be solved in the next release. > Right now I'm planning to focus on the Crystal's website and the wiki, to make > a good place with documentation on-line. > > Until next time! > Well done Maciej, I am very busy those days with Alsaplayer. We are implementing a gtk2 interface for this player (No, it is no an April joke but real work in fast progress). As it take most of my free time. I don't even get the time to take a look at your release but will do this as soon as I get some time. I also will do am alsaplayer release candidate this week-end. After this, it will be a lot of work to do: implement a preferences dialog and fix the bugs. I also begun to learn C i order to make from the scratch another project I have in my mind: a realtime note recognition software for live performances (note to MIDI) (I already have the algorithm and a working implementation on a dsp, but linux and C is another world as dsp assembler and dsp processors, so I have a lot of home work to do in order to be able to implement this with jack (sorry alsa users but alsa is not an option for this)). All that to say at I have very little time for FVWM-Crystal for the moment. But I will still be on the list. And commit bug fixes or code cleanup if I found some. But don't expect too much for now. I also will keep my website with my fork, not for the fork as it is integrated in FVWM-Crystal, but for the additional artwork that can be fun to have somewhere. But I don't think at I will upgrade it, mainly because fvwm-crystal.generate-menu is able to generate the menu icons from freedesktop compatible icons. If your favorite application don't provide a desktop file with associated icon, fill a bug report to this application. Or better, send them a desktop file with an icon. Best, and congratulation for the release, Dominique _______________________________________________ fvwm-crystal-users mailing list fvwm-crystal-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/fvwm-crystal-users
