On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:06:33PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> Thomas Adam <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'd like to propose that we start building 2.6.0 release candidate tarballs.
> > As far as I know, the only major part left of FVWM was a fvwm-menu-desktop
> > replacement which Dan Espen (and tentatively myself) worked on over
> > Christmas.
> >
> > Can someone please give me an update as to the status of this -- i.e.,
> > anyone actually using it in earnest? I'm still unsure as to how complete it
> > is on systems I don't have.
> >
> > Looking at docs/todo-2.6, under "A. Release stopping bugs", I have no
> > intention of looking at any of those for 2.6.0. F.3 is the one which
> > interests me more.
> >
> > We really need to start being more pragmatic about making 2.6.0 a reality;
> > my git tree [1] has a bunch of patches which I've written, but can't merge
> > into FVWM because we're in a feature freeze, so the sooner this goes out
> > the door, the better. Obviously though we cannot be too complacement, but I
> > really don't think there's anything seriously stopping us releasing FVWM CVS
> > at this point as potential 2.6.0 release candidates. Someone just has to
> > have the balls to do it.
> >
> > That'd be me. :)
> >
> > If there's nothing major blocking fvwm-menu-desktop, I would like to suggest
> > I go ahead and do this.
>
> For fvwm-menu-desktop is see 2 issues:
>
> 1. The Fvwm built in menu should invoke fvwm-menu-desktop.
> I don't know if we can make this conditional on being on Linux,
> but I don't think it would be a major problem if it was there all the
> time. This should be addressed before 2.6.
Agreed -- it should only mean a change to SetRCDefaults() -- can you do
this, please? Would you mind?
> 2. We don't have a working option that would use the application
> specific mini-icons for each menu item. I don't see this as important,
> just nice to have. This should not interfere with releasing 2.6.
>
>
> Other than that, I see no reason not to release 2.6.
Brilliant. I too can live with that. :)
-- Thomas Adam
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