On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:18:01PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > I'm tired of working on the project. I will therefore be seriously > cutting down on the features planned for Ion3. I will only finish a > few incomplete ones, and fix all the bugs and other brokenness and > ugliness, possibly also removing some features (simplifying/cleaning > up the Lua API). Then that will be the final stable Ion3. If you, > however, want some more features, patches are accepted for some time > still (it will take a few months/years/decades for the above-mentioned > stuff to be finished), and I can add hooks necessary for the > implementation of other things as modules at a later date. I am, > however, _extremely_ unlikely to implement any feature requests > myself. So if something is missing that you want now, you'll just > have to write it yourself. > > -- > Tuomo > I simply want to queue with the others and say a big 'thank you' for this great window manager. maybe it all sounds a bit to definitive and obituary-like, but anyway. and maybe the last word is not spoken after all -- hope never harms :-).
for the final(?) wish-list: / if a feature freeze is there and the definitive final version out, maybe the community can somehow put together a good(!) comprehensive(!!) HOWTO user manual for all the pedestrian users (more or less counting myself under these) which do not really want to dive into the source code and/or full-fledged lua-programming, but want to configure ion3 to their liking and get their work done (think, e.g. of `mutt' or `vim' documentation, although especially the latter is a bit on the hypertrophic side...). at one point I tried to compile ion2 myself under OSX. I failed (to many library collisions, missing header files etc etc). which does only say that much, namely that many potential users would have stopped at that point and that's a pity. as of now there is 3ds-20060524 available by one package management system (port) but no version at all by the more wide-spread (debian derived) other (fink). I don't know how to provide a package via these systems, but maybe someone out there does. I believe it would help to draw more attention to ion3 (which it deserves) if it were possible to inject the final version into as many package management systems as possible (don't know how it stands with all the 'big' unix-es, linux-es and BSDs at the moment). and last not least: all the best for you and your future plans, joerg
