Am Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:08:31 +0100 schrieb Daniel Fetchinson <[email protected]>:
> > Hi folks > > > > here's a small subset of my future plans for Sawfish: > > > > in [] the name of the people I would like to ask for > > help/contribution on that topic > > > > Librep/Rep-GTK: R-Wrap > > > > Port g-wrap to librep and recreated rep-gtk from scratch with the > > new mechanism. > > > > [Alexey, Jürgen] > > > > Sawfish: > > > > Compositor > > Improve system for handling keys/keyboards > > > > [Timo, Janek, Teika, Jeremy] > > > > Recreate default themes with nicer, more visually appealing > > graphics, say same theme, but more modern style. > > Update Translations. > > I'm not sure if mxflat is a default theme or not, but since this is > the theme I use and like it as is, I'd like to ask for keeping it > intact. In my opinion no change to it is necessary, and especially no > change for the sake of changing. I've never said of all themes have to be changed, but for example I have a new, more modern Crux theme in mind, but I've never found the time to gimp it actually. Not that the current one is ugly, but it looks dusty. > > [Community] > > > > See also what is proposed in `Proposed Goals' > > > > Next Release: 3.0.0 > > > > Skipping 1.7.0 and releasing 3.0.0 in Dec '10, so we have 12 months > > time for the changes we need/want to do. And I guess we'll need > > them. 1.6x will be supported 6 months with bugfixes and & co, just > > like 1.3.5x and 1.5x have been. > > I'd be more happy with more incremental changes and correspondingly > more frequent releases. This allows for more testing and more robust > major releases. Well, for 3.0 one alpha, beta and rc is planned, each after 3 months, a second rc then feature freeze begins. In addition, there will be a backported 1.7.0, with GTK+2 support, as 3.0 will be based on GTK+3 if everything goes fine. Atleast that's what got in my mind lately. > > Any thoughts? > > I think a mechanism should be found for testing releases before they > are actually released. Very simple compilation related problems > frequently have been arising lately and having buildbots or something > similar would improve the situation quite a bit. I'm not sure if > sf.net has facilities for this but I seem to remember they had a > server farm or some such. Having the buildbots to configure, compile > and install on multiple linux distros would be a major improvement. compilation itself is not the problem, except the 4th hyphen in --without-nine-mouse-buttons all issues were related to the packaging scripts, so perhaps the build-service from OpenSUSE would be interresting. > Cheers, > Daniel > >
