Version 3.6.0 ------------- Code name "Magic Star" You can download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fvwm-crystal/files/
Fvwm Crystal 3.6.0 is a big step forward. - Dependencies updated to >=fvwm-2.6.9 and python3. - A configurable button bar along with the Custom new recipe are providing a contemporary look. It have its own preference menu and can be placed on any side of the desktop. - Left click: menu or application launcher - Middle cllick: remove the button and redraw the bar - Right click: preference menu, a new button will be placed at the right of the clicked button - New Italian translation - Support for FVWM_*DIR at fvwm-crystal invocation, see 'man fvwm-crystal'. - Support for Icon and MiniIcon fvwm Styles for each application found during the application menu generation. - Support of automatic restart of urxvtc when crashed. - Silent the application database. This make the login shell (and fvwm-crystal logfile if any), to be less poluted by external applications. - Improved the systemd Exit menu with hibernate/resume support. - Screenlid suspend-hibrid support with preference - Cadence support into the Music menu and Music GUI key binding - Mouse velocity preference (default: system value) - The python scripts are updated to python 3. They was tested with python 2 and should work, but that's not officially supported anymore. - Update of the Fullscreen fonction to the new fvwm builtin function with workaround about non ewmh compliant browsers That update simplify this function and make it to work better. - Improved support of different button sizes into the recipes with preferences. - The ACPI applets will be shown only when the required hardware is found. - New window decorations Buttons-amigaos-Fullscreen and Buttons-amigaos-MiniIcon-Fullscreen. A left click on the second button will bring the window in fullscreen. The existing amigaos button models will now maximize the window. As always, numerous fixes, bugfixes and new applications and icons for the application menu. Most important ones: - The EWMH working area was reverted to its original function and improved. It should work fine with all recipes and with both the desktop manager and the new button bar when activated. - Fix support of svg application icons. - Temporary fix for the Font preferences applet crashing at launch with some colorsets (due to a fvwm bug). It can look uggly but should work with all colorsets. - Fix the media players styles. This also fix their icons at top layer after a recipe change bug. See ChangeLog for the details. I tested fvwm-crystal with fvwm 3. It mostly work and is usable, but that's not supported at that time. Anyway, that's a very good news for the future of fvwm-crystal. A big thank you to the fwvm workers for their dedication to fvwm and for their support! A big thank you to Star the dog and to the translators! With the new Custom recipe and its magic button, fvwm-crystal get a modern look and a terrific customizable multiple launcher. This imply most effort into its development will be focused into making it fvwm3 fully compliant. Which in turn mostly imply to update the fvwm dialogs to fvwm scripts at that time of writing. Translations, fixes and bugfixes will continue to be applied. New functions and other improvements will be accepted, but for my part, they will be part of a general reflexion about what I want to do with fvwm-crystal. I know what I don't want: a full rewrite would be a time consuming catastrophe because we will loose all the history including numerous fixes. Also, as fvwm-crystal has been more and more extended with time, I think a tooltip system must be added. Beside that, I would appreciate very much any ideas or contributions. Enjoy! Dominique Michel
