What is it ?
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Cosimo Cecchi, Jens Granseuer, Jim Huang, Andrea Del Signore, and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.
(Cosimo’s patch was very similar to another received from Jason Ribero.)
- Allow horizontal and vertical maximisation using the mouse [...]
Fewer things have been happening, but what they’ve lacked in number they’ve made up in excitingness. Excitingosity. Whatever it is.
Bugs
GNOME bug 358674 - the venerable unidirectional maximisation bug was closed today, with over fifty comments on the clock, several duplicated bugs, and two factions: FMB, who wanted horizontal or vertical maximisation to happen when [...]
Havoc sends along a link to GNOME bug 44927, an excellent answer to the question “But why not just include this patch? It’s only a bit more code!”: “I included this patch ["support >5 mouse buttons"] since it seems harmless.”
Bugs
GNOME bug 437910 - there has been a fair amount of interesting discussion off [...]