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By: Recent happenings in Metacity and Mutter - …for the adult in you

Recent happenings in Metacity and Mutter - …for the adult in you — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:28:39 +0000

[...] post on the future of Metacity gained quite a bit of mournful attention, including an article in Linux Pro [...]

By: Robert Smol

Robert Smol — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:30:52 +0000

Hi,
when designing mutter/metacity-3, can you please have a look at bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/388136 it is regarding default placement of windows. Can you comment your opinions?

thank you

By: prokoudine

prokoudine — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:47:44 +0000

“Mutter” is a sick name, really. Why? :)

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:13:44 +0000

Especially since it is the German word for mother.

Hence the theme of the pictures on Mutter-related posts. :)

By: Christoph Burgdorf

Christoph Burgdorf — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:46:45 +0000

>Mutter is certainly harder to google for.

Especially since it is the German word for mother. Somehow, that makes it kinda cool though ;-)

By: Mats Taraldsvik

Mats Taraldsvik — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:32:26 +0000

@Thomas, @Itdoesn’t : Instead of adding it to planet gnome, it would be better to keep it on gnome news, and get other projects to add themselves there.

Some people wants a planet with only gnome-related stuff – and gnome news has the potential to become just that… :)

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:29:30 +0000

@lukeen:

I think that’s a great idea, but you should suggest it to the Mutter maintainers, not me (Owen Taylor might be a good person to talk to). Mutter is certainly harder to google for.

By: lukeen

lukeen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:25:11 +0000

Why don’t rename Mutter to Metacity 3 or better just Metacity? It would fit into the GNOME3.0 thing and keep the original name. Also it tells the world that Metacity-3.0 is the *new* metacity which comes with GNOME-3.0 while Mutter sounds like something totally new and different to everything there was. So nobody would have to remember the new name of their favorite window manager… and metacity is a much more beautiful name then mutter imho…

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:20:05 +0000

Yeah, I never thought I’d find a blog about a window manager that tries to stay out of my way so interesting :)

By: » Metacity verrà abbandonato per Mutter

» Metacity verrà abbandonato per Mutter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:10:07 +0000

[...] Thurman segnala che l’autore di Metacity ha annunciato che il suo lavoro sarà concentrato su Mutter1 e che chiunque vorrà continuare a mantenere [...]