Eric Raymond has proposed in his essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” that given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, using Linux as a particular example. The idea may be true in the abstract, but in practice even if a project has many users it won’t necessarily have enough eyeballs, and most users of […]
Checkins on trunk
ChangeLog, src/core/window.c by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/ui/preview-widget.c by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/Makefile.am, src/metacity.desktop.in by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/core/prefs.c by tthurman
ChangeLog, src/core/session.c by jensg
ChangeLog, src/core/compositor.c by iain
ChangeLog, src/Makefile.am by lucasr
LinksI’m seeing quite a theme of comparisons with Compiz here.
Tombuntu tells their readers how compositing works in Metacity; a good number of responses both positive and negative.
Jayson Rowe gives Metacity’s compositor […]
Here we are again. It’s been a hectic few weeks and the backlog has built up a lot, so we’ll just talk about the most recent couple of days.
There’s been an effort to get all unanswered bugs answered. The next step is to go through all NEEDINFO bugs and close as appropriate, and […]
Releases
2.23.1 went out today. Yay.
Bugs
GNOME bug 326156 - the debate over what raise_on_click means in various focus modes rumbles on
GNOME bug 358674 (unidirectional maximisation) - Josh Triplett says that the TCA fix doesn’t go far enough, and that we should (also? or only?) consider FMB. Your reasoned responses are most welcome.
GNOME […]
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 […]
When things are this busy I should be doing these daily.
Bugs
We reported earlier, gentle reader, that the rounded corners preview GNOME bug 460018 was solved in both trunk and the gnome-2-22 branch by Thomas Wood. We made probably the last release of 2.21 specially to include the patch.
GNOME bug 490668 - one of […]
Rio is helping me edit the Metacity Journal tonight. Thanks, Rio!
Bugs
It’s been a busy couple of days!
GNOME bug 106249 — Matthias comes up with a working patch for the skip_taskbar problem
GNOME bug 138290 — Rob thought window placement had its problems, but Thomas wasn’t sure what they were; we need to ask […]
You know, I miss the little photographs of pubs we used to have when I did it by hand. I will look into adding those into the script.
Bugzilla
Thomas closed a ton of bugs. The script has not yet been fixed to make the output beautiful and it would take ages to write it all up, […]
Over the last few months we’ve had a recurring feature called the Metacity Journal. Every day or so we listed bug activity, checkins, and mentions in the press and other people’s blogs. However, it took about half an hour or more for your chronicler to collate all this information every morning, and it became apparent […]
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