Here’s a quick round-up of interesting goings-on in the Metacity and Mutter worlds this week.
Sam H wants to implement tabbed windows in the window manager (so that each application would think it had multiple windows open, but the user would see tabs). The responses included “awesome” and “my personal hero”. Sam H plans to work [...]
Here’s a quick roundup of recent happenings with Mutter and Metacity.
Sugar Labs want to use Metacity (and not Mutter) in Sugar, and ran into the problem that undecorated maximised windows are necessarily fullscreened. A patch was provided to turn this off.
Two on tabs:
Sam H wants to integrate tabs into Mutter;
Ivan Denker wants to know whether [...]
It’s that journal thing again.
Bugs
They just keep piling up, don’t they?
GNOME bug 163023 – claimed no longer relevant
GNOME bug 310842 – prefixes, squib from a few days back: what’s the use case?
GNOME bug 339692 – possible patch; compiz doesn’t like it
GNOME bug 387139 – possibly actually a gedit issue
GNOME bug [...]
Your chronicler is once again reminded to overhaul this script. Those who are reading this from other projects– would you be interested in a copy when it’s more polished?
Bugs
As ever, feel free to join these conversations.
GNOME bug 171174 Xephyr crash– is this still a problem?
GNOME bug 437910 option to switch resize/menu keys, [...]
Your chronicler attempted to produce this version of the Metacity Journal using the old script; however, it had not run for so long that it listed hundreds of changes. Therefore it was largely pared down by hand, and only the changes from the last few days have been mentioned. If you’d like to [...]
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The patch in GNOME bug 482354 (the one about windows which present to other workspaces, which almost every distro has included) was finally committed.
GNOME bug 83892, double-click to close, is still being argued over; your chronicler would like to hear some usability experts discuss the reasons given for its inclusion.
GNOME [...]
Bugs
GNOME bug 550670 led to the discovery of GNOME bug 561911, which is also possibly related to GNOME bug 513944, that errors happen because of graphics contexts being of different depths.
Launchpad bug 296757: gdesklets and Metacity’s compositor apparently don’t play nicely.
GNOME bug 344072: It has been suggested that alt-Esc should [...]
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Welcome back, gentle reader, to the Metacity Journal, which now talks to you over your cornflakes. This may not be a long-term feature, but your chronicler thought it worth trying.
It’s been a quiet few days in the world of Metacity, but here’s the latest news. As ever, feel free to dive in on [...]
Another day, another Metacity Journal, and your chronicler still has not resurrected the script.
Bugs
As ever, feel free to dive in with any of these.
GNOME bug 558058, Launchpad bug 258054, and possibly Launchpad bug 266929 were obscure bugs caused by dereferencing the values of GConf keys which are never null on a properly-configured system; [...]
Recent activity
GNOME bug 557536: Ka-Hing Cheung noted on this blog that wmctrl wasn’t able to make Metacity windows stick. Thomas investigated and found that this is because that part of the EWMH had never been implemented. It now has been.
Several bugs cropped up in 2.25.2 almost immediately, which have all been fixed, and we are [...]
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