Lots of happy buzz about window managers here at the desktop summit. Some things people have said:
Someone asked about implementing window matching. It’s always been our policy that it should be done with an external tool, but policies can of course be rethought. We might implement it in a branch and see whether anyone likes [...]
I didn’t expect to get useful suggestions from the Linux Haters’ blogs, but here’s something that might fly: they point out that warnings from the window manager end up in .xsession-errors where nobody ever sees them. But now that we’re using Zenity for dialogues throughout, there’s no reason why we can’t adapt meta_warning() to put up [...]
Feel free to ask more questions, but here are answers to the ones you asked already:
How would you make a Prelude theme? Answered here and now floating around the net.
Will the compositor ever be enabled by default? I’d like it to be. There are apparently people it still doesn’t work for well, though. Perhaps as [...]
Listen to this.
A user writes:
At the moment i’m trying to make a theme for metacity but I have no idea how I can make the document icon drag-able and to interact with the desktop environment i.e. drag to the desktop to save or to the trash to delete.
Firstly, let me thank you for being willing [...]
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