The recent discussion about CSS themes looks as though it may become one of the most interesting new ideas in theming in recent years. Here are some further thoughts on what may evolve from this.
An alternative. There is no general way, and few special ways, to convert expression-based v1 and v2 themes to the [...]
The previous post about extending the window menu caused a great deal of discussion. It would seem that our readers would be interested in an implementation. Thomas is considering working on this after the window matching experiments are more stable.
Now, we can imagine that any package might want to add menu options when it [...]
The window menu is the menu you see when you click the menu button (which usually has the window icon on it), or right-click the titlebar. An identical menu appears when you right-click an application’s entry in the task switcher on the panel, although this menu is owned by libwnck rather than Metacity and [...]
When we add features to the theme format, they must be added all in one go for reasons which were explained earlier. We are currently on version 2 of the theme format. In case there is ever a version 3, here are some of our design goals. Not all of these may necessarily [...]
GNOME bug 549389, which has a couple of duplicates, says that if a window is owned by an app which is running as a user other than the user who’s running Metacity, then it should have “(as fred)” on the titlebars, just as it would have “(on chiark)” or whatever if you were running [...]
February 28, 2009 – 7:16 pm
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 [...]
February 20, 2009 – 9:31 pm
It has been pointed out that session management in Metacity is currently a bit broken. Firstly, it leaves a lot of useless files around. I assume that the only session file which is really necessary is the most recent one. Secondly, I recently found and fixed a bug where Metacity actually crashed [...]
February 9, 2009 – 4:21 pm
At present the system menu, which you see when you right-click anywhere on the titlebar, left-click the menu button, or right-click an entry on the pager, is hard-coded separately into Metacity and libwnck, and required to be the same in both places.
I’ve been considering the idea of making it a property on the root window [...]
February 7, 2009 – 10:52 pm
Almost everything we bind keys to could be done with an external application via EWMH, and on my computer there’s no perceptible speed penalty. (I’m sure there is on slower machines.) Perhaps there should be a configure switch not to include the code to do everything except the things which pop up switchers (and another [...]
January 24, 2009 – 9:14 pm
GNOME bug 531512 suggests that Metacity should have a D-Bus interface. On the face of it, this is a good idea. However, the problem lies in the existing EWMH specification, which allows a program to request operations from a window manager– simply put, it’s pretty much exactly what a D-Bus interface would be, but [...]
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