After all this talk about theme formats, an overview of how they are handled in other window managers seemed in order. Your chronicler is no expert on most of these systems, so there may well be mistakes below.
As you probably know, Metacity uses a complex and powerful (perhaps over-powerful) XML-based vector theme format.
Matchbox uses [...]
The Metacity blog has been going now for a little over two years, and this is our two hundredth post. We began at least partly as a place to keep an essay about building the tab list, and we grew from there, picking up the Metacity Journal, release notes, and the Bug of the [...]
The future of the project: It’s fairly clear now that Mutter will be an alternative window manager in GNOME 2.28, and the only window manager in GNOME 3. It is therefore taking over the reins from Metacity 2: effectively, Mutter is Metacity 3.
But what is to happen to Metacity 2? Your chronicler believes that the [...]
One of the forks of Metacity is known as Mutter, because it’s Metacity with Clutter support. It’s used by the forthcoming gnome-shell project.
In a recent email to d-d-l, Owen Taylor gave two goals for the 2.28 release:
That Mutter should be developed using the GNOME infrastructure; and
That users will be able to choose between gnome-shell and [...]
Administrivia: I’ve nominated this blog in the Blogger’s Choice awards, more because it might bring in fresh readers and more insight than because I think it might win. Other GNOME blogs might consider whether they’d like to enter as well.
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Photographers and other artists who publish work under the Creative Commons licences and who would like their work to appear occasionally in the “bug of the day” series here should contact Thomas by email (tthurman at gnome dot org). These would be interleaved with [...]
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 [...]
I’m away on business until the middle of next week, so posting here will be scarce.
Listen to this.
Sometimes, as in GNOME bug 562650, people ask for extra buttons on the titlebar to go along with the standard set. On the face of it, if you may bind a keystroke to some action, there is no reason why you should not be allowed to add it to the titlebar. The [...]
Window matching is the process of identifying a new window as one we’ve seen before. Of course every new window is new, and so we’ve never seen it before, but there’s an intuitive understanding that if you open a document in OpenOffice and then come back to it a week later that the window is [...]
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