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2.23.34 out (mainly for the release day)

2.23.34
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Thanks to Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.
- Commenting and tidying (Thomas)
- Fix possible compositor crash (Thomas) (#530702)
Translations
Khaled Hosny (ar), Yavor Doganov (bg), Jorge González (es), Kjartan Maraas (nb),
Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya) (oc), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Clytie
Siddall (vi)

2.23.21

What is it ?
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Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
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Thanks to Robert Escriva, Iain Holmes, Matt Krai, Thomas Thurman, and Chris Wang for improvements in this version.
- Add shadow ability for menus and tooltips (Iain) (#517442 ) (GNOME bug 517524)
- Fix possible crashes […]

2.23.13 out

What is it ?
Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Erwann Chenede and Carlos Garnacho for improvements in this version.

Re-enable cascading (Erwann ) (GNOME bug #529925)
Propagate opacity to frame windows (spec compliance!) (Carlos)

Translations
None this time!
Where can I get it ?
http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.23/
c1c7f4ce88c42515917278d136080537 bzip2
5071f294e6fd4829db60fe7a6a5c705c gzip

2.23.3

What is it ?
Metacity is a simple compositing window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Marco Pesenti Gritti, Iain Holmes, Josh Lee, Thomas Thurman, and Matthew Wilson for improvements in this version.
- Workspaces whose name is the same as the standard name, plus some string, are not cut off. […]

2.22.0 released

What is it ?
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Translations
Jordi Mallach (ca), Kostas Papadimas (el), David Lodge (en_GB),
Jorge González (es), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Žygimantas Beručka (lt),
Vasiliy Faronov (ru), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
Where can I get it ?
Source code
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.22/
MD5 Sums
8cb6d02cf66a1003532b4f5d2754d696 metacity-2.22.0.tar.bz2
08bc5077b328f15532b3132429ae26e5 metacity-2.22.0.tar.gz
Thank […]

2.23.2: the Rather Embarrassing Release

What’s changed?
Almost nothing, except that a few debug statements were removed.
Where can I get it ?
Source code
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.23/
MD5 Sums
20bb54a6537295f1868f9c87d884da76 metacity-2.23.2.tar.bz2
fc76ca17481442e19d947a5d39e87b0c metacity-2.23.2.tar.gz

2.23.1 released

What is it ?
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
What’s changed ?
Thanks to Cosimo Cecchi, Jens Granseuer, Jim Huang, Andrea Del Signore, and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.
(Cosimo’s patch was very similar to another received from Jason Ribero.)
- Allow horizontal and vertical maximisation using the mouse […]

2.21.8 is out

Thanks to Paolo Borelli, Iain Holmes, Havoc Pennington, Christian Persch, Thomas Thurman, and Alex R.M. Turner for improvements in this version.
- Windows on other workspaces which need attention appear in the alt-tab list too (Alex ) (GNOME bug 333548)
- Remove deprecated function call (Christian ) (GNOME bug 512561)
- New release script (Thomas)
[…]

Some compositor issues

So, now that the compositor is in trunk and everyone is excited, this might be a good time to mention some “issues”.
Firstly, it seems that there are some weird shadow redrawing problems…these just appeared recently, so it shouldn’t be hard to find the offending commit. I think I know what it is, I just need […]

2.21.5 is out, with the compositor

Thanks to Iain Holmes and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version. This is the first unstable release to contain the new compositor; please try it out and let us know how it goes for you. Downstream maintainers should note that its GConf key is initially turned off in src/metacity.schemas.in and consider whether to turn […]

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