Month: March 2008

Fewer things have been happening, but what they’ve lacked in number they’ve made up in excitingness. Excitingosity. Whatever it is.

Bugs

• GNOME bug 358674 – the venerable unidirectional maximisation bug was closed today, with over fifty comments on the clock, several duplicated bugs, and two factions: FMB, who wanted horizontal or vertical maximisation to happen when you middle or right clicked on the maximise button, and TCA, who wanted them to be titlebar actions. Thomas called the dispute last week for the TCA, and committed one of the patches today. (When one of the comments says “See point F of comment 50”, you can tell the discussion’s been going on for a good while.)
• GNOME bug 518606 – Metacity did not do what the libwnck documentation said, but it turned out to be because the libwnck documentation was wrong.

Checkins on trunk

• ChangeLog, src/core/core.c, src/core/prefs.c, src/core/window.h, src/include/common.h, src/include/core.h, src/metacity.schemas.in, src/ui/frames.c by tthurman — unidirectional maximisation, as mentioned above.

Links
Nothing very interesting.

Translations

• On branches/gnome-2-22: lt by gintas

Photo: Lower Red Lion, St Albans. Photo by Gary Houston, public domain.

Havoc sends along a link to GNOME bug 44927, an excellent answer to the question “But why not just include this patch? It’s only a bit more code!”: “I included this patch [“support >5 mouse buttons”] since it seems harmless.”

Bugs

• GNOME bug 437910 – there has been a fair amount of interesting discussion off and on about this one. Currently you can resize windows with alt+middle drag, but this is unusable with many laptops. Should we change this to alt+right drag, as some other window managers do? Should we have a general “we don’t have a middle mouse button” flag somewhere? How should we make decisions like this? This is also the first Metacity bug to come up on the Ubuntu brainstorming site; feel free to make suggestions there, incidentally, since we ship on Ubuntu, and we’ll see them and link them here. Raising bugs in GNOME’s bugzilla will certainly find us, though, because they appear here through a script.
• GNOME bug 468075 – Sven does further work on tracking down this remarkably long-lived bug about maximisation
• GNOME bug 482354 – Colin Walters updated the patch, which has been waiting for review for a fair while and had rotted. We should decide what to do about this before Firefox 3 comes out, but it’s a major undertaking to make a decision (otherwise it would have happened already).
• GNOME bug 509165 – first-time contributor Andrea Del Signore provides a patch to add “spacer” as a button type, which went in today.
• GNOME bug 513944 – a new clue in this segfault, which looks pretty useful (the clue, not the segfault)
• GNOME bug 517722 – Elijah said that there are many actions done better by a process outside the window manager; Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen has a tool called winwrangler which does this, but it is blocking on GNOME bug 518606
• GNOME bug 519128 – some files from Søren’s compositor were left behind
• GNOME bug 519188 – a new focus issue

Thomas’s hit list for the next few days: GNOME bug 518606, GNOME bug 513944.

Checkins on trunk

• ChangeLog, src/Makefile.am; ChangeLog, src/core/compositor.h by tthurman – GNOME bug 519128
• ChangeLog, src/core/prefs.c, src/include/common.h, src/metacity.schemas.in, src/ui/theme.c by tthurman – GNOME bug 509165

Links

• Perhaps we’re not making the default keybindings obvious enough?
• We also have a statistics page on Pulse to go with the existing statistics page on Ohloh.

Translations

• On branches/gnome-2-22: ca by gforcada
• On trunk: zh_HK by chliao, zh_TW by chliao

Happy Leap Day, everyone.