On Saturday we went to help a friend of ours move house; then we went and ate at a diner called Tom Jones, which was rather good really. On Sunday we went and played D&D again at Bae’s house; my elven cleric used up several saving throws against dying in battle. And today I made dinner: it was spaghetti.
The Mutter maintainers have decided that Mutter will henceforth be a proper fork of Metacity and that the projects will go their own ways. This means, of course, that Metacity will not ship as standard in GNOME 3. I am wondering what should happen to Metacity now; I have a couple of branches to merge, and then I think I would really rather work on Mutter than carry on with a project that practically nobody will use. It would be good to work with a team of others again, too: I’ve been mostly alone on Metacity for a while now.
I have modified the Shavian wiki so that the metadata is held on article pages instead of talk pages. It looks like this. I have been discussing some ideas about this wiki with some people, and I am wondering whether it would be generally more useful if the data was held in IPA format and the Shavian text was produced using a transformation on that data, just as Unifon and so on are now. I am also wondering whether allowing anonymous editing would increase participation enough to be worth the risk of vandalism.
Man, I hope you (the devs) come up with a better name than “Mutter” before releasing it… From my experience, “Metacity” was awful already because I have no idea how to accentuate it (Meta-city? Me-tAcity?) nor what the name means.
For “Mutter”, German users likely will be torn between the pronunciation for German word for “mother” and between the English-sounding pronunciation for “to mutter” (if they are familiar with English pronunciation). If you mention the name in a group where some people prefer the “German mother” sound and others the “to mutter” sound, confusion ensues.
Just something I wanted to get off my mind.
It would be great if you could find the time to fix bug #572332 about not using deprecated gtk symbols. Metacity may still be relevant for some in GNOME 3 and that bug would need to be fixed as those symbols will not be available anymore.
Strangely the Shavian font doesn’t work for me on Windows XP, Safari 4 Beta, yet Unifon, Ewellic and Tengwar do. I can’t see any obvious reason for the discrepancy.