Re: {IMPORTANT] README, Sawfish 1.6.0

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:58:15 +0900 (JST)
schrieb Teika Kazura <teika lavabit com>:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:40:00 +0100, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> > - Tabs ... is anyone willing to work on them?°
> 
> The release of 1.6 is close, so even if anyone has some good hacks, it
> should be small. (We have to investigate GSR's proposal first before
> further development ...well, I can't find it :/) Design with best
> efforts, and you will win.

Of course. Still a lot of discussion but no work :)

> > - Update Docs regarding compat.jl ... Teika?*
> 
> This is of low priority, although it's marked as "todo" in Wiki. It
> should be the part of entire code review and, if any, refactoring.

'kay.

> Once I said I might ask longer feature freeze period, but I don't
> think I'll need it. More news rewritement is necessary, but not so
> tough.

Good.

> And Chris, could you give description on the status of gnome support
> in news.texi? (What is exactly the "minimum support"?) Specific texts
> like the one of KDE will be nice.

The skip-tasklist window-matcher was dropped. Only used by GNOME and
only in ancient versions. (don't mix with tasklist-skip, which is the
way to go and of course still supported)

GNOME-Menu support was dropped, as it was only working correctly for
GNOME 1.x, for 2.x it wasn't usefull actually. In addition it was
supersedded by fdo-menu (and it's loader from gnome-int)

Quit and Restart entries aren't removed anymore from root-menu when
gnome-int is loaded

Removed ancient capplet bit

Add Session/Help -root-menu entries similarily to kde-int

Updated all commands for non-ancient GNOME

Use sawfish-wide browser-program and xterm-program instead of fully
hardcoding those two apps

Removed all other now unneeded stuff from gnome-int

Overall (didn't meassure) code is off by 75%

> > - Docs for Tab and improved userguide ... Teika, GSR?*
> 
> Nothing. For users, wiki page almost suffices. But it's better to 
> describe the implementation for developers.

Is the Wiki doc in HEAD (faq, sawfish, or own file)?

> > Next, when shall feature freeze start ...
> > 
> > 22nd Nov or 4st Dec? (+/- 12 days)
> 
> I'll vote later. If what's submitted is not much, then I'll prefer
> earlier freeze, since it may result in earlier release.

It actually won't, as bug-squashing has high priority that time and I
actually want to see some more squashed, additionally the
widget-transistion in SawfishConfig is not finished, yet.

Even if time is not enough for GtkTree -> GtkTreeView and GtkCList ->
GtkTreeView atleast GtkCombo -> GtkComboBox should be done. The former
two involve work in rep-gtk, too.
 
> > I guess most will vote for 22nd. Well, if a feature from the above
> > list is beeing finished between FFB (FeatureFree Begin) and the
> > 20th Dec, it may be still included, though it must be stable, no
> > regressions and such and you need the approval of two core-team
> > members (which are namely: Me, Teika Kazura, Timo Korvola, Janek
> > Kozicki, Guillermo S. Romero (GSR)).
> 
> It's *very* good to set up this kind of behavior guideline. Thanks!

That's the GNOME way of doing so ^_^;

> > Wishlist for librep and rep-gtk.
> 
> Nothing. In fact, I'll submit a doc patch for librep, but it's minor,
> so doesn't care if it's librep-0.90.3 or 1.0.

0.90.4 will carry it, as this release already has fixes for OpenBSD it
will be released at least together with sawfish 1.6.0
 
> With best regards,
> Teika (Teika kazura)

Regards,
Chris