Re: [gnome-flashback] Metacity 3.12.0

[shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com>]

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On 6/14/14, Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:
> About Metacity
> ==============
>
> A window manager for GNOME, with a focus on simplicity and usability
> rather than novelties or gimmicks. It uses GTK+ 2 for drawing window
> frames, so that it inherits colors, fonts, and so on from the GTK+
> theme. Its author has characterized it as a "boring window manager for
> the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot
> Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios."
>
> News
> ====
>
>  - Port GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 (Mutter developers)
>  - Fix title bar button background (Nicolas Desfontaine)
>  - Side-by-side window tiling (Maarten Baert)
>  - Window placement patch (Chad Glendenin,
> http://chad.glendenin.com/metacity/patch.html)
>  - Add UXD shadows and borders (Sam Spilsbury)
>  - Add error handling to glibtop_get_proc_uid (Tomaž Šolc)
>  - Cut with fading the Bar title when it's longer than the decoration bar
> (Marco Trevisan)
>  - Don't show the ws switcher if we only have one (Didier Roche)
>  - Update meta_show_dialog for gtk's removal of --screen (Dan Winship)
>  - Add drag and drop support when using alt + tab (Matthias Clasen)
>  - Fix new window focus (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534752)
>  - Compositing manager is enabled by default now
>  - Fix screen flickering on session start (
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658036)
>
> Translations:
>     Piotr Drąg (pl)
>     Lasse Liehu (fi)
>     Wylmer Wang (zh_CN)
>     Rafael Ferreira (pt_BR)
>     Benjamin Steinwender (de)
>     Мирослав Николић (sr, sr latin)
>     Rūdolfs Mazurs (lv)
>     Joe Hansen (da)
>     Milo Casagrande (it)
>     Balázs Úr (hu)
>     Alexandre Franke (fr)
>     Aurimas Černius (lt)
>     Christian Kirbach (de)
>     Andika Triwidada (id)
>     Matej Urbančič (sl)
>     Daniel Mustieles (es)
>     Marek Černocký (cs)
>     Gil Forcada (ca)
>     Fran Diéguez (gl)
>     Gheyret Kenji (ug)
>
>
>
> Download
> ========
> https://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/3.12/metacity-3.12.0.tar.xz
> (1.53M)
>   sha256sum: a9ac5a3decd14fe6068efb5b5358bb
> 4dffd0380ce2d605cb65424d843c3ed9dd

Hi all,
Thank you Alberts. I filed a bug yesterday itself in the debian BTS
after seeing your mail. See  https://bugs.debian.org/751683 .

The Debian PTS reports 2.34.13-1 as the current metacity version in debian.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/metacity.html

The debian-gnome team is trying to get GNOME 3.12 for jessie.
Previously the debian-gnome team was thinking of having GNOME 3.14 but
as soft-freeze would be happening in couple of months, it seems the
team would have to settle for GNOME 3.12 .

One other thing which was discussed was upower. Coincidentally the
debian-gnome team is also working towards getting upower 0.99 support
in all the apps. that need it. See

https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-upower.html

They are trying to slowly migrate the packages to use upower. When
that would happen is anybody's guess although the signs are positive.
For e.g. see :-

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2014-June/111110.html

- A package using the new upower 0.99.

Maybe perhaps you could also help with some of the upstream packages as well ?

What was interesting to read in the changelog/NEWS was that mutter
devs. helped quite a bit to metacity to port to GTK+3 . I was always
under the impression that there was some competition between the two
projects for as memory serves Mutter started as a fork of metacity.

I do remember reading this piece which appeared on lwn.net several
years ago http://lwn.net/Articles/344734/

It's good to see them working with each other, may the tribe increase.

The only thing which troubles me is this :-

' - Compositing manager is enabled by default now '

I'm not sure how much more this would stress outdated machines like
the one I have atm. :-

Intel Dual-Core CPU E5400 (soc 775) @ 2.70GHz,  Asus MB P5KPL-AM IN
(Intel G31) , 2 GB DDR2 RAM.

If you have done any tests or know of links when people have tested
with compositing on and not.

Looking forward to knowing more.
-- 
          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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