Scwm-0.8 Released!

[Greg Badros <gjb cs washington edu>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.os.linux.announce,comp.windows.x.announce,comp.lang.scheme as well.

Scwm 0.8 is released.

* What Scwm is:

Scwm is the Scheme Configurable Window Manager. This is a highly
dynamic and extensible window manager for the X Window System (based
originally on fvwm2, but now much enhanced) with Guile Scheme as the
configuration/extension language. Nearly all decorations can be
changed at run-time or per-window, and eventually many decoration
styles and additional features will be supported through dynamically
loaded code. A powerful protocol is provided for interacting with the
window manager while it is running.


* Primary Authors:

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> 
Greg J. Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>


* Where you can find more info:

Some information about scwm is available at:

http://huis-clos.mit.edu/scwm/

There are also scwm-discuss@huis-clos.mit.edu and
scwm-announce@huis-clos.mit.edu mailing lists for disscussion and
release announcements repsectively. You can subscribe to either at
majordomo@huis-clos.mit.edu

* Where you can get it:

You can download the latest scwm package from:

ftp://huis-clos.mit.edu/pub/scwm/scwm-0.8.tar.gz

There is also
ftp://huis-clos.mit.edu/pub/scwm/scwm-icons-0.8.tar.gz

which has a number of images for use with scwm as icons, textures,
buttons, etc. Some of these images are not available otherwise.

You will also need to download and install the guile library. You can
get the latest release from:

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz

or any archive that has GNU source packages available.

You can get the latest guile snapshot (has more useful features and
generally work better) from:

ftp://red-bean.com/pub/guile

The snapshots are officially alpha but they generally work pretty well.


* Here are highlights of what is new with the 0.8 release. There were
many changes; see the NEWS file in the distribution for more details.

o Fully documented all primitives 
-- Extracted during the build-process via new extract-docs tool
-- DocBook SGML and plaintext formats
-- html available online at: 
   http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/cassowary/scwm-doc/

o Integrated documentation into scwm.el Emacs interaction mode
-- apropos and procedure documentation help

o Lots of bug fixes, cleaned-up API for consistency, multibyte 
  character support

o Squashed titlebar style

o Optional alpha-quality integration of Cassowary constraint solver for
  window layout

o Improved window placement configurability, window gravity support, and
  fvwm2 module support

o Access to X properties, X resources,