[local.wm-user] [wm-dev] Window Maker 0.60.0 Released!

[Paul Seelig <pseelig mail Uni-Mainz de>]

Window Maker now supports xdnd which means that drag'n'drop from gmc
finally works with the dock.  Here is the forwarded announcement:

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From: dan@services.iiruc.ro (Dan Pascu)
Newsgroups: local.wm-user
Subject: [wm-dev] Window Maker 0.60.0 Released!
Message-ID: <199906032059.XAA02579@dawn.iiruc.ro>
Date: 3 Jun 99 20:59:14 GMT
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As I said, 0.60.0 is released, coming with many bug fixes, many new
features, many new bugs, and many many other things all described in
the attached Changelog and NEWS files.



-- 
Dan

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Changes since version 0.53.0:
.............................

- fixed a bug that caused icon overlaping in Clip, when icon was moved around.
- this time really added libwmfun to distribution.
- made deiconification not automatically focus window in sloppy focus
- fixed crash with DisableMiniwindows and icon pixmap changes
- fixed crash when changing icon of window without WM_CLASS
- added hysteresys for offscreen menu scrollback
- fixed bug with IgnoreFocusClick
- fixed crash with windows with width == 1 (Alban Hertroys 
					<dalroi@wit401310.student.utwente.nl>)
- added SHEXEC command
- fixed resizebarback for SHADOW_RESIZEBAR ( jim knoble jmknoble@pobox.com)
- added balloon help everywhere
- fixed bug with FullMaximize attribute
- GNOME: button events not bound in wmaker are proxyized (to gmc)
				(Paul Warren <pdw@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>)
- fixed bug with restoration of maximized window after restart with
  --enable-kde
- added high-quality filtered rescaling (smoothed rescaling) to wrlib/wmsetbg
- added SmoothWorkspaceBack
- fixed crash bug in Paths section of WPrefs
- optimized image rendering for 15/16 bpp
- user menus' paths were changed. See NEWS.
- added a timeout for the workspace name fading
- HP-UX compiler compatibility workarounds (Sebastien Bauer
						seb_bauer@bigfoot.com)
- fixed crash with attributes panel
- save state of all menus when exiting (Sebastien Bauer
						seb_bauer@bigfoot.com)
- added GNUstep info panel (still needs beautification..)
- made the paths selector in WPrefs.app use the open file panel
- fixed crash bug with hiding apps without dock/clip
- fixed a mem leak in superfluous mode caused by the ghost icon.
- added possibility to set omnipresent icons in Clip. See NEWS.
- fixed bug in WPrefs menu editor
- fixed crash when moving internal window with kbd
- fixed compilation problem on IRIX machines (Neil Muller
						<neil@octane.sun.ac.za>)
- replace xde support drop on dock with xdnd.
- added an (internal use) environment variable for telling WPrefs whats's
  the name of the wmaker binary being ran.
- more elegant text entries in Clip's menu, regarding single/multiple
  selected icons.
- fixed cosmetic bug in geom. dpy window for 8bpp
- removed --enable-kanji and added MultiByteText option
- rewrote font code to use WINGs
- made autoraise only work for the active window
- fixed compilation problem with OpenWindows and other non-X11R6 systems..
- fixed crash bug when iconsize=24
- fixed portability prob with raise() in SunOS
- fixed icon placement bug (Markus Schoder <Markus.Schoder@online.de>)
- added delete and floppy buttons in file panel.



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NEWS for veteran Window Maker users
-----------------------------------

--- 0.60.0


User Menu
---------

The user menu is now a compile time option disabled by default. 
Supply --enable-usermenu to configure to enable it.


root menu INCOMPATIBLE changes
------------------------------

EXEC <program> will execute the named program

SHEXEC <command> will execute the shell command.

If you want to execute something like blabla > /dev/null, then use SHEXEC

Dont forget to update your menus.


New Option For setstyle
-----------------------

The --ignore flag will tell setstyle to not change the option that is
specified, when modifying the Window Maker configurations. For example:

setstyle --ignore MenuStyle sometheme.themed will cause the MenuStyle
option to not be changed.

setstyle --ignore FTitleBack --ignore UTitleBack --ignore PTitleBack bla.themed
will load the theme, but keep the titlebar background related options as
before.


MultiByte Text Support Changes
------------------------------

The --enable-kanji configure option is not needed anymore and was removed.
To enable support for multibyte text, you must:
- set the LANG environment variable to the appropriate value
- change the font configurations to contain font sets in the appropriate
  encodings in both ~/G/D/WindowMaker and ~/G/D/WMGLOBAL (for WPrefs)
- set the MultiByteText option to YES in both of the above files


New Options
-----------

WorkspaceNameDisplayPosition =
none/center/top/bottom/topleft/topright/bottomleft/bottomright


SmoothWorkspaceBack = YES/NO

will enable smoothing of scaled workspace background images.



Application User Menu Path Changes
----------------------------------

Default configuration for user specific menus installed in
/usr/local/share/WindowMaker/UserMenus or $(datadir)/WindowMaker/UserMenus
and ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/UserMenus.


Omnipresent icons in Clip
-------------------------

Added ability to set icons docked in Clip to be omnipresent on all workspaces.
To set/reset this flag use the clip menu.
The Clip menu changed in the following way:
 - if you bring up the menu from the Clip's main icon, it will contain as
   before the "Rename Workspace" entry in the second position.
 - however, if you bring up the menu from any other icon in clip, the
   "Rename Workspace" menu entry is replaced by "Omnipresent" or
   "Toggle Omnipresent" depending on the context.

This entry will work in the following way, depending on the context:

1. If there is no icon selected in the clip, then the menu will contain the
   entry named "Omnipresent" which will be checked accordingly to the current
   state of the icon (omnipresent or not), and will let you change the
   omnipresent state of the icon you brought the menu from.
2. If one or more icons are already selected when the Clip menu is called, the
   entry will be named "Toggle Omnipresent" and will apply to all selected
   icons trying to toggle their omnipresent state. The icons which will be
   succesfully changed to their new state as requested, will be unselected,
   while the ones that will fail for some reason to gain their new state,
   will remain selected.

In both cases if there is not success in setting what user requested a panel
will inform user of the failure.
(Note: trying to set an icon to not-omnipresent will never fail. Failures can
       be met only when trying to set omnipresent for an icon).

The icons set to omnipresent will be marked with a triangle in the upper left
corner, having the color of the IconTitleColor.

An icon can be set to omnipresent, only if its position is free in all the
workspaces, else you will be informed of the problem and asked to fix it first.
Also when dragging an omnipresent icon around in Clip, all the icons docked in
all the workspaces are shown while the dragging is done, to let one easily see
where are free slots in all workspaces.

For advanced users, there is also a shortcut to set/reset the omnipresent
state of an icon: just use "Shift+MiddleButton" (button2) on the icon you want
to change.
In this case only the mark in the upper left corner will appear in case of
success, or nothing will happen if icon cannot be made omnipresent (advanced
users are expected to know why the icon failed to be made omnipresent, so they
don't need a panel to explain them why ;) ).

Now before you load your gun to start a flame war because this is against your
principles you love so much, please sit down and think that this is a feature,
which, if you don't use, the old behaviour of the Clip is totally preserved.
It just adds some extra capabilities to the Clip for people who think that this
is useful.


XDND drop on dock support
-------------------------

Support for XDE on dock is now replaced by XDND.
To enable, edit src/wconfig.h




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