Re: [ANNOUNCE] sawfish-1.5.0

[Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson googlemail com>]

> Hi all,
>
> The long awaited 1.5.0 release of sawfish is finally available!

Congrats to the entire team! I was really looking forward to sawfish
1.5.0, I've been using sawfish for ages and I love it.

I tried installing but got stuck, here is a quick report:

These are the sources I downloaded:

librep-0.90.0.tar.bz2
rep-gtk-0.18.6.tar.bz2
sawfish-1.5.0.tar.bz2

After unpacking the archives:

cd librep-0.90.0
./configure prefix=/home/fetchinson/tmp/sawfish
make
make install
# everything above is successful!
cd ../rep-gtk-0.18.6
# oooops, no 'configure' script :(
autoconf
# this complains:
# configure.in:31: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
#      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
#      See the Autoconf documentation.
# configure.in:46: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

So how do I compile rep-gtk?

I noticed that installation instructions on the wiki are practically
non-existent and also the INSTALL and README files are virtually
useless in the rep-gtk archive.

How should I proceed?

Cheers,
Daniel


> I've never thought of sawfish 1.5.0 beeing released before e17, two years
> ago. Thanks to John, Janek, the Sawfish-Crew, all Contributors and Users,
> Mandriva/Gentoo/Debian/ALT/Arch which did not drop sawfish and provide fresh
> packages.
>
> It's brings one incompatibility compared to 1.3x: ~/.sawmillrc is no longer
> a valid configurationfile, if you still use that file, simply rename it to
> either ~/.sawfishrc or ~/.sawfish/rc, and you're done.
>
> Some additonal notes:
>
> for compiling with XFree86 or X.Org 6.x instead of X.Org 7.x, add the
> following flag to configure:
>
> --without-xorg-x11
>
> for compiling with Imlib1 as image-loader instead of gdk-pixbuf-xlib (which
> works again), add:
>
> --without-gdk-pixbuf
>
> for not installing translations, add:
>
> --without-nls
>
> or (deprecated, since ="no" would install norwegian translation instead of
> nothing)
>
> --enable-linguas=" "
>
> to compile without pango, add:
>
> --without-pango
>
> (by default, X.Org 7, gdk-pixbuf-xlib, nls and pango are enabled)
>
> The Overview of changes
>
> 1.5.0
> =====
>
>    * The 1.5.0 release has new features and bugfixes
>
>    * New/Updated requirements:
>         - librep 0.17 -> 0.90.0
>
>         - rep-gtk 0.18.3 -> 0.18.4
>
>    * User visible changes:
>         - Fully renamed from "sawmill" to "sawfish"
>
>           If your `.sawfishrc' has a line `(require 'sawmill-defaults)',
>           then change it to `(require 'sawfish-defaults)'.
>
>           If your configuration file is named `~/.sawmillrc', then
>           rename it to `~/.sawfish/rc' or `~/.sawfishrc'.
>
>         - Configurator GUI's default style is tree view of categories.
>
>           Configurator GUI (sawfish-ui) used to display categories in
>           flat row, but now arranges them in tree diagram.
>
>           To use the old style, put `(define-special-variable
>           customize-program "sawfish-ui --flatten")' in your
>           configuration file.
>
>    * Bugs fixed:
>         - Fixed an compilation-error caused by glib [Michal Jaegermann]
>
>         - Make building with imlib1 instead of gdk-pixbuf work again
>           [Michal Jaegermann]
>
>         - Create src/build.h, since it has been missing before
>           [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Fixed an "unknown remote error" that might appear [Alexey I.
>           Froloff]
>
>         - Make "make uninstall" work again [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Fixed the issue that apps did not start iconified, even if
>           requested [Ian Zimmerman, Teika Kazura]
>
>         - First create $datadir/applications, then install the desktop
>           file [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Fixed default animation outline coordinates [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - Don't ignore datarootdir setting [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Make Sawfish more error-tolerant if an app has an icomplete
>           WM_CLASS [Martin Mares]
>
>         - Make sure we don't mix Super and Hyper [Denis Barbier]
>
>         - Fixup the last incomplete AC_DEFINE [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Fixed a speed-issue with microGUI [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Make properly use of WM_NAME in Elberg-tabbed [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>    * New features:
>         - UTF-8 Support in Windowmenus [Wang Diancheng]
>
>         - UTF-8 Support in GTK Widgets [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Tabbed Windowing Support [Yann Hodique, Scott Scriven, Nathan
>           Froyd, Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Improved KDE3 Integration [Timo Korvola]
>
>         - Replaced hardcoded focus logic by focus-revert function [Timo
>           Korvola]
>
>         - Tabbed Windowing Support: Raise Tabs on hover [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - Warp cursor to cycled windows, if warp-cursor is enabled
>           [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Warp cursor to unmaximied windows, if warp-cursor is enabled
>           [Fernando Carmona Varo]
>
>         - 3 New Window-Animators: cross, elliptical and draft
>           [Christopher Bratusek, Teika Kazura[draft fixups]]
>
>         - Shrinking/Yanking Support [Timo Korvola]
>
>         - Infinite Desktop Feature (make the virtual desktop bigger
>           than the physical) [David T. McWherter]
>
>         - Make Viewport commands appear in Sawfish-UI [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - Make Window History appear in Sawfish-UI [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - Added cycle-among-groups(,-backwards) commands (cycle between
>           the most recently used window of groups) [Fernando Carmano
>           Varo]
>
>         - Interactive placement-mode now also for transients
>           [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Improved prompt.jl (allows changing font, fg and bg color)
>           [Sergey I. Sharybi]
>
>         - Expose fixed-position, never-iconify, never-maximize in the
>           Window-Matcher UI [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>    * Other changes:
>         - To build with XFree86/X.Org < 7.0 add -without-xorg-x11r7
>           flag [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - To build without Pango add -without-pango flag [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - To prevent installing translations add -without-nls flag
>           [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Set RestartStyleHint to 2 [Christian Marillat]
>
>         - When matching window to alist try WM_NAME if WM_CLASS is
>           unset [Christian Marillat]
>
>         - Major Documentation update [Derek Upham, Teika Kazura]
>
>         - New Sound Theme [glh Pimenta]
>
>         - Added ebuild [Harald van Dijk]
>
>         - Added session desktop file [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - rep.m4 has been dropped use librep.pc/rep-gtk.pc instead
>           [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Added sawfish.pc [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Improved Makefile's distclean rule [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Updated .desktop files for gnome-session >=2.23 [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - Fixed autogen for libtool >2.2 [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Major configure script rework [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Don't ship config.sub config.guess and install-sh in
>           $srcdir/etc [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Reworked Sawfish-UI [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Dropped libgnome|gnomeui|gnomecanvas widgets, use pure gtk
>           instead [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Merged changes from sawfish-pager [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Major update of the spec file [Christopher Bratusek, Michal
>           Jaegermann, Ritz]
>
>         - Print usefull stuff at the end of configure [Christopher
>           Bratusek]
>
>         - Add distclean rule to all Makefiles [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Add KEYBINDINGS file, containing a list of all default
>           keybindings [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Updated OPTIONS for all new options [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Cleaned Up Makedefs.in [Christopher Bratusek]
>
>         - Move 'avoid' window-matcher from placement to state [Teika
>           Kazura]
>
>         - Updated compat.jl [Teika Kazura]
>
>         - Removed all old ChangeLog files [Christohper Bratusek]
>
>         - Make move-cursor.jl export all functions described in the doc
>           [Christopher Bratusek]
>
> Download:
>
> Get it from the usual place:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=32
>
> Have a lot of fun and stay tuned!
> Chris
>


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