Re: NEWS on 1.6.0, crash fix...

[Jeremy Hankins <nowan nowan org>]

Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl> writes:
> Christopher Roy Bratusek said:     (by the date of Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:02:13 +0200)
>
>> * When entering a different WS it's now possible to display it's name
>> 	- like in Enlightenment DR17
>
> How about displaying Viewport name when changing a Viewport?

Viewports don't really have names, they have coordinates.  I guess you
could display those.  But wouldn't a pager make more sense?

> Oh, do you also plan to fix
>
>   http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Proposed_Goals#Restart_and_viewport
>
> for 1.6.0 ? I suffer from this one too...

Yeah, me too.

> Maybe (just maybe..) I will sit down this sunday to fix that 
>
>   http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Proposed_Goals#Crash_fix
>
> And I wanted to skip installing 1.6.0 now, because I have just
> installed 1.5.0.
>
> I hope that if I fix this in 1.5.0, will it be portable to 1.6.0?
> How do you think?

Hmm..  I'm not sure whether the changes I made when I added dynamic
boundary mode would cause problems for that or not, but they may.  One
difference besides dynamic viewport support itself is that in 1.6.0 each
desktop has it's own active viewport, which should probably be saved as
well.

There is code in viewport to save state, and it's not obvious to me why
it's not working, though it clearly needs to be updated for dynamic
viewport mode.  If you fix it for 1.5 I'll look at porting it to 1.6.
Or if you don't get to it I'll take a look myself.

-- 
Jeremy Hankins <nowan nowan org>