Re: NEWS on 1.6.0, crash fix...

[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl>]

Jeremy Hankins said:     (by the date of Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:41:27 -0500)

> 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?

yes I have a pager. But you could assign names to those "coordinates"
and call viewport 1,4 "email" or such. Those would be displayed in
similar manner as assigning name "email" to workspace number 3.


> > 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.


This crash actually isn't related to viewports. It happens when some
window is closed. And I guess it is closed in some illegal way, maybe
when unmapped from wm. Of course closing windows in illegal way is
illegal, but sawfish isn't supposed to crash at this. Thanks for your
interest in the issue.

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Janek Kozicki                                                         |