new xfdesktop finished
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed Jun 16 16:09:43 CEST 2004
hi all-
my semi-rewrite of xfdesktop is basically done, and everything appears
to work. if i left anything out, please let me know. bugreports are
welcome as always. i really need some xinerama testing. i've tested
non-xinerama with Xnest, but "real" testing here would be nice as well.
here's the tarball:
http://spuriousinterrupt.org/xfce4/files/xfdesktop-4.1.5.tar.gz
please make sure that you have the latest versions of libxfce4util,
libxfcegui4, and libxfce4mcs from CVS. i'm not sure if i set the
version requirements properly in configure. don't give me any
build-time errors unless you've made sure they're up-to-date.
if you don't mind, compile it with --enable-debug=full so bug reports
will be more useful to me. remember to restart xfce-mcs-manager after
you've installed it.
here are the highlights:
new stuff (that CVS doesn't have):
* multiscreen support (both xinerama and non-xinerama)
* menu icon sizing is a bit more intelligent
* "color only" checkbox moved and changed to "show image"
* "don't set backdrop" removed until i can come up with a better way of
achieving the same effect
* windowlist behavior is a little different with regards to text effects
on the items
* new defaults (pretty color gradient)
old stuff that's been redone:
* windowlist code mostly rewritten
* backdrop handling is entirely rewritten (except for imagelist code)
* settings-handling code rewritten (in xfdesktop)
* screen-size-change handling (via XRANDR)
* gradient code rewritten to be more efficient and quicker
old stuff that's basically the same
* fortunately, i didn't have to rewrite the menu
* settings plugin only has a few changes
missing stuff:
* "don't set backdrop" support (so xplanet isn't going to work right
now)
* menueditor - again, i didn't feel like keeping it in sync. if you
want menu editing support, install it via xfdesktop CVS.
that's about it, i think. i'd like to get this in CVS within the next
day or so, so please test and let me know how it goes - even if it's
just to say "it works fine!" (yeah, like that'll happen - b0rk b0rk!).
-brian
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