Hi dear fellows,
Sawfish 1.6.2 is now officially available!
Downloads
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* from this release on we provide Tar/BZ2 and Tar/XZ tarballs
* Tar/XZ is ~30% smaller but not all distros shipp the decompression utils
* Moreover all downloads moved from SF to Tuxfamily, caused by the idiotic US laws
* caused SF to deny access from several "evil" countries. Tuxfamily is a french
* service -> therefore we are "save" here.
Tar/BZ2: http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/sawfish/sawfish-1.6.2.tar.bz2 3,54 MB
Tar/XZ : http://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/sawfish/sawfish-1.6.2.tar.xz 2,37 MB
What's New?
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1.6.2 "Mighty Disco King"
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* The 1.6.2 release has some improvements.
* Bugfixes
- Application menu is more robust now. [Matthew Love,
Christopher Bratusek]
Application menu, introduced in 1.6.0, made Sawfish crash if
`*.desktop' file had a malformed key value (say ; as first
character or # somewhere inside), or it was unreadable. It is
fixed.
- Minor fix of window placement by direction [Teika kazura]
When the window placement mode is for example `east' and the
window is wider than the screen, then the window was put
wrongly. It is fixed.
* New features
- New command `maximize-discard' [Teika kazura]
The command `maximize-discard' stops a maximized window to be
treated as maximized any more, so that you can move and
resize the window.
The functinon `maximize-discard' has existed, and now it's
exported.
- New command `jump-or-exec' [Christopher Bratusek]
The user uploaded module "jump-or-exec" has been merged. It
provides `jump-or-exec', a command which may be used to focus
a window, or if it does not exist, start the application.
Unlike the original version this one also supports matching a
window by its class (returned by `window-class' function),
which makes it more flexible for applications like music
player or browsers, which tend to change their WM_NAME
relatively often.
For usage, see `lisp/sawfish/wm/commands/jump-or-exec.jl'
file.
* Misc
- Improved ebuild and specfile [Christopher Bratusek] [Kim B.
Heino]
- Updated documentation [Christopher Bratusek] [Teika Kazura]
- Removed `frame-style-editable-p' and all other remaining
sawfish-themer fragments, as it's dead. [Christopher Bratusek]
Have Fun,
Flashrider [Christopher Bratusek] 10:23, February 16, 2010 (UTC)