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1 ChangeLog from Blackbox (this code's previous project):
2
3 Changes from 0.62.1 to 0.65.0:
4 - bsetroot now sets _XROOTPMAP_ID, so pseudo transparent apps will be happy
5 - beginnings of a strut implementation. toolbar and slit are removed from
6 the available screen area if 'full maximize' is not set
7 - handle the odd edge case where a reparent event occurs while the window
8 is unmapped. XReparentWindow sends an UnmapNotify to the window manager
9 however the window is already unmapped so the window manager never gets
10 the event and the unmapNotify event is where reparentNotify was handled.
11 Added a reparentNotifyEvent handler in the BlackboxWindow class and a new
12 case in the Blackbox class's process_event function.
13 - no more blackbox->grab/ungrab calls everywhere
14 - compression of motion and expose
15 - added a Util.cc file which contains useful functions with no obvious home.
16 - Now we have one function which turns ~/ into /home/user/. This is now
17 called everywhere this expansion should be done. Even added this to the
18 resource.menu_file so now the menu file may be specified as
19 ~/blackbox_menu.
20 - added a TimerQueue which is a priority_queue with the ability to release
21 items it contains before they reach the top of the queue. Also added a
22 TimerQueueManager protocol class which BaseDisplay now inherits from.
23 - BTimer now defaults to NOT recurring. Most of the timers in blackbox were
24 one shots so I saw little benefit in defaulting to repeating timers.
25 - added emacs local variables that prevent the addition of tabs to each file
26 - update transient handling, should solve issues with apps like acroread.
27 added a getTransientInfo() method of the BlackboxWindow class which
28 handles checking the transient state in X and setting the appropriate
29 variables on the window. To further attack the infinite loops this
30 function ensures that client.transient != this.
31 The new transient code also allows for one window to have multiple
32 transients so applications like xmms and web browsers are better behaved.
33 - added Taiwan Chinese (zh_TW), Hungarian (hu_HU), Korean (ko_KR),
34 Norwegian (no_NO), Romanian (ro_RO) and Ukrainian (uk_UA) nls files and
35 updated the most of the others.
36 - added French man pages
37 - remove slit and netwm as compile time options
38 - strip much of BaseDisplay's original functionality and move it to the
39 blackbox class.
40 - move code over to the STL
41 - new placeWindow algorithm. Blows the old one out of the water. Not only
42 is it faster but it is also cleaner code too (-: Went from number 5 in
43 the profiling to results to under 30. Managing of new windows is slowed
44 down by image rendering above all else now.
45 Because of the new code layout, the support is now there for new and
46 different layout options, but this will wait for after 0.65.0.
47 - better window group handling
48 - huge amounts of internal cleanups
49 - even better ICCCM support and focus handling
50 - wmswallow works
51 - fix for clock clipping in the toolbar
52 - better support for non decorated windows and toggling decor
53 - the geometry window shown when moving or resizing a window now handles the
54 parentrelative setting better
55 - improved edge snap support (still no window to window snapping)
56 - changing preferences no longer leads to windows being raised
57 - the window's send to menu disables the current workspace, which is a
58 better UI approach
59 - removed several unused variables and otherwise reduced the memory usage
60 of the objects in Blackbox. For the record we are about 100k larger than
61 0.62.0 and that is mostly due to the STL. However for the most part
62 blackbox runs faster and is still one of the leanest window managers out
63 there today.
64 - smart window placement ignores shaded windows now
65 - new option in the Config menu which allows Scroll Lock to disable
66 Blackbox's keybindings.
67 - first the resurrection of the code and now the return of Brad! Blackbox
68 is only getting better with age.
69
70 Changes from 0.62.0 to 0.62.1:
71 - the lock modifier code handles user redefined modifiers better
72 - check if the locale actually needs multibyte support before using multibyte
73 functions
74 - use srcdir in all of the makefiles
75 - added zh_CN (Chinese) nls support
76
77
78 Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.62.0:
79 - the immorel release
80 - added the ja_JP nls directory and man pages
81 - general code touchups
82 - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used.
83 This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef NLS chunks.
84 Nothing to worry about, if you do not want NLS this does not affect you
85 - Workspace::placeWindow() cleanups. Also a speed bump from reducing the
86 use of iterator->current() and changing the delta from 1 to 8
87 - cleanups to compile with g++ 3.0
88 - make distclean actually removes Translation.m and blackbox-nls.hh.
89 Also fixed Makefile.am to pass --foreign instead of --gnu when calling
90 the autotools.
91 - fixed a desciptor leak in BScreen::parseMenuFile, seems opendir
92 lacked a matching closedir.
93 - fix transient window handling code in Workspace::removeWindow() so
94 transients give focus back to their parents properly. The code originally
95 handled sloppy focus then transient windows, so we just flopped the
96 if/elsif. This is immediately noticable with web browsers and their open
97 location windows.
98 - plugged a small leak in ~Toolbar
99 - fixed list::insert so you really can insert at item number 2. While there
100 I cleaned up the code a bit.
101 - added decoration to the atom state stored in a window
102 - fixed a typo in bsetroot.cc: 'on of' -> 'one of'.
103 - fixed the window menu gets left open when another window button is pressed
104 issue with a call to windowmenu->hide() in window->maximize()
105 - applied xOr's patch for decoration handling
106 - applied xOr's patch for the maximize, shade, unmaximize bug
107 - applied Kennis' patch for sending incorrect Slit configure notices
108 - BlackboxWindow's flags have been moved into a flags structure
109 - applied xOr's patch for border handling
110 - resizing a window turns off its maximized flag. Before a resized window
111 thought it was still maximized and maximizing a double action
112 - BlackboxWindow::withdraw no longet sets the state to Withdrawn.
113 This confused some X clients.
114 - updated the manpages and added Dutch NLS support (thanks Wilbert)
115 - added it_IT nls files, thanks Luca Marrazzo <marra.luca@libero.it>
116 - the menu file mentioned in the manpage is now based on DEFAULT_MENU
117 - configure script found basename in -lgen, but did not set HAVE_BASENAME
118 causing compilation problems on irix and possibly others. Added a call
119 to AC_DEFINE in AC_CHECK_LIB to fix this.
120 - menu is no longer installed, you need to copy it yourself
121 - cleaned up i18n code a little. Several member functions were declared
122 but never used and getMessage() had a default argument which was also
123 never used.
124 - i18n will now compile cleanly on machines without nl_types.h
125 - the lock modifiers no longer stop blackbox!
126 - maximize a window via bbkeys and the maximize button is not redrawn, fixed
127 - now exit with an error code if an unknown option is passed
128 - autoraise and multiple dialog windows yields segv bug fixed
129 also lengthened the default auto raise delay from 250 to 400
130 - another iteration of autoraise and dialog box handling, this time we
131 noticed that nothing ever reset blackbox.focused_window to 0 when a window
132 was removed
133 - check if the window is visible before changeBlackboxHints() calls maximize
134 - placeWindow no longer takes edgeSnapThreshhold into account
135 - ignore style files ending in ~
136 - support locale specifiers with @euro in them
137 - added Slovenian man pages and nls, thanks Ales Kosir
138 - Toolbar name editing buffer reduced to 128 chars, logic added to make sure
139 this buffer is not overrun
140 - added German nls files, thanks Jan Schaumann
141 - added my name to the code, updated the version output
142
143
144 Changes from 0.61.0 to 0.61.1:
145 - fixed some of the code to explicitly use colormaps so that when
146 blackbox decides to use a non-default visual everything will
147 still work (although it may look darn ugly)
148 - optimizations to the deiconify/raising code to (hopefully) deal
149 with a rather nasty bug, plus make things a little more efficient
150 - changed the code so that the close button is always redrawn on
151 button release events, just in case the client decides not to
152 close in response to the message (see Acroread)
153 - tinkered with the Makefiles again to make sure Blackbox
154 completely cleans up after itself during an uninstall
155 - fixed a glitch in window placement that was making Blackbox
156 place some larger windows at coordinates near 2**31
157 - merged in a patch from nyz which fixed a bug with not sending
158 configure events when a window is both moved and resized (eg
159 when the left resize grip is used) as well as optimized some
160 of the show/hide code to use the stacking order
161 - fixed a bug in blackbox's support of the X shape extension...
162 it wasn't correctly resetting the bounding region after a window
163 was resized
164 - fixed a glitch with the geometry window where it would persist
165 if the client was unmapped while in motion
166 - tweaked the code for decorating transient windows so that it
167 is possible to use MOD1+Mouse3 to resize transients as long as
168 there is not some other reason to disable functions.resize
169
170
171 Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.61.0:
172 - added slightly updated copies of the blackbox/bsetroot manpages.
173 - reworked the Windowmenu code so that using the second mouse
174 button on the Send To menu moves you along with the window
175 - merged in bsd-snprintf.(h|c) from openssh so that Blackbox can
176 compile on older boxes without (v)snprintf in their standard lib.
177 - fixed a pair of problems where blackbox was not returning icons
178 and slit apps to a useable state at shutdown
179 - fixed a problem with menus not getting layered correctly after
180 a reconfigure or menu reload
181 - changed the behavior of the various MOD1+ButtonPresses on windows...
182 they should now be more consistent with the button behavior on the
183 decorations :
184 . MOD1+Button1 raises and moves the window (unchanged)
185 . MOD1+Button2 lowers the window (used to resize the window)
186 . MOD1+Button3 resizes the window (new button combo)
187 - fixed a small but _extremely_ annoying bug exposed by cvsup
188 - styled frames are now a thing of the past... the textures formerly
189 known as window.frame.(un)focus have been replaced by solid colors
190 window.frame.(un)focusColor... the thickness of the frame is now
191 determined by frameWidth, which will default to bevelWidth if not
192 specified
193 - middle clicking on a window in a workspace's window list now moves
194 the window to the current workspace
195 - fixed a minor glitch with the appearance of window labels for
196 certain newly-started apps (i.e. rxvt)
197 - added a new configure option for both the toolbar and the slit --
198 autohide. Hopefully this should help quell the demands for the
199 removal of the toolbar...
200 - added code to better handle apps that change the window focus
201 - changed the command execution code (used to handle rootCommands
202 and executable menu items) to be more robust... compound commands
203 should now work
204 - a new-and-slightly-improved implementation of unstyled frames should
205 mean slightly better performance than previously
206 - fixed a couple of stupid bugs in the new code for handling
207 Solid Flat textures more efficiently
208 - fixed the nls makefiles so that they respect DESTDIR, behave better
209 if you reinstall over an existing installation, and actually remove
210 their files on a make uninstall
211 - added cthulhain's bsetbg script to the util directory... see the
212 file README.bsetbg for more information
213 - added Estonian, French and Danish translations
214
215
216 Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3:
217 - put in a (temporary?) fix for a bug with the new way icons are
218 handled. Previously an icon was created only for non-transient
219 windows, which means that 1) minimized transient windows were
220 not getting cleaned up at shutdown, and that 2) one could
221 conceivably lose access to a minimized transient if there were
222 a break in the transient chain.
223
224 For the time being, every iconified window gets an icon. In
225 order to make this a little nicer, if a window doesn't provide
226 an icon title, the window title is used in the icon menu, rather
227 than 'Unnamed'.
228 - fixed a bug in handling the destruction of intermediate
229 transient windows. The code was leaving the transient of a
230 destroyed window with a reference to the now non-existent
231 window. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
232 - fixed a slight positioning error when the slit is on the right
233 side of the screen
234 - included a new style, Minimal, which is designed for use on 8-bit
235 displays. It tries to use a bare minimum of colors, and with the
236 new code regarding Flat Solid, should consume very little memory.
237 - made yet another alteration to the way focus changes after a window
238 closes under ClickToFocus. Blackbox now tracks the stacking order of
239 all windows and uses this information to give the focus to the topmost
240 window.
241 - new configure option :
242 --enable-styled-frames include support for fully-styled window
243 frames -- these are the decorations which
244 are affected by the window.frame* theme
245 entries. This option is turned on by
246 default.
247
248 Because of the way they are implemented,
249 these are typically the most memory and
250 render intensive of the various blackbox
251 decorations, even if they are typically
252 only a pixel or so wide. Disabling this
253 feature can result in a substantial
254 decrease in X memory usage, but it's
255 enabled by default to remain compatible
256 with previous versions.
257
258 - added a whole mess of logic so that blackbox will use
259 XSetWindowBackground for Flat Solid textures instead generating
260 a pixmap (which would be subsequently cached)... should help cut
261 down some on the X memory usage
262 - altered the behavior of the BImageControl timer... now it will
263 fire every cacheLife minutes, regardless of when anything has
264 been removed from the cache
265 - modified the NLS build code yet again... at this point we've
266 hopefully hit the least common denominator and it should work
267 for everyone
268 - dealt with a possible problem in the BlackboxWindow constructor
269 where we referred to a member after deletion
270 - removed a last lingering bit of the allocate()/deallocate() code
271 - fixed a pair of string formatting problems
272
273
274 Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2:
275 - updated README.bbtools, since bbpager and bbkeys were updated to work with
276 0.60.x (also removed the .diffs from the source tree)
277 - fix for compiling with NLS support on Solaris
278 - added Turkish, Russian and Swedish translations
279 - applied patch for more correct Spanish translations
280 - added completed pt_BR (Brazillian Porteguese) translation
281 - removed mem.h and the allocate()/deallocate() calls throughout blackbox
282 these have been unused for a long time, and needed to go away :)
283 - compile fixes for --enable-debug
284 - changed the font loading/drawing code... XFontSets are only used if
285 the locale is set properly. So you can still compile with nls support,
286 but do not set your LANG environment variable, and your fonts will be
287 loaded and drawn the old way
288 - smarter Basemenu::drawItem() code added, i noticed alot of flicker when
289 moving menus, because of code constantly redrawing menus items... this
290 has been significatly modified and sped up quite a bit
291 - fixed a bug where iconified windows wouldn't remove themselves from the
292 icon menu when they unmapped/closed themselves (which would result in a
293 crash if you selected this dead item)
294 - fixed a potential crash in Workspace::removeWindow() that had relation
295 to focus last window on workspace... one person experience gibberish being
296 displayed, another experienced a crash
297 - fixed a flicker problem when changing focus between windows rapidly
298 (the toolbar's window label was getting redrawn twice per focus, not
299 optimum behavior)
300 - fixed the infamous bsetroot segfault... this was quite a feat... took 3
301 people in excess of 8 hours to find... and it was a simple one line change
302
303
304 Changes from 0.51.3.1 to 0.60.1: (note: 0.60.1 is 0.60.0 non-alpha)
305 - changed licensing for Blackbox from GNU GPL to more open BSD license
306 see the file LICENSE
307 - removed alot of empty files that did nothing but passify automake/autoconf
308 Blackbox now passes --foreign to automake to lessen the requirements for
309 files like NEWS,AUTHORS,COPYING,README,etc.
310 - new configure options:
311 --enable-ordered-pseudo this enables a new algorithm for dithering
312 on pseudocolor (8 bit) displays... a noticable
313 pattern is visible when using this. you may or
314 may not like it... just something different
315 if you want it, but is turned off by default.
316
317 --enable-debug turn on verbose debugging output... this
318 isn't very complete or really very helpful...
319 right now it just describes memory usage and
320 tracks a few X event handlers... this is turned
321 off by default
322
323 --enable-nls turn on natural language support... this option
324 will turn on the use of catgets(3) to read
325 native language text from any of the supported
326 locales (see the nls/ directory for current
327 translations)...
328
329 This option also turns on the use of XFontSets,
330 which allows the display of multibyte
331 characters, like Japanese or Korean.
332 This option is turned on by default.
333
334 --enable-timed-cache turn on/off the new timed pixmap cache... this
335 differs from the old pixmap cache in that
336 instead of releasing unused pixmaps
337 immediately, it waits for <X> minutes, where
338 <X> is set with session.cacheLife in your
339 ~/.blackboxrc... this option is turned on
340 by default.
341
342 - changed the default menu to include a listing of workspaces (and their
343 window lists) and the new configuration menu (see below)
344 - included new default styles, contributed by regulars on
345 irc.openproject.net's #blackbox
346 - generated default "translation" catalog for the C/POSIX locale... the
347 same catalog is used for English (en_US for now, will add others
348 as necessary)
349 - included translation for Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian
350 Portuguese (pt_BR)... if you are interested in doing a
351 translation, email me at blackbox@alug.org
352 - properties and hints added for communication with bbpager and bbkeys, the
353 two most common "blackbox addons"
354 - KDE 1.x support has been completely removed, pending approval of the new
355 window manager specification to be used by KDE2 and GNOME
356 - a (broken!) base for the new window manager spec was put in place, but
357 using --enable-newspec will result in code that will not compile
358 - added a timer class to handle internal timeouts without using
359 getitimer/setitimer/SIGARLM... this will enable other things to be done,
360 as any number of timers with any timeout can be used
361 - Blackbox will search for the highest depth supported by each visual on
362 each screen... basically this means that blackbox will try to use
363 TrueColor if a TrueColor visual exists (but it's not the default visual)
364 - menu hilite changed from being just a color to being a texture and new
365 window decoration layout... as a result the style file syntax has changed,
366 old styles for 0.5x.x will not work. See the included styles for examples,
367 and browse by http://bb.themes.org/
368 - added support for enabled/disabled and selectable menuitems, this is for
369 use in the configmenu mostly (but is used in the windowmenu)
370 - added the Configmenu, which is insertable into your menu by using:
371
372 [config] (Catchy Label)
373
374 changes made in the configmenu take effect immediately, and are saved in
375 your ~/.blackbxrc... current tunable settings:
376
377 Focus model
378 Window placement
379 Image dithering
380 Opaque window moving
381 Full Maximization
382 Focus New Windows
383 Focus Last Window on Workspace
384
385 the window placement and focus model options will be discussed below
386 - added texture type "ParentRelative" which causes the decoration to display
387 the contents of it's parent... this is a sort of pseudo-transparent option
388 and doesn't work for all decorations... see the included style named
389 "Operation" for an example of ParentRelative
390 - added support for solid interlacing... for example:
391
392 toolbar: raised interlaced solid bevel1
393 toolbar.color: grey
394 toolbar.colorTo: darkgrey
395
396 will cause the toolbar base to be draw with solid lines, one line grey,
397 the next darkgrey, the next grey, the next darkgrey, ...
398 - changed dithering algorithm for TrueColor displays from Floyd-Steinberg to
399 an ordered dither... dithering at 8bpp (Pseudocolor) can be either FS or
400 ordered, but must be selected at compile time...
401
402 NOTE: when using ordered pseudocolor (8bpp) dithering, your
403 session.colorsPerChannel ***MUST*** be 4, otherwise your display will
404 not display *any* correct colors
405 - fixed TrueColor rendering to do aligned writes (suppresses warnings on
406 Alpha Linux machines)
407 - added support for GrayScale/StaticGray displays (completely untested)
408 - made linked lists smarter, they can now have as many iterators assigned to
409 them as you want... no more FATAL errors
410 - added the Netizen class, which is a client that has
411 _BLACKBOX_STRUCTURE_MESSAGES listed in their WM_PROTOCOLS... these clients
412 get notified of window add, remove, focus, shade, iconify, maximize,
413 resize, etc.
414
415 the two most common Netizens are bbpager and bbkeys
416 - when loading an incomplete style, blackbox now uses default colors to
417 draw decorations (instead of the annoying "see-through" effect)
418 - added menu tag [config]... which inserts the Configmenu into your rootmenu
419 - made [include] handling smarter, it will only read regular files (it
420 won't read a directory in case you ever accidentally put one there)
421 - the slit and toolbar menus now include a placement option, which will place
422 them in various positions on the screen
423 - included a slit menu option to choose it's direction (horizontal or
424 vertical)
425 - added options to the slit and toolbar menus to have them always stacked
426 above other windows
427 - right clicking on the workspace label no longer initiates a workspacename
428 edit... right clicking anywhere on the toolbar brings up the toolbar menu,
429 which has an entry that lets you change the workspace name
430 - iconified windows no longer show up in the window list for the current
431 workspace... just in the icon submenu
432 - ClickToFocus now works like one would think, clicking anywhere in a window
433 will focus it
434 - overall... this version of blackbox has and does alot more than previously
435 just take it for a test drive and see how well you like it
436
437
438 Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.51.0:
439 - new default theme, shows off new gradients (see below)
440 - many themes updated to show off new menu bullet configuration
441 - added new source file Display.cc... it offers an easy way to connect to
442 an X display and setup screen info, this was done to make life easier
443 for John Kennis, the author of the bbtools. Image.cc and Image.hh have
444 been modified to use classes from this abstraction, so that drop in
445 replacements are all that is necessary to update the bbtools image code.
446 - configurable menu bullet... 2 new resources for in your style file:
447
448 menu.bulletStyle: (round|triangle|square|diamond|empty)
449 menu.bulletPosition: (left|right)
450
451 - new style resource for setting the borderWidth on menus, client windows and
452 the buttons/frame/handle/titlebar... the default theme uses a borderWidth
453 of zero... it's pretty neat
454 - udpated Image code... blackbox now supports 8 types of gradients (thanks
455 to mosfet@kde.org... in exchange for helping him get the diagonal gradient
456 code from blackbox into kde, kde gave me the source to their new gradients)
457 the 8 gradients are:
458
459 diagonal, vertical, horizontal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic,
460 pyramid, rectangle
461
462 use them just like you would normally (ie. raised elliptic gradient bevel1)
463 - merged John Kennis' patch for notifying KDE modules of windows that are
464 raised/lowered/activated(focused)
465 - new geometry window that is displayed when a window is moved/resized
466 - cleaned up code for detecting slit apps
467 - window stacking code changed to keep menus above windows, and to keep the
468 slit raised when the toolbar is raised
469 - fixed compiler error from gcc 2.95 about frame.frame in several places
470 - fixed some bugs with shaped windows that set decorations via MWM hints,
471 and also fixed bugs with such windows changing their shape
472 - more complete ICCCM compliance, default window gravity is now NorthWest
473 instead of Static...
474 - focus code revamped... window focusing is alot faster and simpler, i
475 mimicked the way TWM does it's focusing... proved much faster
476 - the window menu always has "Kill Client" as an option now
477 - fixed window stacking for windows that have multiple transients (like
478 netscape)
479 - smartplacement from 0.50.4 has been reinstated... i quickly grew tired of
480 waiting on windows to be placed with the old version (if you like the way
481 0.50.5 did it... send me an email and i'll consider making it an option)
482 - added some new signal handling code (using sigaction, if available on your
483 system)...
484 - fixed some bugs with KDE support... this makes bbpager behave properly
485 - workspace editing via the toolbar has been made a little nicer with the
486 new focus code... right clicking on the workspace label will put you into
487 edit mode, but no windows can be focused until you leave edit mode...
488 ALSO... the window that had focus when you entered edit mode will have the
489 focus returned to it after editing is finished
490 - added new option to blackbox... -rc <filename> will read <filename> instead
491 of .blackboxrc for it's base configuration
492 - the option for opaque window moves has been moved from the stylefile into
493 .blackboxrc... set the session.opaqueMove: resource to True or False,
494 depending on what you want
495 - general namespace cleanups... just stuff to make maintaining the code a
496 little easier...
497 - any form of "beta" has been removed from the version number for 0.51.x
498 i am declaring this series as "stable" so that i can begin a major overhaul
499 of blackbox, which will be done with John Kennis and Jason Kasper, two
500 very sharp guys that think the same way i do ;)
501
502
503 Changes from 0.50.4. to 0.50.5:
504 - modified and merged some patches from several contributors. added their
505 names to AUTHORS
506 - major documentation updates
507 - added a few more platform success reports. changed development platform
508 again :)
509 - added new texture option: Interlaced... it is an extension to the gradient
510 texture that looks really neat... it is compiled in by default but may
511 be removed with --disable-interlace
512 - let's see... where do i begin... the code for 0.51.x has been GREATLY
513 enhanced over 0.50.4 (and the stupid little compile error for KDE has been
514 fixed ;)) Blackbox has undergone major renovation... and i can proudly
515 say that this release is rock solid. Also, i reinstated ccmalloc's tour
516 of duty, and spent several days with it stomping memory leaks in blackbox.
517 i can proudly say that there are no major memory leaks present in 0.51.x
518 - the toolbar has changed it appearance a little bit... the menu button has
519 been removed and the labels and buttons are now symmetrically placed on the
520 toolbar... oh no!? how do you get to your icons/workspaces now? the
521 middle click patch from Greg Barlow has been modified, enhanced and merged
522 with 0.51.x... the workspace menu now behaves just like the root menu...
523 and it can be pinned to the root window (just move it)
524 - the image code has once again been worked over... this time a local LUG
525 friend and i have hashed it out many times and into the wee hours of the
526 morning... this stuff is FAST now... before i added interlacing... we
527 had doubled the speed of the dgradient function... yes... *doubled*
528 - the code to generate error tables, color tables and other tables that are
529 used in image dithering has been rewritten, which severs the last tie to
530 window maker's wrlib that blackbox had. i now understand why and how all
531 the code that i "borrowed" works... and it's been improved... because of
532 this change... dithering is a lot cleaner... and dithering on 8bpp displays
533 is less grainy and less obtrusive...
534 - the linked list code has also been rewritten... blackbox has been using
535 a doubly linked list, and not taking advantage of all the list's
536 capabilities (because it doesnt need them)... so the linked lists are now
537 single-link and much quicker at inserting, removing, searching...
538 - once again... the menu parsing code has been rewritten... this code is
539 very efficient and very extensible... so extensible infact that after
540 implementing the current menu syntax... i added a new tag! you can now
541 insert the workspaces list into your root menu with this:
542
543 [workspaces] (descriptive label)
544
545 - the slit menu is now spacially correct... if you want the slit in the top
546 right corner of the root menu... click the top right corner of the slit
547 menu... i think this is a little more user friendly
548 - window gravity should be better supported now... restarts and what not
549 shouldn't produce all those one pixel shifts or moves anymore...
550 - the modifiers for the keygrabs in blackbox are now configurable...
551 the "keys" are still hard wired (left/right for workspace changing, tab
552 for window cycling)... but you may now configure which modifiers to use
553 with the key combos... this introduces two new resources into your
554 .blackboxrc:
555
556 session.workspaceChangeModifier
557
558 and
559
560 session.windowCycleModifier
561
562 these resources may be set to any combination of the following:
563
564 Control Mod1 Mod2 Mod3 Mod4 Mod5 Lock Shift
565
566 also... for convenience... "Alt" is parsed as "Mod1"...
567 session.workspaceChangeModifier defaults to "Control" and
568 session.windowCycleModifier defaults to "Mod1"
569 - smart placement has been made smarter thanks to Dyon Balding's smarter
570 placement patch... this patch has been modified from the original slightly
571 (mostly speed concerns)
572 - signal handling has been made more robust... this allows it to compile on
573 more platforms and now prefers to use sigaction() over signal()
574 - over all... many code clean ups were made and old commented code was
575 purged... this is a very clean very stable release... enjoy people :)
576
577
578 Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4:
579 - changed some Copyright information to include the current year
580 - added a number of platforms to the Supported Platforms section of the
581 README
582 - added the Slit... the Slit is a window maker dockapp util that lets users
583 use all of applications with Blackbox, and allows users to easily switch
584 between Window Maker and Blackbox more easily... it is included by default,
585 but you can remove it from the source with --disable-slit on your configure
586 command line
587 - large Brueghel styles and images removed from the base distribution
588 - merged a patch from Benjamin Stewart for very robust menu parsing... this
589 patch allows for parenthesis in menu files, and works well for
590 automatically generating menus from shellscripts and programs... the menu
591 syntax has not changed... it just is understood better :)
592 - added shell style tilde-slash (~/) home directory expansion for the
593 [include] and [style] tags in menu files
594 - added some sanity to window position/gravity code to for GTK applications
595 - added Window Maker style Mod1+MouseButton1+Motion window moving (for those
596 few braindead apps that like to be positioned where no decorations are
597 visible)
598 - added a SIGCHLD handler to clean up processes started by a startup script
599 that then exec's blackbox (gets rid of all those zombie processes)
600 - added a new resource to .blackboxrc which tells Blackbox where to put the
601 Slit... editing your .blackboxrc to change this is discouraged and
602 discarded, as the Slit has a menu that lets you select where to put it
603 (click any mouse button on the slit and see for yourself)
604 - fixed a bug in the workspace renaming feature that ate all Shift keypresses
605
606
607 Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3:
608 - few documentation updates
609 - fixes to let -lgen actually get linked with the executable (fixes compile
610 errors on some platforms, most notably, IRIX 6.5)
611 - a new series of styles has been added to the distribution (this accounts
612 for the increased size)
613 - fix to let 16 color servers run blackbox (colormap reduction)
614 - various bug fixes... numerous strncpy's changed to sprintfs...
615 - default font set internally to "fixed" (to let it run on servers that don't
616 have any fonts installed)
617 - fixed bug to let blackbox remove all but the last workspace (instead of the
618 last two)
619 - window gravity offset changes
620 - the default key grabs have changed... there are now 4: alt-tab,
621 shift-alt-tab, ctrl-alt-right, ctrl-alt-left... these keys perform
622 as would be expected
623 - fixed wire move bug for transient windows
624 - passified error handing for the main window class
625 - fixed gravity restore for restart/exit purposes
626
627
628 Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2:
629 - minimal KDE integration (configure/compile time option, turned off by
630 default). This is unfinished and i can't really say if i ever will finish
631 it, but there is enough there to integrate the panel and other modules
632 with Blackbox.
633 - changed the regexp in building menus to use a comma (,) as the separator,
634 instead of a period
635 - various bug fixen (like the one where the window list would stay put after
636 the workspace menu went away)
637 - some hacks to improve speed in the LinkedList routines
638 - new stacking method (to better integrate with the KDE support)... windows
639 are no longer in different "levels", raising windows brings them ALL the
640 way to the front (so it's possible to obscure override redirect windows
641 like image splashes etc.) and lowering throws them ALL the way to the
642 back (even under kfm's icons)... however, the rootmenu and the toolbar
643 (if configured to be ontop) will be placed above raised windows
644 - sticky windows have changed due to the new stack implementation, they can
645 be anywhere in the stack (and not always ontop or onbottom)
646 - session.screenNUM.toolbarRaised resource has changed to
647 session.screenNum.toolbarOnTop
648 - the workspace label in the toolbar is sized a little more sanely now
649 (i found that it looks the best when the workspace label width == clock
650 label width)
651 - colormap focus now has it's own resource, session.colormapFocusModel, which
652 is set to "Click" by default, which means you have to click a window's
653 decorations or the root window to (un)install a colormap... setting this
654 resource to "FollowsMouse" will work just as it says... the window under
655 the pointer will have it's colormap installed
656
657
658 Changes from 0.50.0 to 0.50.1:
659 - eliminated the need for XConvertCase... workspace editing should now print
660 any and all characters correctly
661 - added check for libgen.h (which provides the prototype for basename() on
662 some systems, like OpenBSD)
663 - some code obfuscation (i've been removing comments, as some of them don't
664 relate to some of the code below them... i plan on recommenting the code
665 some time soon)
666 - clicking button 3 will hide ANY menu now, and in the case of the workspace
667 and or client menus, any other menus and/or buttons associated will be
668 closed as well
669 - added a patch for multi-screen which sets the DISPLAY env variable so that
670 items selected from one screen don't show up on another... many thanks to
671 F Harvell <fharvell@fts.net> for this
672 - fixed a clock bug... again thanks to F Harvell for this one
673 - complete and proper window placement and window restore has been
674 implemented... windows that are partially off screen will be placed in the
675 center of the root window
676 - the toolbar's workspace label is now dynamically sized according to the
677 length of the workspace names
678 - as stated above... workspace name editing has been completely redone, i
679 discovered XLookupString() this weekend and have deemed it the function of
680 the week... any and all characters should be printed properly now
681 - window placement now has it's own resource...
682 session.screen<NUM>.windowPlacement which may be set to SmartPlacement
683 (which has been implemented) or anything else to default back to cascade
684 placement
685 - a new resource, session.screen<NUM>.toolbarWidthPercent has been added, and
686 should be set to an integer representing what percentage of the root window
687 width the toolbar should occupy (default has been changed back to 67)
688
689
690 Changes from 0.40.14 to 0.50.0:
691 - added util/ subdirectory to place small, utility programs to use in
692 conjunction with blackbox.
693 - updated the README... it's still vague and useless, but gives a better
694 view of whats going on
695 - the configure script now checks for a few more headers, setlocale and
696 strftime in addition to basename functions to better include support for
697 multiple arch/langs/etc.
698 - updated default menu file... made it a little more general... and made
699 the default style menu [include]'d instead of explicitly included...
700 this break off of the style menu allows for custom menus to include the
701 default style menu for a create selection of styles
702 - changed all the default styles to use bsetroot instead of xsetroot
703 - menu handling has been improved... no more than one menu at a time may be
704 visible on the desktop (save for the root menu and it's tear off menus)
705 this means that you can't have multiple window menus and the workspace menu
706 open all at once... which saves screen space and reduces clutter
707 - much of the code has been reorganzied and reformatted for better
708 readability... this consists of function name changes and function
709 "ownership" (which basically means workspaces aren't managed by the toolbar
710 itself anymore, but by a general screen class on which the toolbar can
711 operate)
712 - the workspacemenu now autohides when selecting a window from one of the
713 window lists
714 - removed many empty destructors for Basemenu subclasses to improve code
715 readability
716 - two new files, Screen.cc and Screen.hh, have been added to the distribution
717 they add the new class BScreen which was needed for the biggest change of
718 the Blackbox code base, the addition of multiple screen (i.e. multihead)
719 support. A separate BScreen is created for each screen, and all screens
720 work inconjunction with the other... windows can't be passed between
721 screens, because the X server doesn't allow this (more investigation on
722 this later)
723 - the toolbar's clock format is now controlled by the strftime() function...
724 if configure can't find this function on your system, the old date/time
725 format is used... with strftime, clicking on the clock doesn't display the
726 date... as the date may now be part of the clock display... read the man
727 page for the strftime function to write a format string for your clock,
728 and place it in .blackboxrc (i.e.
729 session.strftimeFormat: %I:%M %p on %a, %b %d is my strftime format
730 string)
731 - the toolbar has been stripped of it's workspace responsibilities, but this
732 change has no effect on the end user.
733 - common code interspersed through out the code has been consolodated into
734 small functions and called multiple times instead of having the same or
735 similar code repeated in the same class
736 - the window startup code has been improved upon again so that shaded windows
737 are restored between restarts
738 - some ICCCM code has been updated to properly reflect the state of windows
739 while shaded or on different workspaces... this state code change should
740 also fix the JX toolkit problem of deiconifying and nothing being redrawn
741 - the main Blackbox class has been changed to purely handle X events... it
742 doesn't manage resources (save for those necessary for proper event
743 handling, like the focus model for each screen)
744 - the format of .blackboxrc has changed slightly, the session.menuFile,
745 session.doubleClickInterval, session.imageDither, session.styleFile,
746 and session.colorsPerChannel resources are unchanged. However, the
747 following resources are screen dependant:
748
749 session.screen<num>.strftimeFormat
750 session.screen<num>.workspaces
751 session.screen<num>.workspaceNames
752 session.screen<num>.toolbarRaised
753 session.screen<num>.focusModel
754
755 where <num> is the screen number (zero being default and all that would be
756 present on a single screen/monitor setup).
757 - a utility named bsetroot (mentioned above) has been included in the
758 blackbox distribution, to aid in setting root window patterns (ala
759 xsetroot). the only different between xsetroot and bsetroot is that
760 bsetroot doesn't redefine cursors, and doesn't restore defaults if no
761 arguments are given. bsetroot does support multiple screens, and is ideal
762 for those setups (instead of running xsetroot for each screen)
763
764
765 Changes from 0.40.12 to 0.40.13:
766 - added some compile time parameters to allow for clean compiling
767 - added support for vertical/horizontal maximization (i did this by
768 hand, but kudos to John Martin for the idea ;)
769 - added basename() to the distribution... it will only be compiled in
770 if basename is not present in standard libraries
771 - window focus code has changed yet again... i've decided to completely
772 rewrite the focus handling code, instead of trying to fix it... let
773 me know how this does
774 - a new resource has been added to the style loader... a resource of
775 the form: rootCommand: <shell command string> will execute this
776 command when the style is loaded, suitable for setting the root
777 window background to an image/pattern/color... this should make
778 style integration more seamless
779
780
781 Changes from 0.40.11 to 0.40.12:
782 - more migration to autoconf/automake/autoheader etc.
783 - changed the default installation prefix... /usr/local is now the
784 default... all default config files will be stored in
785 ${prefix}/share/Blackbox... any old files will not be used, and
786 should be removed
787 - a small internal rework has made the "Inverted" option for
788 pressed button textures obsolete... please update your configs
789 - Makefile.generic has been removed
790 - Laurie's tear off menu patch has been adapted into the source tree...
791 sorry Laurie, but i had to rework your patch to make it completely
792 bullet proof ;)
793 - rework of Image code... resizes and maximizations should be much
794 faster now
795 - existance of XConvertCase is checked by configure... if it is NOT
796 found, then when editing the workspace name, pressing shift will
797 not print capital letters... sorry... get an uptodate X distribution
798 (R6.3 or higher) so that XConvertCase exists...
799 - the date format on the clock is controlled by a new .blackboxrc
800 resource... session.dateFormat... accepted values are:
801 American ( mm/dd/yy ) and
802 European ( dd.mm.yy )
803 the default is american... if any other string is entered for the
804 resource, blackbox defaults again to american...
805 - changed some window positioning code so that windows aren't thrown
806 to the middle of the screen unless they are completely hidden when
807 shown
808 - time bugs have been fixed... this is too detailed to go into... so
809 read the source if you are curious, otherwise just hit Reconfigure
810 when ever you change the system time, and blackbox will update and
811 continue to monitor/display the correct time (also... wrt y2k...
812 blackbox is y2k compliant is your libc's localtime() is y2k
813 compliant)
814 - this release has a major internals rework... let me know of any
815 problems... i would also love to hear about improved/degraded
816 performance... enjoy people...
817
818
819 Changes from 0.40.10 to 0.40.11:
820 - changed the blackbox distribution to use autoconf instead of
821 imake... let me know how this works
822 - removed all the Imakefiles and Imakeconfig in favor of autoconf...
823 - added necessary files for automake and autoconf
824 - fixed a bug that would automatically shift focus to the workspace
825 label after switching to an empty workspace which would edit the
826 workspace name if pressing ctrl-arrow...
827 - fixed a bug that wouldn't focus any windows with alt-tab after
828 switching workspaces
829 - new feature: click button 1 on the clock to display today's date
830 releasing the mouse button redraws the current time
831 - implemented double-click window shading by adapting David Edwards'
832 <david@dt031n1a.tampabay.rr.com> shade patch
833 - added new .blackboxrc resource - session.doubleClickInterval - which
834 controls the time between double clicks... used by the double-click
835 shade feature... defaults to 250ms is not specified
836
837
838 Changes from 0.40.9 to 0.40.10:
839 - fixed the broken menu highlights - they are now a dot in front of
840 the menu label
841 - enhanced the image rendering code to prebuild dithering lookup
842 tables... this saves some multiply and divide instructions during the
843 rendering loop... it makes a noticable difference on my lowly p133 ;)
844 - just for completeness... i've added some error output for various
845 things that could (but rarely do) go awry
846 - the focus code has been updated yet again... but this time it's for
847 the better ;) the ctrl arrow keys continue working after a window
848 has been closed etc. etc... this should be the final change... unless
849 i find more bugs in it
850
851
852 Changes from 0.40.8 to 0.40.9:
853 - fixed a menu bug to keep as much of the menu on screen as possible
854 - added a patch from Peter Kovacs <kovacsp@egr.uri.edu> to raise the
855 current focused window when the user clicks on the window label on
856 the toolbar
857 - changed some window gravity defaults... nothing major here
858 - focus handling code has been spruced up... and majorly tested...
859 0.40.8's focus code was about as good as a full tank of gas but
860 no corvette... let me know how the focus handles in 0.40.9
861
862
863 Changes from 0.40.7 to 0.40.8:
864 - more menu fixes... highlights are handled as normal... constant
865 highlights are draw differently... the rounded edges minus the
866 highlighted bar...
867 - hand strength reduction in the BImage::renderXImage() method...
868 this doesn't offer much of a speed up... but every little bit
869 counts
870 - stuck clients that open transients now have their transients stuck
871 by default
872 - changed some input focus code to better handle the sloppy focus
873 model... the little annoyances like two focused windows should now
874 be fixed...
875 - removed gcc specific code... changed use of strsep to strtok (which
876 is defined by ANSI C)
877 - this is strictly a maintainence release... no new features have
878 been introduced
879
880
881 Changes from 0.40.6 to 0.40.7:
882 - changed bhughes@arn.net to bhughes@tcac.net throughout the source
883 tree
884 - menu sanity fixes... like unmapping a submenu when an item is removed
885 - image code fixes... no memory is allocated during the rendering...
886 only when the BImage is created... thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for
887 the frame work for these changes
888 - fewer floating point division in gradient rendering routines... again
889 thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for the basis of these changes
890 - reading workspace names is now a little more robust, but probably not
891 bullet proof... events are handled normally while reading the
892 workspace name... instead of blocking them all... the label changes
893 color... and reverts back to normal when enter is pressed (which
894 applies the new workspace name)
895 - the window geometry label drawn during window resizing has moved to
896 inside the window frame, this allows us to see what size windows are
897 being resized to when the right edge is close to the edge of root
898 - a lock system has been implemented for the blackbox objects... this
899 fixes a nasty little problem of stale windows (decorations with no
900 client window) because of on object grabbing the server and another
901 unlocking it... the current system works similar to XLockDisplay
902 (which is used in threaded X programs).
903 - icccm code enhancements for XWMHints and NormalHints
904 - window maximizing now properly returns the maximized client to its
905 previous location (this is a bug fix... maximize netscape, then
906 maximize an xterm... unmaximizing netscape will put it where the
907 xterm was previously)
908
909
910 Changes from 0.40.5 to 0.40.6:
911 - the workspace and client menus now keep the current workspace and
912 focus window highlighted so that we know which window is in focus
913 (especially useful with multiple xterms in the same workspace)
914 - image dithering code has been updated slightly to hopefully squeeze
915 every last drop of performance out of it
916 - pixel computation has been simplified
917 - gradient code has been changed to use less floating point division
918 this breaks Jon Denardis' gradient hack, but the option has been
919 left in place in case Jon wants to re-implement it :)
920 - more ICCCM compliance code added... window colormap focus has a
921 click-to-focus policy... any window that wants to use it's own
922 colormap (i.e. netscape -install) will have it's colormap installed
923 when button1 is pressed anywhere on the decorations (like when
924 raising) the default root colormap is reinstalled when pressing
925 button1 on the root window
926 - workspace names can now be changed on the fly... they are stored in
927 the users ~/.blackboxrc file, and may be edited from there, although
928 any changes made to the file will be over written when blackbox is
929 shutdown or restarted...
930 - workspace names can be edited *while blackbox is running* by pressing
931 button3 on the workspace label on the toolbar... pressing enter ends
932 the edit and normal event processing resumes... these names are saved
933 on exit/restart for convienence
934 - support for window gravity has been added... this is addition is
935 another step closer to complete ICCCM compliance
936 - window resizing is a bit more sane now... a bug once pointed out long
937 ago that i never noticed plagued me the other day... when resizing a
938 window to a large size... blackbox can delay a bit while it renders
939 the new decorations... if the user tries to move the window before
940 these decorations are finished... the window is resized again... this
941 has been fixed
942
943
944 Changes from 0.40.4 to 0.40.5:
945 - updated the default style to reflect the button resource change in
946 0.40.4
947 - added internal menu alignment
948 - added internal linked list insertion at a certain point, used in
949 menus
950 - submenus now update their parent menu to reflect that the submenu
951 is no longer open
952 - right clicking anywhere on the rootmenu or window menus will now
953 unmap them... NOTE: this doesn't work on submenus or the rootmenu
954 or on the SendToWorkspaceMenu
955 - cleaned up some of the image rendering code to use less comparisons
956 while rendering an image... also removed alot of
957 multiplication/division use in beveling loops to increase speed
958 - changed dithering error distribution to make images smoother at
959 15 and 8bpp (8bpp got the most benefit from this change)
960 - changed the toolbar appearance... removed the raise/lower button,
961 changing the level of the toolbar isn't possible as of yet... a new
962 button has been added on the left of the toolbar, pressing it will
963 map the workspace menu, which has a few changes
964 - the workspace menu now conatins submenus of all the window lists of
965 all workspaces... it is now possible to see which window is on which
966 workspace... also... the icon button has been removed from the
967 toolbar and the iconmenu is now a submenu of the workspace menu
968 - window placement has been slightly modified... if clients request a
969 certain position, the request is honored, otherwise the client is
970 cascaded... if either the cascade or requested position obscures part
971 of the window when the window is created, the window is centered in
972 the root window...
973 - window state updated... when blackbox is restarted, all client
974 windows are placed on the workspace they were previously occupying...
975 this is only between restarts... not when X is restarted...
976 however... applications may be coded specifically for blackbox to
977 start on a certain workspace... for more information on this, email
978 me
979 - window menu placement has been made a little more sane
980
981
982 Changes from 0.40.3 to 0.40.4:
983 - removed the window.handle{.color,.colorTo} resources... the handle
984 is now treated as a button, and uses the button resources
985 - added window.focus.button and window.unfocus.button resources to the
986 style file... this allows colors to be set different from the
987 titlebar... the colors are controlled with window.focus.button.color,
988 window.focus.button.colorTo, window.unfocus.button.color and
989 window.unfocus.button.colorTo
990 - transient focus policy has changed... if any window has an open
991 transient window... focus is awarded to the trasient instead of the
992 parent window, even if the mouse doesn't occupy the trasient window
993 - cleaned up some namespace in Basemenu.cc and Basemenu.hh
994 - changed dithering error diffusion
995 - fixed Bevel2 so that it doesn't sig11 anymore
996 - changed stacking code slightly... "stuck" windows now are placed
997 in relation to the toolbar... i.e. if the toolbar is on top... stuck
998 windows are on top of any other client windows... if the toolbar
999 is underneath client windows... stuck windows are also stacked
1000 underneath the client windows
1001 - major reworking of Window.cc and Window.hh to fully support the
1002 _MOTIF_WM_HINTS on client windows... if this hint is present... then
1003 the window is decorated according to those hints... all the move/
1004 resize/configure code had to be updated because of this... one step
1005 closer to gnome compliance
1006 - window menus now contain different items based on the functions
1007 available to the client window... if a window cannot be maximized...
1008 then no maximize item is present in the window menu... also, "Close"
1009 and "Kill Client" are no longer present at the same time... if the
1010 client supports the WM_DELETE_WINDOW Protocol, then "Close" is
1011 present, "Kill Client" is only present for clients that do not
1012 support the protocol
1013 - windows may now be moved by the titlebar, handle or thin border
1014 around the window... window menus are also accessible by pressing
1015 button 3 on any of these 3 windows
1016 - a new focus model has been added... it works... but is mostly
1017 untested... session.focusModel: AutoRaiseSloppyFocus in .blackboxrc
1018 will retain the sloppy focus model... but raise windows to the
1019 top when focused...
1020
1021
1022 Changes from 0.40.2 to 0.40.3:
1023 - fixed a bug in Blackbox::nextFocus that would put blackbox into an
1024 infinite loop when 2 windows where open, window 0 was iconified and
1025 window 1 had focus and pressing alt-tab or the next window button
1026 on the toolbar
1027 - completely recoded all the graphics stuffs to support all visual
1028 classes and color depths, also the image code is more compact and
1029 faster than previous releases
1030 - removed graphics.cc and graphics.hh from the distribution and added
1031 Image.cc and Image.hh for the new graphics implementation. a new
1032 class called BImageControl is now in charge of all pixmap caching
1033 and color allocation on displays that don't run/support TrueColor...
1034 this takes the job away from the Blackbox class... whose job is now
1035 to manage all it's children and disperse events read from the display
1036 - fixed bug that didn't handle windows created before blackbox is
1037 running (again :/)
1038
1039
1040 Changes from 0.40.1 to 0.40.2:
1041 - added a variable initialize line of code to keep blackbox from
1042 splattering from a sigsegv on startup
1043
1044
1045 Changes from 0.35.0 to 0.40.1:
1046 - cosmetic menu rendering fixes, changed the way the submenu dot is
1047 sized; changed an off by one error in drawing the rounded edges;
1048 fixed the text to be draw in the center of the item instead of at the
1049 bottom
1050 - major changes to the toolbar (formerly the workspace manager) to
1051 change the way it looks and works. The large blank space is gone,
1052 and the toolbar is now half the height it used to be (roughly). the
1053 workspace label displays the current workspace, with the workspace
1054 menu accessible by clicking button 1 on the label. the two buttons
1055 directly to the right of the workspace label change the workspace
1056 when pressed. the window label displays the current focused window,
1057 which makes it easier to identify which window has input focus (for
1058 some people like me that have very dark or very closely colored
1059 decorations). the window menu is accessible by pressing button
1060 one on the window label, and selecting an item from the window menu
1061 will set input focus to that window (if it can receive focus). the
1062 two buttons to the right of the window label circulate focus (up and
1063 down, respectively) through the window list, skipping windows that
1064 cannot receive focus. the icon button displays a menu of all
1065 iconified applications. both the icon menu and the window menu will
1066 not become visible if they are empty. the next button on the toolbar
1067 is a raise/lower button for the workspace manager. the toolbar is
1068 stacked on startup according to the resource set in ~/.blackboxrc,
1069 but this button will raise and lower the workspace to the users
1070 desire, saving the stack order when blackbox is exited or restarted.
1071 the clock is still the same, but editing the session.clockFormat
1072 will change it from normal time (session.clockFormat: 12) to 24hour
1073 format (session.clockFormat: 24)
1074 - a pixmap cache has been implemented. a linked list stores all images
1075 rendered, removing them from the list and freeing them with the X
1076 server when all applications have removed references to them. for
1077 those who start man instances of the same applications will benefit
1078 greatly from this, as the same decorations are not redraw for each
1079 and every window. this greatly reduces the load on the X server
1080 (my X server went from taking 20-28mb of memory to 8-11mb, a dramatic
1081 improvement, especially on this 32mb machine). as a result of this,
1082 reconfiguring is faster, as is startup and restarting.
1083 - click to focus has been implemented, with some restrictions. other
1084 window managers allow the user to click anywhere on the decorations
1085 OR the client itself to set focus. i have not found an elegant way
1086 to do this yet, so focus can only be set by pressing button 1 on
1087 the decorations (like the titlebar, handle, buttons, border, etc.)
1088 just not on the client itself. i am looking more into this, but
1089 don't expect anymore than what is in place now. to use
1090 click-to-focus, put session.focusModel: ClickToFocus in ~/.blackboxrc
1091 - 2 new commands have been added to the menu syntax, [include] and
1092 [style]... the [reconfig] command still has the option to reconfigure
1093 after a command has been run, but probably will be faded out...
1094 [include] (/path/to/file) includes the file inline with the current
1095 menu, meaning that a submenu isnot created for the separate file,
1096 if a submenu is desired, the file should include the [submenu] and
1097 [end] tags explicitly.
1098 [style] is a new addition for the style file support. syntax is:
1099 [style] (label here) {/path/to/style/file} which will read the new
1100 style file and reconfigure when selected.
1101 - style files have been added to allow for easier switching between
1102 configurations. the style file resources are dramtically different
1103 from those in 0.3x.x, see app-defaults/Blackbox-style.ad for an
1104 example...
1105 - with the addition of style files, menus have been given their own
1106 justification resource, allowing (for example) menus to be left
1107 justified while titles are center or right justified.
1108 - please read the sample configuration files in app-defaults/ for the
1109 new and improved configuration system. NOTE: Blackbox.ad is a
1110 sample ~/.blackboxrc, but you shouldn't copy this file to
1111 ~/.blackboxrc, as Blackbox will store the resources it needs
1112 automatically
1113 - an unofficial release numbered 0.40.0 was given out to some
1114 testers, and even this release needs the same treatment as 0.35.0
1115 with respect to the new config system (0.40.0 only implemented the
1116 pixmap cache, the new toolbar and *part* of the new config system,
1117 but not the style files or automatic generation of ~/.blackboxrc)
1118
1119
1120 Changes from 0.34.5 to 0.35.0:
1121 - changed the way menus are draw to round both end of the highlight...
1122 - cosmetic enhancements for the various justifications...
1123 - this is the first stable release of blackbox
1124
1125
1126 Changes from 0.34.4 to 0.34.5:
1127 - hopefully... this will be the last bug fix... so i can begin working
1128 on new features... i fixed event mask selection on client windows
1129 after reparenting them to the decoration frame... this should get
1130 xv working again...
1131 - changed the signal hander to core on sigsegv and sigfpe... sigint and
1132 sigterm will just exit blackbox cleanly... sighup will cause blackbox
1133 to reconfigure itself
1134 - changed the way the version string is printed...
1135
1136
1137 Changes from 0.34.3 to 0.34.4:
1138 - changed the window stacking code to stack windows and their menus
1139 more sanely... window menus are stacked directly ontop of the client
1140 windows... instead of on top of every other client window... the
1141 workspace manager is now by default stacked above client windows...
1142 - reworked alot of code in Window.cc, blackbox.cc, Workspace.cc and
1143 WorkspaceManager.cc to properly handle ICCCM state hints... the
1144 startup and shutdown code has been completely reworked as a result of
1145 this
1146
1147 Changes from 0.34.2 to 0.34.3:
1148 - this was a small change in the code... but a BIG change for the user
1149 base... the X error handler is now non fatal... yes... this means if
1150 blackbox encounters an X error (like a bad window or a bad match) it
1151 will fprintf() the error and continue running... the quick window bug
1152 has been mostly fixed... i have a small app that i wrote that quickly
1153 maps a window, calls XSync()... then destroys the window and exits...
1154 the first time i ran this little beauty... blackbox died a horrible
1155 death... blackbox now handles this app nicely... but does
1156 occasionally report an error (during the decoration creation... which
1157 is promptly destroyed from the destroy notify event placed in the
1158 queue by the X server... thus... no memory leaks... no memory
1159 corruption... blackbox just keeps chugging along nicely
1160
1161
1162 Changes from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2 (unreleased):
1163 - fixed MSBFirst byte order image rendering at 32bpp (24bpp pending)
1164 (for machines better than this intel machine of mine)
1165 - changed BImage to allocate dithering space when the image is created
1166 and to delete it when the image is destroyed... instead of allocating
1167 the space and deleting the space each time the image is rendered to
1168 an XImage... hopefully this will provide a speed increase (albeit a
1169 small one)
1170 - changed blackbox to call XListPixmapFormats once at startup...
1171 instead of each time an image is rendered... this should afford some
1172 speed increase (a small one at best :)
1173 - fixed a bug in Window.cc that re-reads the window name...
1174 Jon Denardis discovered this bug while playing with netscape 4.5...
1175 the validation call is now directly before the XFetchName call...
1176 instead of before an if() { } block that calls strcmp and XFree()
1177 - edit Window.cc to change the way buttons are decorated and sized
1178 the associatedWindow.button.color(To) resources have been removed,
1179 but the associatedWindow.button texture resource is still there
1180
1181
1182 Changes from 0.34.0 to 0.34.1:
1183 - fixed the unmanaged rxvt/xconsole/whatever problem that didn't
1184 decorate windows at start up... just a little logic error that was
1185 fixed with a few braces
1186 - fixed the shutdown code so that X and blackbox don't die a gruesome
1187 death while reparenting the small applets on the workspace manager
1188 toolbar... the above bug fixed also fixed a bug that didn't reparent
1189 any existing app windows...
1190 - updated libBox code to allow for flaws in it's design (forgotten from
1191 0.34.0)
1192 - removed #include <sys/select.h> from blackbox.cc so that it compiles
1193 on any platform (since select is supposed to be defined in unistd.h)
1194 - removed the NEED_STRNCASECMP block in blackbox.cc until i can get
1195 a working posix like routine to work (needed for OS2 platforms)
1196 - edited the Imakefile scheme to have the the toplevel Imakefile and
1197 Imakefiles in app-defaults/ lib/ and src/... there now is Imakeconfig
1198 which includes all the options in one file... so that editing all
1199 the Imakefiles is no longer necessary
1200
1201
1202 Changes from 0.33.6 to 0.34.0:
1203 - edited some Imakefiles so that rpm creaters have an easier time
1204 - added stuff to lib/ which contains a small (VERY small) library for
1205 letting applications open a window on the workspace manager toolbar
1206 this is very very new... restarting will cause the app to crash
1207 (at best) or take X with it (the worst)... play with it an let me
1208 know how it works
1209 - further revised window.cc and blackbox.cc to provide better error
1210 checking... window.cc received the most updates... validating a
1211 window is now done in the statement before the window is used... not
1212 at the beginning of the function the window is used in...
1213 - fixed the stacking order bug when changing workspaces... the windows
1214 will now be restored in the order that you left them... not in the
1215 order they were created in...
1216 - updated the README... a little bit anyway :)
1217 - updated BlackboxWindow::maximizeWindow() in window.cc to properly
1218 maximize windows that have specified size increments
1219 - fixed BlackboxWindow::configureWindow so that shaded windows that re
1220 size themselves only resize the titlebar
1221 - added ccmalloc 0.2.3 to the main source tree to aid in debugging...
1222 this is NOT maintained by myself, see the source tree for details
1223 - eliminated a double delete call with the aid of ccmalloc!@#!
1224
1225
1226 Changes from 0.33.5 to 0.33.6:
1227 - added Makefile.generic for those of you with foobared imake configs.
1228 the use of xmkmf -a (i.e. imake) is still prefered... but this should
1229 work on any system... with a little editing
1230 - added static int handleXErrors(Display *, XErrorEvent *) in
1231 blackbox.cc to handle any and all X lib errors while blackbox is
1232 running... this should produce a coredump and thus the -moron
1233 community should be able to flood my inbox with stack trace upon
1234 stack trace :)
1235 - added some sub directories and moved the sources around, this allows
1236 for easier inclusion of the library for blackbox specific programs
1237 (which will run in the dock)
1238 - hopefully fixed the "disappearing-rxvt-trick"... since i can't
1239 reproduce it i don't know for sure
1240 - removed the use of alloca in graphics.cc... i was noticing very odd
1241 behaviour from malloc() and free()... where blackbox would sig11
1242 when exiting because of XCloseDisplay doing something naughty...
1243 and this seems to have done the trick... no more sig11's from malloc
1244 or new... everything i've thrown at blackbox is gently but firmly
1245 beaten into submission...
1246 - added docboy's curved gradient hack as a compile time option... see
1247 src/Imakefile and src/graphics.cc
1248
1249
1250 Changes from 0.33.4 to 0.33.5:
1251 - added a small test to cascade windows that start out partially hidden
1252 (like netscape, Xnest, xv, etc.)
1253 - changed icon handling to include a menu of icons accessible from the
1254 workspace manager toolbar
1255 - deiconifying a window now takes it to the top of the stack
1256 - clicking on a menuitem that has a submenu no longer hides the submenu
1257 - added resource "workspaceManager.24hourClock", a value of True turns
1258 on the 24hour clock on the toolbar
1259 - removed icon pixmap/window/mask support/handling from window.cc and
1260 window.hh... since icons are now handled in a menu, this is no
1261 longer needed
1262 - added session.handleWidth and session.bevelWidth
1263 to control window sizes (instead of hardcoded defaults)
1264 - changed parts of Basemenu.cc and WorkspaceManager.cc to follow the
1265 sizes set by session.bevelWidth
1266 - fixed Alt-Tab window switching... also fixed some focus handling bugs
1267 which let two windows become focused at the same time (which is bad
1268 mojo)
1269
1270
1271 Changes from 0.33.3 to 0.33.4:
1272 - corrected a typo in the sample Blackbox.ad file to correctly show
1273 which resource to set for the menu file
1274 - added moderate window group support for programs like netscape and
1275 other motif applications... modified window stacking code and
1276 internal list code to support window groups (this makes transients
1277 behave properly... another step towards more complete ICCCM
1278 compliance)
1279 - modified focus event handlers to stop applications from focusing out
1280 when pressing menubars... also window focus is returned to root if
1281 the focus window is closed... if another window is under the focus
1282 window when it is closed... that window is awarded input focus
1283 - fixed tiny little bug that didn't move the close button when resizing
1284 a window
1285
1286
1287 Changes from 0.33.2 to 0.33.3:
1288 - changed some of the menu code ("updated" in 0.33.1) back to the
1289 original 0.33.0, which seems to perform better. Reason behind it? -
1290 blackbox died too often with 0.33.1/2
1291 - added "Kill Client" option to window menus... for those applications
1292 that don't accept the WM_DELETE_WINDOW atom
1293 - menus that are not partially moved off the root window are shifted to
1294 a visible position when the pointer enters the frame... it is also
1295 shifted back to it's original position when left (this is new... let
1296 me know how it works)
1297
1298
1299 Changes from 0.33.1 to 0.33.2: (unreleased)
1300 - changed BlackboxIcon to not try and read its config when it was
1301 created. This was forgotten from the 0.31.0 -> 0.33.0 move :/
1302
1303
1304 Changes from 0.33.0 to 0.33.1: (unreleased)
1305 - improved menu handling, less possibilty for SIGSEGV
1306 - menus now make copies of all label, exec strings and titles, to
1307 make less loose pointers
1308 - fixed typo to allow submenus of submenus of submenus (...)
1309 - fixed workspace menu and window list menu placements
1310
1311
1312 Changes from 0.31.0 to 0.33.0:
1313 - added #ifdef statements so the C preprocessor doesn't complain about
1314 _GNU_SOURCE being redefined.
1315 - changed internal resource data structures
1316 - added Sticky windows functionality
1317 - remove old animation code bound with #ifdef ANIMATIONS
1318 - fixed a silly little bug that sometimes mapped a submenu when its
1319 parent was unmapping itself
1320 - added ExecReconfigure option to execute a shell statement before
1321 performing reconfiguration
1322 - rearranged window config code to reduce wait time while resizing
1323 - added internal macro BImageNoDitherSolid to make window frame
1324 rendering faster (dithering a solid image is silly anyway)
1325 - added new menu file format
1326 - added Blackbox::validateWindow to provide a stabler environment for
1327 Blackbox. This gives blackbox more error checking and greater
1328 stability. For me, random crashes have (nearly) disappeared.
1329 - removed window name/class dependant frame texture/color
1330 - with 0.31.0, each entity read it's configuration from the rc database
1331 loaded at start. this has changed back to the old behaviour of
1332 reading all configuration parameters at start, no database reads are
1333 performed after the initial setup (save for reconfiguring).
1334 - configuration has changed to be a little cleaner, and a little more
1335 thorough. See the Blackbox.ad and BlackboxMenu.ad for exmaples.
1336
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