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-ChangeLog from Blackbox (this code's previous project):
-
-Changes from 0.62.1 to 0.65.0:
- - added Taiwan Chinese (zh_TW), Hungarian (hu_HU), Latvian (lv_LV),
- Korean (ko_KR), Norwegian (no_NO), Polish (pl_PL), Romanian (ro_RO) and
- Ukrainian (uk_UA) nls files and updated most of the others.
- - added French man pages
- - remove slit and netwm as compile time options
- - strip much of BaseDisplay's original functionality and move it to the
- blackbox class.
- - huge amounts of internal cleanups
- - added emacs local variables to each file that prevent the addition of tabs
- - added a Util.cc file which contains useful functions with no obvious home.
- - move code over to the STL
- - removed several unused variables and otherwise reduced the memory usage
- of the objects in Blackbox. For the record the binary is roughly 100k
- larger than 0.62.0 and that is mostly due to the STL but there is also a
- fair bit of new code. However for the most part blackbox runs faster and
- is still one of the leanest window managers out there today.
- - bsetroot now sets _XROOTPMAP_ID, so pseudo transparent apps will be happy
- - beginnings of a strut implementation. toolbar and slit are removed from
- the available screen area if 'full maximize' is not set
- - XReparentWindow sends an UnmapNotify to the window manager however
- in certain cases the window is already unmapped so the window manager
- never gets the event and the unmapNotify event is where reparentNotify was
- handled. Added a reparentNotifyEvent handler in the BlackboxWindow class
- and a new case in the Blackbox class's process_event function.
- - no more blackbox->grab/ungrab calls everywhere
- - compression of motion and expose
- - Now we have one function which turns ~/ into /home/user/. This is now
- called everywhere this expansion should be done. Even added this to the
- resource.menu_file so now the menu file may be specified as
- ~/blackbox_menu.
- - added a TimerQueue which is a priority_queue with the ability to release
- items it contains before they reach the top of the queue. Also added a
- TimerQueueManager protocol class which BaseDisplay now inherits from.
- - BTimer now defaults to NOT recurring. Most of the timers in blackbox were
- one shots so I saw little benefit in defaulting to repeating timers.
- - update transient handling, should solve issues with apps like acroread.
- added a getTransientInfo() method of the BlackboxWindow class which
- handles checking the transient state in X and setting the appropriate
- variables on the window. To attack the infinite loops this
- function ensures that client.transient != this and we check for loops
- of the form A -> B -> C -> A. The new transient code also allows for one
- window to have multiple transients so applications like xmms and web
- browsers are better behaved.
- - even better ICCCM support and focus handling
- - wmswallow works
- - fix for clock clipping in the toolbar
- - better support for non decorated windows and toggling decor
- - the geometry window shown when moving or resizing a window now handles the
- parentrelative setting better. parentrelative support has been improved
- for all of the other widgets as well.
- - better window group handling
- - improved edge snap support (still no window to window snapping)
- - changing preferences no longer leads to windows being raised
- - the window's "send to" menu ignores the current workspace, which is a
- better UI approach
- - new placeWindow algorithm. Blows the old one out of the water. Not only
- is it faster but it is also cleaner code too (-: Went from number 5 in
- the profiling results to under 30. Image rendering is now the slowest
- part of managing of new windows.
- Because of the new code layout, support is now there for new and
- different layout options but this will wait for after 0.65.0.
- - smart window placement ignores shaded windows now
- - new option in the Config menu which allows Scroll Lock to disable
- Blackbox's keybindings.
-
-Changes from 0.62.0 to 0.62.1:
- - the lock modifier code handles user redefined modifiers better
- - check if the locale actually needs multibyte support before using multibyte
- functions
- - use srcdir in all of the makefiles
- - added zh_CN (Chinese) nls support
-
-
-Changes from 0.61.1 to 0.62.0:
- - the immorel release
- - added the ja_JP nls directory and man pages
- - general code touchups
- - blackbox-nls.hh is always generated even if --disable-nls is used.
- This allows us to not have all of those hideous #ifdef NLS chunks.
- Nothing to worry about, if you do not want NLS this does not affect you
- - Workspace::placeWindow() cleanups. Also a speed bump from reducing the
- use of iterator->current() and changing the delta from 1 to 8
- - cleanups to compile with g++ 3.0
- - make distclean actually removes Translation.m and blackbox-nls.hh.
- Also fixed Makefile.am to pass --foreign instead of --gnu when calling
- the autotools.
- - fixed a desciptor leak in BScreen::parseMenuFile, seems opendir
- lacked a matching closedir.
- - fix transient window handling code in Workspace::removeWindow() so
- transients give focus back to their parents properly. The code originally
- handled sloppy focus then transient windows, so we just flopped the
- if/elsif. This is immediately noticable with web browsers and their open
- location windows.
- - plugged a small leak in ~Toolbar
- - fixed list::insert so you really can insert at item number 2. While there
- I cleaned up the code a bit.
- - added decoration to the atom state stored in a window
- - fixed a typo in bsetroot.cc: 'on of' -> 'one of'.
- - fixed the window menu gets left open when another window button is pressed
- issue with a call to windowmenu->hide() in window->maximize()
- - applied xOr's patch for decoration handling
- - applied xOr's patch for the maximize, shade, unmaximize bug
- - applied Kennis' patch for sending incorrect Slit configure notices
- - BlackboxWindow's flags have been moved into a flags structure
- - applied xOr's patch for border handling
- - resizing a window turns off its maximized flag. Before a resized window
- thought it was still maximized and maximizing a double action
- - BlackboxWindow::withdraw no longet sets the state to Withdrawn.
- This confused some X clients.
- - updated the manpages and added Dutch NLS support (thanks Wilbert)
- - added it_IT nls files, thanks Luca Marrazzo <marra.luca@libero.it>
- - the menu file mentioned in the manpage is now based on DEFAULT_MENU
- - configure script found basename in -lgen, but did not set HAVE_BASENAME
- causing compilation problems on irix and possibly others. Added a call
- to AC_DEFINE in AC_CHECK_LIB to fix this.
- - menu is no longer installed, you need to copy it yourself
- - cleaned up i18n code a little. Several member functions were declared
- but never used and getMessage() had a default argument which was also
- never used.
- - i18n will now compile cleanly on machines without nl_types.h
- - the lock modifiers no longer stop blackbox!
- - maximize a window via bbkeys and the maximize button is not redrawn, fixed
- - now exit with an error code if an unknown option is passed
- - autoraise and multiple dialog windows yields segv bug fixed
- also lengthened the default auto raise delay from 250 to 400
- - another iteration of autoraise and dialog box handling, this time we
- noticed that nothing ever reset blackbox.focused_window to 0 when a window
- was removed
- - check if the window is visible before changeBlackboxHints() calls maximize
- - placeWindow no longer takes edgeSnapThreshhold into account
- - ignore style files ending in ~
- - support locale specifiers with @euro in them
- - added Slovenian man pages and nls, thanks Ales Kosir
- - Toolbar name editing buffer reduced to 128 chars, logic added to make sure
- this buffer is not overrun
- - added German nls files, thanks Jan Schaumann
- - added my name to the code, updated the version output
-
-
-Changes from 0.61.0 to 0.61.1:
- - fixed some of the code to explicitly use colormaps so that when
- blackbox decides to use a non-default visual everything will
- still work (although it may look darn ugly)
- - optimizations to the deiconify/raising code to (hopefully) deal
- with a rather nasty bug, plus make things a little more efficient
- - changed the code so that the close button is always redrawn on
- button release events, just in case the client decides not to
- close in response to the message (see Acroread)
- - tinkered with the Makefiles again to make sure Blackbox
- completely cleans up after itself during an uninstall
- - fixed a glitch in window placement that was making Blackbox
- place some larger windows at coordinates near 2**31
- - merged in a patch from nyz which fixed a bug with not sending
- configure events when a window is both moved and resized (eg
- when the left resize grip is used) as well as optimized some
- of the show/hide code to use the stacking order
- - fixed a bug in blackbox's support of the X shape extension...
- it wasn't correctly resetting the bounding region after a window
- was resized
- - fixed a glitch with the geometry window where it would persist
- if the client was unmapped while in motion
- - tweaked the code for decorating transient windows so that it
- is possible to use MOD1+Mouse3 to resize transients as long as
- there is not some other reason to disable functions.resize
-
-
-Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.61.0:
- - added slightly updated copies of the blackbox/bsetroot manpages.
- - reworked the Windowmenu code so that using the second mouse
- button on the Send To menu moves you along with the window
- - merged in bsd-snprintf.(h|c) from openssh so that Blackbox can
- compile on older boxes without (v)snprintf in their standard lib.
- - fixed a pair of problems where blackbox was not returning icons
- and slit apps to a useable state at shutdown
- - fixed a problem with menus not getting layered correctly after
- a reconfigure or menu reload
- - changed the behavior of the various MOD1+ButtonPresses on windows...
- they should now be more consistent with the button behavior on the
- decorations :
- . MOD1+Button1 raises and moves the window (unchanged)
- . MOD1+Button2 lowers the window (used to resize the window)
- . MOD1+Button3 resizes the window (new button combo)
- - fixed a small but _extremely_ annoying bug exposed by cvsup
- - styled frames are now a thing of the past... the textures formerly
- known as window.frame.(un)focus have been replaced by solid colors
- window.frame.(un)focusColor... the thickness of the frame is now
- determined by frameWidth, which will default to bevelWidth if not
- specified
- - middle clicking on a window in a workspace's window list now moves
- the window to the current workspace
- - fixed a minor glitch with the appearance of window labels for
- certain newly-started apps (i.e. rxvt)
- - added a new configure option for both the toolbar and the slit --
- autohide. Hopefully this should help quell the demands for the
- removal of the toolbar...
- - added code to better handle apps that change the window focus
- - changed the command execution code (used to handle rootCommands
- and executable menu items) to be more robust... compound commands
- should now work
- - a new-and-slightly-improved implementation of unstyled frames should
- mean slightly better performance than previously
- - fixed a couple of stupid bugs in the new code for handling
- Solid Flat textures more efficiently
- - fixed the nls makefiles so that they respect DESTDIR, behave better
- if you reinstall over an existing installation, and actually remove
- their files on a make uninstall
- - added cthulhain's bsetbg script to the util directory... see the
- file README.bsetbg for more information
- - added Estonian, French and Danish translations
-
-
-Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3:
- - put in a (temporary?) fix for a bug with the new way icons are
- handled. Previously an icon was created only for non-transient
- windows, which means that 1) minimized transient windows were
- not getting cleaned up at shutdown, and that 2) one could
- conceivably lose access to a minimized transient if there were
- a break in the transient chain.
-
- For the time being, every iconified window gets an icon. In
- order to make this a little nicer, if a window doesn't provide
- an icon title, the window title is used in the icon menu, rather
- than 'Unnamed'.
- - fixed a bug in handling the destruction of intermediate
- transient windows. The code was leaving the transient of a
- destroyed window with a reference to the now non-existent
- window. This can lead to all sorts of problems.
- - fixed a slight positioning error when the slit is on the right
- side of the screen
- - included a new style, Minimal, which is designed for use on 8-bit
- displays. It tries to use a bare minimum of colors, and with the
- new code regarding Flat Solid, should consume very little memory.
- - made yet another alteration to the way focus changes after a window
- closes under ClickToFocus. Blackbox now tracks the stacking order of
- all windows and uses this information to give the focus to the topmost
- window.
- - new configure option :
- --enable-styled-frames include support for fully-styled window
- frames -- these are the decorations which
- are affected by the window.frame* theme
- entries. This option is turned on by
- default.
-
- Because of the way they are implemented,
- these are typically the most memory and
- render intensive of the various blackbox
- decorations, even if they are typically
- only a pixel or so wide. Disabling this
- feature can result in a substantial
- decrease in X memory usage, but it's
- enabled by default to remain compatible
- with previous versions.
-
- - added a whole mess of logic so that blackbox will use
- XSetWindowBackground for Flat Solid textures instead generating
- a pixmap (which would be subsequently cached)... should help cut
- down some on the X memory usage
- - altered the behavior of the BImageControl timer... now it will
- fire every cacheLife minutes, regardless of when anything has
- been removed from the cache
- - modified the NLS build code yet again... at this point we've
- hopefully hit the least common denominator and it should work
- for everyone
- - dealt with a possible problem in the BlackboxWindow constructor
- where we referred to a member after deletion
- - removed a last lingering bit of the allocate()/deallocate() code
- - fixed a pair of string formatting problems
-
-
-Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2:
- - updated README.bbtools, since bbpager and bbkeys were updated to work with
- 0.60.x (also removed the .diffs from the source tree)
- - fix for compiling with NLS support on Solaris
- - added Turkish, Russian and Swedish translations
- - applied patch for more correct Spanish translations
- - added completed pt_BR (Brazillian Porteguese) translation
- - removed mem.h and the allocate()/deallocate() calls throughout blackbox
- these have been unused for a long time, and needed to go away :)
- - compile fixes for --enable-debug
- - changed the font loading/drawing code... XFontSets are only used if
- the locale is set properly. So you can still compile with nls support,
- but do not set your LANG environment variable, and your fonts will be
- loaded and drawn the old way
- - smarter Basemenu::drawItem() code added, i noticed alot of flicker when
- moving menus, because of code constantly redrawing menus items... this
- has been significatly modified and sped up quite a bit
- - fixed a bug where iconified windows wouldn't remove themselves from the
- icon menu when they unmapped/closed themselves (which would result in a
- crash if you selected this dead item)
- - fixed a potential crash in Workspace::removeWindow() that had relation
- to focus last window on workspace... one person experience gibberish being
- displayed, another experienced a crash
- - fixed a flicker problem when changing focus between windows rapidly
- (the toolbar's window label was getting redrawn twice per focus, not
- optimum behavior)
- - fixed the infamous bsetroot segfault... this was quite a feat... took 3
- people in excess of 8 hours to find... and it was a simple one line change
-
-
-Changes from 0.51.3.1 to 0.60.1: (note: 0.60.1 is 0.60.0 non-alpha)
- - changed licensing for Blackbox from GNU GPL to more open BSD license
- see the file LICENSE
- - removed alot of empty files that did nothing but passify automake/autoconf
- Blackbox now passes --foreign to automake to lessen the requirements for
- files like NEWS,AUTHORS,COPYING,README,etc.
- - new configure options:
- --enable-ordered-pseudo this enables a new algorithm for dithering
- on pseudocolor (8 bit) displays... a noticable
- pattern is visible when using this. you may or
- may not like it... just something different
- if you want it, but is turned off by default.
-
- --enable-debug turn on verbose debugging output... this
- isn't very complete or really very helpful...
- right now it just describes memory usage and
- tracks a few X event handlers... this is turned
- off by default
-
- --enable-nls turn on natural language support... this option
- will turn on the use of catgets(3) to read
- native language text from any of the supported
- locales (see the nls/ directory for current
- translations)...
-
- This option also turns on the use of XFontSets,
- which allows the display of multibyte
- characters, like Japanese or Korean.
- This option is turned on by default.
-
- --enable-timed-cache turn on/off the new timed pixmap cache... this
- differs from the old pixmap cache in that
- instead of releasing unused pixmaps
- immediately, it waits for <X> minutes, where
- <X> is set with session.cacheLife in your
- ~/.blackboxrc... this option is turned on
- by default.
-
- - changed the default menu to include a listing of workspaces (and their
- window lists) and the new configuration menu (see below)
- - included new default styles, contributed by regulars on
- irc.openproject.net's #blackbox
- - generated default "translation" catalog for the C/POSIX locale... the
- same catalog is used for English (en_US for now, will add others
- as necessary)
- - included translation for Spanish (es_ES) and Brazilian
- Portuguese (pt_BR)... if you are interested in doing a
- translation, email me at blackbox@alug.org
- - properties and hints added for communication with bbpager and bbkeys, the
- two most common "blackbox addons"
- - KDE 1.x support has been completely removed, pending approval of the new
- window manager specification to be used by KDE2 and GNOME
- - a (broken!) base for the new window manager spec was put in place, but
- using --enable-newspec will result in code that will not compile
- - added a timer class to handle internal timeouts without using
- getitimer/setitimer/SIGARLM... this will enable other things to be done,
- as any number of timers with any timeout can be used
- - Blackbox will search for the highest depth supported by each visual on
- each screen... basically this means that blackbox will try to use
- TrueColor if a TrueColor visual exists (but it's not the default visual)
- - menu hilite changed from being just a color to being a texture and new
- window decoration layout... as a result the style file syntax has changed,
- old styles for 0.5x.x will not work. See the included styles for examples,
- and browse by http://bb.themes.org/
- - added support for enabled/disabled and selectable menuitems, this is for
- use in the configmenu mostly (but is used in the windowmenu)
- - added the Configmenu, which is insertable into your menu by using:
-
- [config] (Catchy Label)
-
- changes made in the configmenu take effect immediately, and are saved in
- your ~/.blackbxrc... current tunable settings:
-
- Focus model
- Window placement
- Image dithering
- Opaque window moving
- Full Maximization
- Focus New Windows
- Focus Last Window on Workspace
-
- the window placement and focus model options will be discussed below
- - added texture type "ParentRelative" which causes the decoration to display
- the contents of it's parent... this is a sort of pseudo-transparent option
- and doesn't work for all decorations... see the included style named
- "Operation" for an example of ParentRelative
- - added support for solid interlacing... for example:
-
- toolbar: raised interlaced solid bevel1
- toolbar.color: grey
- toolbar.colorTo: darkgrey
-
- will cause the toolbar base to be draw with solid lines, one line grey,
- the next darkgrey, the next grey, the next darkgrey, ...
- - changed dithering algorithm for TrueColor displays from Floyd-Steinberg to
- an ordered dither... dithering at 8bpp (Pseudocolor) can be either FS or
- ordered, but must be selected at compile time...
-
- NOTE: when using ordered pseudocolor (8bpp) dithering, your
- session.colorsPerChannel ***MUST*** be 4, otherwise your display will
- not display *any* correct colors
- - fixed TrueColor rendering to do aligned writes (suppresses warnings on
- Alpha Linux machines)
- - added support for GrayScale/StaticGray displays (completely untested)
- - made linked lists smarter, they can now have as many iterators assigned to
- them as you want... no more FATAL errors
- - added the Netizen class, which is a client that has
- _BLACKBOX_STRUCTURE_MESSAGES listed in their WM_PROTOCOLS... these clients
- get notified of window add, remove, focus, shade, iconify, maximize,
- resize, etc.
-
- the two most common Netizens are bbpager and bbkeys
- - when loading an incomplete style, blackbox now uses default colors to
- draw decorations (instead of the annoying "see-through" effect)
- - added menu tag [config]... which inserts the Configmenu into your rootmenu
- - made [include] handling smarter, it will only read regular files (it
- won't read a directory in case you ever accidentally put one there)
- - the slit and toolbar menus now include a placement option, which will place
- them in various positions on the screen
- - included a slit menu option to choose it's direction (horizontal or
- vertical)
- - added options to the slit and toolbar menus to have them always stacked
- above other windows
- - right clicking on the workspace label no longer initiates a workspacename
- edit... right clicking anywhere on the toolbar brings up the toolbar menu,
- which has an entry that lets you change the workspace name
- - iconified windows no longer show up in the window list for the current
- workspace... just in the icon submenu
- - ClickToFocus now works like one would think, clicking anywhere in a window
- will focus it
- - overall... this version of blackbox has and does alot more than previously
- just take it for a test drive and see how well you like it
-
-
-Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.51.0:
- - new default theme, shows off new gradients (see below)
- - many themes updated to show off new menu bullet configuration
- - added new source file Display.cc... it offers an easy way to connect to
- an X display and setup screen info, this was done to make life easier
- for John Kennis, the author of the bbtools. Image.cc and Image.hh have
- been modified to use classes from this abstraction, so that drop in
- replacements are all that is necessary to update the bbtools image code.
- - configurable menu bullet... 2 new resources for in your style file:
-
- menu.bulletStyle: (round|triangle|square|diamond|empty)
- menu.bulletPosition: (left|right)
-
- - new style resource for setting the borderWidth on menus, client windows and
- the buttons/frame/handle/titlebar... the default theme uses a borderWidth
- of zero... it's pretty neat
- - udpated Image code... blackbox now supports 8 types of gradients (thanks
- to mosfet@kde.org... in exchange for helping him get the diagonal gradient
- code from blackbox into kde, kde gave me the source to their new gradients)
- the 8 gradients are:
-
- diagonal, vertical, horizontal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic,
- pyramid, rectangle
-
- use them just like you would normally (ie. raised elliptic gradient bevel1)
- - merged John Kennis' patch for notifying KDE modules of windows that are
- raised/lowered/activated(focused)
- - new geometry window that is displayed when a window is moved/resized
- - cleaned up code for detecting slit apps
- - window stacking code changed to keep menus above windows, and to keep the
- slit raised when the toolbar is raised
- - fixed compiler error from gcc 2.95 about frame.frame in several places
- - fixed some bugs with shaped windows that set decorations via MWM hints,
- and also fixed bugs with such windows changing their shape
- - more complete ICCCM compliance, default window gravity is now NorthWest
- instead of Static...
- - focus code revamped... window focusing is alot faster and simpler, i
- mimicked the way TWM does it's focusing... proved much faster
- - the window menu always has "Kill Client" as an option now
- - fixed window stacking for windows that have multiple transients (like
- netscape)
- - smartplacement from 0.50.4 has been reinstated... i quickly grew tired of
- waiting on windows to be placed with the old version (if you like the way
- 0.50.5 did it... send me an email and i'll consider making it an option)
- - added some new signal handling code (using sigaction, if available on your
- system)...
- - fixed some bugs with KDE support... this makes bbpager behave properly
- - workspace editing via the toolbar has been made a little nicer with the
- new focus code... right clicking on the workspace label will put you into
- edit mode, but no windows can be focused until you leave edit mode...
- ALSO... the window that had focus when you entered edit mode will have the
- focus returned to it after editing is finished
- - added new option to blackbox... -rc <filename> will read <filename> instead
- of .blackboxrc for it's base configuration
- - the option for opaque window moves has been moved from the stylefile into
- .blackboxrc... set the session.opaqueMove: resource to True or False,
- depending on what you want
- - general namespace cleanups... just stuff to make maintaining the code a
- little easier...
- - any form of "beta" has been removed from the version number for 0.51.x
- i am declaring this series as "stable" so that i can begin a major overhaul
- of blackbox, which will be done with John Kennis and Jason Kasper, two
- very sharp guys that think the same way i do ;)
-
-
-Changes from 0.50.4. to 0.50.5:
- - modified and merged some patches from several contributors. added their
- names to AUTHORS
- - major documentation updates
- - added a few more platform success reports. changed development platform
- again :)
- - added new texture option: Interlaced... it is an extension to the gradient
- texture that looks really neat... it is compiled in by default but may
- be removed with --disable-interlace
- - let's see... where do i begin... the code for 0.51.x has been GREATLY
- enhanced over 0.50.4 (and the stupid little compile error for KDE has been
- fixed ;)) Blackbox has undergone major renovation... and i can proudly
- say that this release is rock solid. Also, i reinstated ccmalloc's tour
- of duty, and spent several days with it stomping memory leaks in blackbox.
- i can proudly say that there are no major memory leaks present in 0.51.x
- - the toolbar has changed it appearance a little bit... the menu button has
- been removed and the labels and buttons are now symmetrically placed on the
- toolbar... oh no!? how do you get to your icons/workspaces now? the
- middle click patch from Greg Barlow has been modified, enhanced and merged
- with 0.51.x... the workspace menu now behaves just like the root menu...
- and it can be pinned to the root window (just move it)
- - the image code has once again been worked over... this time a local LUG
- friend and i have hashed it out many times and into the wee hours of the
- morning... this stuff is FAST now... before i added interlacing... we
- had doubled the speed of the dgradient function... yes... *doubled*
- - the code to generate error tables, color tables and other tables that are
- used in image dithering has been rewritten, which severs the last tie to
- window maker's wrlib that blackbox had. i now understand why and how all
- the code that i "borrowed" works... and it's been improved... because of
- this change... dithering is a lot cleaner... and dithering on 8bpp displays
- is less grainy and less obtrusive...
- - the linked list code has also been rewritten... blackbox has been using
- a doubly linked list, and not taking advantage of all the list's
- capabilities (because it doesnt need them)... so the linked lists are now
- single-link and much quicker at inserting, removing, searching...
- - once again... the menu parsing code has been rewritten... this code is
- very efficient and very extensible... so extensible infact that after
- implementing the current menu syntax... i added a new tag! you can now
- insert the workspaces list into your root menu with this:
-
- [workspaces] (descriptive label)
-
- - the slit menu is now spacially correct... if you want the slit in the top
- right corner of the root menu... click the top right corner of the slit
- menu... i think this is a little more user friendly
- - window gravity should be better supported now... restarts and what not
- shouldn't produce all those one pixel shifts or moves anymore...
- - the modifiers for the keygrabs in blackbox are now configurable...
- the "keys" are still hard wired (left/right for workspace changing, tab
- for window cycling)... but you may now configure which modifiers to use
- with the key combos... this introduces two new resources into your
- .blackboxrc:
-
- session.workspaceChangeModifier
-
- and
-
- session.windowCycleModifier
-
- these resources may be set to any combination of the following:
-
- Control Mod1 Mod2 Mod3 Mod4 Mod5 Lock Shift
-
- also... for convenience... "Alt" is parsed as "Mod1"...
- session.workspaceChangeModifier defaults to "Control" and
- session.windowCycleModifier defaults to "Mod1"
- - smart placement has been made smarter thanks to Dyon Balding's smarter
- placement patch... this patch has been modified from the original slightly
- (mostly speed concerns)
- - signal handling has been made more robust... this allows it to compile on
- more platforms and now prefers to use sigaction() over signal()
- - over all... many code clean ups were made and old commented code was
- purged... this is a very clean very stable release... enjoy people :)
-
-
-Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4:
- - changed some Copyright information to include the current year
- - added a number of platforms to the Supported Platforms section of the
- README
- - added the Slit... the Slit is a window maker dockapp util that lets users
- use all of applications with Blackbox, and allows users to easily switch
- between Window Maker and Blackbox more easily... it is included by default,
- but you can remove it from the source with --disable-slit on your configure
- command line
- - large Brueghel styles and images removed from the base distribution
- - merged a patch from Benjamin Stewart for very robust menu parsing... this
- patch allows for parenthesis in menu files, and works well for
- automatically generating menus from shellscripts and programs... the menu
- syntax has not changed... it just is understood better :)
- - added shell style tilde-slash (~/) home directory expansion for the
- [include] and [style] tags in menu files
- - added some sanity to window position/gravity code to for GTK applications
- - added Window Maker style Mod1+MouseButton1+Motion window moving (for those
- few braindead apps that like to be positioned where no decorations are
- visible)
- - added a SIGCHLD handler to clean up processes started by a startup script
- that then exec's blackbox (gets rid of all those zombie processes)
- - added a new resource to .blackboxrc which tells Blackbox where to put the
- Slit... editing your .blackboxrc to change this is discouraged and
- discarded, as the Slit has a menu that lets you select where to put it
- (click any mouse button on the slit and see for yourself)
- - fixed a bug in the workspace renaming feature that ate all Shift keypresses
-
-
-Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3:
- - few documentation updates
- - fixes to let -lgen actually get linked with the executable (fixes compile
- errors on some platforms, most notably, IRIX 6.5)
- - a new series of styles has been added to the distribution (this accounts
- for the increased size)
- - fix to let 16 color servers run blackbox (colormap reduction)
- - various bug fixes... numerous strncpy's changed to sprintfs...
- - default font set internally to "fixed" (to let it run on servers that don't
- have any fonts installed)
- - fixed bug to let blackbox remove all but the last workspace (instead of the
- last two)
- - window gravity offset changes
- - the default key grabs have changed... there are now 4: alt-tab,
- shift-alt-tab, ctrl-alt-right, ctrl-alt-left... these keys perform
- as would be expected
- - fixed wire move bug for transient windows
- - passified error handing for the main window class
- - fixed gravity restore for restart/exit purposes
-
-
-Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2:
- - minimal KDE integration (configure/compile time option, turned off by
- default). This is unfinished and i can't really say if i ever will finish
- it, but there is enough there to integrate the panel and other modules
- with Blackbox.
- - changed the regexp in building menus to use a comma (,) as the separator,
- instead of a period
- - various bug fixen (like the one where the window list would stay put after
- the workspace menu went away)
- - some hacks to improve speed in the LinkedList routines
- - new stacking method (to better integrate with the KDE support)... windows
- are no longer in different "levels", raising windows brings them ALL the
- way to the front (so it's possible to obscure override redirect windows
- like image splashes etc.) and lowering throws them ALL the way to the
- back (even under kfm's icons)... however, the rootmenu and the toolbar
- (if configured to be ontop) will be placed above raised windows
- - sticky windows have changed due to the new stack implementation, they can
- be anywhere in the stack (and not always ontop or onbottom)
- - session.screenNUM.toolbarRaised resource has changed to
- session.screenNum.toolbarOnTop
- - the workspace label in the toolbar is sized a little more sanely now
- (i found that it looks the best when the workspace label width == clock
- label width)
- - colormap focus now has it's own resource, session.colormapFocusModel, which
- is set to "Click" by default, which means you have to click a window's
- decorations or the root window to (un)install a colormap... setting this
- resource to "FollowsMouse" will work just as it says... the window under
- the pointer will have it's colormap installed
-
-
-Changes from 0.50.0 to 0.50.1:
- - eliminated the need for XConvertCase... workspace editing should now print
- any and all characters correctly
- - added check for libgen.h (which provides the prototype for basename() on
- some systems, like OpenBSD)
- - some code obfuscation (i've been removing comments, as some of them don't
- relate to some of the code below them... i plan on recommenting the code
- some time soon)
- - clicking button 3 will hide ANY menu now, and in the case of the workspace
- and or client menus, any other menus and/or buttons associated will be
- closed as well
- - added a patch for multi-screen which sets the DISPLAY env variable so that
- items selected from one screen don't show up on another... many thanks to
- F Harvell <fharvell@fts.net> for this
- - fixed a clock bug... again thanks to F Harvell for this one
- - complete and proper window placement and window restore has been
- implemented... windows that are partially off screen will be placed in the
- center of the root window
- - the toolbar's workspace label is now dynamically sized according to the
- length of the workspace names
- - as stated above... workspace name editing has been completely redone, i
- discovered XLookupString() this weekend and have deemed it the function of
- the week... any and all characters should be printed properly now
- - window placement now has it's own resource...
- session.screen<NUM>.windowPlacement which may be set to SmartPlacement
- (which has been implemented) or anything else to default back to cascade
- placement
- - a new resource, session.screen<NUM>.toolbarWidthPercent has been added, and
- should be set to an integer representing what percentage of the root window
- width the toolbar should occupy (default has been changed back to 67)
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.14 to 0.50.0:
- - added util/ subdirectory to place small, utility programs to use in
- conjunction with blackbox.
- - updated the README... it's still vague and useless, but gives a better
- view of whats going on
- - the configure script now checks for a few more headers, setlocale and
- strftime in addition to basename functions to better include support for
- multiple arch/langs/etc.
- - updated default menu file... made it a little more general... and made
- the default style menu [include]'d instead of explicitly included...
- this break off of the style menu allows for custom menus to include the
- default style menu for a create selection of styles
- - changed all the default styles to use bsetroot instead of xsetroot
- - menu handling has been improved... no more than one menu at a time may be
- visible on the desktop (save for the root menu and it's tear off menus)
- this means that you can't have multiple window menus and the workspace menu
- open all at once... which saves screen space and reduces clutter
- - much of the code has been reorganzied and reformatted for better
- readability... this consists of function name changes and function
- "ownership" (which basically means workspaces aren't managed by the toolbar
- itself anymore, but by a general screen class on which the toolbar can
- operate)
- - the workspacemenu now autohides when selecting a window from one of the
- window lists
- - removed many empty destructors for Basemenu subclasses to improve code
- readability
- - two new files, Screen.cc and Screen.hh, have been added to the distribution
- they add the new class BScreen which was needed for the biggest change of
- the Blackbox code base, the addition of multiple screen (i.e. multihead)
- support. A separate BScreen is created for each screen, and all screens
- work inconjunction with the other... windows can't be passed between
- screens, because the X server doesn't allow this (more investigation on
- this later)
- - the toolbar's clock format is now controlled by the strftime() function...
- if configure can't find this function on your system, the old date/time
- format is used... with strftime, clicking on the clock doesn't display the
- date... as the date may now be part of the clock display... read the man
- page for the strftime function to write a format string for your clock,
- and place it in .blackboxrc (i.e.
- session.strftimeFormat: %I:%M %p on %a, %b %d is my strftime format
- string)
- - the toolbar has been stripped of it's workspace responsibilities, but this
- change has no effect on the end user.
- - common code interspersed through out the code has been consolodated into
- small functions and called multiple times instead of having the same or
- similar code repeated in the same class
- - the window startup code has been improved upon again so that shaded windows
- are restored between restarts
- - some ICCCM code has been updated to properly reflect the state of windows
- while shaded or on different workspaces... this state code change should
- also fix the JX toolkit problem of deiconifying and nothing being redrawn
- - the main Blackbox class has been changed to purely handle X events... it
- doesn't manage resources (save for those necessary for proper event
- handling, like the focus model for each screen)
- - the format of .blackboxrc has changed slightly, the session.menuFile,
- session.doubleClickInterval, session.imageDither, session.styleFile,
- and session.colorsPerChannel resources are unchanged. However, the
- following resources are screen dependant:
-
- session.screen<num>.strftimeFormat
- session.screen<num>.workspaces
- session.screen<num>.workspaceNames
- session.screen<num>.toolbarRaised
- session.screen<num>.focusModel
-
- where <num> is the screen number (zero being default and all that would be
- present on a single screen/monitor setup).
- - a utility named bsetroot (mentioned above) has been included in the
- blackbox distribution, to aid in setting root window patterns (ala
- xsetroot). the only different between xsetroot and bsetroot is that
- bsetroot doesn't redefine cursors, and doesn't restore defaults if no
- arguments are given. bsetroot does support multiple screens, and is ideal
- for those setups (instead of running xsetroot for each screen)
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.12 to 0.40.13:
- - added some compile time parameters to allow for clean compiling
- - added support for vertical/horizontal maximization (i did this by
- hand, but kudos to John Martin for the idea ;)
- - added basename() to the distribution... it will only be compiled in
- if basename is not present in standard libraries
- - window focus code has changed yet again... i've decided to completely
- rewrite the focus handling code, instead of trying to fix it... let
- me know how this does
- - a new resource has been added to the style loader... a resource of
- the form: rootCommand: <shell command string> will execute this
- command when the style is loaded, suitable for setting the root
- window background to an image/pattern/color... this should make
- style integration more seamless
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.11 to 0.40.12:
- - more migration to autoconf/automake/autoheader etc.
- - changed the default installation prefix... /usr/local is now the
- default... all default config files will be stored in
- ${prefix}/share/Blackbox... any old files will not be used, and
- should be removed
- - a small internal rework has made the "Inverted" option for
- pressed button textures obsolete... please update your configs
- - Makefile.generic has been removed
- - Laurie's tear off menu patch has been adapted into the source tree...
- sorry Laurie, but i had to rework your patch to make it completely
- bullet proof ;)
- - rework of Image code... resizes and maximizations should be much
- faster now
- - existance of XConvertCase is checked by configure... if it is NOT
- found, then when editing the workspace name, pressing shift will
- not print capital letters... sorry... get an uptodate X distribution
- (R6.3 or higher) so that XConvertCase exists...
- - the date format on the clock is controlled by a new .blackboxrc
- resource... session.dateFormat... accepted values are:
- American ( mm/dd/yy ) and
- European ( dd.mm.yy )
- the default is american... if any other string is entered for the
- resource, blackbox defaults again to american...
- - changed some window positioning code so that windows aren't thrown
- to the middle of the screen unless they are completely hidden when
- shown
- - time bugs have been fixed... this is too detailed to go into... so
- read the source if you are curious, otherwise just hit Reconfigure
- when ever you change the system time, and blackbox will update and
- continue to monitor/display the correct time (also... wrt y2k...
- blackbox is y2k compliant is your libc's localtime() is y2k
- compliant)
- - this release has a major internals rework... let me know of any
- problems... i would also love to hear about improved/degraded
- performance... enjoy people...
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.10 to 0.40.11:
- - changed the blackbox distribution to use autoconf instead of
- imake... let me know how this works
- - removed all the Imakefiles and Imakeconfig in favor of autoconf...
- - added necessary files for automake and autoconf
- - fixed a bug that would automatically shift focus to the workspace
- label after switching to an empty workspace which would edit the
- workspace name if pressing ctrl-arrow...
- - fixed a bug that wouldn't focus any windows with alt-tab after
- switching workspaces
- - new feature: click button 1 on the clock to display today's date
- releasing the mouse button redraws the current time
- - implemented double-click window shading by adapting David Edwards'
- <david@dt031n1a.tampabay.rr.com> shade patch
- - added new .blackboxrc resource - session.doubleClickInterval - which
- controls the time between double clicks... used by the double-click
- shade feature... defaults to 250ms is not specified
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.9 to 0.40.10:
- - fixed the broken menu highlights - they are now a dot in front of
- the menu label
- - enhanced the image rendering code to prebuild dithering lookup
- tables... this saves some multiply and divide instructions during the
- rendering loop... it makes a noticable difference on my lowly p133 ;)
- - just for completeness... i've added some error output for various
- things that could (but rarely do) go awry
- - the focus code has been updated yet again... but this time it's for
- the better ;) the ctrl arrow keys continue working after a window
- has been closed etc. etc... this should be the final change... unless
- i find more bugs in it
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.8 to 0.40.9:
- - fixed a menu bug to keep as much of the menu on screen as possible
- - added a patch from Peter Kovacs <kovacsp@egr.uri.edu> to raise the
- current focused window when the user clicks on the window label on
- the toolbar
- - changed some window gravity defaults... nothing major here
- - focus handling code has been spruced up... and majorly tested...
- 0.40.8's focus code was about as good as a full tank of gas but
- no corvette... let me know how the focus handles in 0.40.9
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.7 to 0.40.8:
- - more menu fixes... highlights are handled as normal... constant
- highlights are draw differently... the rounded edges minus the
- highlighted bar...
- - hand strength reduction in the BImage::renderXImage() method...
- this doesn't offer much of a speed up... but every little bit
- counts
- - stuck clients that open transients now have their transients stuck
- by default
- - changed some input focus code to better handle the sloppy focus
- model... the little annoyances like two focused windows should now
- be fixed...
- - removed gcc specific code... changed use of strsep to strtok (which
- is defined by ANSI C)
- - this is strictly a maintainence release... no new features have
- been introduced
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.6 to 0.40.7:
- - changed bhughes@arn.net to bhughes@tcac.net throughout the source
- tree
- - menu sanity fixes... like unmapping a submenu when an item is removed
- - image code fixes... no memory is allocated during the rendering...
- only when the BImage is created... thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for
- the frame work for these changes
- - fewer floating point division in gradient rendering routines... again
- thanks to lee.salzman@lvdi.net for the basis of these changes
- - reading workspace names is now a little more robust, but probably not
- bullet proof... events are handled normally while reading the
- workspace name... instead of blocking them all... the label changes
- color... and reverts back to normal when enter is pressed (which
- applies the new workspace name)
- - the window geometry label drawn during window resizing has moved to
- inside the window frame, this allows us to see what size windows are
- being resized to when the right edge is close to the edge of root
- - a lock system has been implemented for the blackbox objects... this
- fixes a nasty little problem of stale windows (decorations with no
- client window) because of on object grabbing the server and another
- unlocking it... the current system works similar to XLockDisplay
- (which is used in threaded X programs).
- - icccm code enhancements for XWMHints and NormalHints
- - window maximizing now properly returns the maximized client to its
- previous location (this is a bug fix... maximize netscape, then
- maximize an xterm... unmaximizing netscape will put it where the
- xterm was previously)
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.5 to 0.40.6:
- - the workspace and client menus now keep the current workspace and
- focus window highlighted so that we know which window is in focus
- (especially useful with multiple xterms in the same workspace)
- - image dithering code has been updated slightly to hopefully squeeze
- every last drop of performance out of it
- - pixel computation has been simplified
- - gradient code has been changed to use less floating point division
- this breaks Jon Denardis' gradient hack, but the option has been
- left in place in case Jon wants to re-implement it :)
- - more ICCCM compliance code added... window colormap focus has a
- click-to-focus policy... any window that wants to use it's own
- colormap (i.e. netscape -install) will have it's colormap installed
- when button1 is pressed anywhere on the decorations (like when
- raising) the default root colormap is reinstalled when pressing
- button1 on the root window
- - workspace names can now be changed on the fly... they are stored in
- the users ~/.blackboxrc file, and may be edited from there, although
- any changes made to the file will be over written when blackbox is
- shutdown or restarted...
- - workspace names can be edited *while blackbox is running* by pressing
- button3 on the workspace label on the toolbar... pressing enter ends
- the edit and normal event processing resumes... these names are saved
- on exit/restart for convienence
- - support for window gravity has been added... this is addition is
- another step closer to complete ICCCM compliance
- - window resizing is a bit more sane now... a bug once pointed out long
- ago that i never noticed plagued me the other day... when resizing a
- window to a large size... blackbox can delay a bit while it renders
- the new decorations... if the user tries to move the window before
- these decorations are finished... the window is resized again... this
- has been fixed
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.4 to 0.40.5:
- - updated the default style to reflect the button resource change in
- 0.40.4
- - added internal menu alignment
- - added internal linked list insertion at a certain point, used in
- menus
- - submenus now update their parent menu to reflect that the submenu
- is no longer open
- - right clicking anywhere on the rootmenu or window menus will now
- unmap them... NOTE: this doesn't work on submenus or the rootmenu
- or on the SendToWorkspaceMenu
- - cleaned up some of the image rendering code to use less comparisons
- while rendering an image... also removed alot of
- multiplication/division use in beveling loops to increase speed
- - changed dithering error distribution to make images smoother at
- 15 and 8bpp (8bpp got the most benefit from this change)
- - changed the toolbar appearance... removed the raise/lower button,
- changing the level of the toolbar isn't possible as of yet... a new
- button has been added on the left of the toolbar, pressing it will
- map the workspace menu, which has a few changes
- - the workspace menu now conatins submenus of all the window lists of
- all workspaces... it is now possible to see which window is on which
- workspace... also... the icon button has been removed from the
- toolbar and the iconmenu is now a submenu of the workspace menu
- - window placement has been slightly modified... if clients request a
- certain position, the request is honored, otherwise the client is
- cascaded... if either the cascade or requested position obscures part
- of the window when the window is created, the window is centered in
- the root window...
- - window state updated... when blackbox is restarted, all client
- windows are placed on the workspace they were previously occupying...
- this is only between restarts... not when X is restarted...
- however... applications may be coded specifically for blackbox to
- start on a certain workspace... for more information on this, email
- me
- - window menu placement has been made a little more sane
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.3 to 0.40.4:
- - removed the window.handle{.color,.colorTo} resources... the handle
- is now treated as a button, and uses the button resources
- - added window.focus.button and window.unfocus.button resources to the
- style file... this allows colors to be set different from the
- titlebar... the colors are controlled with window.focus.button.color,
- window.focus.button.colorTo, window.unfocus.button.color and
- window.unfocus.button.colorTo
- - transient focus policy has changed... if any window has an open
- transient window... focus is awarded to the trasient instead of the
- parent window, even if the mouse doesn't occupy the trasient window
- - cleaned up some namespace in Basemenu.cc and Basemenu.hh
- - changed dithering error diffusion
- - fixed Bevel2 so that it doesn't sig11 anymore
- - changed stacking code slightly... "stuck" windows now are placed
- in relation to the toolbar... i.e. if the toolbar is on top... stuck
- windows are on top of any other client windows... if the toolbar
- is underneath client windows... stuck windows are also stacked
- underneath the client windows
- - major reworking of Window.cc and Window.hh to fully support the
- _MOTIF_WM_HINTS on client windows... if this hint is present... then
- the window is decorated according to those hints... all the move/
- resize/configure code had to be updated because of this... one step
- closer to gnome compliance
- - window menus now contain different items based on the functions
- available to the client window... if a window cannot be maximized...
- then no maximize item is present in the window menu... also, "Close"
- and "Kill Client" are no longer present at the same time... if the
- client supports the WM_DELETE_WINDOW Protocol, then "Close" is
- present, "Kill Client" is only present for clients that do not
- support the protocol
- - windows may now be moved by the titlebar, handle or thin border
- around the window... window menus are also accessible by pressing
- button 3 on any of these 3 windows
- - a new focus model has been added... it works... but is mostly
- untested... session.focusModel: AutoRaiseSloppyFocus in .blackboxrc
- will retain the sloppy focus model... but raise windows to the
- top when focused...
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.2 to 0.40.3:
- - fixed a bug in Blackbox::nextFocus that would put blackbox into an
- infinite loop when 2 windows where open, window 0 was iconified and
- window 1 had focus and pressing alt-tab or the next window button
- on the toolbar
- - completely recoded all the graphics stuffs to support all visual
- classes and color depths, also the image code is more compact and
- faster than previous releases
- - removed graphics.cc and graphics.hh from the distribution and added
- Image.cc and Image.hh for the new graphics implementation. a new
- class called BImageControl is now in charge of all pixmap caching
- and color allocation on displays that don't run/support TrueColor...
- this takes the job away from the Blackbox class... whose job is now
- to manage all it's children and disperse events read from the display
- - fixed bug that didn't handle windows created before blackbox is
- running (again :/)
-
-
-Changes from 0.40.1 to 0.40.2:
- - added a variable initialize line of code to keep blackbox from
- splattering from a sigsegv on startup
-
-
-Changes from 0.35.0 to 0.40.1:
- - cosmetic menu rendering fixes, changed the way the submenu dot is
- sized; changed an off by one error in drawing the rounded edges;
- fixed the text to be draw in the center of the item instead of at the
- bottom
- - major changes to the toolbar (formerly the workspace manager) to
- change the way it looks and works. The large blank space is gone,
- and the toolbar is now half the height it used to be (roughly). the
- workspace label displays the current workspace, with the workspace
- menu accessible by clicking button 1 on the label. the two buttons
- directly to the right of the workspace label change the workspace
- when pressed. the window label displays the current focused window,
- which makes it easier to identify which window has input focus (for
- some people like me that have very dark or very closely colored
- decorations). the window menu is accessible by pressing button
- one on the window label, and selecting an item from the window menu
- will set input focus to that window (if it can receive focus). the
- two buttons to the right of the window label circulate focus (up and
- down, respectively) through the window list, skipping windows that
- cannot receive focus. the icon button displays a menu of all
- iconified applications. both the icon menu and the window menu will
- not become visible if they are empty. the next button on the toolbar
- is a raise/lower button for the workspace manager. the toolbar is
- stacked on startup according to the resource set in ~/.blackboxrc,
- but this button will raise and lower the workspace to the users
- desire, saving the stack order when blackbox is exited or restarted.
- the clock is still the same, but editing the session.clockFormat
- will change it from normal time (session.clockFormat: 12) to 24hour
- format (session.clockFormat: 24)
- - a pixmap cache has been implemented. a linked list stores all images
- rendered, removing them from the list and freeing them with the X
- server when all applications have removed references to them. for
- those who start man instances of the same applications will benefit
- greatly from this, as the same decorations are not redraw for each
- and every window. this greatly reduces the load on the X server
- (my X server went from taking 20-28mb of memory to 8-11mb, a dramatic
- improvement, especially on this 32mb machine). as a result of this,
- reconfiguring is faster, as is startup and restarting.
- - click to focus has been implemented, with some restrictions. other
- window managers allow the user to click anywhere on the decorations
- OR the client itself to set focus. i have not found an elegant way
- to do this yet, so focus can only be set by pressing button 1 on
- the decorations (like the titlebar, handle, buttons, border, etc.)
- just not on the client itself. i am looking more into this, but
- don't expect anymore than what is in place now. to use
- click-to-focus, put session.focusModel: ClickToFocus in ~/.blackboxrc
- - 2 new commands have been added to the menu syntax, [include] and
- [style]... the [reconfig] command still has the option to reconfigure
- after a command has been run, but probably will be faded out...
- [include] (/path/to/file) includes the file inline with the current
- menu, meaning that a submenu isnot created for the separate file,
- if a submenu is desired, the file should include the [submenu] and
- [end] tags explicitly.
- [style] is a new addition for the style file support. syntax is:
- [style] (label here) {/path/to/style/file} which will read the new
- style file and reconfigure when selected.
- - style files have been added to allow for easier switching between
- configurations. the style file resources are dramtically different
- from those in 0.3x.x, see app-defaults/Blackbox-style.ad for an
- example...
- - with the addition of style files, menus have been given their own
- justification resource, allowing (for example) menus to be left
- justified while titles are center or right justified.
- - please read the sample configuration files in app-defaults/ for the
- new and improved configuration system. NOTE: Blackbox.ad is a
- sample ~/.blackboxrc, but you shouldn't copy this file to
- ~/.blackboxrc, as Blackbox will store the resources it needs
- automatically
- - an unofficial release numbered 0.40.0 was given out to some
- testers, and even this release needs the same treatment as 0.35.0
- with respect to the new config system (0.40.0 only implemented the
- pixmap cache, the new toolbar and *part* of the new config system,
- but not the style files or automatic generation of ~/.blackboxrc)
-
-
-Changes from 0.34.5 to 0.35.0:
- - changed the way menus are draw to round both end of the highlight...
- - cosmetic enhancements for the various justifications...
- - this is the first stable release of blackbox
-
-
-Changes from 0.34.4 to 0.34.5:
- - hopefully... this will be the last bug fix... so i can begin working
- on new features... i fixed event mask selection on client windows
- after reparenting them to the decoration frame... this should get
- xv working again...
- - changed the signal hander to core on sigsegv and sigfpe... sigint and
- sigterm will just exit blackbox cleanly... sighup will cause blackbox
- to reconfigure itself
- - changed the way the version string is printed...
-
-
-Changes from 0.34.3 to 0.34.4:
- - changed the window stacking code to stack windows and their menus
- more sanely... window menus are stacked directly ontop of the client
- windows... instead of on top of every other client window... the
- workspace manager is now by default stacked above client windows...
- - reworked alot of code in Window.cc, blackbox.cc, Workspace.cc and
- WorkspaceManager.cc to properly handle ICCCM state hints... the
- startup and shutdown code has been completely reworked as a result of
- this
-
-Changes from 0.34.2 to 0.34.3:
- - this was a small change in the code... but a BIG change for the user
- base... the X error handler is now non fatal... yes... this means if
- blackbox encounters an X error (like a bad window or a bad match) it
- will fprintf() the error and continue running... the quick window bug
- has been mostly fixed... i have a small app that i wrote that quickly
- maps a window, calls XSync()... then destroys the window and exits...
- the first time i ran this little beauty... blackbox died a horrible
- death... blackbox now handles this app nicely... but does
- occasionally report an error (during the decoration creation... which
- is promptly destroyed from the destroy notify event placed in the
- queue by the X server... thus... no memory leaks... no memory
- corruption... blackbox just keeps chugging along nicely
-
-
-Changes from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2 (unreleased):
- - fixed MSBFirst byte order image rendering at 32bpp (24bpp pending)
- (for machines better than this intel machine of mine)
- - changed BImage to allocate dithering space when the image is created
- and to delete it when the image is destroyed... instead of allocating
- the space and deleting the space each time the image is rendered to
- an XImage... hopefully this will provide a speed increase (albeit a
- small one)
- - changed blackbox to call XListPixmapFormats once at startup...
- instead of each time an image is rendered... this should afford some
- speed increase (a small one at best :)
- - fixed a bug in Window.cc that re-reads the window name...
- Jon Denardis discovered this bug while playing with netscape 4.5...
- the validation call is now directly before the XFetchName call...
- instead of before an if() { } block that calls strcmp and XFree()
- - edit Window.cc to change the way buttons are decorated and sized
- the associatedWindow.button.color(To) resources have been removed,
- but the associatedWindow.button texture resource is still there
-
-
-Changes from 0.34.0 to 0.34.1:
- - fixed the unmanaged rxvt/xconsole/whatever problem that didn't
- decorate windows at start up... just a little logic error that was
- fixed with a few braces
- - fixed the shutdown code so that X and blackbox don't die a gruesome
- death while reparenting the small applets on the workspace manager
- toolbar... the above bug fixed also fixed a bug that didn't reparent
- any existing app windows...
- - updated libBox code to allow for flaws in it's design (forgotten from
- 0.34.0)
- - removed #include <sys/select.h> from blackbox.cc so that it compiles
- on any platform (since select is supposed to be defined in unistd.h)
- - removed the NEED_STRNCASECMP block in blackbox.cc until i can get
- a working posix like routine to work (needed for OS2 platforms)
- - edited the Imakefile scheme to have the the toplevel Imakefile and
- Imakefiles in app-defaults/ lib/ and src/... there now is Imakeconfig
- which includes all the options in one file... so that editing all
- the Imakefiles is no longer necessary
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.6 to 0.34.0:
- - edited some Imakefiles so that rpm creaters have an easier time
- - added stuff to lib/ which contains a small (VERY small) library for
- letting applications open a window on the workspace manager toolbar
- this is very very new... restarting will cause the app to crash
- (at best) or take X with it (the worst)... play with it an let me
- know how it works
- - further revised window.cc and blackbox.cc to provide better error
- checking... window.cc received the most updates... validating a
- window is now done in the statement before the window is used... not
- at the beginning of the function the window is used in...
- - fixed the stacking order bug when changing workspaces... the windows
- will now be restored in the order that you left them... not in the
- order they were created in...
- - updated the README... a little bit anyway :)
- - updated BlackboxWindow::maximizeWindow() in window.cc to properly
- maximize windows that have specified size increments
- - fixed BlackboxWindow::configureWindow so that shaded windows that re
- size themselves only resize the titlebar
- - added ccmalloc 0.2.3 to the main source tree to aid in debugging...
- this is NOT maintained by myself, see the source tree for details
- - eliminated a double delete call with the aid of ccmalloc!@#!
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.5 to 0.33.6:
- - added Makefile.generic for those of you with foobared imake configs.
- the use of xmkmf -a (i.e. imake) is still prefered... but this should
- work on any system... with a little editing
- - added static int handleXErrors(Display *, XErrorEvent *) in
- blackbox.cc to handle any and all X lib errors while blackbox is
- running... this should produce a coredump and thus the -moron
- community should be able to flood my inbox with stack trace upon
- stack trace :)
- - added some sub directories and moved the sources around, this allows
- for easier inclusion of the library for blackbox specific programs
- (which will run in the dock)
- - hopefully fixed the "disappearing-rxvt-trick"... since i can't
- reproduce it i don't know for sure
- - removed the use of alloca in graphics.cc... i was noticing very odd
- behaviour from malloc() and free()... where blackbox would sig11
- when exiting because of XCloseDisplay doing something naughty...
- and this seems to have done the trick... no more sig11's from malloc
- or new... everything i've thrown at blackbox is gently but firmly
- beaten into submission...
- - added docboy's curved gradient hack as a compile time option... see
- src/Imakefile and src/graphics.cc
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.4 to 0.33.5:
- - added a small test to cascade windows that start out partially hidden
- (like netscape, Xnest, xv, etc.)
- - changed icon handling to include a menu of icons accessible from the
- workspace manager toolbar
- - deiconifying a window now takes it to the top of the stack
- - clicking on a menuitem that has a submenu no longer hides the submenu
- - added resource "workspaceManager.24hourClock", a value of True turns
- on the 24hour clock on the toolbar
- - removed icon pixmap/window/mask support/handling from window.cc and
- window.hh... since icons are now handled in a menu, this is no
- longer needed
- - added session.handleWidth and session.bevelWidth
- to control window sizes (instead of hardcoded defaults)
- - changed parts of Basemenu.cc and WorkspaceManager.cc to follow the
- sizes set by session.bevelWidth
- - fixed Alt-Tab window switching... also fixed some focus handling bugs
- which let two windows become focused at the same time (which is bad
- mojo)
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.3 to 0.33.4:
- - corrected a typo in the sample Blackbox.ad file to correctly show
- which resource to set for the menu file
- - added moderate window group support for programs like netscape and
- other motif applications... modified window stacking code and
- internal list code to support window groups (this makes transients
- behave properly... another step towards more complete ICCCM
- compliance)
- - modified focus event handlers to stop applications from focusing out
- when pressing menubars... also window focus is returned to root if
- the focus window is closed... if another window is under the focus
- window when it is closed... that window is awarded input focus
- - fixed tiny little bug that didn't move the close button when resizing
- a window
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.2 to 0.33.3:
- - changed some of the menu code ("updated" in 0.33.1) back to the
- original 0.33.0, which seems to perform better. Reason behind it? -
- blackbox died too often with 0.33.1/2
- - added "Kill Client" option to window menus... for those applications
- that don't accept the WM_DELETE_WINDOW atom
- - menus that are not partially moved off the root window are shifted to
- a visible position when the pointer enters the frame... it is also
- shifted back to it's original position when left (this is new... let
- me know how it works)
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.1 to 0.33.2: (unreleased)
- - changed BlackboxIcon to not try and read its config when it was
- created. This was forgotten from the 0.31.0 -> 0.33.0 move :/
-
-
-Changes from 0.33.0 to 0.33.1: (unreleased)
- - improved menu handling, less possibilty for SIGSEGV
- - menus now make copies of all label, exec strings and titles, to
- make less loose pointers
- - fixed typo to allow submenus of submenus of submenus (...)
- - fixed workspace menu and window list menu placements
-
-
-Changes from 0.31.0 to 0.33.0:
- - added #ifdef statements so the C preprocessor doesn't complain about
- _GNU_SOURCE being redefined.
- - changed internal resource data structures
- - added Sticky windows functionality
- - remove old animation code bound with #ifdef ANIMATIONS
- - fixed a silly little bug that sometimes mapped a submenu when its
- parent was unmapping itself
- - added ExecReconfigure option to execute a shell statement before
- performing reconfiguration
- - rearranged window config code to reduce wait time while resizing
- - added internal macro BImageNoDitherSolid to make window frame
- rendering faster (dithering a solid image is silly anyway)
- - added new menu file format
- - added Blackbox::validateWindow to provide a stabler environment for
- Blackbox. This gives blackbox more error checking and greater
- stability. For me, random crashes have (nearly) disappeared.
- - removed window name/class dependant frame texture/color
- - with 0.31.0, each entity read it's configuration from the rc database
- loaded at start. this has changed back to the old behaviour of
- reading all configuration parameters at start, no database reads are
- performed after the initial setup (save for reconfiguring).
- - configuration has changed to be a little cleaner, and a little more
- thorough. See the Blackbox.ad and BlackboxMenu.ad for exmaples.
-
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