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+ChangeLog from Blackbox (this code's previous project):
+
+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+ - BlackboxWindow::withdraw no longet sets the state to Withdrawn.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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