3 Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.51.0:
4 - new default theme, shows off new gradients (see below)
5 - many themes updated to show off new menu bullet configuration
6 - added new source file Display.cc... it offers an easy way to connect to
7 an X display and setup screen info, this was done to make life easier
8 for John Kennis, the author of the bbtools. Image.cc and Image.hh have
9 been modified to use classes from this abstraction, so that drop in
10 replacements are all that is necessary to update the bbtools image code.
11 - configurable menu bullet... 2 new resources for in your style file:
13 menu.bulletStyle: (round|triangle|square|diamond|empty)
14 menu.bulletPosition: (left|right)
16 - new style resource for setting the borderWidth on menus, client windows and
17 the buttons/frame/handle/titlebar... the default theme uses a borderWidth
18 of zero... it's pretty neat
19 - udpated Image code... blackbox now supports 8 types of gradients (thanks
20 to mosfet@kde.org... in exchange for helping him get the diagonal gradient
21 code from blackbox into kde, kde gave me the source to their new gradients)
24 diagonal, vertical, horizontal, crossdiagonal, pipecross, elliptic,
27 use them just like you would normally (ie. raised elliptic gradient bevel1)
28 - merged John Kennis' patch for notifying KDE modules of windows that are
29 raised/lowered/activated(focused)
30 - new geometry window that is displayed when a window is moved/resized
31 - cleaned up code for detecting slit apps
32 - window stacking code changed to keep menus above windows, and to keep the
33 slit raised when the toolbar is raised
34 - fixed compiler error from gcc 2.95 about frame.frame in several places
35 - fixed some bugs with shaped windows that set decorations via MWM hints,
36 and also fixed bugs with such windows changing their shape
37 - more complete ICCCM compliance, default window gravity is now NorthWest
39 - focus code revamped... window focusing is alot faster and simpler, i
40 mimicked the way TWM does it's focusing... proved much faster
41 - the window menu always has "Kill Client" as an option now
42 - fixed window stacking for windows that have multiple transients (like
44 - smartplacement from 0.50.4 has been reinstated... i quickly grew tired of
45 waiting on windows to be placed with the old version (if you like the way
46 0.50.5 did it... send me an email and i'll consider making it an option)
47 - added some new signal handling code (using sigaction, if available on your
49 - fixed some bugs with KDE support... this makes bbpager behave properly
50 - workspace editing via the toolbar has been made a little nicer with the
51 new focus code... right clicking on the workspace label will put you into
52 edit mode, but no windows can be focused until you leave edit mode...
53 ALSO... the window that had focus when you entered edit mode will have the
54 focus returned to it after editing is finished
55 - added new option to blackbox... -rc <filename> will read <filename> instead
56 of .blackboxrc for it's base configuration
57 - the option for opaque window moves has been moved from the stylefile into
58 .blackboxrc... set the session.opaqueMove: resource to True or False,
59 depending on what you want
60 - general namespace cleanups... just stuff to make maintaining the code a
62 - any form of "beta" has been removed from the version number for 0.51.x
63 i am declaring this series as "stable" so that i can begin a major overhaul
64 of blackbox, which will be done with John Kennis and Jason Kasper, two
65 very sharp guys that think the same way i do ;)