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mercredi, janvier 9 2008
Par jd le mercredi, janvier 9 2008, 13:04 - awesome
And here we are. awesome 2.1 is coming! And it's really really nice.
It got a brand new set of widgets (icons, text, progress bar, tasklist, etc) for the statusbar, which is very configurable.
It also has a better EWMH support, which brings things like stick or fullscreen state support.
I still have to write the changelog between 2.0 and 2.1, but git log shows near 400 commits, it's gonna be a bit long.
jeudi, décembre 27 2007
Par jd le jeudi, décembre 27 2007, 19:48 - awesome
Today I decided to add some EWMH support to awesome. It now supports a bunch of this extensions quite nicely.
However, while reading the spec and writing the code, it appears that this forces a window manager to behave in only one way: have a poor desktop support, and no multi-head/XRandR/Xinerama support at all.
The main caveats are that in Xinerama/XRandR mode, you'll have only one root window. And the root window is where you must store the NET_WM X properties… So you cannot handle screens in a independant way like awesome does. That's really a shame.
There's also a big problem for window managers like awesome which are happy to draw several desktops at the same time. There's no support for stuff like that.
So far, I think EWMH is nice but is really too narrow-minded for softwares and people who want to think window management in a different way.