Preview releases of matchbox 0.2

mallum <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:06:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aloha all;

Just thought I let you all know I nearing the release of version 0.2
of matchbox and I've been putting 'Preview' ipkg releases into my
downloadables directory [1], 

There basically daily CVS builds with debug turned on - they'll spool
lots of info to your terminal, which is useful for me if you get a
crash. 

Id really appreciate people hammering these and seeing if they can
crash matchbox or make it do something wierd.  If people could also
keep an eye on memory usage ( particularly in the actual Xserver ), Im
using window background to draw the titlebar directly onto which
greatly reduces flicker - but im not sure how X handles memory
allocation for this.    


Improvement in these previews include;

- dock alignment improved, apps can now align right
  ( pass -r to included dock apps ).
- windows can now be transient for root ( always visible dialogs )
- xterms now open quickly
- minivol  ( docked volume app) added
- minisys added ( docked cpu/mem monitor)
- miniapm fixed and now pretty
- minitime improved
- monolaunch no longer needs window name ( experimental )
- double click on window title collapses it.
- Too big dock apps now resized to fit in dock
- Dialogs allowed to resize themselves now
- Much better dialog handling ( using window_group properties )
- new miniwave dockapp ( dockable wavelan monitor )
- hopefully a lot less flicker on window titles....
- LOTS of bug fixes ...

before 0.2 is released I'll need to update the matchbox docs and I'll
probably split the dock apps into a separate package.

Enjoy

  -- Matthew


[1] http://handhelds.org/~mallum/downloadables/