[ANNOUNCE] Matchbox 0.3 released.

mallum <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:50:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all;

Matchbox X11 Window manager 0.3 has been released and should now be
available in the familiar unstable feed and in source form here [1].

The 0.3 release features greatly improved themeing, a new improved
dock, freedesktop.org standards support, better xft support + much more.

More information, screenshots and updated documentation ( read it! )
can be found here [2]

Matchbox 0.3 is intended as a 'suck it and see' release._Alot_ of new
features and functionality have been added, some of which you may like
and some of which you may not. I need feedback on what you think so
this can all be ironed out for the eventual 0.4 release.

If you are running familiar unstable, please read the following
carefully before you upgrade.

1> Matchbox uses a new docking mechanism, which is not compatible with
   the old ion style of docking. There for if you upgrade to
   Matchbox 0.3, you will also need to upgrade the following packages
   if you use them;

	 xmonobut ( to 0.4pre1 )
	 mmenu    ( to 0.7pre1 )
	 xstroke  ( to xstroke-ma5_0.5.2 )
   
   The xstroke is a patched version of xstroke ( it is not a fork!
   ). It features matchbox 0.3 style docking and IMHO a prettier
   docked app. 

2> You should remove the mb-themes package if you have it
   installed. The newer matchbox is not compatible with these.

3> The Matchbox ipkg is available in 2 flavours. The default
   'matchbox_0.3' is built with xft ( anti-aliased text )
   support. Therefore it is recommended if you choose this that you have run
   the familiar postinst script and have some decent, dare I say it,
   ms fonts installed. 
   The other ipkg is called matchbox-noxft, which supports just X core
   fonts. 

4> Once the matchbox ipkg is installed. Its is recommended you run the
   finddockapps.sh [3], this will help populate your new docks popup
   menu. Its is also recommend you should disable any scripts that launch
   dockapps on X startup. The dock now does simple sessioning and will
   remember what apps it holds. See the documentation [2] for more
   info on this. 
   
5> Now everything is installed, restart X. If you havn't already, now
   would be a good time to look at the docs [2]

6> Enjoy :) + remember you are running unstable so please dont expect
   everything to be perfect.
 
7> Find bugs - report them ideally via bugzilla, or direct to me via email. 

  -- Matthew Allum

[1] http://handhelds.org/~mallum/downloadables/matchbox
[2] http://handhelds.org/~mallum/matchbox
[3] http://handhelds.org/~mallum/downloadables/matchbox/finddockapps.sh