Re: icewm releases

IceWM development was usually a one man show, with some patches comming 
from time to time for others. Its founder and main maintainer for most of 
its life was/is Marko Macek. I personaly feel there are always a periods 
in my desktop usage when I use for some time a different WM/DE, then after 
few years with aging HW and getting tired of all the efects I return to 
IceWM. It is perfectly possible others do have the same periods.

In the past few month the development of IceWM got stalled. It is still 
very useful but as underlaying librabries and Xorg are changing, it 
sometimes has some hickups. I hope that if something get really 
broken and Marko will not show up, somebody else will step up as Mathias 
Hasselmann did in past.

That's the story..

Adam Pribyl

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, J B wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using icewm since last few years. I love its lowfat, modular, simplistic
> properties. Though I have gained some interest recently on openbox+tint2 combination.
> I haven't seen any progress on icewm, that's why interested to know if the
> development is still alive.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:42:15 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks very much! I agree that there is not much need for changes but I
>> was just concerned that there was a bugfix pre-release and it has been
>> left at that. So, I wondered if the project was dead. Very glad to know
>> that it is on auto-pilot.
>>
>> I like the themes on box-look: especially like IceBuntu, though I will
>> tweak it some more. (To be fair, I like some of the openbox themes
>> there also, but it bugs me that aesthetics is viewed as complementary
>> to performance -- example window decorations.)
>>
>> I have been giving pekwm a try, but that is far more touch-and-go, it
>> appears. (Though to be honest, I am not completely sure if the problem
>> is that I can not get some configurations there to work.)!
>>
>> One aspect I would have liked in icewm is the inability to have a dock.
>> I am not completely sure if I can get around it, but I guess I will look
>> around. pekwm has a strange docking behavior which puts it in one of the
>> corners, making it look ugly.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Ranjan
>>
>> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:43:42 +0200 Josef Kufner <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> IceWM works well. It may look dead, but that's becouse it is already
>>> perfect. Well... not perfect, but these few problems are too small to
>>> overcome my laziness...
>>>
>>> I have not significantly changed my desktop configuration for last five
>>> years (maybe more). I guess that is what "and they lived happily ever
>>> after" means.
>>>
>>> Enjoy ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21.9.2013 04:07, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am considering moving to a new WM and I am considering icewm along
>>>> with openbox and pekwm. However, I see that the last release is on
>>>> 2010. There appears to be a 1.3.8pre1 release in 2011. So I wonder how
>>>> active is this project? Or is it pretty much dormant?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> Ranjan
>>>>
>>>
>
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