Re: icewm releases

Gengis,

Gentoo Linux carry a BiDi patch for icewm since early this month.
No idea if that is of any use to you, but the possibility exists.

Dag B



On 09/25/13 15:02, Genghis Khan wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> IceWM is a good desktop, and I wish I would have been in the same state
> as you are, if only it had support for BiDi writings (mostly RTL, since
> it does already support LTR) so it would also fit to Arabic, Farsi,
> Hebrew, Urdu and other RTL language speaking audience.
>
> When I will cease from using Fluxbox, I would like to continue with
> IceWM, instead of Xfce.
>
> I think BiDi and an external tool like ObConf to easily tweak IceWM are
> the biggest issues, the latter, of course, is not of IceWM itself.
>
> 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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