Re: [E-devel] While we await E17...

[Michael J. <e-...@ka...>]

On Wednesday, 19 March 2003, at 17:52:00 (+0100),
Kim Woelders wrote:

> Here is a new version of the Extended Window Manager Hints patch:
> http://www.woelders.dk/~kw/stuff/e16/enlightenment-0.16-cvs-ewmh-kw6.patch
> This is a patch on the current CVS version.
> 
> It applies nicely to the 0.16.5 source tarball. If you patch the
> tarball, you should probably also apply
> http://www.woelders.dk/~kw/stuff/e16/enlightenment-0.16.5-ewmh-Makefile.in.patch
> and run configure.

Is there a problem with the 0.16.5 tarball?  If so, I'd like to get
that corrected.  If it's related to newer auto* tools, though, I won't
bother.

> - Have taken out (using ifdef's) the old Gnome/KDE stuff. I think it
>   was begging for trouble to try to handle 3 (+ICCCM +E internals)
>   sets of possibly conflicting hints.
>   I don't think there is any reason to be backwards compatible (if you
>   run old Gnome/KDE desktops, 0.16.5 is just fine).

Are they actually known to conflict?  I'd like to keep them in there
if possible, because 0.16.x will still be the E of choice for most
people for at least another 6 months to a year, I'd say.  Wouldn't you
agree, raster?  And I believe backward compatibility would be useful
to those running things like RHAS or Debian stable.

> The patch also includes BAM<so...@gm...>'s fix to configure.in to
> get auto* going.

Just for the record, any patch which breaks compatibility with
autoconf 2.13, automake 1.4, etc. will not be applied to CVS.  So if I
have to strip out that portion, I will.

Again, it looks like raster and I are in agreement that this patch,
along with changes currently in CVS, are worth another "point patch"
release of E.  So all end-user testing results, good and bad, are
appreciated.

Also, just as an FYI, I'm looking at an epplets release in the near
future too; 0.5 is way too antiquated.  And besides, it lacks the most
important epplet of all:  E-Pants.

Michael

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