From: Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...> - 2003-03-16 23:49:58
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:56:23 +0100 Kim Woelders <ki...@wo...> babbled: > Hi there, > > I like Enlightenment (E16). I also like having a dock with tasklist and > pager. Therefore I didn't upgrade my Gnome(/KDE) stuff to the newer > versions that are incompatible with Enlightenment, until last week. > > Anyway, I implemented parts of the "Extended Window Manager Hints" > handling that is required to be compatible with the newer Gnome/KDE > versions. > > My primary focus has been on making things work (for me) on RH-8.0 > with a Gnome desktop. I have tried not to break backward compatibility > (although it probably would be cleaner an more efficient just to take > out the old Gnome/KDE stuff). Things also seem to work fairly OK on a > RH-8.0 KDE desktop. > I have not tested with Gnome>2.0 or KDE>3.0. > > Many things work, and some do not. In particular, the "large desktops" > do not work as they should with the new Gnome/KDE pagers and tasklists > (they simply have not implemented this feature). > RH-8.0 comes with gnome-panel-2.0.6. I suggest to upgrade to > gnome-panel-2.0.11 which "agrees better" with this E16 patch. > Some things I haven't implemented (e.g. the fullscreen hint), and some > things don't work as they should (e.g. the maximize hints). > And then, of course, there are the bugs... > > I'm not sure if/how you want this fairly large patch, so if you are > interested, grab it here: > http://www.woelders.dk/~kw/stuff/e16/enlightenment-0.16.5-ewmh-kw3.patch. oh nice. i'm sure people will appreciate this. this may actually be 4enough reason for a "point release" ie 0.16.6. does anyone agree. personally i dont run any of the gnome & kde stuff - so can people try the patch and see how it goes? if it goes ok - lets apply to cvs and maybe roll out a release? > Kim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enl...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- --------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ra...@ra... ra...@de... Mobile Phone: +61 (0)413 451 899 Home Phone: 02 9698 8615 |