[Fluxbox-devel] Some fluxbox 0.9.4 comments from another user

[Mark C. Chu-C. <mc...@wa...>]

I've been meaning to send in some comments about 0.9.4, 
so I'll put in my two cents here:

Overall, it's a huge improvement in a WM that was already
absolutely terrific.  Don't take the criticisms below
as being too negative - I've just been trying to keep track
of where I've had troubles, so that they can get fixed.

- The tabs in the titlebar are *terrific*. I love 'em, and
  have had absolutely no problems using them.

- The ability to get all windows from all workspaces in the
  toolbar is really great. Style updates often don't show
  on the icons in the taskbar until you force a redraw by
  obscuring them, or switching workspaces.

- The transparency  on menus is neat, but still a bit glitchy. 
  I've noticed that for some tiled pixmap backgronds, the
  transparency only gets the pixmap for the tile in the upper left
  corner. 

- There is a very serious bug in sloppy focus. When a transient
  dialog is popped up, there is a flicker of focus between
  the formerly focussed window and the dialog. In some cases
  (dialogs in galeon, for example), it flickers back and forth
  a dozen times or so, and then stabilizes. In others, 
  (e.g., OpenOffice) it flickers forever - and fouls up X so
  much that the only way to fix it is to telnet in from another
  machine, and kill X. (You have to do it from another machine -
  even the control-alt-backspace to kill X doesn't work.)

- The pixmap theme support is very nice. There's something
  really wierd which happens intermittently: the pixmap
  buttons sometimes split, and you get 4 quarter-size
  copies of the pixmap instead of one proper sized. It
  still works fine - just looks funny. But overall, it's
  great.

- The speed is wonderful - the new eyecandy doesn't seem to
  have had much impact on the speed or memory footprint.

	-Mark



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