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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-11-19 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> + + * NEWS: 2.13.2 release + 2005-11-18 Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Merge of all the changes on the constraints_experiments branch. @@ -1,3 +1,116 @@ +2.13.2 +== + +This release just contains a merge of all the changes on the +constraints_experiments branch. + +Thanks to Havoc Pennington for reviewing the gargantuan patch and +suggesting lots of little fixes for making it better, to Rob Adams and +Soeren Sandmann for grilling me on how some of the difficult internals work +-- allowing me to improve the documentation, to Olav Vitters for finding an +easy-to-fix crasher bug in early testing and for repeatedly extending my +deadline for switching from working on Metacity to Bugzilla, to Ray Strode +for finding two crashers and fixing one of them in early testing, to Bryan +Clark for usability advice, to Davyd Madeley and Christian Kellner for +testing Xinerama stuff, to Sebastien Bacher for packaging an early version +and finding some obscure bugs (that I unfortunately still can't duplicate +and will probably still need to fix once I can), + +Bugs fixed: + unfiled - constraints.c is overly complicated[1] + unfiled - constraints.c is not robust when all constraints cannot + simultaneously be met (constraints need to be prioritized) + unfiled - keep-titlebar-onscreen constraint is decoration unaware (since + get_outermost_onscreen_positions() forgets to include + decorations) + unfiled - keyboard snap-moving and snap-resizing snap to hidden edges + 109553 - gravity w/ simultaneous move & resize doesn't work + 113601 - maximize vertical and horizontal should toggle and be + constrained + 122196 - windows show up under vertical panels + 122670 - jerky/random resizing of window via keyboard[2] + 124582 - keyboard and mouse snap-resizing and snap-moving erroneously + moves the window multidimensionally + 136307 - don't allow apps to resize themselves off the screen (*cough* + filechooser *cough*) + 142016, 143784 - windows should not span multiple xineramas unless + placed there by the user + 143145 - clamp new windows to screensize and force them onscreen, if + they'll fit + 144126 - Handle pathological strut lists sanely[3] + 149867 - fixed aspect ratio windows are difficult to resize[4] + 152898 - make screen edges consistent; allow easy slamming of windows + into the left, right, and bottom edges of the screen too. + 154706 - bouncing weirdness at screen edge with keyboard moving or + resizing + 156699 - avoid struts when placing windows, if possible (nasty a11y + blocker) + 302456 - dragging offscreen too restrictive + 304857 - wireframe moving off the top of the screen is misleading + 308521 - make uni-directional resizing easier with alt-middle-drag and + prevent the occasional super annoying resize-the-wrong-side(s) + behavior + 312007 - snap-resize moves windows with a minimum size constraint + 312104 - resizing the top of a window can cause the bottom to grow + 319351 - don't instantly snap on mouse-move-snapping, remove + braindeadedness of having order of releasing shift and + releasing button press matter so much + + [1] fixed in my opinion, anyway. + [2] Actually, it's not totally fixed--it's just annoying + instead of almost completely unusable. Matthias had a + suggestion that may fix the remainder of the problems (see + http://tinyurl.com/bwzuu). + [3] This bug was originally about not-quite-so-pathological + cases but was left open for the worse cases. The code from + the branch handles the remainder of the cases mentioned in + this bug. + [4] Actually, although it's far better there's still some minor + issues left: a slight drift that's only noticeable after + lots of resizing, and potential problems with partially + onscreen constraints due to not clearing any + fixed_directions flags (aspect ratio windows get resized in + both directions and thus aren't fixed in one of them) + +New feature: + 81704 - edge resistance for user move and resize operations; in + particular 3 different kinds of resistance are implemented: + Pixel-Distance: window movement is resisted when it aligns with an + edge unless the movement is greater than a threshold number of + pixels + Timeout: window movement past an edge is prevented until a certain + amount of time has elapsed during the operation since the first + request to move it past that edge + Keyboard-Buildup: when moving or resizing with the keyboard, once a + window is aligned with a certain edge it cannot move past until the + correct direction has been pressed enough times (e.g. 2 or 3 times) + +Major code changes: + - constraints.c has been rewritten; very few lines of code from the old + version remain. There is a comment near the top of the function + explaining the basics of how the new framework works. A more detailed + explanation can be found in doc/how-constraints-works.txt + - edge-resistance.[ch] are new files implementing edge-resistance. + - boxes.[ch] are new files containing low-level error-prone functions + used heavily in constraints.c and edge-resistance.c, among various + places throughout the code. testboxes.c contains a thorough testsuite + for the boxes.[ch] functions compiled into a program, testboxes. + - meta_window_move_resize_internal() *must* be told the gravity of the + associated operation (if it's just a move operation, the gravity will + be ignored, but for resize and move+resize the correct value is needed) + - the craziness of different values that + meta_window_move_resize_internal() accepts has been documented in a + large comment at the beginning of the function. It may be possible to + clean this up some, but until then things will remain as they were + before--caller beware. + - screen and xinerama usable areas (i.e. places not covered by + e.g. panels) are cached in the workspace now, as are the screen and + xinerama edges. These get updated with the workarea in + src/workspace.c:ensure_work_areas_validated() + +Translation + Michiel Sikkes (nl) + 2.13.1 == |