On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:47:14 -0500 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:

> 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.

yup. 0.16.x will be around for a while yet :)

> > The patch also includes BAM<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'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.

yup.. so how does this patch look/work? things working fine? nothing broken?

> 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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