There's a new major development release available from Ion web page.
Not many changes are visible to the end user, though, but a lot was
rewritten to be more flexible and simpler; see the ChangeLog for a
full account. The older development release is also still available
because this release can not be considered as stable after major
changes to the code. The most visible changes are
* Changes in binding configuration
* A (mostly) working full screen mode toggle (see below)
* The ability to switch workspaces while dragging tabs (experimental)
* The ability to re-read draw.conf without restarting Ion
* Some bug fixes.
Some notes on full screen mode toggle:
* Ion doesn't detect programs trying to leave full screen mode--it
should be possible to devise some method using window properties,
however.
* At least Opera unmaps the window also before changing the size to
enter full screen mode, so Ion doesn't remember the last frame.
* Mozilla sometimes has trouble entering full screen mode but when it
succeeds, Ion remembers the last frame. However, if
clientwin_toggle_fullscreen is used to leave the full screen mode
started from Mozilla, Mozilla doesn't know that the mode has been
left.
Clearly there should be some method of communication between Ion and the
programs for full screen toggles to fully work. At the moment I suggest
using clientwin_toggle_fullscreen instead of the programs' native toggles
unless the program has some special full screen mode and you really want
it.
New ChangeLog entries:
2003-02-23:
* Some changes and (hopefully) fixes to focusing policy
* Preliminary support for workspace switching while dragging tabs.
* Added the compile-time option CF_SECOND_RATE_OS_FS to change
colons to underscores in display name part of configuration file
names.
* The command clientwin_toggle_fullscreen now works in both
directions. However, it should be noted that this toggle does not
work well along with client programs' full screen mode toggles.
Some means of communication should be devised.
* Nested submaps are now fully implemented.
2003-02-22:
* Resize size display should now be properly positioned on Xinerama
screens.
* Removed clientwin_bindings and viewport_bindings sections.
* More consistent and descriptive command names.
* Key binding setup changed.
* X window -less regions no longer contain children. Instead the
regions "manage" these objects that share the parent object with
the managing object.
* New workspace layout saving and loading code that supports
arbitrary objects instead of just frames and workspaces..
* Active client window commands can be accessed from other bindings
with the command 'commands_at_leaf'.
* Tab width calculation fixed
2003-02-20:
* Xft default compilation options changed in system.mk
* load_module searches the directories $LIBDIR and ~/.ion-devel/lib
for the module if the name contains no slashes.
2003-02-17:
* Fixed region_do_find_new_home
2003-02-16:
* Fixed alloc_defer
2003-02-09:
* Changed broken_app_resize_kludge a bit. Should work a little
better now.
* Support re-reading draw.conf (reread_draw_config) without restart
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Tuomo
