metacity

In GNOME bug 85523, the idea is raised of having an operation to tile all windows horizontally or vertically.  (This may be similar to a feature found in some versions of Windows.) The original idea was to put the option on the window menu, which Havoc vetoed because the window menu is already rather full, [...]

GNOME bug 107012 brings up the perennial question of SVG support in themes, otherwise known as Vectacity. We’ve already covered this in a few places, but I think it may be worth mentioning here the two main reasons SVG-based themes is a good thing (there may be any number of other reasons they’re a [...]

Did you know that the xrandr extension uses a 16-bit quantity to store the millimetre width of the screen? That gives a maximum screen width under X of about 65½ metres. Granted, this is about three times wider than a good-sized cinema screen, but it’s certainly a limit to try for. Imagine, [...]

Stable release 2.26.0 hit the servers today. Not much is new and interesting therein, except for the translations, because most new hacking is going on in trunk (effectively the 2.27 branch). What is it ? Metacity is a simple compositing window ... [More] manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2. What’s changed ? queue frame resize on window undecorate [...] [Less]

Administrivia: I’ve nominated this blog in the Blogger’s Choice awards, more because it might bring in fresh readers and more insight than because I think it might win.  Other GNOME blogs might consider whether they’d like to enter as well.

Some of the enhancements which have been suggested need some sort of hint to be set on windows.  For example, the recent squib about a special style for warning windows could only work if warning windows were marked in some way, and at present they’re not.  Similarly, drag and drop can only work better [...]

GNOME bug 102548 suggests that warning dialogues should have a special frame style, and it’s suggested that this could look like safety tape wrapped around the edge. This is not unlike the special frame style suggested here for root windows.  However, while there’s already a way for the window manager to tell whether a window [...]

In GNOME bug 140362, someone requests the ability to maximise one side of a window to the edge of the screen by double-clicking the frame.  Thomas provides a patch, there is some discussion, and the reporter realises that Metacity already does most of what is wanted through the ability to resize in one direction [...]

Two rather similar squibs today. GNOME bug 96348 calls for an animation to be shown when restoring (unminimising) a window, as we already do when minimising. I can’t see any problem with this idea. GNOME bug 97288, however, would like all new windows to have the opportunity to come from somewhere.  If you open [...]

In GNOME bug 94111, Havoc points out that some of the macros we use for checking certain features of windows are incorrect.  Fields with names like has_foo_func denote whether the window gives us permission to foo it.  Macros with names like ALLOWS_foo take these into consideration and also whether the operation is possible right [...]