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- Committer: Sam Spilsbury
- Date: 2011-07-13 21:46:36 UTC
- Revision ID: git-v1:f4a94fa60f9a3b785d7ecb52c0eb67e8b3942d86
Revert "Update NEWS for 0.9.5.0"
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Release 0.9.5.0 ( 2011-07-14 Sam Spilsbury <sam.spilsbury@canonical.com> )
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Development Release (0.9.5.0)
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Added new CMake commands to simplify releases
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Added unit tests
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Fixed a number of reparenting and stacking bugs
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Changed decoration interface. Now decorators can specify multiple decorations
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for a single window allowing compiz to cache decorations as needed
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Release 0.9.4 (2010-02-24 Sam Spilsbury <sam.spilsbury@canonical.com>)
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Development Release.
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Main loop implementation now replaced by the GLib main loop, use custom
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event sources and event dispatch synchronisation. Allows better integration
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with plugins that require tight timing with GLib timers
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Moved image and data generation into buildsystem extensions, and installation
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of such data into namespaced areas on the filesystem so plugins can't
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overwrite other plugin's data
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Intelligently clip window shadows in decor
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Fixed a number of 2D decoration issues
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Fixed a number of reparenting, stacking and focus issues
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Support different frame types in gtk-window-decorator
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Release 0.9.2.1 (2010-11-06 Sam Spilsbury <sam.spilsbury@canonical.com>)
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Bugfix release.
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Release 0.9.2 (2010-10-24 Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@gmail.com>)
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Development release.
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Made minimization functions wrappable
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Decorators now get shadow settings from window properties on the root
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window and not through gconf, kconfig or dbus
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Allow resizing from the center of the window
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Clean up gtk-window-decorator
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Fixed a number of reparenting bugs
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Release 0.9.0 (2010-07-03 Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@gmail.com>)
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Development release.
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Rewritten core in C++.
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Rewritten plugin APIs.
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Rewritten buildsystem in CMake, supports option code autogeneration,
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plugin build dependency handling, amongst other things.
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Smart wrappable functions, enables saving on otherwise useless CPU cycles.
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Reparenting window decorations.
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Support for tiled textures and screen sizes larger than max_texture_size
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through the use of the copytex plugin.
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Composite and OpenGL based rendering dropped from core, split into the
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opengl and composite plugins, which represent a step towards pluggable
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rendering backends.
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Ability to run in non composited mode added to gtk-window-decorator
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and kde4-window-decorator.
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kde-window-decorator dropped.
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Added KDE plugin to integrate with the QT main loop and create a KApplication
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for KCrash support on KDE.
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dbus plugin now uses screen number to identify compiz instance.
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Dropped multi-screen mode, launch compiz on individual screens instead.
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Shape drawing mode added to annotate plugin.
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Fixed screen updates issue in annotate plugin.
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Added serialization interface, which allows plugins to save/restore activity
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states between plugin and compiz reloads. Serialization info is stored in
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X11 window properties and is automatically dropped by the X Server when
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the window is destroyed.
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Added compiztoolbox library plugin used by switchers and screenshot, which
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provide a simple interface for accessing XDG and drawing thumbnails.
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Release 0.8.6 (2010-03-28 Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>)
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Maintenance release.
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Various focus and window placement fixes.
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Fixed handling of windows that have a (server-drawn) border.
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Fixed handling of window icons that have a colour depth of 1 bit.
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Added KDE 4.4 support to KDE4 window decorator.
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Release 0.8.4 (2009-10-14 Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah@gmail.com>)
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Maintenance release.
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Fixed many crashes (including doPoll/eventLoop ones).
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Various memory leak fixes.
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Fixed lost window issues with windows that are visible on all workspaces.
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Fixed lost window issue when reducing the number of workspaces.
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Fixed placing of dialogs (e.g. PolicyKit) behind currently focused window.
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Fixed placing of new windows behind fullscreen window.
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Fixed and improved screen resolution change handling (Compiz now remembers
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original window size and position).
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Lowering a window now activates the topmost window when click-to-focus is on.
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Fixed wobbly title bar hiding and bouncing near panel edges.
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Screenshot plugin now saves to the correct desktop directory by default.
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Fixed inconsistent icon sizes in switcher plugin.
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Improved constraining of window size and position in move, resize, and wobbly.
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Ported KDE4 window decorator to KDE 4.3.
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Added support for _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS and _NET_SUPPORT_FULL_PLACEMENT
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EWMH hints.
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Release 0.8.2 (2009-03-01 Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>)
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Maintenance release.
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Fixed issue in strut handling that could lead to struts being ignored
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for certain monitor configurations.
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Fixed window position constraining logic.
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Fixed kconfig xslt files missing from 0.8.0 tarball.
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Release 0.8.0 (2009-02-20 Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>)
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Fourth stable release of compiz.
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New plugin "commands" that handles the bindings for arbitrary commands that
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previously were handled in core. In addition to the previously present key
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bindings button and edge bindings were added as well.
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New plugin "gnomecompat" which handles bindings that are exclusively used
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in the Gnome desktop environment and removed the corresponding bindings
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from core. This change fixes main menu and run dialog bindings for KDE users
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as those previously were conflicting between compiz and KDE. Gnome users
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upgrading should make sure to enable this plugin.
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Added support for _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS EWMH hint.
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Added support for reading the icon hint from the WM_HINTS property if
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_NET_WM_ICON is not available.
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Update Gnome support for Gnome 2.24.
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Added options to scale plugin that allow "toggle type" behaviour for
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key and button bindings.
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Several memory leak fixes.
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Adjusted gtk-window-decorator for newer libmetacity-private versions.
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Fixed gtk-window-decorator display for RTL languages.
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Adjusted kde4-window-decorator for KDE 4.2 API.
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Large number of minor bug fixes, especially in resize handling and
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stacking code.
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Translation updates
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Release 0.7.8 (2008-09-17 Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>)
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Development release.
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New plugin "obs" that handles opacity, brightness and saturation bindings
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and matches.
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Put unresponsive window greyout, including options to configure it, to
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fade plugin.
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Add "constant fade time" fade mode to fade plugin.
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Removed opacity bindings and matches from core. Users that entered opacity
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matches should enable the obs plugin and enter the matches there.
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Enhanced timer infrastructure to allow synchronization of execution of
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multiple timer callbacks.
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Added matching for window's alpha channel (match type rgba=[0|1]).
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Reflect new Metacity "spacer" button type in gtk-window-decorator.
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Various bugfixes.
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Translation updates.
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Release 0.7.6 (2008-05-29 Dennis Kasprzyk <onestone@opencompositing.org>)
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Development release.
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Rewrite of place plugin, which significantly improves multi-output
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behaviour.
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Configurable multi-output behaviour in place.
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Removed plane plugin. Former plane plugin users are encouraged to use
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the wall plugin of Compiz Fusion.
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Removed cube wallpaper painting. Users are encouraged to use the Compiz
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Fusion wallpaper plugin instead.
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Place plugin viewport placement viewport numbers are now 1-based.
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Panel and desktop selection mode in switcher plugin.
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Improved painting behaviour when using overlapping outputs.
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Gtk-window-decorator now emits accessibility events when switching.
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Gtk-window-decorator behaviour when using Metacity themes has been
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improved to match Metacity better.
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KDE4-window-decorator has been adapted to current KDE4 API.
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Various bugfixes.
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Release 0.7.4 (2008-03-04 Dennis Kasprzyk <onestone@opencompositing.org>)
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Development release.
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Configurable handling of overlapping output devices.
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Enhanced focus stealing prevention with configurable amount of focus
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stealing prevention.
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Added configurable, optional delay for edge actions to prevent
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accidential invocation.
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Generalized vertex system to improve plugin compatibility.
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Optimized gaussian blur shaders to support more hardware.
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Improved unredirection of fullscreen windows.
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Several bugfixes.
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Translation updates.
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Release 0.7.2 (2008-03-06 Dennis Kasprzyk <onestone@opencompositing.org>)
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Development release.
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Several bugfixes
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Translation support in gtk-window-decorator.
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Updated translations.
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Added wrapable session functions to core. This allows to provide a full session save/restore in a plugin.
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Release 0.7.0 (2008-02-07 Dennis Kasprzyk <onestone@opencompositing.org>)
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Development release.
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A core plugin has been added that allows handling certain core APIs, such as
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querying the ABI version, similarly to plugin APIs, allowing sharing more
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code.
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Added a simple object system, which generalize the privates mechanism and the plugin system. It allows to share more code between display, screen and window objects. It also makes it possible to properly introduce new object types without changing the plugin interface or breaking the API.
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Multi-display support.
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Various fixes in ICCCM compliance, window stacking and focus handling.
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Validity checking of ConfigureRequest events.
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Fixes to transient children placement in place plugin.
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Hooks have been added to the cube plugin which allow better control of
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viewport drawing.
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Middle and right click actions have been made configurable in
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gtk-window-decorator.
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Gtk-window-decorator now optionally allows mouse wheel title bar actions, such
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as shading.
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A KDE4 port of the kde-window-decorator has been added.
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Frequent crashes of kde-window-decorator for some people have been fixed.
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Release 0.5.4 (2007-08-20 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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Development release.
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XCB is now required.
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Major improvements to option system that makes
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configuration backend integration much less complex.
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Kconfig plugin that provides proper KDE configuration
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support.
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Kcfg files are generated from the meta-data and they can
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be used to generate C++ source code that will provide an
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API for applications to access all compiz configuration
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data used by the kconfig plugin.
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Release 0.5.2 (2007-08-03 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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Development release.
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Better support for multiple X-screens.
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XML-based meta-data system for handling of various kinds
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for meta-data like plugin descriptions, default option
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values, etc.
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Major improvements to option initialization based on the
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new meta-data system.
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Logging framework.
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Support for configurable button layout in metacity themes
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has been added to gtk-window-decorator.
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Glib plugin that allows plugins that use the glib main
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loop to integrate properly with the compiz main loop
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without waking up periodically to check for pending
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events.
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Plugin plugins that make it possible to adjust and extend
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the behavior of existing plugins through new plugins.
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More dynamic handling of output devices, which allows the
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output device configuration used when rendering to be
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changed between frames.
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Transparency support in cube plugin.
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Introspection support in dbus plugin.
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Release 0.5.0 (2007-04-02 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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Development release.
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Remove stencil buffer requirement.
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Focus stealing prevention support.
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Blur plugin that provide support for blurring windows and
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contents behind translucent windows.
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Fragment attribute interface that allow plugins
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to perform more advanced fragment shading effects and
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integrate properly with other plugins.
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Extensible window matching interface and new option type
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that provide advanced window selection functionality.
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Plugin that provide a composited video interface for
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efficient video playback.
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FUSE plugin that maps compiz options to a file-system and
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allow efficient manipulation of options by reading and
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writing files.
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Better occlusion detection and more efficient rendering.
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Flat file configuration backend.
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Release 0.3.6 (2006-12-31 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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Add support for unredirect of fullscreen windows when using
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the composite overlay window and make usage of the
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composite overlay window for output default.
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Add file notification API.
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Add inotify plugin that implements file notification API.
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A "GetPlugins" method has been added to dbus plugin
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and it can be used to retrieve a list of available plugins.
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A 'GetPluginMetadata' method has been added to dbus plugin
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and it returns metadata for available plugins.
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Add support for switching between windows without having
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the thumbnail window show up.
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Switcher thumbnails now include decorations and shadows.
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Basic drag and drop support has been added to scale plugin.
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groups.
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Window menu icon support has been added to gtk window decorator.
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Improved support for metacity themes.
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Add KDE window decorator with support for shadows and opacity
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Release 0.3.4 (2006-11-21 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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Edge button, which can be used to require a button press
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Basic compiz event support.
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Zoom plugin now works without "largedesktop" feature.
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the screen better.
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Handling of _NET_DESKTOP_GEOMETRY client messages has
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been fixed.
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Much better multi-head support.
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Annotate plugin has been added.
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Clone plugin which can be used to clone outputs in a
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convenient way has been added. Currently more of a
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prototype as we need randr++ and input transformation
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in the server to do this properly.
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Shadow color option has been added.
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initiate_all option has been added to scale plugin.
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Zoom factor option has been added to zoom plugin.
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Support for new metacity theme version and support for
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metacity versions < 2.15.21.
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Event window placement when using some metacity
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themes has been fixed.
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Fix a number of issues related to minimizing windows
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with transients.
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Release 0.3.2 (2006-10-20 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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snap_inverted option has been added to wobbly plugin.
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Configuration support has been added to dbus plugin.
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Opacity support for metacity themes.
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A raise_window option has been added.
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Decorations on maximized windows are now rendered
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ignore size increment and aspect hints for maximized
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windows has been added and made default.
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Release 0.2.0 (2006-10-02 David Reveman <davidr@novell.com>)
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First official release of compiz.
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Loggerhead is a web-based interface for Breezy
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