AS 1.5beta4
Ethan (allanon@crystaltokyo.com)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:03:32 -0700 (PDT)
I'm probably going to be busy all day tomorrow (Saturday) - it's a friend's
birthday.
Hmm. This memory usage thing is weird - here's what top says about AS
1.5beta3pl14 on my machine:
>From Guylhem's buglist:
> o define XLOCALE
I'm not sure how to do this. We are currently using setlocale() to set
the locale requested during configure. Should we be checking for an
environment variable at runtime or something?
> g 32. Debug StayPut / StayOnBack
I might be interested in doing this one if you don't get around to it
first.
> o when a shaded window is iconified, no description is shown below the
> icon
Is this still true? I think this one has been fixed.
> o stubborniconplacement leaves a gap between some icons
Fixed by patch 10.
>From Michal's buglist:
> ? o the configure script should be made non-interactive (Gafton asked to do
> it as well) (i heard u did 99% of it already, ethan).
Patch 15 does this, hopefully. There were lots of changes, and it's hard
to test them all, so please be as hard on this patch as you can!
> ? o the APPS package could be fixed a bit - i dont know whta problems are
> there but it might be a good idea to improve their install/possible
> problems.
Nor do I. I've been ignoring APPS, trying to get bugs out of the kernel.
Until the kernel is ready for 1.5, I'm not going to spend any significant
amount of time on APPS (unless there is a dire need to do so).
> ? o the keyboard menu control for shortcuts doesn't work properly. the
> item is not executed, just highlighted without prior unhighlighting
> the old one.
Heh, this is an amusing bug. :) I'll see about fixing it.
> ? o packing the whole thing together thus making beta4 and apps 1.5beta4.
On the subject of beta4. :)
The kernel has improved a great deal since 1.5beta3, and it installs
cleanly on more systems. I think we should release a beta4 now. I
suggest we run the "make indent" just before release - this will give all
of the AS code a consistent style.
Finally, Re: Cristian Gafton's startmenu change:
<soapbox>
I'm not sure I like the idea of forcing menu items on users. It seems to
me that this goes against the philosophy of AS, which has been to provide
(like X itself) a high degree of flexibility without enforcing any
particular policy. I think that the standard AS that we release should
not have a "fixed" menu portion. I do not object, however, to providing
the option, since Red Hat seems to need it so desperately.
</soapbox>
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Ethan Fischer
allanon@crystaltokyo.com
http://members.xoom.com/allanon1