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I’ve finally bit the bullet and made a 1.0 release of matchbox-window-manager after an admittedly far too long a period of SVN only activity with no new releases. So, whats new?

• Numerous tweaks and minor bug fixes.
• Themeing improvements.
• Maemo related improvements
• GCC 4 warnings cleanups
• and much more .. see the tarballs ChangeLog for gory details.

Grab the 1.0 release source from here.

I’ve also rolled a new libmatchbox release ( containing GCC4 warning and minor bug fixes ) and a matchbox-panel release ( containing performance improvements and numerous tweaks to applets - ACPI battery support on x86, better wireless and support for 2.6 kernels ).

I have made 0.1 releases of matchbox-keyboard and libfakekey.

As some keen eyed folks may have noticed, I have started work on matchbox-window-manger-II in SVN. Progress so far has been slow ( but its getting there ) and it doesn’t really do much as yet. Its a ground up rewrite still having the aims as m-w-m I ( small, fast etc ) but with a much more managable, flexible and modular code infrastructure allowing for easier tailoring and extending to a devices UI needs. Watch this space … more info soon.

Of course I still plan to work on maintaining m-w-m-I for the forseeable future though my focus will be on maintaining rather than adding any major new features.

For the case of matchbox-panel and matchbox-desktop I plan to drop them, focusing efforts more on just the window manager. So for now I intend to add just bug fixes and any interesting submitted patches. With the panel and desktop using just raw xlib, they have been pushed as far as they can really go in current form.