Sawfish 1.9 RC1 Released 50
Last Thursday, the Sawfish window manager project announced the availability of 1.8.92. The release brings several new features. Highlights include: support for MATE and Razor-Qt (along with better GNOME and KDE support), better edge action support, and improvements to the theming system. A new OS X style single window mode has been added, along with a really interesting shade stack feature:
"Added shade-stack feature. It provides an alternative to iconify-window. Instead of iconifying a window or minizing it to a tray, the windows get shaded and sorted in a stack starting from the top-left corner (the number of columns can be changed). Combined with auto-unshade this offers — possibly — a better way of interacting with windows which aren't required at the moment. Original code by Luke Gorrie. [Christopher Bratusek]"
This is the first release candidate for the new stable 1.9 series.
Single window mode (Score:2, Informative)
Single window mode hasn't been a standard feature of OS X since the public beta in 2000. I thought at first that it was referring to fullscreen mode in Lion, but it appears to really be talking about the original single window mode, which had a purple button in the upper right corner of a window before the button was turned into a white pill and made into a toolbar toggle. IIRC, the feature is still there if via a hidden defaults key.
Re:And? (Score:5, Informative)
So its got a lispy config file.
And a fantastic "sawfish-config" program that gives you GUI access to just about every configurable option, from basic to really esoteric, including theme-specific options. That way, you don't have to know Lisp or Scheme(*) to configure it.
(*)Or rep, the Lisp implementation developed by John Harper for his Sawmill/Sawfish project. "rep" is an abbreviation for "read-evaluate-print", the loop that Lisp-ish languages use. The desire has been expressed on the Sawfish Wiki, and on the mailing list, to re-work Sawfish for a more standardized Lisp-ish language, probably Scheme.
Re:Razor-qt (Score:4, Informative)
Sort of. Arch, obviously does. There is a repo for fedora as well. I've used it, its nice but a little rough around the edges. The psuedo start button menu pop up thing, doesn't do the submenus right. Switching to a sub menu only works if you keep the mouse directly to the right of the selector. Most desktops will give you a little bit of wiggle room. That's pretty much my only complaint
Re:Standing on the shoulders of giants. (Score:5, Informative)
I added those features back. Then Christopher took over and continues his great work.