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GNOME 2.13.2 Released!

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-11-16 18:04. Gnome 2.x

The weather was a bit fresh today and a quick look at the weather applet
confirmed it. But after a few hours, it was getting hotter. After a
while, temperature was so high that you could feel that something big
was approaching and that the big thing would be coming out really soon.
And now we can all see it. Grab it while it's hot: the latest GNOME
release is out! Go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack
on it, document it, translate it, fix it.

For those thinking the previous paragraph is encrypted, GNOME 2.13.2 is
out. This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME
2.14.0, which will be released in March 2006.

To compile it, you can use the jhbuild modulesets available at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.13.2/

bindings 2.13.2 statistics:
tar.gz: 18M total
tar.bz2: 12M total

desktop 2.13.2 statistics:
tar.gz: 157M total
tar.bz2: 112M total

platform 2.13.2 statistics:
tar.gz: 49M total
tar.bz2: 34M total

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
--------------------------

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable
and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes.
GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status.

For more informations about 2.13, the full schedule, the official module
lists and the proposed modules list, please see our new shiny 2.13 page
on the wiki:
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen

Does anyone know anything

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-11-21 22:38.

Does anyone know anything about metacity and its use of the Composite extension for Xorg? I know that looooooong long ago there was preliminary support for the Composite extension, and metacity was well on its way to drawing drop shadows. However, that support never really went beyond the basics and it was essentially unusable. I've been using xcompmgr to draw my drop shadows, but it would be really nice if Metacity would do it for me...that way it could provide niceties like lighter drop shadows for focused windows.

Is this planned anywhere along the line? Does anyone have news of this feature? I was actively watching it for a while, but sadly I'm out of the loop lately.

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