[compiz] [ANNOUNCE] compiz-0.4.0

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Fri Apr 6 11:06:50 PDT 2007


Changes since 0.2.2:

* Core

        Some stencil buffer requirements have been removed.

        Focus stealing prevention.

        Fragment attribute interface that allow plugins
        to perform more advanced fragment shading effects while
        integrating properly with other plugins.

        Use composite overlay window for output by default.

        Add file notification API.

        Support for multiple desktops.

        Multi-head support.

        Edge button option has been added to action options. It can
        be used to require a button press for edge actions to
        be triggered.


* New Plugins

        Blur plugin:

                Provides support for blurring windows and
                contents behind translucent windows.

        Inotify plugin:

                Implements file notification API using inotify.

        Annotate plugin:

                Simple plugin that allows you to draw lines, figures
                and text on top of all windows.

        Clone plugin:

                This plugin makes it possible to make one output
                show the same view of your desktop as another output
                in a very convenient way.


* GTK

        Window menu icon support.
        Metacity theme support.


* KDE

        KDE window decorator with support for shadows and opacity.


'git log compiz-0.2.2..compiz-0.4.0 | git-shortlog' can be used to get a
complete list of changes since 0.2.2 release.


Availability

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/compiz-0.4.0.tar.bz2
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/compiz-0.4.0.tar.gz

Git tag: compiz-0.4.0 (2f47eddce24303c64d278a86df07c278020acbca)

MD5 Sums:
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9d698798ae39a72142172c59b3b5be94  compiz-0.4.0.tar.bz2

SHA1 Sums:
d0a5cf84bc5e814c7d564f9cffd8a137b5e95cc5  compiz-0.4.0.tar.gz
30da5066f164825b506c6005e5f36fd96c40dc01  compiz-0.4.0.tar.bz2

- David



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