[STUMP] StumpWM 18.05 released!

David Bjergaard

2018-06-01 01:13:13 UTC

I forgot to clarify:

I've decided to switch to a regular release schedule. Stumpwm will be
released every May/November. As a result, I've also decided to change the
versioning to be the year and the month. Therefore this release is 18.05.

I don't expect there to be any 1.0->2.0 transition that would fundamentally
break configs files or user behavior. Eventually, Wayland support will
have to be addressed, but that stuff is fairly low level and shouldn't
affect the frontend user experience.

Cheers,

David

Post by David Bjergaard
Hi All,
Just wanted to advertise that I released StumpWM 18.05.
This is mainly a bugfix release. I am laying the groundwork for dynamic
tiling and I plan on developing the following features between now and the
1. Support for dynamic tiling and documentation explaining how to write
your own dynamic tiling method
2. Color themes: The ability to write themes and have them applied using
something like (set-color-theme :gruvbox) with some of the popular themes
"out of the box" (gruvbox, solarized, monokai, etc)
3. An interactive tutorial for first-time users. I'm not sure what this
will look like. I think there will be a series of text windows that will
describe the basics and some dummy windows for users to play with. I would
also like a "newbie" mode/option that dumps all the current keybindings to
a png/jpg/bitmap and sets it as the root pixmap. This way new users can
have a quick-reference built into their desktop.
I'll also be coordinating the development for xkeyboard for clx. I'm
pretty sure that we'll get better internationalized support for free once
clx supports enough of the xkb protocol. If you're interested in helping
please let me know and we can coordinate development.
Best
David