THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT SHAPSHOT! IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE GENERALLY
USED. IT IS FOR TESTERS AND DEVELOPERS ONLY, AND NOT ALL OF THE
FUNCTIONALITY IS CURRENTLY PRESENT.
It works (mostly)! Much has to be worked out yet:
* oocalc and friends don't work right. This is probably because
their real PID is different from what g_spawn_async() returns, and
we currently depend on _NET_WM_PID to feed into libwnck to be able
to get the windows for the process.
This applies to _anything_ whose real PID is going to be different
from what g_spawn_async() returns. Obviously, we need to be a bit
more careful about how to determine what is what; perhaps tracking
our child's children processes and scanning for windows that are
owned by them would work as a general-purpose thing, and we can
stop looking with the first child's window we find.
* Along the same lines as the previous flaw, software that is
non-conformant with current standards and specifications for
interaction on the X Window System currently are not handled by
AllTray. This includes “xeyes”, and any other application that
does not set _NET_WM_PID in its window(s).
* The tool-tip on the icon needs to display good info. Being that
we are working in an application-centric way as opposed to a
window-centric way, it'll be different than before. But that is
good.
* There is no right-click menu on the icon yet. It is planned, and
it will be more featureful than ever before, enabling not only all
windows to be docked, but just one particular window as well.
* It DOES NOT intercept the close ("X") button on the window. I
have to find a clean way to do this. It is on the list before
0.8.0 since this is a feature which people _expect_ to have
(rightfully so).
* This release does not have session management support. Session
management support is on the list of things for 0.8.0, so it'll be
coming to an 0.7.x release for testing at some point (hopefully
soon).
* THIS HANDLES MULTIPLE WINDOWS! FINALLY! YES! This is excellent.
You can truly dock an _APPLICATION_ now; not just one window.
Tested with gnome-terminal and Firefox 3.0 and 3.5-b4. :)
* This release of AllTray has only been tested under GNOME 2.26, and
only with the Metacity and Compiz window managers. Information on
how well it works on XFCE would be nice.
* This release of AllTray is pretty well dependent on GTK. It also
requires libwnck. This may be the way it is, since I hear tell
that KDocker is great and it integrates well into the KDE
environment. It's tested to work on Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty
Jackalope. Successful reports of this development release of
AllTray working on other systems would be greatly appreciated.
* The development snapshot only requires a C99 compiler (for
example, GNU GCC's C compiler, with the -gnu99 option). It has
only been tested with gcc 4.3.3; but it should compile on any GNU
GCC version that implements -gnu99.
* IF YOU ARE BUILDING FROM TRUNK, you will require the Vala
compiler, 0.6.0 installed. The Vala sources and build system
aren't yet compatible with 0.7.0. This means that if your
operating system doesn't contain a new enough Vala compiler (or
too new of a Vala compiler), you will want to use the release or
snapshot tarballs, which do not require Vala to be built.
* VPATH builds are not (yet) supported; this means that 'make
distcheck' will always fail. If you can fix that, please
do---I’ve not yet been able to figure it out.
If you have issues with this release, please report them:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/alltray/+filebug
Please see:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/alltray/+faq/318
Which contains a list of the minimum necessary information for a bug
report to be useful.
