1 particleman (20070927-1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Renamed to produce a DFSG-compliant package
5 -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:08:50 +0000
7 ion3 (20070506-1) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Ion3 is now in the non-free section due to a trademark claim and
10 conditions on the use of its name.
12 * The change in behaviour of the frame context menu in 20070318 has
15 * Other significant changes are listed in RELNOTES.gz.
17 -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Wed, 16 May 2007 23:54:29 +0100
19 ion3 (20070318-1) unstable; urgency=low
21 * The context menu for a frame now affects the current window, not
22 the window whose tab the pointer was over when it opened. For
23 example, you cannot close a window that is not being displayed by
24 opening a context menu over its tab. That will close the current
27 * There is a new configuration file cfg_defaults.lua which loads the
28 default set of modules and other configuration files. This means
29 cfg_ion.lua can easily and safely be customised so long as it
30 calls do_path("cfg_defaults"). cfg_user.lua is now considered
31 obsolete, though it is still loaded if present.
33 * Various backward compatibility code has been removed. This may
34 require changes to custom scripts.
36 * Other significant changes are listed in RELNOTES.gz.
38 -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:45:52 +0100
40 ion3 (20070203-1) experimental; urgency=low
42 * There's been changes in padding/spacing usage in styles. Frames
43 now surround stuff inside borders not with `spacing` pixels, but
44 with `padding_pixels`. Spacing is only used to space things within
45 the borders (all the tabs and the client window from each other).
46 Consequently, custom styles may need to be updated to reflect this,
47 by increasing the padding, possibly also altering/removing colour
48 (to set it to background colour).
50 * The use of drawing engine attributes has also changed, and strict
51 ordering of them in the styles is no longer necessary. Additionally,
52 much more attributes are supported, including the name of every
55 * Xinerama support is gone. In addition to being problematic as such,
56 it had bit-rotted, and I will not waste time fixing it.
58 * `ioncore.set` no longer supports the `default_ws_params^N parameter
59 for configuring the default layout. It is replaced by
60 `ioncore.deflayout("default", { ... })`, which allows configuring
61 other layouts as well, known by `mod_query.query_workspace` (F9).
62 Some default layouts are configured in `cfg_layout.lua`.
64 * It is now possible to automatically create new workspaces for
65 windows with the `new_group` winprop.
67 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:19:24 +0100
69 ion3 (20061029-1) unstable; urgency=low
71 Mostly this release still fixes issues in the big 3ds-20061015 release,
72 but in addition there are some improvements in the query department:
74 * Query activation key now cycles completions (So e.g. the
75 in the context menu activated with META+M, this same key
76 can be used to cycle through the alternatives.) This does
77 not work for queries activated by submap bindings.
79 * Likewise, it is no longer necessary to specify the key to
80 use for cycling for `mod_menu.grabmenu`.
82 * Control+R can now be used for history completion in queries.
83 (Currently matching is done for full string up to 'point', but
84 this may be changed to substring match.)
86 * Note that the parametrisation of WEdln.complete has changed,
87 and the second cycle parameter must be 'next' now instead of
90 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:50:06 +0100
92 ion3 (20061020-1) unstable; urgency=low
94 Fixes some (expected, but minor) issues in the previous release.
96 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:01:47 +0200
98 ion3 (20061015-1) unstable; urgency=low
100 * WIonWS and WFloatWS and the corresponding modules are also gone, and
101 your custom configuration files will be broken with regard to these.
102 However, a partial backwards compatibility hack exists for layout
105 The F9 and META-F9 bindings now by default create workspaces with
106 a tiled layout of two frames. To create an "empty" workspace,
107 corresponding to the old WFloatWS, use the context menu (META-M)
108 and chose "new-empty-workspace". It is also possible to change
111 * Note that if you restart from an old version to this new version of Ion,
112 transients will stop working as expected for already existing windows.
113 They will work for newly-created windows, however.
115 * There are a few new sets of binding (including one for ^WClientWin!),
116 and some old bindings may not work exactly as expected anymore. In
117 particular, those for switching to full-screen mode.
120 It is probably best to start from scratch with your custom bindings.
123 * ^WFrame.set_tabbar is gone. If you absolutely want to get rid off
124 the tabs, you must change the frame's "mode" with ^WFrame.set_mode.
125 The mode "tiled-alt" has been intended for this, and the corresponding
126 "framed-tiled-alt" style defaults to ^Bar = "none".
128 * The rather popular ^Detach.lua script from the scripts repository
129 is obsoleted now, as Ion includes detach functionality in itself.
130 To detach a window, use META-K D in the default bindings. To tile
131 an existing from an a workspace that doesn't have a tiling yet,
134 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:08:45 +0200
136 ion3 (20060317-1) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Changes in the set of configuration files.
140 - cfg_ion.lua now simply load cfg_ioncore.lua and cfg_modules.lua
141 with the default set of modules, and includes some of the most
142 commonly changed options commented-out. This deprecates cfg_user.lua
143 - cfg_menus.lua and cfg_bindings.lua are now cfg_ioncore.lua. This
144 better matches how things for different modules are in their own
147 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:57:14 +0100
149 ion3 (20060305-1) unstable; urgency=low
151 * The scrachpad class was removed. The scratchpad is just a normal frame
152 now, with a few special attributes. Your scratchpad configuration from
153 the layout savefile will be lost (and complained of). A new one should
154 open with the toggle key.
156 * There's generic size policy code that both mplexes and client windows
157 use (for transients). The default size policy for (framed) transients
158 keeps them glued to the borders they're touching even if the parent or
159 they themselves are resized (unless this could not be done because a
160 small size and position are requested).
162 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:26:47 +0100
164 ion3 (20050322-1) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Those with custom configuration files should note that many exported toggle
167 functions were changed and renamed, and now accept a string parameter
168 incidating whether to toggle, set or unset the property.
170 - WClientwin.set_fullsreen (replaces WClientWin.toggle_fullscreen)
171 - WRegion.set_tagged (replaces WRegion.tag/untag/toggle_tag)
172 - WFrame.set_tabbar (replaces WFrame.toggle_tabbar)
173 - WFrame.set_shaded (replaces WFrame.toggle_shade)
174 - WFloatFrame.set_sticky (replaces WFloatFrame.toggle_sticky)
175 - WMPlex.l2_set_hidden (replaces WMPlex.l2_hide/show)
176 - mod_sp.set_shown(_on) (replaces mod_sp.toggle(_on))
177 - mod_dock.set_floating_shown_on (replaces mod_dock.toggle_floating_on)
178 - WRegion.set_activity (replaces WRegion.clear_activity and
179 WRegion.notify_activity)
181 For example, WRegion.set_tagged(_, 'toggle') should be used in place of
182 WRegion.toggle_tagged(_) now.
184 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:24:35 +0100
186 ion3 (20041104-1) unstable; urgency=low
188 * The configuration files were renamed and changed a lot since 20040703-1,
189 please read /usr/share/doc/ion3/RELNOTES.gz and remember that this is a
190 development snapshot before reporting bugs.
192 -- Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org> Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:31:23 +0100