16/06/2009

samurai-x 0.2 is OUT!

firstly: Yay!

The release announcment looked like this ( just in case you missed it ):

We are happy to release version 0.2 of samurai-x. samurai-x is a
window manager written in pure python using ctypes, xcb and cairo.

A lot has happened since version 0.1 including:

    * a new plugin system - the core samurai-x is now very small
      with all other functionality added via plugins

    * a new xcb binding - ooxcb - for more information
      see http://docs.samurai-x.org/ooxcb/

    * lots of plugins! we now have plugins for most common
      features found in other window managers

For more information, including installation instructions check
http://samurai-x.org or join us in #samuraix on irc.freenode.net

Big thanks to all have helped out with samurai-x but especially to
Friedrich Weber for writing ooxcb and all the other work on
samurai-x he has done and also to Jochen Maes for hosting the
project.

So whats in store for sx 0.3 and beyond? Hopefully:

  • better config management - we need some schema or something so plugins can validate configs and also show something in --default-config
  • pypy support - hopefully fred is going to make us some nice rpython for ooxcb but also I hope to get sx running on pypy
  • did someone say compositing...?

So stay tuned! Lots of exciting code to come!

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