From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 8 22:17:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E082C16A4DD for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from centrmmtao04.cox.net (centrmmtao04.cox.net [70.168.83.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4885843D45 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:17:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by centrmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060708221755.BFOZ14774.centrmmtao04.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:17:55 -0400 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:18:00 -0500 To: "Randy Pratt" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060703191826.1cf56769.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> <20060708080711.777b349a.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060708080711.777b349a.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.00 (Linux) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone still using x11-wm/fluxbox? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:17:58 -0000 On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:07:11 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:18:26 -0400 > Randy Pratt wrote: > >> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:42:20 -0500 >> "Jeremy Messenger" wrote: >> >> > Hello folks, >> > >> > Fluxbox is now at 1.0rc2, so it is near ready to move from >> fluxbox-devel >> > to fluxbox. I am wondering if there is any users that still are using >> > x11-wm/fluxbox (0.1.14)? If yes, then I am happy to move from fluxbox >> to >> > something like fluxbox-old (got any better name?) but I will not >> maintain >> > it as I shall drop it to ports@FreeBSD.org. If I get no reply until >> > Fluxbox released at 1.0 then the 0.1.14 version will be gone for good. >> >> I'm using the older fluxbox and also know of a few others who are >> also dragging their feet. I've actually had my attention elsewhere >> and wasn't following the fluxbox-devel but I'll give it a whirl on a >> test box in the next few days. I doubt I'd request that the old >> version remain in the tree in any event since I'd keep it along with a >> few other local ports if I really wanted to stick with the old version. >> >> Thanks for the notice though so I can start paying attention :-) > > Just a follow-up to my previous comments. > > I switched to the fluxbox-devel-1.0rc2_1 version yesterday and have > not seen any problems. I left my old ~/.fluxbox directory and > configs and there didn't seem to be any problems. No reason that > I can see to keep the old version around. Thanks for check. There only will be a small issue related with the rename of bsetroot to fbsetroot that might causing some old theme not work any longer. I will copying some of pkg-message (ATTENTION part) in /usr/ports/UPDATING when fluxbox-devel merges into fluxbox. Cheers, Mezz > Randy -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org