#mate-window-manager

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I'm so close to finish the window manager...

...but Life simply doesn't let me.

In the middle of the week I was pretty busy with moving, since the next semester is starting tomorrow and I had to move to my student hostel. Of course I had some bad luck again, for example the virtual machine could not get an internet access, since the network is pretty restricted here and I had to ask for support to solve the problem. After several hours we did it. (don't ask, it is pretty complicated here, strict laws, etc.)

But I did code, still the window manager, and I'm sooo close to finish, Life just doesn't let me. The upstream Gnome source is super handy when porting to GTK3, but the themewidget.c/.h file simply does not have an upstream GTK3 port and I'm a little stuck now. I wanted to finish it this weekend, but I couldn't. I really hope I will be done with it within the next days.

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Still the window manager

This week I was still busy with the window manager, which seems to be very big, but thanks to the Mutter source I found, I'm making some progress. After the loss of some code (see previous post), I continued to code, see my GitHub repo for commits. (although I have some commits I did not push yet)

But sadly next week I'll have to move to the capital city, since my next semester at the university is going to start and I don't know how much time I will have for this project. Which is sad, since I'm ~far from being complete. Only a handful of modules left (and I'm done with some other packages, like the terminal too, which are not on the list), if the remaining components will be hard like the window manager I don't know how I will finish everything until the final evaluation.

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I just can't believe this...

This made me so angry I have to write it down...

That f--ing virtual machine just deleted the content of a huge file with heavy modifications, actually the window managers /src/ui/theme.c file, which is 6k+ lines of code, and all my work is gone now!

I saved the file, shut down the virtual machine, and the next time I started it the file was totally empty!

This is some really great news. I'll have to start it over again. I shouldn't work on these late hours. And I should commit more often...

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Sadly not so much progress

This week I had some other "undelayable" things to do, so in the middle of the week I was almost offline. That's why there is not much to report.

When I was able to work I was still busy with the window manager, then I tried to hack the next available modul (the control center), which was actually dependant on the new window manager, so I got in a dead-end. (and by the way I successfully screwed up my local repo without commiting the changes, so I lost a decent amount of work. Congratulations to myself.)

By the way there is already a user with GTK3-ish MATE terminal, which is awesome :D Although it is buggy (surprisingly?), it is great to see someone already using my code :) But I'm already afraid of bug hunting in the whole desktop environment... :D

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Notification themes are still not done, but image viewer is!

Sadly I did not manage to finish porting the notification themes, but I did as much as I could. All the 4 themes are only one last step away from being gtk3 compatible, I just need some more research and time.

But in the meantime I went to the next package, the image viewer, which I successfully ported. Looking at the GNOME image viewer's source was a great help. It's awesome when there is a working upstream port to get ideas from :)

And by the way, I got an e-mail from a random stranger, who sent me a link with SolusOS' Consortium window manager, which is a metacity fork for gtk3. Although it's not yet ported, I don't know if it's going to be, but I'll definitely look at SolusOS' current window manager to search for a gtk3 compatible metacity fork. I hope I'll find some source somewhere.

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Hacking the window manager

This week I was busy with MATE's window manager. The same scenario: datatypes and functions have been dropped and Google is useless since there is little documentation/mailing list archive/forum posts about gtk2->gtk3 migration. And MATE's situation is different, since we want to stay compatible with gtk2 as well. But I'm doing it!

By the way today is the day when we can start filling midterm evaluation forms. The final results will be published on August 2nd. I'm curious and nervous a bit.