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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS deleted file mode 100644 index 07873d66..00000000 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -Currently active maintainers --------------------------------- - -Elijah Newren -Email: newren gmail com -Userid: newren - - - Usually won't touch the theme bugs (isn't interested) or the - compositor (until open source nvidia drivers are up to snuff). - Tends to be most interested in libwnck/gtk interactions, focus - issues, constraints problems, and raising/stacking, but works on - just about anything other than themes and the compositor. - -Thomas Thurman -Email: thomas thurman org uk -Userid: tthurman - - - Responsible for all theme bugs and the compositor (thank goodness - Thomas got involved, eh?). I'm sure he'll replace this sentence - with his interests when he reads it. ;-) - - -Semi-active maintainers --------------------------------- - -Havoc Pennington -Email: hp redhat com -Userid: hp - - Original author. Doesn't patch marco anymore, but is active in - answering questions, responding to bugs, providing very helpful - suggestions and insight, and even assisting with debugging. - - -Important historical figureheads --------------------------------- - -Rob Adams (readams readams net) - - Was the main maintainer of marco for a while; particular areas - of focus included xinerama, placement, and an older version of the - constraints code. Still responds to bugs every once in a while. - -Søren Sandmann (sandmann redhat com) - - Wrote most of the current compositing manager code + libcm @@ -1,16 +1,4 @@ -Marco is not a meta-City as in an urban center, but rather -Meta-ness as in the state of being meta. i.e. marco : meta as -opacity : opaque. Also it may have something to do with the Meta key -on UNIX keyboards. - -The first release of Marco was version 2.3. Marco has no need for -your petty hangups about version numbers. - -The stable releases so far are 2.4.x, 2.6.x, 2.8.[01], 2.8.1.x, 2.8.5-, -2.10.x, 2.12.x, 2.14.x, 2.16.x. - -Unstable branches are 2.3.x, 2.5.x, 2.8.2-4, 2.9.x, 2.11.x, 2.13.x, -2.15.x, 2.17.x. +MATE Marco is a fork of GNOME Metacity. COMPILING MARCO === @@ -18,14 +6,15 @@ COMPILING MARCO You need GTK+ 2.2. For startup notification to work you need libstartup-notification at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/startup-notification/ or on the -MATE ftp site. You also need MateConf 1.2 (unless building a funky +MATE ftp site. You also need MateConf (unless building a funky extra-small embedded marco with --disable-mateconf, see below). REPORTING BUGS AND SUBMITTING PATCHES === -Report new bugs on http://bugzilla.gnome.org. Please check for -duplicates, *especially* if you are reporting a feature request. +Report new bugs on https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-window-manger. +Please check for duplicates, *especially* if you are reporting a feature +request. Please do *not* add "me too!" or "yes I really want this!" comments to feature requests in bugzilla. Please read @@ -234,7 +223,7 @@ EWMH-compliant WMs). MARCO BUGS, NON-FEATURES, AND CAVEATS === -See bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/query.cgi +See github: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-window-manager/issues FAQ === @@ -270,22 +259,6 @@ A: If it makes sense to turn on unconditionally, or is genuinely a http://pobox.com/~hp/free-software-ui.html http://pobox.com/~hp/features.html -Q: Will Marco be part of MATE? - -A: It is officially part of MATE as of MATE 2.2. Prior to that, - it was unofficially shipped as the default MATE WM by several - OS vendors. - -Q: Is Marco a Red Hat project? - -A: Marco's original creation was in no way funded, endorsed, or - encouraged by Red Hat, Inc. - I'm guessing Red Hat would not - consider "insufficient number of window managers for Linux" an - urgent problem. Just a wild guess though. - - Now that marco is the default WM however, Red Hat supports some - bugfixing and other work. - Q: Why does Marco remember the workspace/position of some apps but not others across logout/login? @@ -311,7 +284,7 @@ A: Marco only stores sizes/positions for apps that are session So the correct way to fix the situation is to make apps session-aware. libSM has come with X for years, it's very - standardized, it's shared by MATE and KDE - even twm is + standardized, it's shared by GNOME and KDE - even twm is session-aware. So anyone who won't take a patch to add SM is more archaic than twm - and you should flame them. ;-) diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index b6449acb..c1007616 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ m4_define([marco_micro_version], [0]) m4_define([marco_version], [marco_major_version.marco_minor_version.marco_micro_version]) -AC_INIT([marco], [marco_version], [https://github.com/perberos/mate-desktop-environment]) +AC_INIT([marco], [marco_version], [https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop-environment]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/core/display.c) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h) |