[wmii] [ANN] Rumai 2.0.0

                         Rumai

Rumai is a library for manipulating the wmii window manager
through Ruby. It excels at dynamic arrangement of clients,
columns, views, and tags.

Rumai also provides (1) an interactive shell for live
entertainment, and (2) a pure Ruby client for the 9P2000
protocol, which it uses to communicate with wmii’s IXP
file-system interface.

              http://rumai.rubyforge.org

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Rumai 2.0.0

Contents

  • Thanks
  • Caution
  • Improvements
  • Repairs

This release adds support for wmii 3.6, improves the
performance of the IXP library, and fixes some bugs.

1 Thanks

  • Christoph Blank tested Rumai 1.0.0 under wmii 3.6 and
    reported bugs.

2 Caution

  • wmii version 3.6 or newer is now a requirement for
    Rumai.

  • The Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream#read_partial method
    has been replaced by Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream#read
    (true) for efficiency.

  • The Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream#write method no longer
    writes to the beginning of the stream. Instead, it
    writes to the current position in the stream.

  • The Rumai::View#floating_area method has been renamed
    to Rumai::View#floater for brevity.

3 Improvements

  • Added several more methods (such as rewind, pos=, eof?,
    and so on) from Ruby’s IO class to the
    Rumai::IXP::Agent::FidStream class.

  • Added the Rumai::Client#kill method to simplify client
    termination.

4 Repairs

  • Fixed a race condition in Rumai::Agent#talk which would
    cause Rumai to hang when multiple threads used it.
Received on Tue Feb 05 2008 - 07:31:57 UTC