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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I have been coding in my spare time on the jwm-settings-manager 2.0 branch.

Here are the updates:

Mouse/Touchpad:

This is now fully working, and contains code to switch the cursor theme,
and works fairly well.  The touchpad settings all work the same.

The main difference is that the JWM settings are in a single tab, and IF
NO TOUCHPAD is present a window showing ONLY the JWM settings will show,
rather than a window with options that do not work.


Panel:

Most of this works now.  There are a few remaining issues to fix, but
the major stuff is working.

The menu editor dialog is much improved (it looks much cleaner now) and
the functionality works as well as it did previously.  There is still no
way to remove certain things (there never was), but I will work on
adding that functionality soon.

Window:
Groups work well now, and fully populate, though there are doubtless
some aspects that do not fully work yet.
The window buttons are now designed slightly differently and seem more
compact and clear to me, though you testers can tell me if the UI
changes make sense or not.

Icons:
The icon dialog is up to par with what it was capable of, though I
intend to instate Icon theme usage soon (didn't work properly in the old
one, which is why it would call a script dialog to do this), as most of
the underlying functions have been improved and work much better now. So
currently it is only for manually editing the lines.

Themes:
This works.  There are minor issues (the app button doesn't show up, but
that is minor and should be easy to fix)

Desktop:
Everything I have tried works.  But I have not completely tested it all,
and there may be a few things that still need tweaking.

Fonts:
This all works well.  I think it works the same as the old one, though I
improved some things... for example choosing a font that has 'bold' will
now show up as bold.  Same thing for 'italic'

Keyboard:
This is MUCH improved, and mostly working at this point.
There is now a key grabber.  You can click a button and then enter a Key
combination which it will grab.
I plan to add a list of XF86 keys (the key grabber doesn't grab these well)
To make that easy (and make nice names rather than "XF86Calculator" do
something like "Calculator Button")
But this is already improved since you do not have to type in things
like 'Page_Up' since not everyone knows the X standards for key names,
and they must be typed in perfectly or it wont work...  So now it does
everything for the user!


To make it easy to test (if you don't want to add the PPA)
Here are the links:
https://code.launchpad.net/~israeldahl/+archive/ubuntu/torios/+files/jwm-settings-manager-common_2.0.0ubuntu1-66~ubuntu14.04.1_all.deb
<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eisraeldahl/+archive/ubuntu/torios/+files/jwm-settings-manager-common_2.0.0ubuntu1-66%7Eubuntu14.04.1_all.deb>
https://code.launchpad.net/~israeldahl/+archive/ubuntu/torios/+files/jwm-settings-manager_2.0.0ubuntu1-66~ubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb
<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eisraeldahl/+archive/ubuntu/torios/+files/jwm-settings-manager_2.0.0ubuntu1-66%7Eubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb>
There are most likely bugs that I do not know about... but hopefully it
is relatively less buggy than the previous version.

-- 
Regards