The first release candidate of Ion3 has been released. "This is the first 'rc' or '(stable) release candidate' release of Ion3. This means that there will not be any further major changes to it. Bugs will be fixed, and as an exception to the general feature freeze, some hooks may still be added, if deemed useful. Translations may also be included. After no new bugs (that can not be deemed features) have been found in this or following 'rc' releases, the stable Ion3 will be released."
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There was some discussion about a week ago on the misc@openbsd.org mailing lists where the decision of the developer to change the license to Ion may result in it being removed from the OpenBSD ports tree. I don't know the details, but if this is true, I wonder if it will result in problems with other OS's?
License change notice:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general/770...
OpenBSD thread:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-04/2159.html
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Let me get this straight: The author wants the name of the WM to refer to his codebase with no additions like Ion3v462007. And any off shoots are either not to use the name or to clearly spell out they are not Ion3. Okay, seems OK. A little annoying but fair since its his name.
Where the crunch comes in is in when somebody does a patch that changes Ion3 in a significant way. You need the approval of the author to do this since, in this theory, makes it not purely Ion3. This seems to take things a bit far and this is what OpenBSD is adjecting to.
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So it's IceWeasel all over again?
Yep, it sure is:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422527#10
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Same behaviour from Tuomo was apparent on Arch Linux's mailing lists recently as well:
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2007-April/004634.html
It's almost as if he wanted everybody to ignore him and ion.
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"Same behaviour from Tuomo was apparent on Arch Linux's mailing lists recently as well:"
Wow. Heh. What can you say? It's entertaining in some sick kind of way when people go out of their way to come across as total moronic jerks.
I think the best part was the "timely release" clause he was/is going to put in the license. Is your Ion package lagging? Watch out! Tuomo will legally threaten you!
Heh. Man. This totally made my day.
"It's almost as if he wanted everybody to ignore him and ion. "
I guess everyone does already and that's why he's so irrationally pissed off at FOSS.
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It's actually really simple to understand. Various distributions distribute ion3 packages with unsupported patches. When said ion3 package doesn't work, they go to Tuomo bitching about it.
He has made it exceedingly clear that he will not support patched versions of ion3, and yet the package maintainers continue to distribute these patched versions and make no mention of the fact that it is unsupported by the author. They also continue to distribute ancient versions of ion3 with the same consequence.
All the package maintainers had to do was mention the fact that their package was non-standard and unsupported. They refused to do so; you can't really blame Tuomo for being a tad bit irritated about it.
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I like Ion, and I use my keyboard a lot (hooray, Quicksilver!). That being said, here's a little something from the Ion manifesto:
"So-called 'modern desktop environments' converge on total unusability ... "
Somehow, I managed to point and click my way to posting that.
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"I like Ion, and I use my keyboard a lot (hooray, Quicksilver!)."
I tried Ion but came back to WindowMaker, it's because I use the keybpard a lot (IBM 1391403, Sun Type 6) and found that Ion misses some features I learned to need. :-)
But still, Ion is impressing fast, even on older machines. It looks professional and does not seem to have problems managing applications that use different toolkits - still looking professional.
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If you like (or think you might like) ion, I recommend that you check out wmii/dwm:
http://www.suckless.org/wiki/wmii
It's way simpler and way better, and while the author might be arrogant, he isn't a jerk.
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Got it, tried it (writing from it now) and its very interesting. Its a completely get out of the way WM. No desktop, every app when open is full screen with a tab at the top. After only a couple of minutes the keyboard shortcuts start to seem like a quicker and simpler way to do things. Very very fast.
The desktop metaphor, overlapping windows, and then the need for multiple desktops to manage all the clutter, and the constant presence of the open file manager on the desktop whether you need it or not - well, its really a revelation to see how little all that stuff is actually needed and the extent to which it just gets in the way of seeing what you are doing.
I'm fond of fluxbox because its more minimal than the majors, but this takes less is more to a new level and could really grow on anyone who gives it a chance. Also, if you ever spend any time setting up 'appliances' - basically one app installations - this could be a perfect solution.
Very very interesting. Have to check out wmii now!