#mate-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.)

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)

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 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.)

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 :)

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!