AfterStep version 2.0 beta was released on August 11, 2003. Grab the tarball or bzip2 archive and get compiling! Your feedback and experiences with this release are appreciated. AfterStep version 2.0 AfterStep 2.0 comes with many changes and improvements over the previous 1.8* series of AfterStep, yet everything you've come to expect and love in AfterStep is still there. Some of the new features and improvements are: 1. New high performance and high quality image handling engine. 2. Support for TrueType fonts. 3. Text antialiasing. 4. Support for UTF-8, UNICODE and numerous locales. 5. XML image scripting. 6. Improved Window hints handling supporting new Extended WM specs. 7. Rewritten and consolidated GUI rendering engine with support for shaped windows and complex layouts. 8. Better theme support. 9. More background image types with support for scaling, shaped images, alpha-blending, and other blending algorithms. 10. More powerfull pattern matching algorithm in database. 11. Shaped titlebars and frame decorations. 12. More options to frame decorations. 13. Arbitrary layout of the titlebar buttons. 14. Built in screenshot command :). 15. Designer quality colorschemes. 16. Configuration reading-writing library, allowing for easier implementation of GUI contral panel. 17. Menus are treated as regular windows, allowing for moving, resizing, shading, iconification of menus. 18. Used options from submenus could optionally be displayed in parent menus for faster menu selection. 19. Thumbnail icons could be shown in menus. 20. WinList menu shows application icons. 21. Shaped Pager and WinList. 22. 2D WinList with more flexible layout options. 23. Pager's desks could be shaded. 24. Wharf allows labels in buttons. 25. Numerous layout options in Wharf. 26. Wharf performs checks for application availability. 27. Additional options in database settings for comprehensive windows configurations. 28. AvoidCover are able to move other windows away as they move/resize themselves. 29. Optional snapping to edges while moving/resizing windows. 30. Proper window switching (alt-tabbing). 31. Powerfull initial window placement policies using window boxes. 32. Tiled and cascaded initial window placement. 33. Shaped balloons. 34. Self diagnostic code allowing to properly report segfaults in AfterStep, and gracefully recover from most failures.
Created attachment 17227 [details] AfterStep 2.0 Beta 1 Ebuild This is my Ebuild for the AfterStep desktop v2.0 beta 1. It's written from scratch but it's very similiar to the 1.8 Ebuild. The new Ebuild supports a lot of use flags, just take a look. :) Btw: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22496 :)
I am in the process of adding afterstep 2.0 beta2 to portage.
afterstep 2.0 beta2 is now in portage. please test :)
