Tint2 SVN - Why Not A New Version From SVN?

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Hi Everyone,

The Tint2 SVN that allows for launchers, and whatever else nice things, why 
hasn't this been taken and brought into a final version and creating like 0.12 
or something?

I've been using from the SVN as long as this was made available and I've never 
had one problem with it.

I run Slackware and I've compiled and run it from SVN on two different Slack 
versions 13.37 & 14 under OpenBox 3.4.11.2 & 3.5.0

It's quite sad to see such a great project not release any new versions for 
over 2 years, that doesn't exactly make it look very active and great projects 
like this, we don't need to go by the side and die. Linux really needs 
something like this to live on and be active. Maybe you don't really realize 
what greatness and diversity you offer to the Linux world with such a project, 
but you do!

Tint2 is one of the greatest projects out there for what you've done to help 
change the way Linux users now look at and think of, for like the BOX 
WindowManagers...

I ran Blackbox when no one knew what it was in the beginning, it's truly the 
Father of all Boxes and before Tint2 came along, well, let's put it this way, 
navigation and managment was a little more difficult than it is now. Then I ran 
OpenBox in it's early beginnings along with Fluxbox when there was still no 
Tint2 and I survived all those years, almost to a point I started to think I 
needed no change, but when Tint2 came along I was hooked, and I've been onboard 
ever since it started!

So please don't ever think people are not using this program, they are and we 
need it! Sure it works just great the way it is, but I'm not the coder, to see 
and know what's going on behind the scene, to know if there's really any need 
for improvements, but what software is perfect that has no bugs and can't be 
improved?

Please consider doing this, as well as thinking up new ways just to have small 
releases with whatever changes you feel, but it would certainly be nice to see 
new version changes at least once every 3-6 months...

Is there really no changes to be made to this project, no bugs to work out, 
nothing original to add in or changes to be made? This project has certainly 
come this far, there still must be some creativity on the side of the 
developers to think of something else to do?

I really hope we can see some change and I really hope this project is going to 
live on for many years to come, WHY, well let's consider the downfall of Gnome 
---> 3 YUCK, as well as the bloat of KDE. Oh gosh and then there's Unity, errr, 
need I say more for the mass rubble of crap for the DE chaos world? LOL

I've been in Linux 12 years, run all the major named distros and then some and 
I do know a lot of users as they gain experience, many migrate away from the 
big DE and look to lighter, and faster, so as far as I'm concered, the BOXS, 
Blackbox, OpenBox, Fluxbox, and any other WM out there, or DE that can run 
Tint2 is not DEAD! :)

Thanks for your time and consideration, long live Tint2!

CHEERS

Original issue reported on code.google.com by das...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 1:22

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I forgot to say I really APPRECIATE everyone working on this project and if I 
had the coding talent, or money I'd offer one or the other.

I just want it clear that I believe in this and I truly thank you for it and I 
hope others out there still believe in and enjoy Tint2 and I hope this project 
still has some worth and can merit the time of the developers, when free to 
keep it going.

THANK YOU for such a great application!  :)

CHEERS

Original comment by das...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2012 at 1:33

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Hi and thanks for the nice words!

I have only contributed a very small amount of code to tint2 - the merits go to 
the rest of the awesome team that made tint2 happen.

But I wanted to reply with regard to the lack of new releases.

As you said, the current SVN version of tint2 works well. The problem is that 
we do not have a configuration GUI, and it is needed for the next release 
because the previous releases had one. But writing the new GUI requires quite a 
lot of time and none of us managed to get it done yet :(

Original comment by mrovi%in...@gtempaccount.com on 11 Dec 2012 at 6:10

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Configuration GUI?

You mean instead of writing by hand your own configuration file; 

~/.config/tint2/tint2rc ?

You're trying to make a GUI Front End for it?

THANKS

Original comment by das...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2012 at 6:38

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Honestly, I could live without the configuration GUI for another release or two 
as long as the current enhancements are packaged and made available officially.

One day I decided to play and build my own Linux environment from 
Ubuntu-minimal in a 1GB HDD VM. I did it, with a graphical server, openbox and 
tint2 but reading some of the proposals and comments in here I realized I could 
have much more from tint2 from simply installing a new version.

Obviously, I couldn't get the developer tools so I can build the latest tint2 
version as disk space was very close to its limit, by merely 20-30MB. It 
would've been also easier if I just installed the latest SVN build from 
Ubuntu's repository but that was it. Tint2 is obviously not meant for the faint 
of heart, so power users could get tintwizard [1] if they don't want to do 
everything manually.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/tintwizard/downloads/list

Original comment by knee...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2013 at 5:40

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