The man, the myth, the famed artist, the manager of the EFL PPA, Luis Felipe; it’s entirely unnecessary to say anything more here because his name says it all if you speak his language. He’s worked hard at improving our release process, and even though we’re still not very professional about it since we went over 10 years without them, we’re getting there.

On that note, we’ve done a beta release of E17 as well as a new bugfix (1.7.3) release of the EFL today.

Ticket #1939: e17 doesn’t load ~/.Xmodmap (option enabled)

Previously these files were only loaded on first startup, but now we load them on restart as well.

Ticket #1940: Unmaximized window gets 1×1 pixel size.

This was the sign of a bigger bug where we were overwriting previously saved window sizes when fullscreening a previously-maximized window.

Ticket #1905: temperature module – unreadable default text

Sometimes a man makes his themes using the Hubble Telescope to read text, so it looks fine to him.

Ticket #1945: Make systray module icons scale.

I hate systray, but this was trivial enough that I spent a couple minutes on it.

Other Improvements Today:

Pulseaudio mixer should be even more reliable

Quickaccess now functions correctly (and doesn’t crash) for windows that don’t set ICCCM name/class, such as vkbds.