Alpha8 out

[Ben Jansens]

Greetings once again,

Just letting you all know that Openbox-3.0-alpha8 is been released. Here's
the info from the news posting:

Alpha VIII has arrived, and things are looking better than ever. This release
will be the final alpha release, if everything goes as expected. I intend to
release Beta1 within the next few days.

This release has a couple of new things to brag about, as follows:

    * A new focusDelay option. When using "focus follows mouse", this option
      is a time delay (specified in microseconds) to wait before focusing the
      window beneath the mouse pointer. Useful for skipping across windows
      without messing up your Alt-Tab focus order.
    * A new menu.bullet.selected.imageColor option for themes.
    * The rc3 file has been renamed to rc.xml. As well, the menu has been
      renamed to menu.xml.
    * A new color cache which reduces the amount of system resources used by
      Openbox.
    * Five themes chosen for distribution with 3.0:
          o allegro - by Syngin
          o artwiz - by Youngjin Hahn
          o blah41 - by Timothy King
          o om4ob - by Mike Basco
          o thebear - by David Barr
    * A couple themerc syntax cleanups:
          o window.focus.font -> window.label.focus.font
          o window.unfocus.font -> window.label.unfocus.font
          o window.justify -> window.label.justify
          o menu.frame.* -> menu.items.*
          o menu.hilite.* -> menu.selected.*
          o *.picColor -> *.imageColor
    * Flashing window decorations when a window sets its "Urgent" flag,
      indicating it wants user input. (Not many apps use this yet, as not
      many window managers/panels/etc do anything with it yet.)
    * New included script 'themeupdate.py' which you can use to help update
      themes to the new Openbox3 format. It can update themes that were made
      to work with older alpha releases. It can also be used (with care) to
      update older Openbox2, Blackbox, and Fluxbox themes to the new Openbox3
      format. It will warn you of missing elements that are required to make
      a good looking theme for Openbox3. You can run it as such:

          % tools/themeupdate/themeupdate.py myoldtheme > mynewthemerc 

This release should mark the end of drastic changes to all of the config
files and theme files until 3.0 is released. 

The release is here: http://openbox.org/releases/openbox-3.0-alpha8.tar.gz

Cheers,
Ben
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