This Week in Summary:It’s been a good week for most everyone, some bug fixes and a couple new features coming in. The website has once again had its beautiful theme restored. The contents of the main site continue to expand and open up Beryl to new users and shortly to new developers. The donations page is up and cranking, and thus far we have received over 300 euros in donations. Simply awesome. I am quite sure iXce is thrilled at this, servers are not cheap. If you have donated to the project and would like to receive your special “Beryl Contributor” status in the forums, send an email to JasSmith@gmail.com from the email you contributed with. In the title include something about being a beryl contributor and in the body include the forum username you wish attatched with the new rank. Oh yeah, in an unrelated event, the 0.1.3 branch has begun and should be tagged in the next couple days. Release inbound! =)

This Week in Features:

• Snow plugin initial import and some more work (Xmas fun anyone? )
• 3D plugin is now in trunk (off by default)
• Added option to ignore alpha channel of a window (no need for XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS)
• Defunct python bindings removed from SVN and being re-written (lots and lots of work, 20+ commits)
• Several performance enhancements with transparent cube.
• Some bery-settings icons got in: ‘3D’ and ‘group’
• Some gconf backend work

This Week In Bug Fixes:

• FSP: fixed time calculation
• Fix for vsync on refresh rate changes with nvidia driver
• Fix stencil initialisation in 0% desktop opacity mode
• Cube now has constant fade speed
• More translation updates and bug fixes
• Several fixes to how cube caps are calculated on multiple monitors
• Multiscreen fixes

Ok so its not a lot of bug fixes this week. Lot’s of work has been going into branches that have not yet been moved over into trunk. Also prep for the 0.1.3 release has started up and some devs have had to devote some time to server work instead.

One Last Thing:
Sorry, nothing fun this week. The entire Beryl team would like to express our deepest concern, yet highest optimism for the safe return of James Kim. We watched him on the screensavers, we lived by his reviews on CNet, and now we pray for his safe return to society. Hope and pray, that’s all we can do, and that’s all we ask you do.

Authors:
DBO — How you doin’?
xplode_me — Unknown to the rest of the world, xplode_me had quite the wild childhood.