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Here is the reason why we're releasing a day or so after the last one
with almost no changes:

Ysgrifennodd Matthias Clasen:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> > If we remove the lines
> > [Window Manager]
> > SessionManaged=true
> > and make a new release of 2.23.x, will that be sufficient?
> Sure, that would make the desktop file valid.

Here it is:

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2.23.377
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Entirely a bugfix release. Thanks to Thomas Thurman for improvements
in this version.

- Removed invalid "Window Manager" group at request of Matthias Clasen.

Translations
Clytie Siddall (vi)

http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.23/
754d79c49febb34bceda58dfaee138b0 metacity-2.23.377.tar.bz2
37454ec303358eea885d4aff34f6a243 metacity-2.23.377.tar.gz

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> I looked through suspicious pieces of code (control-center,
> gnome-session), but couldn't find any use of the group "Window
> Manager". Might be worthwhile to do some more code archeology to find
> out where this was (or still is) used.

I suspect, since the group was added back in 2002, that it was a very,
very ancient version of gnome-session that needed it. In any case, any
code which DOES exist and needs this group will have been broken by the
move anyway!

Peace,

Thomas


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