Точно по плану вышел первый релиз оконного менеджера wmii,
который продолжает традиции wmi,ion и им подобных WM...
Из интересностей : cairo rendering backend
Ну не точно в срок - они два раза переносили релиз. Cairo не рекомендован, хоть и поддерживается
wmii is designed to support different rendering backend mechanisms. Until now we have an unrecommended cairo (http://www.cairographics.org) rendering backend and the default xlib backend. The cairo backend is not recommended in production use, because the cairo library is still very buggy and crashes wmii very often (caused by nasty bugs within the library itself). I don't expect that the quality of the cairo library will increase in the near future, thus a xft backend is planned as workaround for wmii-2.
wmii introduces many new features not seen in a window manager before. Most important ones are the new socket-based filesystem approach to customize and interoperate with wmii and the new layout mechanism, which provides a new window management approach. Apart from these approaches wmii is highly modularized and consists of several binaries