Bug#825809: unclutter alternatives

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Axel Beckert writes ("Re: unclutter alternatives"):
> So I'm actually very glad that someone else also has interest in
> packaging unclutter-xfixes.

I'm a user of unclutter.  I run it with `-noevents'.  I have no idea
whether the new approach is going to be a good replacement but I guess
it probably is.

I do wonder why this needed a whole new fresh rewrite, with a new
name, and everything.  Oh well.

> 1) Package unclutter-xfixes with an unclutter transitional package and
>    upload to experimental first. That way, people who use unclutter
>    can test unclutter-xfixes to see if anything needs to be fixed
>    there to make unclutter-xfixes a drop-in replacement for unclutter.

This ia a good plan.

Thanks,
Ian.