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Some of the things (in very short form) that need to be done to E17...
(These are in no particular order)
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BUGS / FIXES
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* BUG: e17 screen res diaolg doesnt work under xephyr - why?
* BUG: xdaliclock -transparent doesnt use shaped border (not handling shape
change later)
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ESSENTIAL FEATURES
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* fm2 needs recursive deletes, moves, etc. that run in the "background"
(idlers, etc.) and might pop up a progress dialog (or display progress in
the fm2 view somehow).
* fm2 needs a right-click file properties dialog
* fm2 needs a way to set custom backgrounds and handle scrolling
* fm2 needs to display symlink info on files somehow
* fm2 needs to display more than 1 file being dragged (if more than 1 is being
dragged)
* fm2 needs a way of mapping a mimetype to 1 or more commands to execute or
internal e actions to do (like add as wallpaper etc.)
* fm2 needs a way to use custom icons per dir/file
* fm2 needs a way to bypass thumb gen anim on just a unrealize/realize as well
as change state instantly if it already was selected
* fm2 needs a mime filter
* dnd needs to do xdnd properly.
* fwin: multi-mime open is too simplisitc. fix in fwin.c line 590 or so.
* fm2 needs icon views (auto-arrange, snap to grid and free placement), for
fwin windows and the desktop
* middle mouse on gadgets as a quick move/resize thing?
* language packs: need to have a tool to load/setup a language pack (which
means .mo compiled files from a .po, an optional font and a config file that
specifies the locale and font) and then install the font(s) either as a user
or superuser, and the .mo in the system or a user locales dir.
* finish off icccm support
* finish complete netwm support
* add a "taskbar" module
* add cpu load module
* add setup/install wizard to seed .desktop files etc. etc.
* finish clientinfo dialog for borders (netwm props etc. etc.)
* gui config dialogs for all config
* make it possible to disable border buttons/actions (tell theme what is
disabled) like close, maximize, etc. etc. buttons.
* Dragging a non-desktop icon from a border to the ibar should automatically
create the icon and add that (instead of warning the user that this can't be
done)
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CLEANUPS
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* need a config to add new mime types (or edit existing ones).
* e app editor needs to be able to let users select what mime types that app
can handle :)
* applications config dialog is good - but "complex". people ask simple
questions like "how do i add an app to my launcher bar", "how do i run an
app on startup?". nice and generic tho the app config is - maybe it needs
to somehow become mroe specific for each scenario? ie a dilog that ONLY
handled adding an app (creating it or dnd/linking it in from existing apps).
* emit more signals to window borders when window move starts, stops, resize
starts, stops, on raise, lower, etc. etc.
* client list menu could do with work on ordering, using separators to demark
this desktop and other desktops, sorting by recently used, separate
section for iconified apps etc. etc - configurable.
* remove a lot of ipc commands that should be done via the gui now
* remove config items marked for removal
* about dialog can do with redesign
* clientinfo dialog could be nicer - then again it is an obsucre thing.
* desklock's pam profile should be configurable as system-auth doesn't
always work and the fallback checks might not work either.
* If a user has set a border type on a window, don't bother to check for
changes in properties to change the border based on prop changes.
* need to audit, namespace and expand text and color classes
* need to specify what is NEEDED from a theme, what is optional (in terms of
parts, groups and signals). etc.
* winlist should support place for window "screenshot" in list as well as
app icon
* winlist could divide windows up into blocks - sub-lists within a container
per desktop (with stick windows considered to live on the "current" desk
when winlist starts)
* make it easy for modules to hook into ipc and extend it for themselves
* e_color_dialog needs to have an area for favorite and recently selected
colors. store in config and use ilist? or store as color files and use
e_fm2? or custom widget?
* virtualize e_bg to be able to put a bg in any canvas (given any desktop
config input) and return an object.
* desktop flip animations need to allow control over accel/decel and
have a better ui - add wobble and controls etc. etc.
* internal windows (config dialogs, etc) should re-open after a restart
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"NICE TO HAVE" FEATURES
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* for startup - apps that say "wait for me befofe running the next app" have
a timeout so if they never complete - complain and continue anyway.
* enlightenment_remote cmd's for logout, hibernate, reboot, suspend.
* nice to have a menu item for a window for "add keyboard shortcut to run this
app" would be nice usability
* switch to desktop of a new window if it opens on another desktop than the
current one (optional too)
* emit signal to submenu entries if they have a submenu shown for them or not
* setup configs for gnome and kde (as options) if they are installed (eg
run gnome-settings-daemon).
* check evas engine can work on a given screen before using it
* add non-opaque move/resize (use shaped windows with canvases etc.)
* add "osd" subsystem for things like volume controls on keybboards, etc.
that overlay the screen
* pager should be able to be configured to control more than the current zone
(select which zone they control)
* icons for all config panel items
* icons for most mime types
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OPTIMISATIONS
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* add evas pre/post render callbacks per evas canvas and callbacks per object
for pre/post render too
* optimize clock theme (speed/cpu) (rotation in edje??? or evas???)
* evas could detect an image is scaled multiple times and keep a scaled copy
that it could share in cache, and then punt the original back to cache.
* evas could support 8bbp alpha only images for dropshadow
* on disk app cache for .desktop files, icons and paths
* new fm2 code's file scanning isn't insanely fast - icon size calcs etc. speed
up for special cases like list view?
* new fm2 code re-lays-out a dir every time the queue is processed - maybe try
to speed this up
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