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custom fork of the fluxbox windowmanager

for a rough idea of where things are going, and when
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+This file is intended to provide a rough roadmap of the development +towards the Fluxbox 1.0.0 release. + +The process will involve a number of development releases in the 0.9 +series until features and execution (i.e. bugs) stabilise. + +Some of the interesting new features beyond 0.1.14 that we'd like to work towards are: + +- Layer Support +- New action system (key/mouse bindings) +- Tabgroup rewrite (should also allow more commands to act on the whole group) +- Tabs embedded in titlebar +- Most recently used window cycling +- Toolbar modes +- Integration of remember patch (or at least the concept) +- Smarter config menus (ability to modify numeric values) +- fix Xinerama support again + +Some minor ones (mainly bugfixes or small things) that I feel like noting are +(many of these based on feature requests or bug reports from sourceforge): + +- (optional) Unique per-workspace backgrounds +- Key bindings for: + -> restart + -> specific tab numbers + -> tabgroup keybindings + -> menu navigation + -> moving windows to next workspace/tabgroup +- fix up focus issues (click to focus sometimes acts like sloppy) +- proper initialisation from hints (e.g. Eterm -D 2) +- fix toggledecoration to not give tabs back etc +- snap to windows +- Pixmap buttons +- Shaped menus/toolbar/slit +- improved command line output for help option (plus include compile-time options + etc in output for improved bug reporting) +- layer configuration things for toolbar/slit/numlayers +- fix outline window moving + +Some lower priority ones ("thoughts"/maybes): + +- transparency (major) +- keybindings for directional focus moving: + -> nextWindowLeft/Right/Up/Down + - looks for the window left of the current one, and gives it focus +- more powerful autogrouping matching +- stop window movement by clicking on border (only on frame instead) +- mouse button "keys" + +Known Bugs (to be looked at at some time): + + +---------------------------------------------------------- + +So, what's the plan? + +---------------------------------------------------------- +Release: 0.9.0 +Approx Date: 23 February, 2003 +Major Features: + - Layer support (Simon) + - New action system (Henrik) + - Smarter config menus (Henrik) +Minor Features: + - Proper initialisation from hints (Simon) + - Shaped menu/slit/toolbar (Henrik) + - layer configuration things (Simon) +Bugfixes/lower priority: + +---------------------------------------------------------- +Release: 0.9.1 +Approx Date: 8 March, 2003 +Major Features: + - Toolbar modes (Simon) + - Tabs embedded in titlebar (Henrik) + - Tabgroup rewrite (Henrik) + - Most recently used window cycling (Simon) +Minor Features: + - per workspace backgrounds (Simon) + - more keybinding actions (Both) + - pixmap buttons (Henrik) + - fix outline window moving +Bugfixes/lower priority: + - Bugs from 0.9.0 (Both) + - stop window moving from borders (Simon) + - more powerful autogroup matching (?) + +---------------------------------------------------------- +Release: 0.9.2 +Approx Date: 22 March, 2003 +Major Features: + - Integration of Remember patch (Simon) + - Transparency (Henrik) + - Xinerama (Henrik) +Minor Features: + - directional focus movement (?) + - fix up focus issues (Simon) + - snap to windows (Simon) + - improved command-line help option (Henrik) + - nls updating (layers, toolbar) (Both) +Bugfixes/lower priority: + - Bugs from 0.9.1 (Both) + +---------------------------------------------------------- +Release: 1.0.0 rc1 +Approx Date: 8 April, 2003 +Major Features: + None +Minor Features: + None +Bugfixes/lower priority: + - Fixes for 0.9.2 and previous + +---------------------------------------------------------- + +Release: 1.0.0 +Approx Date: 23 April, 2003 + +Obviously any remaining bug-fixes and small tweaks