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This file is intended to provide a rough roadmap of the development
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towards the Fluxbox 1.0.0 release.
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The process will involve a number of development releases in the 0.9
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series until features and execution (i.e. bugs) stabilise.
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Some of the interesting new features beyond 0.1.14 that we'd like to work towards are:
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- Layer Support
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- New action system (key/mouse bindings)
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- Tabgroup rewrite (should also allow more commands to act on the whole group)
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- Tabs embedded in titlebar
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- Most recently used window cycling
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- Toolbar modes
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- Integration of remember patch (or at least the concept)
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- Smarter config menus (ability to modify numeric values)
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- fix Xinerama support again
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- XRandr support
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Some minor ones (mainly bugfixes or small things) that I feel like noting are
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(many of these based on feature requests or bug reports from sourceforge):
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- Key bindings for:
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-> restart
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-> specific tab numbers
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-> tabgroup keybindings
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-> menu navigation
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-> moving windows to next workspace/tabgroup
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- fix up focus issues (click to focus sometimes acts like sloppy)
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- proper initialisation from hints (e.g. Eterm -D 2)
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- fix toggledecoration to not give tabs back etc
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- snap to windows
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- Pixmap buttons
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- Shaped menus/toolbar/slit
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- improved command line output for help option (plus include compile-time options
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etc in output for improved bug reporting)
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- layer configuration things for toolbar/slit/numlayers
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- fix outline window moving
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Some lower priority ones ("thoughts"/maybes):
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- transparency (major)
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- keybindings for directional focus moving:
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-> nextWindowLeft/Right/Up/Down
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- looks for the window left of the current one, and gives it focus
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- more powerful autogrouping matching
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- stop window movement by clicking on border (only on frame instead)
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- mouse button "keys"
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- ability to specify keybinding actions for titlebar buttons (i.e. configurable actions for titlebar buttons).
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Notes:
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- (optional) Unique per-workspace backgrounds
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=> To be made into separate application, if time permits will try to
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get this done before 1.0.0rc1
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Known Bugs (to be looked at at some time):
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- Focus acts sloppy on window close/warp, or when decoration-less window is "focused"
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Fixed known bugs:
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- Doesn't redraw properly after unshade
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So, what's the plan?
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Key:
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- => Planned (or not applicable)
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= => Started
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+ => Almost done
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* => Done
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Release: 0.9.0
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Approx Date: 23 February, 2003
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Major Features:
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* Layer support (Simon)
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* New action system (Henrik)
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* Smarter config menus (Henrik)
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Minor Features:
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* Proper initialisation from hints (Simon)
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* layer configuration things (Simon)
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Bugfixes/lower priority:
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Release: 0.9.1
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Approx Date: 7 April, 2003
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Major Features:
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* Toolbar modes (Simon)
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* Tabs embedded in titlebar (Henrik)
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* Tabgroup rewrite (Henrik)
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* Most recently used window cycling (Simon)
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Minor Features:
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* fix outline window moving (Simon)
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Bugfixes/lower priority:
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* Bugs from 0.9.0 (Both)
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* Doesn't redraw properly after unshade (Simon)
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Release: 0.9.2
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Approx Date: 5 May, 2003
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Major Features:
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* Integration of Remember patch (Simon)
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* Transparency (Henrik)
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Minor Features:
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* more keybinding actions (Both)
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* directional focus movement (Simon)
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* fix up focus issues (Simon)
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* snap to windows (Simon)
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* improved command-line help option (Henrik)
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* pixmap buttons (Henrik)
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Bugfixes/lower priority:
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* Bugs from 0.9.1 (Both)
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* stop window moving from borders (Simon)
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* Focus acts sloppy on window close/warp (Simon)
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Release: 0.9.3
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Approx Date: 5 June, 2003
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Major Features:
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* Xinerama (Simon)
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* XRandr (Henrik)
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Bugfixes/lower priority:
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* Fix nasty crash bug from 0.9.2 (Henrik)
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+ Other bugs from 0.9.2 and previous (Both)
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Notes:
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Intended as a stabler, fairly usable devel release
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after the crashing of 0.9.2
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Release: 0.9.4
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Approx Date: 7 July, 2003
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Key Features:
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* Regular expression support in remember
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on several attributes (Simon)
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* Save grouping so it persists over restart (Simon)
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* Autogrouping functionality into remember (Simon)
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(this will thus get regexp matching etc)
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* Shaped menu/slit/toolbar (Henrik)
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* Improved screen object placement (Henrik)
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(will fix Maximize over slit/toolbar)
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Other Minor Features:
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* Add some sort of program launch function (Simon)
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Bugfixes/lower priority:
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* Titlebar sometimes doesn't redraw properly
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* Fixes for 0.9.3 and previous (Both)
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Release: 0.9.? (remaining)
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Approx Date: ?
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Major Features:
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- Mouse actions as keys (so you can, e.g. Mod1 Button1 :ResizeWindow) (?)
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- nls code - layers, remember, new stuff... (Both)
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- Update Translations
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- C
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- bg_BG
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- da_DK
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- de_DE
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- en_AU
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- es_ES
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- et_EE
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- fr_FR
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- it_IT
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- ja_JA
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- lv_LV
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- pt_BR
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- pt_PT
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- ru_RU
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- sv_SE
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- tr_TR
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- more???
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- Update Documentation
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- man page
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- web docs
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- FAQ
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Minor Features:
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- Transparent titlebars + toolbar
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Bugfixes:
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- As many of those little niggly things as possible (some of which may be
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non-trivial to fix).
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Other:
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- app (fbev?) for per workspace backgrounds, among other things
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- should do some profiling and optimisation
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Release: 1.0.0rc1
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Approx Date: ?
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- Bug Fixes & tweaks. Nothing major.
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This release is aiming to be a very close approximation for 1.0.0.
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There is a fair amount of cooling time before the full release to allow
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for an rc2 or more if necessary, but we'd really like to iron out all
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those little bugs that are remaining around here.
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Release: 1.0.0
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Approx Date: ?
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- Obviously any remaining bug-fixes and small tweaks.
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- Translations.
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- Documentation.
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The dates for later releases of the development branch are not estimated
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because they are difficult to estimate. New features add new bugs. There
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are always little things being added. The developers are also constantly
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interrupted by "real life" events.
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However, we really do want to get 1.0.0 released. So don't despair. It's coming.
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