Editing Long term todos

{{Release todos}}
This page lists todos which is of lower priority. Maybe wish items in bugzilla(s) should be collected here.

See also
* [[Proposed Goals]] for the next coming release
* [[Development]] for even longer items, like xcb, OpenGL, etc.

== Documentation ==
(This item needs cleanup.)

* In general, the document needs improvements. See [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2009-February/msg00083.html this post] for detailed account. (The gap between 1.3.0 and 1.5.0 pointed out there is already filled.)
** needs update.
** both in volume and in order.
** both for users and developers.
** the online and the distributed. (may be better to be united to one?)
** In which module the functions / variables lie.
* How sawfish is initialized.
** How sawfish uses librep.
* How to test patches gracefully.
* What exactly is 'deprecated' feature? No doc at all now.
* Terminology; clarification, replacement to better ones, description.
* At least, complete GUI doc.
* Librep intro, at least [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2008-September/msg00023.html Sep 2008 thread in the ML]
* Sawfish event system: To aid in development and understanding, there needs to be documentation the X event model and how Sawfish interacts and deals with it.
* Crawl thru the web, find articles on sawfish, and compile them.
* Better to have heavy comments in the source.

=== Print command doc in window operation menu ===

In the window operation menu, print the command description in tooltip.

=== info ===
* Maybe keep only core lisp part in info, and others written in HTML.

== Themes ==
Change themes-engine so that tabs are supported by default.

== Scripts ==

=== Merge good scripts into the trunk ===
Merge good [[scripts]] into the trunk.

In adoption, notice following points:
* Name (of feature, function, variable ...) is good?
* It should work & merge smoothly with already existing design and codes.
* User contributed codes are often slack. Make loose ends meet.

=== Review user contributed scripts ===

The title says all.

== Transparency ==

There is some uncommitted patch to sawfish which enables XComposite handling. We should be investigating that. And perhaps add this in some future releases. See also [[Composite]] in development section.

# http://amit.wordpress.com/2005/02/13/argb-visuals-for-sawfish/
# http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2005-February/msg00023.html

== Configurator ==

=== Search box ===
A search box which allows to quickly find an option that has string in its description or name.

=== Keybinding ===

All commands are listed, which is clumsy to search. Ideas are:

* Organization by categories, maybe using a treeview.
* Commands name search by key types.

If it's possible to optionally hide keymaps which are not supported by the current theme, it's good.

=== Edit history ===
A list of recently modified variables in the UI. This would make it simpler to find, like this: "I just changed one option, but I don't remember where it was?".

=== Window Rules ===

"Grab all". It sets all properties of grabbed window, and what user do
is to uncheck what they don't want.

Grabbing window size and position.

=== Configurator and process ===

* If you restart Sawfish with the configurator open, the configurator instance becomes useless.

== Tiling feature ==
Implement tiling feature. Steal from [http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ StumpWM], common lisp fork of [http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ ratpoison]?

== Gtk dialogbox ==

It's possible to have a dialogbox made of Gtk. This will add many new features to Sawfish. See [http://old.nabble.com/gtk-dialog-box-td27283612.html here] for more.

== Icon ==
*Sawfish returns only one icon for each application, but often several are available. Support them.
*Allow override of icons displayed in window cycling. Read [http://old.nabble.com/Icons-in-the-wininfo-when-cycling-p26964993.html this patch] and [http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Icons-in-the-wininfo-when-cycling-p27415541.html this reply].

== Startup ==

=== Failure in loading application menu ===
This is fixed in Sawfish-1.6.3:

Sawfish used to fail with a file error if any link in /usr/share/applications is not valid.

=== Add --replace option ===
(This will be added in 1.8.0)

Add --replace option to sawfish, for replacing the current window-manager. 

== Focus ==
=== Focus revert in enter-exit mode ===
When the focused window disappears, Sawfish emits 'focus-revert'. 
Refinements of the behavior to handle it by 'enter-exit' focus mode
is desired. See [http://old.nabble.com/Broken-enter-exit-focus-behavior-in-1.5.3-to26568449.html#a26601751 this thread].

== Workspace ==
=== Grouping Workspace ===
Group workspace. Some people like tree-like structure.

=== Partial workspace layer ===
(This is not exactly a workspace feature, but let's put it here.)

Some users want something like 'partial workspace layer'. It can be
smaller then the workspace. Windows can be confined inside of it.

Layers can make groups of the same size, for example of a head size. User can interchange a layer with another in the same group, so it looks like as if workspace were changed only in that area.

[[Sticky-head]] script tries to switch workspace per head.

Workspace is the notion defined in ewmh as 'virtual desktop'. So layer
is a new, different thing, not the extension to workspace.

=== 3D style like Compiz ===
Stack workspaces in "3D", with OpenGL/compiz. Zooming out to see
whole workspace on a single screen, with all the viewports being much
smaller, and windows being smaller, everything squeezed on a single
screen.

== Menu ==
In the window-list, a right-click to pop-up a window operation menu.

See also [[#Print command doc in window operation menu]].
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