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This page contains possible Goals for the next Sawfish version.
See also long term todos and Achieved goals.
You can record an issue on your own, by putting your name. By default, items are proposed by User:Flashrider.
Key: * easy -- ** medium -- *** difficult
See also the sourceforge page: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=350032&group_id=32&func=browse
Open Bugs
Warp-Cursor
Description | Bugfix: warp-cursor command
(problem with OO.o transients) | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Restart Maximized
Description | Bugfix: wrong vertically maximized windows after restart
See [1]. The cause is that on restart Sawfish treats windows one by one. But 'avoid' property should be set for all windows before any maximization is done. (Does postponing maximization suffice? Not sure.) | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Draft Animator
Description | Bugfix: 'draft' animator has a bug; displayed numbers remain, not erased | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Proposed by | Teika kazura |
Restart and Viewport
Description |
At restart, the current viewport becomes the new top-left of the virtual desktop. Upper or left windows are hidden. This was fixed in 1.6.0, but it is again there. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Illegal override of the geometry
Description |
If you specify the geometry of a window from the command line, and at the same time from the "Matched window", then the latter is taken. This is wrong. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Pager color
Description |
Sawfish-pager understand rgb only, but Sawfish side script pager.jl sends rgb + alpha. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Rename-window
Description |
Function `rename-window' changes the name of the window and its _NEW_WM_NAME. But instead _NET_WM_VISIBLE_NAME should be changed. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Sawfish 3.0.0
Pager auto show/hide
Description |
Show the Sawfish pager only when the viewport or the workspace is changed. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Don't focus windows whose parent is invisible
Description |
When 'focus-window-when-mapped' is t, then the window whose parent is invisible (e.g. in another viewport) gets focused, too, but this is sometimes bad. Provide a new option to change it. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Wrong key definition tolerance
Description |
When a wrong key definition is there in ~/.sawfish/custom, trailing definitions are not loaded. This must be fixed. It must be not so hard; If you try to define bad key from the configurator, you can't. A window pops up, for example, saying: While changing title-keymap: bad-event-desc: RET-Move | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Tunable pointer warp
Description |
Currently, pointer warping is controled by only one boolean variable 'warp-to-window-enabled'. Make it tunable. (Seems better to make it a list then to create new variables.) For example, in window cycling, the current behavior is to warp at each step of cycling. But some prefer that warp happens only once, after the window is chosen. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Window cycling enhancements
Description |
Make the window cycling more flexible. See this message for ideas. See also #Tunable pointer warp, #Merge stuff from merlin-ugliness. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
"Mode" of interacitve use & hand tiling
Description |
There's a patch [2] which easily provides an "interactive mode", which is in fact a keymap wrapper. Adopt it, and using it, implement modes for grow, pack, shrink and yank ("gpsy"). Adopt Focus-by-direction, too, and make use of it from gpsy. The patch is by Christoph Ruegge, posted on 9 Feb 201]. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Better error messages
Description | Some error messages are not easy to understand.
For example, put In this case: "wrong value 'wrong-value' to function 'default-window-animator'" would be much better. Bad arg is another error which deserves a better error message, too. It can be done by intervening to the error handlers, defined in rep.lang.interpreter and sawfish.wm.ext.error-handler. Check the error type (= car of the data), fix the message. Printing the expected type for bad-arg is more difficult. First we have to fix the macro rep_DECLARE* defined in librep/src/rep_lisp.h. Another challenge is that some types are defined in Sawfish, not in librep, so a callback or other means is necessary. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Enhancements in multi-head support
Description | Current multi-head support is done only with Xinerama. Support RandR too, and only one of them at the same time.
Current multihead support (e.g. in maximization) seems to suppose that heads don't 'overlap' each other. But with RandR, they can indeed overlap. Some users make heads mutually exclusive, but others not, so an user option to choose which 'model' will be good. Resolution change should update edge-flip. Window position & size update is difficult, because the viewport slot it belongs to is ambiguous. Some people also like update of the position of windows with gravity, and maximized windows. Solve 'dead zone problem'. See [3], [4]. (Note: internally, use register_event_handler in events.c, like edge-flip.)
See also Long term todos#Partial workspace layer. RandR support to respond to resolution change or montior hot plugging is done in 1.6.3. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Tabbed Windowing Support
Description |
Tabbed windowing support is in, but refinement is necessary. Currently, variables `tab-left/right-*' are user options. But they should be set from each theme's theme.jl. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
Page | See Tab . | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
SawfishClient error-messages
Description |
SawfishClient does not display error-messages directly or may even discard them. See here. See [5] for some hints (but not a fix.) | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Maximization bug in ewmh compliance
Description | Vertical and horizontal maximization is reported to have a bug. See here. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Focus or exec script
Description | User-contrib scripts like App, Gimme, waffle, jump-or-exec, Iswitch-window fall in category of "focus or exec" scripts. (See Category:Focus management scripts). Review and compare them, and incorporate as an official code.
Jump-or-exec is now in trunk, but the update is available at here. See also this message for enhancements ideas. Waffle uses a customized iswitch-window. The latter is "prompt" for window name with completion, so it need not to be limited to usage for waffle. First putting it together with prompt is good. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
configurator
Description | Configurator items.
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Prompt code improvement
Description |
Adopt prompt patch after inspection. Write doc. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
Patch | |||
Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Display message enhancements
Description |
Current display-message is shabby, and enhancement will be nice. See this message for more. See also Customize-messages.
Please report your ideas! | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Display Viewport/Workspace name/number on switch
Description |
When switch to a different Viewport/Workspace it should be possible to let sawfish display the name/number of the Viewport/Workspace for workspaces. It's already done by me (locally) but it first needs display-message to take position and timeout params, for viewports it needs more work, or, easier, just display the viewport number (say "Workspace blah, VP 3 of 9" See commit f892ee. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Merge stuff from sawfish-mmc
Description |
There has been the sawfish-mmc fork by Michal Maruska and he said "I'll extract some reasonable patches" | ||
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Assigned to | Michal Maruska | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Merge stuff from merlin-ugliness
Description |
The Merlin.Ugliness contains a set of extra functions, some of them are good candidates for merge, such as having cycling windows displaying a list of all windows and the currently cycled one is highlighted, another thing would be the sawlets architecture. Excpect some discussion in January | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | *** |
In some themes, title-only frame is wider than the window
Description |
For some themes, when a window's frame style is set to 'title-only', then it is really title only: Width of the window is a bit narrower then the title frame. Though it's only applicable to improve the shipped themes. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | * |
Proposed by | Teika kazura |
Fill gap for EWMH (partially)
Description |
Some EWMH items are not supported. 1. It is known that:
I noticed sawfish only seems to work well with my gtk2 panels or other certain ones. 2. Some clients ask _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW, and Sawfish raises them in response. But there should be an option to deny the raise. It seems to happen only if the focus mode is 'click'.
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Proposed by | 1 by User:Ryuo1, 2 by User:Cyber rigger |
Update Docs regarding compat.jl
Description |
We need to check for functions/options from compat.jl, which are obsolete, but perhaps not marked obsolete in the docs. Some sybmols marked as 'obsolete' in compat.jl are in fact alive, so each should be investigated. In that case, 'compat.jl' should be fixed. Use the following convention for marking things as obsolete in the docs: @defvr {Obsolete Variable} var-abc When true ... This variable is obsolete. Use @code{var-new-abc} instead (@pxref{Window Foo Var}). @end defvr | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Running
Dockapps
Description | Dockapps support. Dockapps are small windows which can be used
within Gnustep & Window Maker. Reported in bugzilla, [6], but in fact it's a (lacking) feature. | ||
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Assigned to | Alexey Froloff | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Major rework in key
Description | Keyboard handling has several major defects.
Rejected (by Teika kazura) todos:
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Assigned to | Teika kazura (For group switching) | ||
Patch | |||
Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
replace deprecated GTK+ Widgets
Description | Only the ancient GtkTree is implemented in rep-gtk.
GtkTree only supports double-clicks, for user experience it's better to implement GtkTreeView, which is much more modern and supports single clicks. This also involves a rewrite of lisp.sawfish.ui.group - I'll try to get that into rep-gtk 0.90.1, a set of other deprecated Widgets has already been modernized. | ||
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Assigned to | User:Flashrider | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Done
Description | 1. If there are broken items in /usr/share/applications read by apps-menu.jl, Sawfish doesn't start.
See here. It has an example of erroneous *.desktop file. 2. It is also reported that even missing symbolic link in that directory breaks Sawfish, too. 3. It used to break for 'R' (statistics software), too. 4. Not Sawfish startup failure, but some *.desktop files are ignored. Items 1 and 2 are fixed in Sawfish-1.6.2. Items 3 and 4 are fixed in this, which should be applied against Mar 19 revision. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Rejected
Support for merging windows into one frame
Description |
Let's say you use the GIMP and merge all three windows into one frame. This would be an improvement for users of apps with several windows and another unique characteristic for sawfish. Negative opinions: | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | *** |
Add Stop-Focus/Stop-Raise Focus Modes
Description |
Stop-focus and Stop-raise are available as scripts. Merge them into Sawfish | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Animated Window Moving
Description |
This is already available as script. This animation might be used for any move operation. Setting steps to 1 should disable animation, else get a fancy effect. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
Patch | |||
Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Description |
if [[ $MAX_THEMES_TO_SHOW_AT_ONCE < $ALL_THEMES_TO_SHOW ]]; then
fi Timo Korvola says: This would not be necessary if the combo box had proper keyboard support, i.e., moved to an item when the user types the beginning of its label. Unfortunately it doesn't. I would have expected the toolkit to take care of this. | ||
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Assigned to | None | ||
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Status | NEW/PENDING | Difficulty | ** |
Template usage
See Template:Todo-item. It must be easy, but you are not forced to use it. :)