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 — TODO for Blackbox - an X11 Window manager

New to do items:

  • ❏ add support for _NET_RESTACK_WINDOW.

  • ❏ add support for _NET_SHOWING_DESKTOP.

  • ❏ set WM_CLIENT_MACHINE on check window.

  • ❏ set WM_NAME and WM_CLASS on check window.

Old to do items:

  • ❏ i18n/l10n (translations) support, need something else that can translate into either UTF-8 (needed for NETWM and Xft) or locale (for Xmb).

  • ❏ make sure transients are correctly associated at startup. this is partially done by ensuring stacking order across restarts…​ we might be able to do more, but it’s not urgent

  • ❏ session support via the X session management protocol

  • ❏ re-add support for tear-off menus to bt::Menu

  • ❏ see about supporting specifications at www.freedesktop.org (for example, the basedirs-spec)…​ if the various bbtools also follow this spec (read: add something to libbt), then sharing data/config files is much easier

  • ❏ the current style is stored only by name (not by path)…​ all styles have to placed in some directory ($XDG_DATA_DIRS/blackbox/styles, for example) in order for them to be found. The menu could automatically search all $XDG_DATA_DIRS directories and build up the style menu, instead of the user having to edit his menu file to add new style directories…​ this also gives us the possibility of defining a style "package" format

  • ❏ similarly, all config files (the rc, the menu file, a style "override" file) should be stored somewhere in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

  • ❏ as mentioned above, allow the user to override anything in the style…​ either in the rc or in a separate "override" style

  • ❏ introduce the concept of actions. actions are things that the end user can do, e.g. close, move, iconify, switch workspaces, etc…​ these can be configurable with one or more mouse/key combinations…​ when doing this, talk with vanR about the future of bbkeys…​

ADD: support user controlled window decoration

ADD: subdirs in stylesmenu/dir will create a new submenu

ADD: get volunteers to translate blackbox into other languages

ADD: a regression test suite items to test: *) toggle decor works *) multihead

CHANGE: look into centering the window when maximizing and the window can not grow to fill the area

CHANGE: move all of the fprintf() messages to a message function / class. Something like message(WARN, "this is broken") and use sprintf() to allow for printf() style replacements. This can be set to go to stderr, a log file, whatever. It can also be disabled for final builds.

CHANGE: use less pointers and more references