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Essential Features

  • #2 Change Static Background Properties (configuration)
  • #3 Redo efm Theme (efm)
  • #5 Cleanup Custom View (efm)
  • #6 Icon Size Configuration (efm)
  • #7 Remember Scroll Position (efm)
  • #8 Thumbnail Placeholders (efm)
  • fm2 needs to be able to handle signals from the fm fwin theme wallpaper and overlay - to exec or do things (eg go to parent, close, refresh, top, bottom)
  • fm2 on desktop needs option to select which dir on which zone
  • fm2 needs to show icons again if drag was aborted
  • fm2 needs to handle dnd of e apps too
  • need a default desktop dir & file setup
  • fm2 needs to auto-scroll if dnd hovers on edge of fm2 for a while
  • fm2 needs to display symlink info on files somehow
  • fm2 needs to display more than 1 file being dragged (if more than 1 is being dragged)
  • fm2 needs to drag other files in mult-drag to the right location
  • fm2 needs a way to bypass thumb gen anim on just a unrealize/realize as well as change state instantly if it already was selected
  • fm2 needs to not unrealize then re-realize on re-sort/arrange - keep objects around.
  • fm2 needs a mime/extension/glob filter
  • fwin doesn't change window icon when using view.open_in_place
  • LanguagePacks: need to have a tool to load/setup a language pack (which means .mo compiled files from a .po, an optional font and a config file that specifies the locale and font) and then install the font(s) either as a user or superuser, and the .mo in the system or a user locales dir.
  • finish off icccm support
  • finish complete netwm support
  • TaskbarModule: add a "taskbar" module
  • add cpu load module
  • add setup/install wizard to seed .desktop files etc. etc.
  • make it possible to disable border buttons/actions (tell theme what is disabled) like close, maximize, etc. etc. buttons.

Cleanups

  • make e internal windows (config panel, dialogs, config windows etc.) use special border styles by default
  • accidental DND removals of icons from ibar - make it harder by not removing if you do not drag it far enough away (put the icon back where it was).
  • emit more signals to window borders when window move starts, stops, resize starts, stops, on raise, lower, etc. etc.
  • remove a lot of ipc commands that should be done via the gui now
  • remove config items marked for removal
  • about dialog can do with redesign
  • desklock's pam profile should be configurable as system-auth doesn't always work and the fallback checks might not work either.
  • If a user has set a border type on a window, don't bother to check for changes in properties to change the border based on prop changes.
  • need to audit, namespace and expand text and color classes
  • winlist could divide windows up into blocks - sub-lists within a container per desktop (with stick windows considered to live on the "current" desk when winlist starts)
  • winlist needs to know about desktop flips and adjust list when it happens
  • e_color_dialog needs to have an area for favorite and recently selected colors. store in config and use ilist? or store as color files and use e_fm2? or custom widget?
  • desktop flip animations need to allow control over accel/decel and have a better ui - add wobble and controls etc. etc.
  • internal windows (config dialogs, etc) should re-open after a restart

"Nice to have" Features

  • insets in shelf needs to rottate with shelf
  • option for svg icon render resolution size
  • for startup - apps that say "wait for me befofe running the next app" have a timeout so if they never complete - complain and continue anyway.
  • emit signal to submenu entries if they have a submenu shown for them or not
  • setup configs for gnome and kde (as options) if they are installed (eg run gnome-settings-daemon).
  • add non-opaque move/resize (use shaped windows with canvases etc.)
  • pager should be able to be configured to control more than the current zone (select which zone they control)
  • #11 system tray
  • User-configurable top menu

Optimizations

  • add evas pre/post render callbacks per evas canvas and callbacks per object for pre/post render too
  • optimize clock theme (speed/cpu) (rotation in edje??? or evas???)
  • evas could detect an image is scaled multiple times and keep a scaled copy that it could share in cache, and then punt the original back to cache.
  • evas could support 8bbp alpha only images for dropshadow
  • on disk app cache for .desktop files, icons and paths
  • new fm2 code's file scanning isn't insanely fast - icon size calcs etc. speed up for special cases like list view?
  • new fm2 code re-lays-out a dir every time the queue is processed - maybe try to speed this up
  • starting time is around 4 second until the beginning of the main loop (on raster's computer) - maybe try to dig into the different steps of the initialization and speed them up

Bugs

  • when VLC goes full screen nothing happens, the main window stays in place and the fullscreen window is invisible... Restart E and the fullscreen window with the movie appears in the background this does happens randomly with kmplayer / gmplayer but everytime with VLC
  • screen res change with shaded windows that are bigger than the screen (eg you go from 1600x1200 ro 800x600 and some windows are "temporarily resized" down doesn't work right. shaded windows get resizes to widthx1 and unshaded windows that u then shade and unshade seem to resize win but not border and thus get garbage).
  • gkrellm options to "dont show in pager or taskber" only work if gkrellem is moved to one monitor and back again - doesn't seem to work on e boot/start if it is started at e start time
  • pane flip animation doesn't work right - left screen slides diagonally instead of in a straight line
  • exebuf on other zones doesn't allow mouse to work properly (only zone/screen 0 works properly)