Hello. I've got some thoughts about the next steps in Crystal and I've written them in a 'doc/TODO' file. Below is a copy. Any thoughts, suggestions will be appreciated.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FVWM-Crystal TODO / Roadmap =========================== * Version 3.0.5 (devel) I'm thinking about releasing this one as a "development" release, since last version was released many months ago... It would be good to show that project is not dead. Preferred date of the release - end of April 2007. - remove all non-free icons from the source tree; that would be the Firefox icon, commercial application and game icons, and other with unknown license terms. For now applications can go without replacement icons, but if you have some on the free license, bring 'em on; - add support for stalonetray/trayer in all current recipes; - synchronize application and menu icons with the Tango Project. Good source of icons is on the http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Fridays site; - add support for gnome-session proposed by Dominique Michel; * Version 3.0.6 (stable) This version should be focused on polishing current code, removing bugs and adding missing translations and documentation. Proposed release date: summer 2007 (July or August probably). - create a downloadable package or repository with all non-free application icons, so users can easily download them and use on their desktops if they wish. I know that not all apps will have free icon alternatives and some people prefer Mozilla Firefox logo instead of IceWeasel; - find a way to better handling of 'fvwm-crystal-minimal' vs main version. I just don't feel that it's very useful at the moment, maybe there's a better way to do this? Possible way is to split the package into: 'fvwm-crystal' - main "core", 1 or 2 window decorations (preferably Crystal and Clearlooks), some application icons (xterm.png, default.png, directory.png, something else?), 1 wallpaper (fvwm-crystal-dark1) 'fvwm-crystal-artwork' - rest of the wallpapers/window decorations/icons, optional That way Crystal will be either small but functional (good for LiveCD) or big and colorful ("normal" distributions); - add new translations, update the current ones with the missing strings; - debug all recipes; - add the documentation sources in DocBook format, create a Makefile entry to easily generate the different documentation formats from DocBook; - write a doc about Crystal's configuration structure and initialization process - it's somewhere on the list, but the better place would be to include it in the doc/ directory; - finish writing FAQ and Application database documentation; - update all window decorations to support UTF-8 strings (similar way as the menu supports it, although this way is a dirty hack, maybe in the newest FVWM release it's already fixed?); - clean up the application database - support for xfg menu structure is nice, but for me still some applications are in different sections than they should be. Add icons for as many applications as we can; * After 3.0.7 New ideas, scripts and configurations... Any thoughts? - add gettext support for FvwmApplet-MpdPlEd - do something with colorsets, they suck... I just don't know if implementation in Crystal sucks or how FVWM handles colorsets suck ;) Anyway, pixmapped panels would be cool, but how to make good horizontal/vertical themes? Integrate colorsets with recipes. Put recipes in subdirectories, so they can use their own pixmaps for shaped panels, etc. Colorset numbers need to be changed: #1-#4 for window decorations (that's max they can use anyway), the rest for panels/menus/forms, depending on the recipe. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, harnir -- + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + | Maciej Delmanowski / http://linux.net.pl/~harnir/ / GnuPG: 48B03AFE | + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
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