On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Rodolfo García Peñas wrote:
we want Drawers? Is only a question, I don't know if NeXT has Drawers.
NeXT didn't have drawers AFAIK. It only had the dock which did what the dock is doing in Window Maker. Multiple desktops was added by a third party app called Fiend,app which also functions as an extended dock. There are some screenshots showing it here: http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/software/openstep_screenshots/index.html (Fiend is the one with green < \ > buttons and Clip like workspace name and number in it's app icon)
This is the history and the root of the difference between the Dock and Clip in Window Maker. Despite that drawers might be a good addition but as Carlos has pointed out there's already a dockapp which provides this functionality so it's questionable if it needs to be included in Window Maker.
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Rodolfo García Peñas wrote:
IMO, the Dock is a sub-type of Clip, and Drawers is a sub-type of Clip.
This makes sense. If the code impelementing the Clip could be modified to support restrictions to behave like the Dock or Drawers it could be used in place of them.
In that way we can think about remove Clip and Dock from wmaker, and add them as independent applications. Perhaps these applications could receive notifications about application/window actions (open, close, minimize,...).
This might be a good idea but potentially difficult to implement. There might be issues with running multiple instances of this external Clip. Nevertheless it is an interesting idea.
Regards, BALATON Zoltan
