Feature ideas for samurai-x

clients

• clients may not always have a frame
• perhaps clients should have a list of decoration windows?
• style shouldnt be in the client, should be in the decoration itself
• essentially client should be the bare minimum

decorations

• need some sort of minimal widget code for handling buttons etc

Features for version 0.1

• simple moving and resizing of windows with mouse and from the window titlebar/borders
• virtual desktops
• simple key based shortcuts for execution of applications
• basic config file ( perhaps use the same method as SX1? )
• window maximizing and restoring ( no minimize until we've written some sort of status bar - unless something like pypanel can handle it, then maybe make it an optional feature )

Features for version 0.2

• sloppy focus
• more complete support for ICCCM
• a non-python configuration loader (maybe json?)
• simple plugin system
• ...

Extra application ideas

• set root background tool
• tool to pipe/echo to the cut buffer
• xscreensaver clone / python screensavers ( use pyglet maybe? )

Widget Ideas

Slots Idea

Windows/Systray? have "slots" that controls can be inserted into. eg:

window.slots["left"].append(widgets.Button(img="close.png", on_click=window.close))
window.slots["right"].append(widgets.Button(img="maximise.png", on_click=window.maximise))
window.slots["right"].append(widgets.Button(img="minimise.png", on_click=window.minimise))
window.slots["centre"].append(widgets.Label(caption=window.caption))

systray.slots["right"].append(widgets.Button(img="term.png", on_click=spawn("xterm"))

Its then up to the theme/renderer to place the controls in slots wherever they want.

Perhaps we dont even need slots? Maybe just have a list of controls and the theme/renderer gets to decide what to do with them