Hi all!
Some week ago i read about ION window-manager at the Hungarian Unix Portal. Due, I'm an engineering monkey, and i really hates wasting my time playing with the windows locations, i thought the tiling wm would be a good thing for me. So, i pulled down the ION2 from the Debian respository and give it a shot. My first thoughts: Simple, efficient and fast. After that, i dowloaded the ION3 source, and compiled it. Well, it's a bit different from the Debian's ION2, but the development is clear. The Run menu file listing is damned fast comapared to the GTK+ same function. I'm still testing it, but i can't find any bug, yet. Also i have some ideas and thoughts, which i compiled to kind of whistlist. Most is not a basic wm feature, but it would be nice in a tabbed, tiling wm. Maybe some of these already developed, but spending 13 hours with the soldering iron, and 3 hours moving bricks every day, leaves me a small time to reading the documentations. Requested features: Policy settings for the new window creation. When i run some multyple window application (mplayer, gimp), it would be nice if i could set where must the spawned window must to be placed. Currently it's follows the mouse pointer. My idea is to be set a policy for every application (tabs) for the method of the new window placement. Three or four rules (same tile, some tile, any tile, float) would be suffice. Auto size adjust for the fixed size applications at start. If i run some application like gkrellm, xmms, it would be nice, if the tile size automatically set, when it's start. Switching the application to full screen mode, and back to the previous tile settings. Some applications like the IDEs, database managers, CADs requires full screen and split screen mode in the working process (for example: routing the PCB with the layout editor and checking the schematic at the same time. Usually it's a constant switching between the "splited" [picking and placing a part] and fullscreen mode [routing the part's net]) Mouse aided tile resize. User experiences: These are some ideas for applications, which increasing the user base of the ION. I know, these are not necessary for a successfull wm, but usually these tools, which is mostly affect the user feels. GUI based configuration tool for the keybindings. Support for alternate keybindings. The basic ION keybindings is disaster using with Midnight Commander or Gentoo file managers. Both of these heavily depends on the funtion keys. Also the most CADs heavily depends on the function keys. Icon based, floating style application launcher. Happy hacking! Mark Balogh HUNGARY
