On Fri 12.Feb'10 at 9:04:18 +0100, J. Jordan wrote: > I would like to add my wishlist for the future of WindowMaker. > > What I would like to see: > 1.) Enable Drag and Drop by default, I managed to get it working and > have had no issues with it.
Could you share with others how you managed to get it working? > 2.) Enhance the UserMenu capabilities (these are the menus that come > up when you open a particular application. It would be nice to add > a panel to configure them and enable/disable them on a > per-application basis. Expanding them as talked about in the source > code would be nice also. I don't even know if this is possible, but > it would be nice if Wmaker could hide the normal menu on > applications (it should be possible on GTK+ apps). > 3.) Make it possible to paste text in WMaker dialogs. > 4.) Create WMaker style dialogs sort of like Zenity. > 5.) Threaten, bribe, beg, pray whatever to get OpenOffice and the > other ill behaved apps out there to fix THIER WM_CLASS issues. Can you be more precise about it? What issues? > 6.) Work with WDM to get it updated and integrate configuration into > WMaker Preferences. Yeah, it would be really nice to have an updated WDM. For example, I miss the "auto-login" feature in WDM (I mean _real_ auto-login, not the current one where you have to press Enter twice). Because right now I have to use kdm for that (blah!), and I would like to avoid having KDE libs being loaded just for that. > 7.) Make WMaker Preferences extendable or at least a panel with > icons to external configuration dialogs. > > What I would NOT like to see: > 1.) An OSX style dock > 2.) A cartoon foot > 3.) A cartoon gear > 4.) Another cartoon foot called a cashew (I really hate feet on my > computer screen!) > 5.) Windowmaker become a clone of Microsoft's or Apple's latest > "usability enhancement" which consistently means removing > capabilites and control to make it easier for the help-desk (like > KDE4) > > I am really glad to see some effort going into Window Maker, I have > used it on and off for many years and always come back to it. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
