Re: [Wsmanager-devel] TODO?

[Ka-Hing C. <ja...@ja...>]

Kevin Ballard said:
> I just read the TODO list. It brought up several questions. Hopefully
> someone can answer them.

Not being Richard, and having no contribution to this TODO list whatsoever,
I am trying to answer some of these:

>    Proper sticky window support (currently hard-coded make panels
> sticky).
>
> What is the ideal level of sticky window support? I mean, if you set it
> on a per-window basis, you'd want some way to remember which windows of
> which applications were sticky, so re-launching the apps would keep it
> sticky, and I can't think of any way that could be done.

Maybe something like remembering the title? In Linux (or X in general)
there's lots of ways you can match a window, like via WM_CLASS and WM_ROLE,
I am not sure if OS X has equivalents of those.

>
>    Move panel windows -- i.e. add to pager?
>
> I'm not sure what this means

I think this means move the panel with the pager, so if you drag the pager the
dock would be moved as well?

>
>    Move windows via pager
>
> The desktop pager already provides this, and I don't think I'd want the
> statusbar pager to let you move windows. Unless you mean move windows
> between workspaces by dragging them on the desktop pager?

I am pretty sure he means drag them across workspaces.

>    LONG TERM
>
>    lanch applescript via hotkey
>
> Why applescript? Why not anything? If this were added, I'd suggest
> making it so you could, say, set an oft-edited document to a hotkey, or
> something like that.

He probably means that a hotkey will launch an apple script, so people
can modify that apple script to do whatever they want. Having anything
launchable by hotkey will require a lot of reworking with the way hotkey
preference is currently implemented in DesktopManager I think.

>    iTunes integration
>
> I don't understand. What sort of iTunes integration could a workspace
> manager want?

Evil thought, per workspace playlist?

-khc