LXDE To Do

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Contents 1 The Whole Integrated LXDE 2 PCManFM (file manager) 3 LXPanel (desktop panel) 4 LXLauncher (easy-mode application launcher) 5 LXTerminal (terminal emulator) 6 LXSession (session manager) 7 LXNM (network helper daemon) 8 Screen Saver 9 Feature requests

[edit] The Whole Integrated LXDE

• Try to make each components more integrated when executed together.
• Provide mechanisms to set preferred applications (browser, terminal emulator, mail reader)
• Try to override some commands like gnome-open under LXDE to get rid of some problems

[edit] PCManFM (file manager)

• Basic trash can support (highest priority)
• Support samba, ftp, sftp, ... via FUSE (already under development, but help is needed)
• Make desktop icons movable (already under development)
• Customizable file actions (Adding popup menu items for specific mime-types)
• Automount for volumes
• Make preference dialog callable via command line.
• Support changing wallpaper via command line.
• Support RTL layout for desktop icons
• Mouse gesture (A friend is trying to work on this)
• Try to separate the folder view from PtkFileBrowser class for better use and extension (For example, dual-pane mode). (low priority)
• POSIX ACL with libacl (low priority)
• Implement filter bar like in Dolphin

PCManFM roadmap with technical details

[edit] LXPanel (desktop panel)

• Better support for customizing text colors
• Better UI for adding application quick launch buttons.
• Improve the start menu.

LXPanel roadmap with technical details

[edit] LXLauncher (easy-mode application launcher)

• Basic theme support
• Better application grouping rules

LXLauncher roadmap with technical details

[edit] LXTerminal (terminal emulator)

Is it possible to develop a lightweight terminal emulator based-on Scintilla editor widget?

http://www.scintilla.org/index.html

This is the core of the famous SciTE editor which supports UTF-8 and has good performance.

[edit] LXSession (session manager)

• Allow shutdown/reboot with sudo when HAL is not available.
• Make config files of LXSession and LXSession Lite compatible.

[edit] LXNM (network helper daemon)

[edit] Screen Saver

• Hack gnome-screensaver and to remove all gnome dependencies.
• This won't be difficult since gnome-screensaver only uses minimal gnome APIs, but it does require dbus.
• gnome dependencies in gnome-screensaver:
  • libgnomeui: only used for gnome_bg_*
  • gconf: can be replaced with GKeyFile.
  • libgnomekbd: can be turned off with configure option.
  • dbus interfaces: need to be renamed with 'gnome' removed from their names.
  • reference of gnome-desktop package should be removed from configure.ac.
  • fast user switching support requires gdm, though.

[edit] Feature requests

• tools to easily setup/change apps.desktop shortcut
• create apps.desktop by right click on desktop > create new > shortcut.
• ability to customize all fonts used in LXDE, for accessibility.
• applets to configure the screen resolution. (it's unthinkable to have a DE without a screen resolution changer)
• separate desktop icons handling from PCManFM (i.e. instead of one application there would be two).
• add option in lxterminal to remove scroll bar and menu bar
• tool for making screenshots in easy way.
• annoint Geany as LXIDE