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AskPass

Replacement for x11-ssh-askpass

• Copy input concept from x11-ssh-askpass
• Don’t customize through Xresources, use GTK themestuffs.
  • How do we do this best for custom widgets?

Greeter

LightDM Greeter

• Clutter to composite
• Implement some modular means of embedding things in the topbar?
  • Isn’t there a libindicator or something that Canonical developed?
    • Does anyone use that? Should we?

File Manager

Simple file manager based on design concepts explicitly stolen from Apple’s Finder

• Columnar navigation as the default

Settings

Settings host application

• Use INI or JSON file for settings panels to specify their icon and name and category
  • Category? Do we provide a list or accept a string? Both maybe?
• Breadcrumbs navigation
• Don’t handle actually setting the settings
  • Let the panels handle all that themselves, whether via dconf, gconf, editing files, whatever
• Panels run as subprocesses which XEmbed themselves
  • Pass the XEmbed identifier as an argument to the process
  • How do we do this on Wayland?

Settings/Network

Network settings panel

• Support NetworkManager and wicd at least
  • Maybe support netctl?
• Study the images GNOME3’s design team compiled for theirs
  • Most of them seem broken, might need to recompile them?
    • Install ElementaryOS in a VM?
• Make a logical divide between permanent and temporary profiles maybe?

Settings/Display

Frontend for xrandr

• Drag and drop screens like everybody else
  • Invent a GTK widget for this
• Allow application to arbitrary X displays?
• How do we do this on Wayland?

Settings/Audio

Audio subsystem configuration

• Support ALSA and PulseAudio at least
  • Maybe also support JACK
• For mixing systems, should we provide a means of controlling the mixing in further detail? Like plugboard-style?

Email

Make the best damn email client for Linux

• Study the UX of GMail and Sparrow.app
• Implement GMail’s IMAP extensions
• Contact Mailbox.app and ask them nicely to let us integrate (pls guise halp)
  • Maybe just read-only?
  • I think we technically have a legal right to reverse-engineer their API for compatibility reasons, if it comes to that?
• Support for uploading attachments to Dropbox, etc.
• Support HTML emails fully. Aim for total compliance.
• Good plaintext email support
• GMail threading with fallback on internal threading
• Prettify >greentext block quotes like on iOS (indent with left borders)

Calendar

Calendar & todo list application

• Keep the UI simple
• support syncing with Google Calendar
  • Are there any non-Apple ways to hook into iCloud?
  • Are there any other calendar services?
• Integrate with Mailbox, if we can
  • Would be nice to have emails display as tasks when you delay them

Photo Manager

Danbooru-influenced photo management application

• Tag inheritance?
• auto-tagging
• Probably gonna have to build Tries and other data structures for Vala. Damn.