Desktop Manager

To Do/Wish List/Fantasies

• Fix bugs, or understand why they are not bugs:
  • Path (null) given to -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:] is not a full path. Does this occur because there is no test for nil around line 191 of CGWindow.m (method ownerIcon)? Or does nothing call that line of code? ???
    Update: This seems to have something to do with Parallels, both in full screen and in windowed modes, though I can't rule out that it is more generic.
• Focus:
  • Include the option of soft focus, also known as focus-follows-mouse. Of course, this is also on Rich Wareham's to do/wish list, and since he wrote the original version of this program, and has been unable to incorporate soft focus, what hope is there for me?
  • Related to soft focus: include the option that new windows don't automatically get the focus. The whole point of multi-threaded--and especially multiprocessor--systems is that you can work on one thing while waiting for another thing to load. Don't suddenly have me type in the wrong window just because the other program I asked for finally appeared. Of course, this is at least as difficult to implement as the previous item, if only as evidenced by the fact that for unknown (to me) reasons, even the gnome developers have removed this feature. Argh.
  • Remember window layering/focus between desktop switches. Right now, upon switching desktops, DesktopManager seems to put windows that appear on all desktops on top of the windows that are just in the new desktop, giving one of them the focus, instead of remembering the arrangement. This makes some sense--those windows were there--but this isn't necessarily always the most sensible behaviour. But again, this is something which might be nice to try to "fix", but it isn't something I think I would be able to fix tomorrow.

Desktop Manager