Roadmap 2024

[Norman Feske]

Hi John,

> 1. Could you say a few words about "Application-level compositing using 
> Genode's dialog API" (24.05)?

the idea is to use one application as widget inside another. I mentioned 
it near the bottom of the posting [1].

[1] https://lists.genode.org/pipermail/users/2023-December/008850.html

> 2. Does "Multi-monitor window management" (24.11) include support for 
> multiple "workspaces"?  (Actually, does it already support this, and I 
> just didn't notice?)

When using Sculpt's window-manager preset, you can switch between 
multiple virtual desktops via Super-1 ... Super-9. By default, new 
windows appear at screen 1. To move a window to another screen, you have 
to edit rw/recall/window_layouter/recall/rules (changing the 'target' 
attribute of the respective window). Note that the rules file is 
persistent as it resides in the recall_fs. So the system remembers the 
window configuration across reboots.

> 3. During the discussion, I completely forgot about screen rotation on 
> tablets (not necessarily auto-detecting).  Given the current design, is 
> that a difficult item?

We should certainly aim for it. But I cannot yet predict the best approach.

Cheers
Norman

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