Planned features

[dkondor]

Now that 3.6.0 is almost released, I'm collecting a bunch of features to consider for a future release (not necessarily all would be implemented for 3.7.0 though):

• Weather applet: allow selection based on place name
• Dbus: stop using deprecated library (e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955878), move to GDBus
• Dbus: allow restricting access to some interfaces to our own external applets (e.g. communicate with applets via a custom socket instead of system-wide bus)
• Dbus: try to add "activator" method for applets, can work in place of keyboard shortcuts on Wayland (need to set command in compositor; see also How to toggle a specific applet using dbus cairo-dock-plug-ins#37)
• KWin: imlement support for the new KDE screen edge protocol to recall hidden docks
• Improve setting minimize positions: for items in a subdock, set it to the subdock icon if the subdock is not shown
• Switcher / workspaces: support for multiple workspace groups with the ext-workspace Wayland protocol
• Cosmic: properly support window positions reported relative to their output
• Implement cairo_dock_texture_from_pixmap () equivalent for EGL on X11 to show thumbnails of windows
• Implement cairo_dock_texture_from_pixmap () equivalent on Wayland using the wlr-screencopy protocol or its ext / cosmic equivalent
• Screenshot applet: Wayland support using the wlr-screencopy or similar protocol
• Xgamma applet: Wayland support using the wlr_gamma_control or similar protocol
• Wayfire: consider using the IPC interface for tracking the overlap of windows with the dock
• Wayfire: use the IPC interface to register global keybindings
• passwords: move away from insecure custom storage, use keyring or remove entirely (review which applets still need it) (see e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920361)
• Impulse: add a custom widget to select audio source in the config Any chance the Impulse audio visualizer plugin could be updated to work with Pipewire? cairo-dock-plug-ins#62
• Impulse: consider replacing libpulse with Pipewire
• Review rarely-used applets
• Add the possibility to interactively download extra plugins from https://github.com/Cairo-Dock/cairo-dock-plug-ins-extras
• alsaMixer: better keep track of the current output used / potentially port to PipeWire Audio plugin, is there something better? cairo-dock-plug-ins#70
• Provide the equivalent of our GNOME-based session for supported Wayland compositors; a session with Wayfire is implemented here: https://github.com/dkondor/cairo-dock-wayland-session -- it would need more testing and packaging and could also provide alternatives for e.g. Labwc