Project tasks and goals
The main goal of NEXTSPACE project is to create usable desktop for everyday usage with look and feel of NeXT’s OPENSTEP desktop enviroment.
Goal achievement is composed of several blocks of tasks:
- User applications.
- GNUstep framework ehnacement at some points to create application experience of distinct type.
- CentOS integration: keyboard, mouse, sound, networking, display, media, power management functions of desktop reactions and user-side configurations.
Below is a description functionality defined for release 1.0.
| Done | Functionality | Project task |
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Start as systemd service | |
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Initialize and start Xorg on application start | |
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Setup display layout and place itself on display with mouse cursor | |
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Setup mouse cursor and desktop background | |
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User authentication | |
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Set environment for authenticated user | |
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Wait for user session to finish | |
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Show Login panel when user session was finished | |
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Poweroff and restart of the computer | |
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Save display layout upon exit/poweroff/restart | |
| Handle display connect/disconnect and resolution change events | ||
| Preferneces module |
| Done | Functionality | Project task |
|---|---|---|
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Smooth start of Workspace application after logon (without focus flicker between applications) | |
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Browsing filesystem with “Browser” viewer | |
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Browsing filesystem with “Icon” viewer | |
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Shelf and Path view implementation | |
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File/directories operations with drag and drop (copy, move, link, destroy, duplicate) | |
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Open applications, files by assosiated applications with visual feedback | |
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Media management: automount, eject, mount (Check for Disks) | |
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Applications/processes management: register (show in Processes->Applications), kill, activate | |
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Display background processes in Processes->Background | |
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Recycler: locked icon in Dock, display number of items, restore to original location | |
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Save/restore session: opened apps and window with state (minimized, maximized, shaded) | |
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Window management: maximize with Alternate+Click on Miniaturize titlebar button | |
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Window management: kill with Alternate+Click on Close titlebar button | |
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Window management: show active virtual desktop number on Workspace application icon | |
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Window management: adopt screen resolution changes without restart | |
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Style: make style(tile, font) of appicons and miniwindows identical for GNUstep and X11 applications | |
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Style: make miniaturize and close titlebar buttons visual feedback identical to close buttons on GNUstepp apps tear-off menus | |
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Tools->Console: shows messages from applications started during user session | |
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Tools->Inspector: Attributes, Contents, Tools, Permissions | |
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Dock: show/hide with keyboard shortcut, autostart docked applications (with configuration in Workspace->Info->Preferences) | |
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Icon Yard: show/hide with keyboard shortcut | |
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Tools->Launcher: run command and applications with history and completion | |
| Tools->Finder: search files by name and contents | Card | |
| Implement “Compress” operation on files/directories |
| Done | Functionality | Project task |
|---|---|---|
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Preferences->Window: size, font, open/close behaviour | |
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Preferences->Title Bar: title display components | |
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Preferences->Linux emulation: character set and Escape key settings | |
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Preferences->Display: scrollback buffer and others | |
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Preferences->Shell: shell selection | |
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Preferences->Startup: Terminal app startup behaviour | |
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Preferences->Colors: colors for contents display | |
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Preferences: apply on per window or in application-wide manner | |
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Preferences->Window: size, font, open/close behaviour | |
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Shell->Set Title… | |
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Save, Save As, Open: session management functionality | |
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Edit: select all, Find panel, Clear Buffer | |
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Font selelection on per window basis | |
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Support of drop from Workspace for paths | |
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Terminal Services: configuration panel rewrite and implementation fixes | |
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Fix reaction to window resize: cursor and commandline text position, scrollback buffer state |
| Done | Functionality | Task Context |
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| NeXT-style boot screen | Plymouth | |
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UDisks for media management | NXSystem, Workspace |
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XRandR for display and screen management | NXSystem, Workspace, Preferences |
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Xorg mouse and keyboard configuration | NXSystem, Preferences |
| Sound subsystem(ALSA, PulseAudio) | NXSystem, Preferences | |
| Network management (NetworkManager) | NXSystem, Preferences | |
| Power management subsystem (UPower) | NXSystem, Preferences |