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Some people have been wondering what is happening with Desktop Manager these days. Well I have to say that not much has happened for a while. The problem is that DM was my first real Mac app and subsequently I've come to realise, even with the rewrite that happened for 0.5, how difficult it is to maintain in its current state. It just wasn't fun trying to retro-fit things into the strange architecture when I was aware of far 'better' ways of doing it. DM has, on my own machine, been re-written a few times now, each time trying to make it more modular and bug-free.
Consequently the 0.6 release will be another complete rewrite and will be moving to BerliOS as well I hope. New features in this release will be 'proper' support for multiple monitors and two-dimensional pagers (i.e. a design decision from the start). Also the hot key mechanism has been re-written to make full use of Unicode keyboard layouts where available so non-English keyboard users should be happy. Finally the app has been written with localisation in mind so the translators can have an easier time. Hopefully making it Tiger compatible will be easier now as well.
Enough of my witterings though. What everyone wants is:( Screenies ) |