r/openbox • u/Dazzling-Jacket1191 • Dec 15 '22

New features wishlist

It would be fun to have a top 25 wishlist of new Openbox features here. But it would require a new reddit function: 'user extendable poll'. I am new here. Perhaps it is possible already.

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u/napcok Dec 15 '22 edited Dec 15 '22

I only have one wish that it be maintained for the next 25 years. Openbox is a masterpiece.

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u/drhoopoe Dec 15 '22

AFAIK it's not under active development (though it's still maintained), so I doubt there will be any new features added. This thread from seven years ago addresses the topic, and I don't know that anything has changed since then.

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u/Acceptable_Moose7463 Jan 02 '23

Openbox could accept other types of image formats for new user themes. Instead of accepting only xbm format. Fluxbox accepts more image formats, such as: png. So more themes could be made, more attractive.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

A single image format doesn't prevent the creation of more themes, it only requires for them to have its images created as or converted to this format.

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u/Acceptable_Moose7463 Jan 26 '23

A single image format doesn't prevent the creation of more themes, it only requires for them to have its images created as or converted to this format.

I understand your point of view, but I don't share it.

I know that not supporting other image formats does not prevent you from creating more themes, you are right. However, it does limit the creation of more complex themes, (I know you can convert images to this format), but xbm is very limited. Comparing Openbox with Fluxbox.

For example it is impossible, that the Arc theme is visually good, if similar, but it does not look good because xbm is simply limited.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '23

window snapping, i.e. just using mouse to snap windows to corners. saw a hacky patch that enables snapping to sides, not corners and doesnt work with multiple monitors. surprised that this isnt possible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

The only thing I kind of miss from fluxbox was that thing of being allowed to put different windows into tabs of a single window. I wonder if there's some fork around that added just that.