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wish_list [2016/09/13 12:28] – [Terminal] added support for per-terminal flavoring mmacdwish_list [2016/09/13 12:45] – [Productivity tools for XFCE] mmacd
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 ===== Print Dialog and Printing Manager ===== ===== Print Dialog and Printing Manager =====
  
-  * Add support for printing PDF/Postscript files.+  * Add support for printing PDF/Postscript files, particularly newer ones with more complex features.  Many printers in the printer list haven't been made in decades and are unlikely to still be in service, whereas some newer printers, e.g. the M400 series Laserjets, still aren't in the list.
   * Printing via Samba shared printers.   * Printing via Samba shared printers.
   * Add the possibility to print odd/even pages, for those printers which need manual duplex   * Add the possibility to print odd/even pages, for those printers which need manual duplex
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      * Shouldn't users have a choice instead of making it just for one person's taste?  - KitchM      * Shouldn't users have a choice instead of making it just for one person's taste?  - KitchM
        * let me set this xfce4-settings-editor?        * let me set this xfce4-settings-editor?
 +       * icon size should be settable, like font size (and for the same reason)
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 ===== New Modules ===== ===== New Modules =====
   * ''xfstart'' -- Utility to start applications with certain WM_HINTS set.   * ''xfstart'' -- Utility to start applications with certain WM_HINTS set.
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     * How about using an online web Office application for example like Google Docs (it's the only good one I know off-head). In the word processor you will obviously have to support OO-XML and OASIS OpenDocument which is a real hard MF task otherwise there is no point as you will be in a small nutshell being the only one able to read and save the documents. Perhaps a MS Wordpad-like application with RTF documents? For what's in my case, I'm a happy OOo user. But at last there are also Desktop-wiki applications like **Zim** and **Tomboy** that support wiki/camel syntax, and even standalone HTML files with javascript like **Wiki on a stick** and **Tiddly wiki**. --- mike      * How about using an online web Office application for example like Google Docs (it's the only good one I know off-head). In the word processor you will obviously have to support OO-XML and OASIS OpenDocument which is a real hard MF task otherwise there is no point as you will be in a small nutshell being the only one able to read and save the documents. Perhaps a MS Wordpad-like application with RTF documents? For what's in my case, I'm a happy OOo user. But at last there are also Desktop-wiki applications like **Zim** and **Tomboy** that support wiki/camel syntax, and even standalone HTML files with javascript like **Wiki on a stick** and **Tiddly wiki**. --- mike 
         * Well, an online app can't really substitute a local one in this case (especially on a mobile device). Wordpad-like app is nice, but I don't really see any point in choosing RTF as default - the specification is pretty obscure and not really implemented correctly in contemporary MS products (although the spec is open, you still get compatibility issues). Second, I can't see a reason why choosing ODT would make it necessary to support OOXML as well. OOXML specs are enormous and intricated to my knowledge (although I am not really competent here). But you are right about WordPad (or Ted, in terms of functionality) - that's exactly what I want, just a little bit more contemporary and supporting a more recent standard as default. --- ilembitov         * Well, an online app can't really substitute a local one in this case (especially on a mobile device). Wordpad-like app is nice, but I don't really see any point in choosing RTF as default - the specification is pretty obscure and not really implemented correctly in contemporary MS products (although the spec is open, you still get compatibility issues). Second, I can't see a reason why choosing ODT would make it necessary to support OOXML as well. OOXML specs are enormous and intricated to my knowledge (although I am not really competent here). But you are right about WordPad (or Ted, in terms of functionality) - that's exactly what I want, just a little bit more contemporary and supporting a more recent standard as default. --- ilembitov
-  * I would be very much against an Xfword: Xfce is not in any way in the business of word processing. If you're looking for something lightweight and cool try **LyX**, a GUI to LaTeX that allows you to easily create beautifully typeset documents and presentations. The quality of the professionally-looking LaTeX- / LyX-generated PDF documents surpasses by far the capabilities of ordinary word processors (MS Word, OOo, Abiword, etc.). +  * I would be very much against an Xfword: Xfce is not in any way in the business of word processing. If you're looking for something lightweight and cool try **LyX**, a GUI to LaTeX that allows you to easily create beautifully typeset documents and presentations. The quality of the professionally-looking LaTeX- / LyX-generated PDF documents surpasses by far the capabilities of ordinary word processors (MS Word, OOo, Abiword, etc.). 
 +  * Not "productivity", precisely, but a specialised editor for creating themes would be nice, since themes seem to be a VERY popular area of work.  It's possible to do the art for a theme in gimp, but breaking the image into the relevant parts must be done by hand, which is tedious to say the least. 
  
 ===== Easy Font Installer ===== ===== Easy Font Installer =====