Antico Deluxe

Antico Deluxe is a fork of famous Antico WM/DE (http://antico.wordpress.com/), with some new features added and many new planned.

The goal is to create a Window/Desktop manager simple and fast, with very aesthetic
and familiar look and feel.
A very few parameters must be configured from few files, avoiding unnecessary complications, following the K.I.S.S. philosophy. Any other configurations like themes, icons etc. should be avoided. Keeping in very small size while having relatively rich feature set makes AnticoDeluxe very suitable for netbooks and low-end computers.

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FEATURES
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The overall look and feel have to be very close to MacOSX look and feel, which is ORIGINAL WORK FROM APPLE INC.

Project consist of:
1. AMELIB - support library - should be keep as small as possible, with very few classes.
2. Desktop without icons for now.
3. The Top Bar with system and applications menu, and few useful widgets/plugins.
4. The bottom Dock, which acts as taskbar and iconic application launcher.
5. NOT STARTED: File Manager
6. STARTED: System Preferences app.
7. NOT STARTED: some day-to-day use applications like text editor, picture viewer etc.
8. NOT STARTED: Login Manager

How to build:
qmake
make
make install

How to start:
Just quit your current X session and on login - select Antico Deluxe session ...
or use "test" or "myxephyr" script into antico directory

WARNING: This is beta quality software. Some features are not implemented or completed or some bugs may exists.


YOU FOUND A BUG: please, report at my email. Thanks.

A documentation, user guide and translations writers WANTED!

As from version 0.2-beta1 I will post only user visible changes into this changelog. For complete list of changes see CHANGELOG file.

WARNING: REMOVE ALL OLD VERSION INSTALLED FILES BEFORE UPGRADE TO VERSION 0.1.96

05/01/09: Dock is now resizeable in SystemPreferences.app; "ChangeWallpaper" module completed; Splash screens are not decorated; Dialogs have no win buttons; Double click on title bar minimize window; Initial working on keyboard shortcuts - ALT+F4 - close window, ALT+F9 - Show/Hide window;
20/01/09: AmeLib location changed to /usr/lib
25/01/09: Date&Time module finished and working - sudo dialog included; sound theme under artistic license included, see README for details
30/01/09: Alt-Tab shortcut for switching windows; Shiny new Alt-Tab widget; WARNING: Alt-Tab may breaks for some cases
04/03/09: New SoundVolume panel widget; most of the code is totaly rewriten; bugs fixed; new improved window decorations; windows are resized by bottom-right corner only