{"id":25,"date":"2004-01-21T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=51"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:08:34","slug":"desktop-manager-050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/desktop-manager-050\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Manager 0.5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Wareham released <a href=\"http:\/\/wsmanager.sourceforge.net\/\">Desktop Manager<\/a> 0.5.0 today. Here&#8217;s a quick list of new features.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New plugin-based system &#8212; almost all user-visible functionality is implemented by plugins.<\/li>\n<li>New preferences pane &#8212; more like System Preferences.<\/li>\n<li>Active screen edges &#8212; configurable, switching may be triggered by moving to screen edge.<\/li>\n<li>Desktop-based pager &#8212; An often reqested feature. A desktop pager compatible with CodeTek VirtualDesktop(TM) skins.<\/li>\n<li>Desktop switch transitions &#8212; Eight eye-candy switches for your enjoyment [EXPERIMENTAL].<\/li>\n<li>Preliminary sticky window support &#8212; There is some code for sticky windows available. Currently it is used to make all panels sticky.  This will be configurable in future [EXPERIMENTAL].<\/li>\n<li>Other non-user-visible bug fixes and optimisations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using Desktop Manager since the 0.3.1 release, and in my opinion it&#8217;s the best virtual desktop tool available for MacOS X.  It&#8217;s very light on resources, and the feature-set is almost exactly what I&#8217;m looking for (total sticky window support would be great for XRG).  Anyway, if you have a Mac, check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Wareham released Desktop Manager 0.5.0 today. Here&#8217;s a quick list of new features. New plugin-based system &#8212; almost all user-visible functionality is implemented by plugins. New preferences pane &#8212; more like System Preferences. Active screen edges &#8212; configurable, switching may be triggered by moving to screen edge. Desktop-based pager &#8212; An often reqested feature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}