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WIP: Screenshots

• [ Style ] (if xfce4-settings is installed)
• [ Keyboard ] (if xfce4-settings is installed)
• Focus
  • Focus model
  • New window focus
  • Raise on focus
  • Raise on click
  • Focus stealing/hints
  • When a window raises itself
• Placement (+ xfwm4 advanced)
  • Windows snapping
  • Wrap workspaces when reaching the screen edge
  • Hide content of windows
  • Double click action
  • Min size to trigger smart placement
  • By default, place windows:
• Cycling (as is)
• Compositor (as is)
• Accessibility (as is)

• General
• Margins
• Behavior (xfwm4 workspaces)

• Behavior
• Application Shortcuts
• Window Manager Shortcuts (if xfwm4 is installed)
• Layout

• Style
• Icons
• Window Borders (if xfwm4 is installed)
• Fonts
• Settings

Different implementations are possible. Below are suggestions open for discussion.

How should xfwm4 be detected:

• running instance (detect the current running window manager)
• xfconf channel presence
• xfwm4 binary included in PATH

How should xfce4-settings be detected:

• running instance of xfsettingsd (part of the session)
• xfconf channel presence
• xfce4-keyboard-settings and xfce4-appearance-settings present in PATH (or .desktop file)

xfwm4_shortcut_values in libxfce4kbd-private/xfce-shortcuts-xfwm4.c needs to match xfwm4 src/settings.h KEY enum. Meaning libxfce4kbd can't be updated independently from xfwm4 in case of a shortcut change. (Appending is possible)

Possible solutions:

• Accept we can only append (add a comment)
• Add a mapping table to xfwm4
• Move the mapping to xfwm4 and solve the xfce4-keyboard-settings in a different way
• Add the enum to libxfce4kbd and use static linking on the mappings
• Don't use the enum, use g_intern_string or GQuark

Use a GtkPlug/GtkSocket setup to embed the specific xfwm tabs into the settings dialogs. It would be similar to how the settings manager embeds processes and keep coupling loose for new shortcut/settings updates.

• The next logical move seems to be a merge of the xfwm4 and xfwm4-tweaks dialogs, however, this bears a few problems:
  • There'd be 2 tabs with the same title (Focus), they'd either have to be merged or one of them renamed
  • There'd be 8 tabs (or 7, if Focus tabs are merged) in this dialog, which seems a bit hefty