I just finished doing some major changes during a code clean-up op. Whole sections with hundreds of lines of code have been scrapped (without removing features) and this is some very, very old code when I first started the project and I have completely rewritten the whole thing as well as the way the Xlib struts are handled by the panel and have moved the whole thing into a super neat set of Xlib APIs so it is very clean and easy to use.
So that you know, a strut is a reserved area on the screen for the panel so that when you maximize a window, it won’t cover the panel.
Moreover, when you dock the panel to the edge of a screen now, the desktop icons get pushed down, or up or to the left or to the right and this means the panel no longer covers the icons but this is highly experimental and it’s still undergoing testing.
The real test will be once the project is released but I am trying hard to make sure that it does work when it’s released.
I expect to release Pilot X/11 in about 4 days. It is really done, just making some final changes. The rest that I had planned will be left for follow up releases.
I know I’ve been teasing you with my posts, again and again with no release date and I am sorry about it and it’s because there was so much work for a one man project, I didn’t know where to start, let alone provide a release date but now, I can confidently say, it’s about 4 days away.