Twindy 1.00

Twindy is a window manager for linux and possibly any system running an X server, inspired by Tracktion, the multitrack audio editor/sequencer for Windows and OS X.
Twindy tries to apply Tracktions workflow, where everything is on screen at once, to a window manager.
As such, there are two panels, a main panel where new windows/programs open by default and may be selected using tabs, and a lower panel, which can only hold one window/program at a time.
The idea is that youll do your main work in the top panel, and use the bottom panel for a terminal, or a file manager youd want to keep open. See the screenshots page for some examples.
The philosophy behind Twindy isnt particularly complicated:
- Twindy is intended to be as simple as possible. That means it is only a window manager - its not intended to become a huge Desktop Environment like KDE/Gnome, with all sorts of applications developed specifically for it.
- All Twindys options must be configurable from Twindy itself - there shouldnt be any messing about with configuration files necessary. (okay, were not there yet, but eventually...)
- Twindy should be fairly lightweight - Im not entirely sure how well it succeeds in this yet, as I dont have a low-ish spec machine to test it on, but on my P4 laptop, it only takes up ~10MB while running, which I reckon is pretty good, compared to Gnome and KDE. Since it uses JUCE to do pretty much everything, it should be pretty good on this front, and its got very few dependencies (basically the X libs, and freetype).
Main features:
- Windows are automatically mapped to either the upper or lower panel, and fixed in position.
- Upper window panels are tabbed.
- Fully customisable colour scheme, colours are read from .tracktionscheme files, so you can import your favourite Tracktion 2 scheme. This is probably the best place to find .tracktionschemes.
- You dont have to start it from an xterm anymore!
- Fourteen user-customisable buttons in the lower left corner, which can be set to open a popup menu with a number of program entries, or just start a particular program.
- Can run any number of programs at startup (particularly useful for gnome-settings-daemon).
- Clicking the clock switches between showing the current time, or the date.
Enhancements:
- This is the last release of the project.
- Various small improvements to the UI have been made, such as labeling the upper and lower panel buttons, asking whether the user wants to log out, and providing buttons to switch apps between the upper and lower panels.
- Localization support was also added.