juanlao7/remolacha

A web desktop environment for remote servers.

remolacha's Issues

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• It should be possible to do everything without a mouse.
• Windows must trap the focus inside them.

Import remolacha's types in apps

After spending a couple of days I couldn't figure out how to import the types of the remolacha base module in apps.

• Remolacha's modules are publicly available in window.remolacha because webpack.config.json defines output.library = 'remolacha'. Apps have access to the module without having to embed remolacha's code in each app.
• Remolacha's types are automatically generated in types/remolacha/index.d.ts, but I could not find a way of importing them from apps.

The current workaround is that apps just do declare var remolacha : any; to get access to the remolacha object, but that's dirty.

Remove event listeners when app instances exit

The current architecture does not remove them after an app instance exits, and they get triggered afterwards.

Enable pointer events on unfocused windows

In order to perform pointer actions on a window, you must focus it first by clicking on it.

That's slow. It would be better to leave pointer events enabled and perform mouse actions at the same time as the window gets focused, as happens in Microsoft Windows.

Implementation problem

Even if we enable pointer events for unfocused windows at CSS, they still won't work.

The problem is that, when we perform a mouse-over on an unfocused window, the system focuses it by moving its DOM element upfront (by removing & adding it again to the DOM tree). Removing the DOM element from the tree cancels the click event that should happen when the user unpresses the mouse.

To solve this we should also stop moving the DOM elements around the tree and use the z-index CSS property instead.

Dialogs should block only their app

Now, when you open a dialog (e.g., when renaming files on Files app), it blocks the entire environment:

Dialogs should block only a certain window, or all windows of a certain app, but not the entire desktop.

Smart window positioning

When an app creates a window, it would be nice if the system could calculate the optimum position for it (i.e. minimize the overlapping area with other existing windows).