New features in AfterStep 2.0
- New high performance and high quality image handling engine.
- Support for TrueType fonts.
- Text antialiasing.
- Support for UTF-8, UNICODE and numerous locales.
- XML image scripting.
- Improved Window hints handling supporting new Extended WM specs.
- Rewritten and consolidated GUI rendering engine with support for
shaped windows and complex layouts.
- Better theme support.
- More background image types with support for scaling, shaped
images, alpha-blending, and other blending algorithms.
- More powerfull pattern matching algorithm in database.
- Shaped titlebars and frame decorations.
- More options to frame decorations.
- Arbitrary layout of the titlebar buttons.
- Built in screenshot command :).
- Designer quality colorschemes.
- Configuration reading-writing library, allowing for easier
implementation of GUI contral panel.
- Menus are treated as regular windows, allowing for moving,
resizing, shading, iconification of menus.
- Used options from submenus could optionally be displayed in
parent menus for faster menu selection.
- Thumbnail icons could be shown in menus.
- WinList menu shows application icons.
- Shaped Pager and WinList.
- 2D WinList with more flexible layout options.
- Pager's desks could be shaded.
- Wharf allows labels in buttons.
- Numerous layout options in Wharf.
- Wharf performs checks for application availability.
- Additional options in database settings for comprehensive windows
configurations.
- AvoidCover are able to move other windows away as they
move/resize themselves.
- Optional snapping to edges while moving/resizing windows.
- Proper window switching (alt-tabbing).
- Powerfull initial window placement policies using window boxes.
- Tiled and cascaded initial window placement.
- Shaped balloons.
- Self diagnostic code allowing to properly report segfaults in
AfterStep, and gracefully recover from most failures.