The future

We see ourselves extending the functionality of the desktop itself. All of these features are planned.

• Multi lingual desktop.
• User login and log out
• Improved Mime type support - Mime type aware panels will be usable in The File browser and web browser
• New Window Managers. - Mac, Next, Amiga, Beos....
• Hot Window Manager changing (just like KDE, Gnome etc. under linux) - log off, choose new WM, log in.
• Patching of AWT usage to Swing - this will allow Java 1 applet support without the well known "heavyweight component in lightweight container" feature/bug.
• Support for Tear-off Applets - In your browser, choose "tear-off applet" while mouse is over applet in web page - this will install that applet as an app, and not require that you are subsequently connected to the internet to use it.
• Remote usage, Connect via an remote stub application, applet, or remote Java Web Start (TM) app.
• Better control of window positions and size at launch.
• More Shells. - Ant may well be improved soon so that all of its commands can be invoked from a command line type console inside Jesktop. - we will also have commands that are NanoContainer and Jesktop specific e.g. "Shutdown".
• Security polices for Jars. - things like clock that require no special resources, can run inside a sandbox. - other applications can ask for permission to read/write to specific directories and other permissions.