Brief history of app milestones and notable improvements

Hyriand (2004)

• Creator

Nick Watts (2011)

• Activation mode vs daemon mode
• Named pipe interprocess communication
• Code cleanup

Richard Grenville (2013)

• libpng/libjpeg/giflib support
• Support for non-EWMH/GNOME compliant WMs
• Window decoration in thumbnails
• Window action

DreamCat4 (2019)

• Fully customizable key binding
• Alt-Tab behavioural optimization
• Wrapper script skippy-xd-runner
• X motion and damage handling optimization

Felix Fung (2023)

• Daemon mode keeps track of window mapping state
• Thumbnails of unmapped windows
• Animation
• Switch/Expose/Paging modes
• Toggle/pivot modes
• Multi-monitor bug fixes and feature enhancements
• Display sticky windows, desktop windows, panel windows
• Config file reloading
• Pipe protocol enhancement
• Windows filtering
• Window selection returns window ID
• New expose layout