StackyNG Future Roadmap#

This roadmap outlines planned features and potential improvements for future versions of StackyNG. View Readme

🚀 Upcoming Features (v0.8.0+)#

🎨 Visual Enhancements#

  • Custom Menu Animations: Smooth fade-in or slide-out effects for menus.
  • Icon Glow/Effects: Optional visual feedback when hovering over items.
  • Smart Launch Positioning: Detect taskbar shortcut location vs cursor position to anchor the menu exactly where the user clicked, replicating the “native” Windows flyout feel.

⚙️ Functional Improvements#

  • Pinned Items: Allow certain shortcuts to always stay at the top of the menu, regardless of alphabetical sorting.
  • Recursive Monitoring: Deep monitoring of subfolders for instant updates.
  • Recent Items Integration: Optional section at the top of the menu for most recently used shortcuts.
  • Interactive Config UI: A small companion tool to visually edit stacky.json settings.

🛠 Technical Debt & Optimization#

  • Incremental Cache Updates: Instead of a full rebuild when a change is detected, only update the changed item.
  • Improved Logging: Implement log rotation and configurable verbosity levels.
  • Comprehensive JSON Support: Transition from the current minimal parser to a standard, lightweight JSON library for more complex configuration.

💡 Long-term Vision (v1.0.0+)#

🌐 Cross-Platform (Partial)#

  • While the core is Win32-based, explore a companion configuration GUI built in a cross-platform framework (e.g., Qt or Dear ImGui) to make stacky.json editing easier.

📦 Portable Stacks#

  • A feature to “package” a stack (shortcuts + config + icons) into a single portable directory for easy syncing across multiple Windows machines.

⌨️ Hotkey Support#

  • Allow triggering specific stacks via system-wide global hotkeys.

🤝 Community Contributions#

We welcome ideas and pull requests! If you have a feature suggestion, please open an issue or start a discussion.

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