25. Missing parts and existing problems
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## 25. Missing parts and existing problems

- Application Manager: Maybe with the help of some extensible (but sane and standalone, with normal titlebar) file manager, but question remains how to send enumerated apps from such a file manager view to Front Panel subpanels or as submenu. Probably external drag and drop applet which can be swallowed in subpanels to accept drop with middle mouse move and edit subpanel configuration? This will than replace Subpanels Manager app, but it must also have functions for editing, deleting etc ... In the time of writing this, file managers supporting this functionality with menu://applications/ pseudo path are known to be PCManFM and PCManFM-qt. Any KDE KIO based application with the right set of plugins installed on the system can serve as a application manager. For example, file managers Dolphin, Krusader and Konqueror are known to use programs: pseudo path. If some of above mentioned applications are found on the system it will be defined as `$[infostore.appmgr]` and placed on the Front Panel's eighth launcher instead of icon for default editor.

  Figure 79. PCManFM as Application Manager

- Action builder (dtaction) - not likely ever. Use FvwmScript or maybe some Python gui bindings.

- Session Management (dtsession) - NsCDE can use the external custom Session Managers from various DE's. See examples in `$NSCDE_ROOT/share/doc/nscde/examples`. Since there are similar programs in existence, plus FVWM's own functions for automatic start of programs, NsCDE is more or less covered here.

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