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<h2>New features in AfterStep 2.0</h2>
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<li>New high performance and high quality image handling engine.</li>
<li>Support for TrueType fonts.</li>
<li>Text antialiasing.</li>
<li>Support for UTF-8, UNICODE and numerous locales.</li>
<li>XML image scripting.</li>
<li>Improved Window hints handling supporting new Extended WM specs.</li>
<li>Rewritten and consolidated GUI rendering engine with support for
shaped windows and complex layouts.</li>
<li>Better theme support.</li>
<li>More background image types with support for scaling, shaped
images, alpha-blending, and other blending algorithms.</li>
<li> More powerfull pattern matching algorithm in database.</li>
<li> Shaped titlebars and frame decorations.</li>
<li> More options to frame decorations.</li>
<li> Arbitrary layout of the titlebar buttons.</li>
<li>Built in screenshot command :).</li>
<li>Designer quality colorschemes.</li>
<li>Configuration reading-writing library, allowing for easier
implementation of GUI contral panel.</li>
<li>Menus are treated as regular windows, allowing for moving,
resizing, shading, iconification of menus.</li>
<li>Used options from submenus could optionally be displayed in
parent menus for faster menu selection.</li>
<li>Thumbnail icons could be shown in menus.</li>
<li>WinList menu shows application icons.<br>
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<li>Shaped Pager and WinList.</li>
<li>2D WinList with more flexible layout options.<br>
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<li>Pager's desks could be shaded.</li>
<li>Wharf allows labels in buttons.</li>
<li>Numerous layout options in Wharf.</li>
<li>Wharf performs checks for application availability.</li>
<li>Additional options in database settings for comprehensive windows
configurations.</li>
<li>AvoidCover are able to move other windows away as they
move/resize themselves.</li>
<li>Optional snapping to edges while moving/resizing windows.</li>
<li>Proper window switching (alt-tabbing).</li>
<li>Powerfull initial window placement policies using window boxes.</li>
<li>Tiled and cascaded initial window placement.</li>
<li>Shaped balloons.</li>
<li>Self diagnostic code allowing to properly report segfaults in
AfterStep, and gracefully recover from most failures.<br>
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