Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

[Guido Günther <agx sigxcpu org>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:02:19AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> With GNOME 3.0 going into code freeze any day now, it is high time
> that we start looking beyond 3.0 and start collecting ideas and making
> plans for what comes next. To that end, I have collected a list of
> things that have fallen off the 3.0 train at one point or another, as
> well as some other things that might be nice to put on the roadmap.
> Some of these have designs and/or working implementations, others or
> just ideas.
> 
> I'd like to encourage everybody to chime in with their own ideas and
> plans for GNOME 3.2.
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> Shell / core stuff:
> 
> - 'Finding and reminding' in the shell. There are fairly detailed
> writeups about this, and the Zeitgeist team and Federico have been
> working on something that at least looks similar.
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/FindingAndReminding
> http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2011-02.html#zeitgeist-in-gnome-shell
> 
> 
> - Application menu / Actions / Jumplists. This got tied up in the
> back-and-forth over GApplication and never really got finished.
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-February/msg00086.html
> 
> 
> - Accessibility: As Jon said in the discussion about the Universal
> Access menu, we don't really have a story to tell here. Still not in a
> position where we can turn on toolkit a11y  by default, and the shell
> a11y leaves a lot to be desired too.
> 
> 
> - On-screen keyboard: to really work, the osk needs to be integrated
> in the shell; there's existing designs for this.
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ScreenKeyboard
> 
> 
> - Tablets / touch / scrollbars: Make GNOME work on touch devices.
> 
> 
> - System dialogs: We got gnome-session and polkit dialogs converted,
> gnome-keyring is next on the list. Work-in-progress patches exist.
> 
> 
> - Device hotplug: There was the idea (and some mockups) for moving
> this into either notifications or shell-style dialogs.

Since the shell removed the "Places and Devices" a couple of releases
ago having the newly hotplugged devices as resident notifications
containing an unmount button would be great.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> - Storage: Might be nice to turn palimpsest into a control-center
> panel that covers simple cases.
> 
> 
> - Sharing: We have rygel, and gnome-user-share, and vino but no
> finished design for how this is going to appear in a control-center
> panel
> 
> 
> - Login screen: gdm got some facelift, but it is still pretty much a
> gnome2 login screen. We have a design for a shell-style greeter.
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/LoginScreen
> 
> 
> - Network: this has received a lot of effort recently, but the
> control-center network panel will clearly need to be fleshed out more
> completely for 3.2.
> https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Network
> 
> 
> 
> Applications:
> 
> 
> - We don't have a good contracts story. There were discussions around
> it (folks, web accounts, etc). It would be good to improve that in
> 3.2.
> 
> 
> - There was a proposal by the epiphany team to look at epiphany /
> shell integration.
> 
> 
> - Sadly, empathy is not a great chat application; with chat being such
> a prominent feature in 3.0, we really should be doing much better
> here.
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