Re: [Epiphany] 1.2 Plan

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 16:48, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 06:06, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > I'm writing a plan for 1.2. I'll put it on the web site and post to
> > desktop-devel probably. It's unfinished, especially the "Things we
> > should work on for 1.2" section should improved/extended, I'm sure
> > people on this list has more ideas.
> > Feedback very appreciated.
> 
> Wow. I've never seen such a great, well thought out list of product
> post-mortem thoughts for any GNOME project. 
> > Things we should work on for 1.2
> > 
> > USER INTERFACE
> 
> I'd suggest also maybe working a bit on kiosk mode; it's something we
> need for corporate deployments.

Ouch right, I was going to insert lock down prefs/kiosk and I forgot it.
Someone was planning to work on a list of requirements for kiosk mode, I
think this would be the right time to begin ;)

> > CODE
> 
> > - Port to DBUS if it's included. We may be able to drop
> > libgnome/libgnomeui/libbonobo/libbonoboui dependecies.
> 
> I would guess that if DBUS is included in 2.6, it will not be included
> early enough and stable early enough to be used in more than one or two
> components. I'd think that ephy 1.4/gnome 2.8 would be a more reasonable
> expectation for when dbus is 'ready' for prime time. GTK 2.4 should be a
> reasonable part of the platform for ephy 1.2/gnome 2.6, though.
> 

Ok, then it make sense to delay this to 1.4.

Thanks !

Marco