Re: [Epiphany] 1.2 Plan

[Xan Lopez <xan masilla org>]

El dom, 03-08-2003 a las 12:06, Marco Pesenti Gritti escribió:
> 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.

1.2 is the future version that will go on GNOME 2.6? If the answer is
yes, I propose 2.0 as version number instead.



> Things we should work on for 1.2
> 
> USER INTERFACE
> 
> - Bookmarks
> 1 More rich "automatic" metadata.
> 2 System integration
> 3 More powerful way of organizing things. (which could involve
> hierachies, depending of GNOME community feelings).

Multiple topic selection could rock too, this is a hard problem.

> 4 Something better than a menu to access them, Seth offered to help on
> this.
> 5 Improve bookmarks toolbars "editing"
> (I'm experimenting about 1/2, I may post more info about it later)
> - Simpler fonts/colors configuration. Themes support (stylesheets).
> - History: we need more filters, at least a date based filter.
> - Popups blocking
> - Tabs preference(s) need to be improved to avoid current
> conflicts/confusion.
> - Finish fullscreen design
> - Encodings menu should show only the most used items (dynamic), the
> others
> should be moved out in a dialog.
> - Use gnome print dialog
> - Allow to specify a download directory.

6 Rewrite the download backend/fronted from scratch, it's badly needed.

> 
> CODE
> 
> - Extensions. The framework is already mostly there. Work needs to be
> done
> on ui merging and api policies.
> - Port to gtk 2.4. Hopefully not much more than s/egg/gtk

IMHO some aspects of the toolbar code still need work, like DND: we need
better cursors, change the ugly black line for something more useful
(like a shaded image of the element we are DNDing), ... 

> - Use new kris gtk autocompletion entry

yay

> - Port to DBUS if it's included. We may be able to drop
> libgnome/libgnomeui/libbonobo/libbonoboui dependecies.

and use GNOSIS ;)

> 
> [1.2 targeted bugs url here]
> 
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
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