Re: GNOME Roadmap

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey Dave,

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 17:09 -0400, Dave Camp wrote:
> The foundation board has been working on a Roadmap document.  I just put
> the current draft at:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~campd/gnome-roadmap.txt 
> 
> We'd like contributors to take a look at it and comment.  After some
> discussion we'll be sending this to the Advisory Board and posting it on
> the foundation web site.

Here's a bunch of comments:

> Collaboration
> =============
> 2.8 Plans
> 
>    * Discovery of network services.
>     - Detection of file shares through rendezvous will be integrated
>       into the gnome-vfs volume-management layer.

That will be dead easy as soon as gmdns is stable enough. I started
working on it after Ian got a bit too busy to take care of it. There are
still a bunch of known bugs, but it's already usable.

>   * Peer-to-peer data sharing.

Do you have a bit more details on that? What kind of sharing are we
talking about? Sending files to each? Restricted personal file services?

> Media
> =====
> 2.6 Improvements
>     * The Totem video player widget was placed into a separate 
>     library for use by other apps.

Nope, it hasn't. It's planned though...

There are a few things coming from Totem that should find their ways
into libraries though:
- the video widget
- the playlist parser (already used in Rhythmbox, but 2 different codes
right now)
- the CD device selector (that's already in nautilus-cd-burner's burning
library, and will be able to use HAL soon, I just need a bit of time to
update HAL on my home machine ;)
- possibly the audio CD metadata gatherer from Sound-Juicer

>   * Better image viewing/photo collection manipulation.

Isn't that already something that gthumb does? There's even an "Import
Photos" menu item. I must admit that there could be some more work done
on gthumb as far as the library/browsing is concerned, but it's already
a very complete solution.

> Hardware
> ========
> 2.6 Improvements
>    * DVD burning support in the Nautilus CD burner.

I think this was already in GNOME 2.4, IIRC.

That's all.

Cheers

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