Re: [gedit-list] Roadmap for gEdit 2.25/2.26

["Brett Alton" <brett jr alton gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 08/12/2008 alle 16.05 -0500, Brett Alton ha scritto:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm looking for a roadmap or planned features for gEdit 2.25/2.26.
>>
>> I can't think of much to add to this great editor, I'm just curious to
>> see its development.
>>
>> I think I've bugged the developers before about this during the
>> 2.23/2.24 release cycle, but they said they didn't have much time to
>> work on gEdit at the time, so there wasn't a roadmap to see.
>>
>> Any info, including work on Gio/GVFS, libgtksourceview, etc. would be
>> much appreciated.
>>
>
> Hi Brett!
>
> A sort of roadmap is present at http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/RoadMap it's
> not updated to day but more or less it lists the things we are mostly
> interested in seeing implemented.
> Lack of time is still an issue, so we are not planning very far ahead:
> when someone of the developers implements one of the features it goes
> in, otherwise it'll have to wait :-)
>
> Things that are more likely to happen in this cycle are:
>  - rework of the plugin internals (already done in fact)
>  - bus system / dbus integration
>  - work on the completion framework
>
>
> Ciao
>
>        Paolo
>
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>

Perfect, thanks. I don't know I missed that link to the RoadMap, sorry!

And what about fullscreen? I noticed on your plugins page[1] that you
were looking at implementing the ability to hit F11 (like Firefox) and
have the text editing pane take over the screen. I'm quite interested
in seeing that! Would that be an easy enhancement?

Also, I noticed you're looking at "Redesign[ing] the preference dialog
(gtksourceview color themes)"[2], does this mean people will be able
to create their own theme on the fly and then have it saved as
theme-X? Because that would be phenomenal.

I really wish I was a C programmer, because I would like to help out
with these things.

As a web developer though, I would like to help you with the
web-install plugin architecture where you can install gEdit plugins
from your website. Maybe we can look at this during the 2.27/2.28
release cycle since you're modularizing the plugin code for this
cycle?

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins#line-205
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/RoadMap

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Brett Alton
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brett jr alton gmail com