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

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

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl> wrote:
> Op maandag 08-12-2008 om 16:51 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Brett
> Alton:
>> 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?
>>
>
> I have been working on this and I'm hoping to get (at least in part)
> some stuff in 2.26. The current idea is to built support for this in the
> gedit core and I have been preparing some stuff to implement this. At
> the moment I'm focussing on the website part, but any help is highly
> appreciated.
>
>
> Jesse
>
>> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins#line-205
>> [2] http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/RoadMap
>>
> --
> Jesse van den Kieboom
>
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>

Where/how do/can I help?

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Brett Alton
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