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

[Mats Taraldsvik <mats taraldsvik bickeringleague net>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 11:16 +0100, Jesse van den Kieboom 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.
> 

Couldn't you use packagekit for this? It should be easy enough to
package it, as it's only copying files to the gedit plugin folder?

Then again, a separate system might be more flexible...

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

Mats