GTK+-2.x planning

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

This mail is intended to get discussion going on a 2.x roadmap for
GTK+.

As a strawman, I've taken 20 or so more or less major items (out of
450+ bugs open in bugzilla for GTK+ alone), and distributed them among
version numbers.

The schedule below would be shooting for a quick 2.2 release with
multihead and official win32 in a couple of months, a followup 2.4
fixing the most remaining major missing pieces (GtkFileSel, GtkCombo
replacements) next fall, and then a 2.6 sometime in 2003.

Questions:

 * What's missing? What do we need to do, that we _can_ do in 
   2.x that isn't below? Feel free to be blue-sky, but blue
   sky stuff is at least 2.6, maybe 2.8 :-)

 * Are people generally comfortable with the idea of a quick
   multihead + win32 release?

Regards,
                                        Owen


GTK+-2.0.x:

* Bug fixes
* Robustify gdk-pixbuf loaders

GTK+-2.2:

* Multihead support
* Official Win32 port
* Fully usable RTL editing  (#73307, #70451, #50770)
* Xft2 support for Pango
* OpenType Indic shapers for Pango

GTK+-2.4:

* File selection widget
* Replacement combo/option-menu widget
* Action based menu API
* New toolbar widget (#70606, #6112, #50367, #55393)
* Height-for-width geometry management
* Real standardization of XSETTINGS/XEMBED

GTK+-2.6:

* Icon list widget
* Sheet widget
* Reworked tooltips (#50619, #56291, #62174, #65490)
* Autocompletion and history for GtkEntry (#69613)
* Disclosure triangle widget
* GnomeColorPicker style color selection button
* TreeView enhancements (filter model 60219, finish dnd) 

When it's ready:

* Official GTK+ FB port