Re: GTK+-2.x planning

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Owen,

Something that I'd really like to see us do which I think would have a huge 
impact on the useability of GTK+ from a blind guy/keyboard navigation point 
of view is to add some incremental search features to GtkTreeview and the 
icon list widget when implemented.  Windows implements this in a couple 
ways, either of which would, I think, be preferrable to what we have 
now.  Basically, if you're in a treeview, or a file selector, or on the 
desktop, you can either:

1. Type the first letter of an item, which cycles through the items 
beginning with that letter, or
2. Begin typing an item, and the selection/focus moves to the item which 
begins with the text typed so far.  This method would require a timer of 
user-defineable length to determine when the user has given up on the 
current search and started a new one-- I think Windows defaults to a second 
or so.

Just my $.02. :)

Marc



At 04:49 PM 3/12/2002 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 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
>
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