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What's next?

1. <del>Backport fixes to parole-0.5.x</del> - Done!
2. Release parole 0.5.3
3. Push current parole-master to 0.5.x branch
4. merge bluesabre/gtk3
5. wait a week for translations
6. release parole 0.5.90 (or whatever we will call it)

GTK3 transition

• Include default theming for GtkOverlay in case themes don't support the osd class
  • doesn't seem possible, cause either the cssprovider overrides the theme or the theme overrides the fallback, because there doesn't seem to be a sane way to check whether the osd-class gets specially themed
• Current bugs
  • none

General

• Validate Plugin API
  • Make sure everything still works
• Organize testing
• Create parole-gst0.10 and parole-gst1.0 packages in the PPA
• Mark bugs as fix-committed on merge back to trunk:
  • missing option to open DVD from iso - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10300
  • Allow a playlist to be sorted and/or items to be moved - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10066
  • “Remember playlist” option in GUI not working - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10269
  • Force LTR for playback controllers - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9822
  • Add hotkey to Audio menu item - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10374
• Possibly fixed, need confirmation:
  • (with gst1.0) Wrong time of a song show in playlist - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10210
  • Player cuts end of audio track off - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9853

Documentation

• Get on with it
  • Staging site: http://smdavis.us/doku/doku.php?id=parole-docs

Fixes to backport to Parole 0.5.3

• “Remember playlist” option in GUI not working - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10269 - Backported!
• Add hotkey to Audio menu item - https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10374 - Backported!

Parole-next

• For a version after 0.6…
• API Updates
  • Extend API to give plugins easy access to Tools menu
  • Extend API to make it easier for plugins to save xfconf settings in parole/plugins/plugin-name
• Plugins Manager
  • Consider moving the plugins to a tab in the Preferences dialog
• Subtitles
  • Speed up loading by seeking forward/backward after subtitle selection changed
• Make the buffering configurable
• Improve network-performance (mplayer and vlc seem much more efficient via e.g. ssh)
• New plugins
  • Subtitle-fetching plugin?
  • MPRIS2 support (for indicator-sound and Gnome Shell media player extension)
  • YouTube plugin?
• Rethink the gstreamer-plugins-installer (packagekit)