====== xfce4-panel 4.8 Roadmap ======

If everything goes as planned, the devel branch will be made feature complete and moved to master. There are still a couple of tasks that need to be completed before this happens.

===== Panel =====

<del>The panel code is more of less feature complete, but there are still a couple of bugs in it here and there. The Xfconf part needs to be redone since Brian implemented caching in xfconf, there is no default configuration and</del> <del>kiosk mode is missing</del>.

Status: 100%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

===== Libxfce4panel =====

<del>New API is complete, but still need some time to make old plugins compile</del>.

Status: 100%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

===== Plugins =====

Most of the plugins are working quite well, but obviously they still have a lost of bugs open. I need to dig through bugzilla to see which bugs are still valid or fixed in the devel branch. There is a [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=flagtypes.name&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=resolved-4.8|resolved-4.8 flag]] to mark bugs that are fixed in the devel branch. See the outstanding items for each plugin below.

==== Launcher ====

<del>The launcher plugin is not very functional yet. The editing part needs to be handled by exo-desktop-item-edit, GIO for file monitoring and Garcon for the menu item stuff</del>.

Status: 100%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

==== Tasklist ====

This still needs a lot of love. Most importantly grouping is not implemented yet. Lot to do here.

Status: 50%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Tough

==== Notification Area ====

Most of it works, <del>but there is an annoying bug that prevents existing notification icons to be embedded</del>. <del>The settings dialog is not hooked up yet and needs to be ported to GtkBuilder</del>.

Status: 95%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

==== Clock ====

<del>Need to be ported to new API and</del> there are a couple of bugs that needs to be fixed.

Status: 80%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

==== Window Menu ====
<del>
Popup application is missing. I've no idea if I implement this in the old way, or there will be some signal in the XfcePanelPlugin object that allows communication over DBus</del>.

Status: 100%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

==== Action Buttons ====

<del>Probably better to use XfceSmClient directly for the system actions</del>.

Status: 100%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Easy

==== Separator ====

<del>Stacking multiple panels on a screen edge (on top of each other) is quite difficult, so I was thinking about a wrapper option in the separator that puts plugins (after the wrapper) in a new line. Not really thought this through yet</del>.

Status: 100%\\
Assignee: Nick\\
Difficulty: Moderate

===== Misc =====

  * <del>Application to port the old settings in xfconf and desktop files for launchers</del>.

===== Future =====

  * Maybe some way to add remote plugins, once proposed by Brian.
  * Container plugin, to embed plugins in a plugin.
  * <del>Because of Garcon it might be a good idea to move the menu plugin into the panel</del>.