Xfce Wiki - releng:4.8:roadmap

exo

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:20:57 +0000

Exo Roadmap for Xfce 4.8 Remove deprecated APIs and rename library to exo-1 Since the exo-0.3 library name does not make sense if the library version will be 0.5.x and 0.6.0 for the Xfce 4.8 release, we decided the API version should be 1. Because of this version bump, we could also drop deprecated (with Gtk 2.14 and Glib 2.20 in mind)

garcon

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Garcon Roadmap for Xfce 4.8 Please note that garcon is not a core component (only an essential dependency) but it is especially relevant for the Xfce 4.8 development cycle for two reasons: * It's (going to be) used everywhere (xfce4-panel, xfdesktop, xfce4-appfinder,

libxfce4ui

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Libxfce4ui 4.8 Roadmap Move Components From Gui4 Create a functional library with all the stuff we need. Status: 100% Assignee: Nick Difficulty: Easy Session Client Make a GObject for session management. If that all works, (core) applications should implement it, see step below

libxfce4util

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Libxfce4util 4.8 Roadmap Library is more or less complete. Deprecate XfceDesktopEntry This should be removed in the future. Currently only used in libxfcegui4, which is after 4.6 a deprecated library. Completed: 100% () Assignee: Nick Difficulty: Easy

thunar

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Thunar 1.2 Roadmap (Xfce 4.8) Finish the Port to IO/GVfs The goal is to finish the work done in the migration-to-gio branch early in the cycle and to merge it into master. It will require a lot of testing and thus, this has to be done soon. Completed: 100% (

xfce4-appfinder

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

xfce4-appfinder 4.8 Roadmap Port to Garcon Drop libxfce4menu and use garcon. There is already a branch for this. Completed: 100% (merged into master) Assignees: Nick, Jannis Difficulty: Easy Improve Keyboard Navigation This one is rather easy to define: just improve navigation with the keyboard.

xfce4-panel

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:49:42 +0000

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 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

xfce4-session

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:14:51 +0000

Xfce Session Manager 4.8 Roadmap Below is a list of features I plan to complete for 4.8. The “Status” lines are accurate as of 2009/09/18. Session Storage See here. Status: 5% complete. Session Editor The autostart editor and session editor in the settings dialog should be merged into one to avoid confusion. Users shouldn't need to understand by what mechanism apps are started at login (either session-managed or XDG autostart).

xfce4-settings

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

xfce4-settings 4.8 Roadmap Netbook Friendly A couple of dialogs are quite big, we should make sure they fit properly on netbook screens, so say a maximum size of 800×500 pixels. Completed: 0% Assignee: Nick Difficulty: Easy "Solidify" the Keyboard Shortcuts

xfconf

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Xfconf 4.8 Roadmap Below is a list of features I plan to complete for 4.8. The “Status” lines are accurate as of 2009/09/18. Transparent Property Cache The xfconf daemon is a bottleneck during application startup, especially during the login process. During login, every app is fighting for xfconfd's attention, but it only services requests for a single property at a time (well, unless an app uses GetAllProperties(), but most don't).

xfdesktop

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 15:26:38 +0000

Xfdesktop 4.8 Roadmap Below is a list of features I plan to implement for 4.8. I would consider the first three “mandatory,” and the rest are “nice to haves.” Please note that this is not an all-inclusive list: I will probably implement smaller features as well. Nor does this list have anything to do with bug-fixing.