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Roadmap to 4.8
What is the current status of these components? What needs to be done in order to accomplish a new release? What is missing? What are the showstoppers? If you are referring to bugs/enhancements with open tickets please mention the bug id as well.
Xfce 4.8 is going to depend on GTK 2.10. Do not use API added in 2.12 or above!
This is not a wishlist for 4.8. Do not change this roadmap unless you are the maintainer of the module you're changing! This is an effort to coordinate the steps needed to be taken in order to get the next major Xfce release out the door.
Example:
example-component
Maintainer: | Brian Tarricone |
Status: | Experimental |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | Needs to do something useful |
| Needs a better UI concept |
| Bug #3422344 |
Progress: | 55% / Stalled |
Status should be one of “Not started”, “Experimental”, “Unstable”, “Alpha”, “Beta”, or “Stable”. Obviously that's in increasing order of stability.
Ready for 4.8 should be simply “Yes” or “No”.
Each item in TODO for 4.8 should be in a separate table row. Put a blank table cell the first column since our wiki doesn't support rowspan. Linking to bugs in Xfce Bugzilla is a good practice, as is linking to a module's TODO file in SVN. With a little extra work, you can also link to a custom Bugzilla search that displays all bugs flagged as “blocking4.6”.
For Progress, the modifier (“Stalled” in this case) is optional.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE USING THE RIGHT DOKUWIKI SYNTAX! The first column is aligned right (leave two spaces to the left), the second column is aligned left (leave two spaces to the right). Just copy and paste the example.
Core Components
libxfce4util
Maintainer: | n/a |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | ? |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | ? |
libxfcegui4
Maintainer: | n/a |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | ? |
TODO for 4.8: | Deprecate? |
Progress: | ? |
libxfce4ui
Maintainer: | Nick Schermer |
Status: | Alpha |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | Review API |
| Add a couple of functions that are used in multiple Xfce components |
| GtkBuilder implementation, so we can drop libglade in the feature. |
Progress: | ? |
Maintainer: | Jannis Pohlmann |
Status: | Beta |
Ready for 4.8: | ? |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | ? |
libexo
Maintainer: | Benedikt Meurer |
Status: | Stable (?) |
Ready for 4.8: | (?) |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | (?) |
xfce4-appfinder
xfce4-settings
Maintainer: | Stephan Arts |
Status: | Beta |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | ? |
Progress: | ? |
xfce-utils
Maintainer: | n/a |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | ? |
TODO for 4.8: | ? |
Progress: | ? |
xfce4-session
Maintainer: | Benedikt Meurer |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | ? |
xfce4-panel
Future: Nick is working on an improved panel with a plugin wrapper (internal/external plugins) and fancy features like panel snapping, transparency, DBus and improved positioning. But since this affects a lot of code and breaks the external plugins (Makefile change for plugins), it won't be available for 4.6.
xfwm4
Maintainer: | Olivier Fourdan |
Status: | Stable (?) |
Ready for 4.8: | No (?) |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | |
xfdesktop
Maintainer: | Brian Tarricone |
Status: | Beta |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | (?) |
thunar
Maintainer: | Benedikt Meurer |
Status: | Stable (?) |
Ready for 4.8: | |
TODO for 4.8: | Replace thunar-vfs with gvfs(?) |
Progress: | (?) |
Terminal
Maintainer: | Benedikt Meurer |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | Yes (?) |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | 100% (?) |
xfprint
Maintainer: | |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | Yes (?) |
TODO for 4.8: | Depricate for 4.8 |
Progress: | 90% |
Orage
Maintainer: | Juha Kautto |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | Yes (?) |
TODO for 4.8: | Testing |
Progress: | 100% |
mousepad
Maintainer: | Nick Schermer |
Status: | Alpha |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | 80% |
Maintainer: | Needs one! |
Status: | Not started |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | 0% |
xfce4-mixer
Maintainer: | Jannis Pohlmann |
Status: | Beta |
Ready for 4.8: | Pretty much |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | 95% |
xfconf
Maintainer: | Brian Tarricone |
Status: | Beta |
Ready for 4.8: | No |
TODO for 4.8: | |
Progress: | 90% |
gtk-xfce-engine
Maintainer: | Olivier Fourdan |
Status: | Stable |
Ready for 4.8: | Yes (?) |
TODO for 4.8: | Olivier probably will want to obsessively tweak the default theme |
Progress: | 90% (?) |