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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: ?

libxfce4menu

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

Maintainer: Jasper Huijsmans, Jannis Pohlmann
Status: ?
Ready for 4.8: No
TODO for 4.8: ?
Progress: ?

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

Maintainer: Jasper Huijsmans, Nick Schermer
Status: Stable
Ready for 4.8: ?
TODO for 4.8: ?
Progress: ?
  • 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%

xfce4-menueditor

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% (?)