gimp/TODO.xml

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<todo logourl="wilber.png">
  <title>GIMP TODO List</title>

  <section>
    <title>General</title>

    <entry size="big" difficulty="advanced" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Port to glib-2.0 and gtk+-2.0</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  This is directly connected to the objectification task mentioned
	  below and should probably be addressed after all objects have
	  been reviewed.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>    

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="easy" status="80%" target="1.4">
      <title>Header cleanup</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Headers should only include other headers if absolutely necessary
	  (for derived objects for example). All functions must be
	  properly prototyped.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>    

    <entry size="big" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Code reorganization</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Split the core into several subdirectories and build libtool
	  convenience libraries which are then linked together to form
	  the gimp binary.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>    

  </section>  <!-- General -->

  <section>
    <title>Objectification</title>
    
    <entry size="small" difficulty="easy" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Generic GimpObject</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Directly derived from GObject, should probably have a name 
	  argument.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>    

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Cleanup existing internal objects</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  GimpDrawable, Layer, GimpImage, GDisplay need to be redone as
	  proper GimpObjects. Write new objects (with proper names) and 
	  port all stuff to the new objects incrementally. 
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="advanced" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Generic data structures</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Brushes, Patterns, Gradients should be derived from a GimpData
	  object. This object has to provide hooks to generate previews.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Generic object container(s)</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  A GimpContainer that holds GimpObject objects. Comparable to 
	  the GCimContainer, but no serialization for now. Should probably
	  dispatch "changed" (or other) signals from its children.
	</p>
	<p>
	  This container will be used for lists of brushes, patterns, 
	  layers, channels, paths, ...
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="advanced" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Abstract GimpBrush object and derived brush types</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The GimpBrush object we have now is not a generic BrushProvider.
	  We need an abstract object to derive the different kinds of brushes
	  from (BrushPipes, parametric brushes, ...). It has to provide 
	  methods for the PaintCore to transparently select and use the brush 
	  data. Paint tools should have to care about the brush type as less 
	  as possible.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

  </section> <!-- Objectification -->

  <section>
    <title>LibGimp</title>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Restructure LibGimp</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Put libgimp, libgimpui (and new libs) into their own subdirectories
	  under a toplevel libs directory. Install all header files under 
	  $prefix/include/gimp/1.3/ and change gimptool accordingly.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="easy" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Utility library</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Put utility functions that are also used by the core into
	  a seperate library.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>File plug-in library</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Write a library with a bunch of common functions for file plug-ins
	  to remove code duplication in these plug-ins. 
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>
    
  </section> <!-- LibGimp -->    

  <section>
    <title>User Interface</title>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Abstract Container Views</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Views on data stored in a GimpContainer. The objects need to provide
	  hooks that this view can use to show data like patterns, brushes, 
	  etc. in different views (list, grid, ...)
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="big" difficulty="advanced" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Effect Preview Widget</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  A generic preview widget with functions like scrolling and zooming
	  useable by effect filters. Should have adaptive supersampling, 
	  progressive display (if possible) and other neat stuff. 
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="easy" status="100%" target="1.4">
      <title>Optionally disable tearoff windows</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Add an option to the Preferences to disable tearoff menus. Some
	  people seem to be annoyed by it and it should be trivial to 
	  make them optional.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="easy" status="100%" target="1.4">
      <title>Implement "Save a Copy as..."</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Add a "Save a Copy as" function which works as "Save as" but
	  leaves the image's name untouched.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Better keyboard navigation</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Think about a proper way to make all menus and dialogs accesible
	  and navigationable without using a mouse.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

  </section> <!-- User Interface -->    
  
  <section>
    <title>Internationalization</title>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Context-sensitive translations</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The same english string used in different contexts may need to
	  be translated differently in other languages. Think of a way to
	  implement this using gettext or come up with something better.
	</p>
	<p>
	  There is a patch with a possible solution on ftp.gimp.org,
	  but actually we'd like something cleaner if possible.
	</p>
      </description>
      <url>ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/patches/gimp-chyla-20001207-0.patch</url>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

  </section> <!-- Internationalization -->    

</todo>