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="90%" target="1.4">
      <title>Port to glib-2.0 and gtk+-2.0</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Most of the porting work is completed. By default all files
	  are compiled with the DISABLE_DEPRECATED definitions that 
	  prevent us from using deprecated API. Some files however still
	  work around this. Mostly this is because they use legacy 
	  widgets like GtkCList, GtkList or GtkPreview.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>    

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="easy" status="95%" 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="90%" 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>    

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="80%" target="1.4">
      <title>Unify color data types</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  LibGimp already has a new type GimpRGB. This should be used
	  whereever possible. If necessary we can change this to a
	  more generic struct later. Migrating to GimpRGB first will make
	  this much easier.
	</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>Script-Fu overhaul</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Script-Fu shouldn't be an extension running all the time, but
	  an interpreter that gets started once a script is run and
	  terminates after script execution. This should also solve the
	  problem of having multiple scripts running at the same time.
	</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>Image/File Information</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Additionally to the image comment, GIMP should save and 
	  manage File Information like "description", "keywords",
	  "copyright", "year", etc.
	</p>
	<p>
	  File Info data sets should be saveable separately and
	  importable from standard formats. See also 
          <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56443">this
	    bug-report></a>.
	</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="100%" 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="90%" 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="90%" 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="100%" 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="20%" 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>Tools</title>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="advanced" status="20%" target="1.4">
      <title>Rewrite Path Tool</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The Path tool should be rewritten from scratch.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>
    
    <entry size="medium" difficulty="advanced" status="50%" target="1.4">
      <title>Rewrite Text Tool</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The Text tool should be rewritten from scratch using Pango to
	  layout and PangoFT2 to render.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Add Options to "Stroke"</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The "Stroke" function should be configurable to optionally
	  stroke inside or outside the current selection only.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Allow Transformations on Layer Masks</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Layers that have masks attached can currently not be manipulated 
	  using the Transform Tool. It shouldn't be too hard to extend the
	  Transform Tool to handle layers with masks correctly.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

  </section> <!-- Tools -->

  <section>
    <title>LibGimp</title>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="95%" target="1.4">
      <title>Restructure LibGimp</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Put libgimp, libgimpui (and new libs) into their own
	  subdirectories. Install all header files under
	  $prefix/include/gimp-MAJOR.MINOR/ 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="30%" target="1.4">
      <title>Utility library</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Put utility functions that are also used by the core into
	  a separate 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>
     
    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="95%" target="1.4">
      <title>Move GCK functionality into LibGimp</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  libgck, as found in the plug-ins dir has some nice functions we
	  want to clean up and make available in LibGimp so they can be 
	  used by the core and 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="90%" 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="10%" 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. This
	  would also fix the problem that many plug-ins still use the
	  deprecated GtkPreview widget.
	</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="small" difficulty="easy" status="0%" target="1.4">
    <title>Implement "Open into layer"</title>
      <description>
        <p>
          Add "Open into layer" that will load a file into the
          current image as a new layer (or layers).
        </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 set a different background for the image window</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  It's often useful to view the image you're editing on a pure
	  white or pure black background instead of the theme's default
	  background.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Fullscreen image view</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Add a possibility to show the image fullscreen (padded with the
	  configured canvas background color).
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="90%" target="1.4">
      <title>Cleanup GIMP's color selectors</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The pluggable color selectors need to be overhauled. Move
	  the numerical input fields, the sliders, the "old" and "new"
	  color buttons and a color history out of the notebook so
	  they are always visible. Optionally allow an alpha value to
	  be specified. Maybe reduce the size of the color area in the
	  "GIMP" color selector.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="60%" 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. GTK+-2.0 has very much
	  improved in this area. We need to go through all our dialogs and
	  install the relevant hooks to get a reasonable focus chain.
	</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>Move DND functions into LibGimp</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Move the DND functionality into LibGimp. This needs to be done
	  differently for app and plug-ins, but should be handled 
	  transparently.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="20%" target="1.4">
      <title>Add more widgets</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Lost of existing user interface elements can be implemented as
	  proper widgets in libgimpui, so they are useable from everywhere.
	</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>Add an Option to separately switch off the Layer Boundary</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Currently the Layer boundary (the yellow dotted line around
	  the active layer) can only be switched off together with the
	  selection. This is evil.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

    <entry size="small" difficulty="easy" status="50%" target="1.4">
      <title>Display the Memory Consumption of the Image</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  The current memory size of the image should always be
	  available in the interface. Also show the new size of the
	  image in the "Resize" and "Set Canvas Size" dialogs.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

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

  <section>
    <title>Help System</title>

    <entry size="medium" difficulty="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
      <title>Rethink Plug-In and Script Help</title>
      <description>
	<p>
	  Currently a Plug-In's help file determined by the application
	  from it's executable name. This is broken because is does not
	  cover multiple PDB procedures implemented in one Plug-In.
	</p>
	<p>
	  A possible solution would be to pass the relative path to the
	  help file to gimp_install_procedure(). A similar fix should be
	  applied to Script-Fu and Perl.
	</p>
      </description>
      <contact>
	GIMP Developer List &lt;gimp-developer@xcf.berkeley.edu&gt;
      </contact>
    </entry>

  </section> <!-- Help System -->

  <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>