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== Inkscape Development Roadmap ==
This is a working document showing specific near-term tasks needed for achieving the numbered milestones. It is not a wishlist of features to be included in future releases. Because people often work on whatever they feel like, this roadmap should only contain items that really have a good chance of being done for the next release (which means, somebody is actually working on them).


NOTE: This is a working document showing specific near-term tasks needed for achieving the numbered milestones.
'''NOTE 1:''' Because this document became completely separated from reality, I replaced it with a more realistic version that reflects what we're actually doing. --[[User:Tweenk|Tweenk]] 13:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)


''Milestones 0-11 have been completed since the start of the Inkscape Project. See [[OldRoadmap]]''
''Milestones 0-13 have been completed since the start of the Inkscape Project. See [[OldRoadmap]]''


=== Milestone 12 - Inkscape 0.46 ===
=== Inkscape 0.48 ===


New/Changed Dependencies:
0.48 is intended to be a quick release cycle focused on merging GSoC work and fixing some long standing bugs.
* (DONE) Gtk 2.8 (required)
* 2geom (optional)
**<i>2geom is a hard dependency now due to LPE. 2geom source has been copied to the inkscape tree, so that inkscape can make full profit from the latest and greatest 2geom (instead of depending on an earlier official 2geom release) [johan]</i>)


Architectural Refactoring Effort:
* Merge and stabilize Google Summer of Code 2009 work
* Eliminate all use of sp_repr_new in favor of XML::Document::* classes (see [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/19068])
** (DONE) <del>Node tool rewrite</del>
* Migrate SPObject to native C++ classes
** (DONE…?) Connector tool improvements
* Implement [http://grin-optics.org gradient] UI "release" handler to deal with gradient garbage collection (see bug 984854)
** (POSTPONED) D-Bus scripting API
* Create an SPObject API for tracking references and avoiding id clashes on import and interdocument copy/paste. What we need are a void SPDocument::importCopies([set of SPObjects]), and an [set of SPObjects] SPObject::dependencies() method.
* (DONE) <del>Desktop integration improvements: solve the issue of broken files resulting from people unknowingly pasting bitmap images as links.</del>
* Prepatory work to integrate lib2geom next release
* (DONE) <del>Build system improvements: evaluate [http://code.google.com/p/waf/ Waf] as an unified build system for all platforms (Krzysztof)</del>
** what exactly is meant by this? is this already done with LPE?
** to be considered for 0.49, branch at lp:~tweenk/inkscape/waf-build)
* (DONE) <del>Move code hosting to Launchpad</del>
* Windows port improvements
** (DONE) <del>move devlibs to a Launchpad project</del>
** (DONE) <del>Rebuild C++ libraries using TDM-GCC to fix Launchpad bug [https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/173116 #173116] - exceptions not caught across DLLs</del>
** (DONE) <del>Upgrade Windows devlibs to recent versions of GTK and GLib to fix several Windows bugs</del>
** Make the uninstaller work


Codebase Cleanup Effort:
=== Inkscape 0.49 ===
* Change to use of GQuarks instead of #defines where feasible
** Where can information be found on this? (I have no clue what GQuarks are for example)
* Learn and use autoscan and autoreconf to find out which configure tests are still needed.
* Clean up configure.in
* (PARTIALLY DONE) [[DirectoryReorgProposal]]
* Convert all tabs into spaces (convert tabs to 4 spaces)
** Also see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7164324
* Remove trailing whitespace
** See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeJanitors#Cleanup:_Whitespace
* Rename all '[[SPFooBar]]' routines to '[[FooBar]]' and put into namespaces
** (DONE) dialogs folder
* (DONE) Convert use of gboolean to bool where feasible
**(Bulia: "This was attempted and (partially?) rolled back, because it broke GTK calls which require gbooleans.")
* (DONE) Switch from use of TRUE/FALSE to true/false
**(Bulia: "This was attempted and (partially?) rolled back, because it broke GTK calls which require gbooleans.")


0.49 will be a longer cycle focused on refactoring and new features.


File Format Support Effort:
* (DONE) <del>Merge GSoC 2010 work</del>
* PDF Import/Export
* Evaluate changing the numbering scheme to a date-based one, or setting more realistic goals for major (1.0, 2.0) releases
** (HELP NEEDED) Identify remaining problems with the cairo-based PDF tool check [[FileTypes]]
* (DONE) <del>Port renderer to Cairo (Krzysztof - GSoC 2010)</del>
** Ensure clippaths, transparency, bitmaps, etc. all work
* (DONE) <del>Completely remove libnr</del>
* Introduce a backwards compatibility mechanism that will allow us to modify the XML representation of editing info. This is needed to bring the desktop coordinate system in line with SVG due to guideline and 3D box problems (they save desktop coordinates in the XML).
* Using the above mechanism, make flowed text SVG-compliant.
* Improve support for SVG switches: the first recognized element in a switch should appear directly in the SP tree, not as a child of the switch element.
* Improve support for changing the name of the XML element node in response to SP tree changes.


Inkboard Effort
=== Long term goals ===
* Stabilize the code by closing crash bugs in the bug tracker


SVG Feature Compliance Effort:
* Better modularization: separate the Inkscape codebase into several libraries that could be used by other programs.
* Animation
* General refactoring: make Inkscape a joy to develop.
** Sketch out UI mockup ideas for animation rendering/animation
* SP tree refactoring: Port the object tree to C++ objects.
** Make an ultra-preliminary proof of concept of at least one animation feature
* XML refactoring: Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods.
 
* Hardware acceleration: make use of modern GPUs to speed up rendering.
Extension Effort:
* Live path effects: investigate extending to cover generic vector transformations (vector effects). Provide live versions of several destructive operations: boolean ops, stroke to path, text to path, etc.
* Unification of the way to display help on extensions
* CSS support?
* Localizable help of bundled extensions
* Animation support.
* Effect extensions browser
* [[GtkMMification]]
 
User Documentation Effort:
* Re-arrange tutorial categories [ScislaC]
* (PARTIALLY DONE) Switch to use of xml2po for tutorial files ([[User:Colin Marquardt|Colin Marquardt]])
* Document filters
 
=== Milestone 13 - Inkscape 0.47 ===
 
New/Changed Dependencies:
* Gtk 2.10 (required)
* 2geom (required)
 
File Format Support Effort:
* PDF Import/Export
** Choice of PDF spec. (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3)
** Add file info/comments
** Add color bars
* [[MicrosoftVisio|Visio]] support
** Add extension for use of [[VDX2SVG]] (http://vdxtosvg.sourceforge.net/)
** Add extension for use of [[PDF2SVG]] (http://www.solidcode.net/pdf2svg/ - this doesn't actually link to a useful page)
 
Tools:
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306&func=detail&aid=904962 correct handling of multiple font faces] by Text tool
* [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/16938/ Filters tool]
 
Architectural Refactoring Effort:
* 2geom Integration
** Eliminate code in favor of 2geom where feasible
* Convert remaining GTK dialog code to Gtkmm
 
Inkscape SVG Effort
* Revisit coordination system (move away from Cartesian)
 
DOM Binding Effort:
* Evaluate Adobe Activescript to use instead of Spidermonkey for our JS engine
* Create sample prototype app to explore ActiveScript
* Decide whether to go with Spidermonkey or Adobe ActiveScript
 
User Interface Effort:
* improvement of svg patterns UI - make it similar to gradient-drag, instead of piggybacking knotholder
* Palettes
** Custom palettes like from Gnome
** Ability to load 3rd-party palettes (e.g. Pantone, Trumatch, Focoltone, Toyo, etc.)
* Reenable fuzzy font matching [bb]
* Improve freehand curve smoothness [pjrm, paraprax]
 
Desktop Integration Effort:
* Replace existing printer dialog with one from gtk 2.10
* Inter-application cut-and-paste
* Inter-application drag-and-drop
 
Testing Effort:
* Include some rendering tests in `make check'.
* Get 'make check' to pass on Win32 and OSX (with the current btool, does this mean a 'btool check' should pass?)
* Investigate performance measurement testing for Inkscape
 
Animation Effort
* Create a written conceptualization of how it should work
** Currently, part of the concept discussion is at [[Animation-(Timeline)|here]]
 
Inkboard Effort
* Ensure multi-user conferences work across most JEP-compliant Jabber servers
* Conduct an informal security analysis of Inkboard for security flaws
 
User Documentation Effort:
* Solicit more tutorial contributions from userbase
** Node editing
** Advanced text effects
** Grid snapping
** Connectors
** Creating photo-realistic art
 
=== Milestone 14 - Inkscape 0.48 - Animation ===
 
* Get basic rendering and authoring of simple animations working adequately
 
Architectural Refactoring Effort:
* Complete lib2geom integration
* Streamline style.*
** Eliminate use of the style.h types in as much of codebase as possible, particularly display/*.
** Externally, it should present a simple sset of accessor methods for getting/setting properties by name, and propagating to/from repr.
** Inside, it should have:
*** a concise list of property names with the expected domain of values in CSS and the associated Inkscape data type
*** a concise list of property aliases which represent one or more properties combined, each with the rule used to combine
*** definitions of the aforementioned rules and value domains
*** some generic code (not tied to any one property) implementing the needed behavior
 
DOM Binding Effort:
* Create tool that reads the w3c idl files and generates binding code
* Bind xpath parsing/execution
* Finish the CSS-DOM classes
* Add a 'run' mode in a separate window that runs and displays the scripted SVG
 
Desktop Integration Effort:
* [[WebDAV/FTP]] support via GNOME-VFS, Neon, or the like
* Finish making printing work more efficiently and reliably
* Clipart manager GUI
 
File Format Support Effort:
* PDF Import/Export
** Generate multipage PDF documents
** Define bleed and slug areas for offset printing
** Add crop, bleed and registration marks
 
=== Milestone 15 - Inkscape 0.49 - Prototype all SVG Mobile features ===
 
SVG Feature Compliance Effort:
* Ability to select which SVG spec version to save as
* Multi-page
* Animation
* Implement perspective transformations via [[PerspectiveObject]]
* Path editing
* Shaped strokes
* Masking/clippaths
** on-canvas editing
** Should work like gradient tool to apply transparency
* [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=893812&group_id=93438&atid=604309 hyperlinking]
* Ensure Inkscape does not throw away the internal DTD subsets of documents it reads
 
=== Milestone 16 - Inkscape 0.50 - SVG Mobile Support ===
 
SVG Feature Compliance Effort:
* Multi-page
* Scripting
* Markers
** Inherit stroke properties like color
** On-canvas editing
** Fix snapping issue
* Real CMYK / LAB / HSB support
 
=== Milestone 17 - Inkscape 0.51 ===
 
Architectural Refactoring Effort:
* cairo Adoption Effort:
** Prereq: Is renderer immune to the same kinds of numerical problems we see with our new renderer, libnr, or libart?
** Will the new renderer improve performance for most users?
** Integrate a cairo-based SVG Canvas library
* follow the [http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html Freedesktop Icon Naming Spec] for easier themeing
 
File Format Support Effort:
* Native [[Adobe Illustrator]] file Import/Export
** Requires good PDF Import/Export
* Native [[CorelDraw]] file Import/Export
* DXF import/export
* gdkpixbuf(?) - would give JPEG support
 
=== Milestone 18 - Inkscape 0.52 - Tech drawing abilities ===
 
User Interface Effort:
* Object-to-object snapping
* Implement [[LittleCMS]] as color management system
* Implement iso (DONE) & hex grid
* Editable toolbars (libegg)
* Geometrical constraints
** "Perpendicular-to", "Parallel-to", etc.
* Path trimming/extending/offset
* Filleting tool
 
Extensions Effort:
* Implement extension registry for users to upload/download extensions via Inkscape
* Dia-like smart shapes support
 
=== Milestone 19 - Inkscape 0.53 - Inkcore ===
 
* Separate sections of code into various libraries for use by other programs
** inkcanvas
** inkview
** inkscape
 
=== Milestone 20 - Inkscape 0.54 ===
=== Milestone 21 - Inkscape 0.55 ===


=== ??? - Inkscape 1.00 - Full SVG 1.1 support ===  
=== ??? - Inkscape 1.00 - Full SVG 1.1 support ===  

Revision as of 10:10, 25 February 2012

This is a working document showing specific near-term tasks needed for achieving the numbered milestones. It is not a wishlist of features to be included in future releases. Because people often work on whatever they feel like, this roadmap should only contain items that really have a good chance of being done for the next release (which means, somebody is actually working on them).

NOTE 1: Because this document became completely separated from reality, I replaced it with a more realistic version that reflects what we're actually doing. --Tweenk 13:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Milestones 0-13 have been completed since the start of the Inkscape Project. See OldRoadmap

Inkscape 0.48

0.48 is intended to be a quick release cycle focused on merging GSoC work and fixing some long standing bugs.

  • Merge and stabilize Google Summer of Code 2009 work
    • (DONE) Node tool rewrite
    • (DONE…?) Connector tool improvements
    • (POSTPONED) D-Bus scripting API
  • (DONE) Desktop integration improvements: solve the issue of broken files resulting from people unknowingly pasting bitmap images as links.
  • (DONE) Build system improvements: evaluate Waf as an unified build system for all platforms (Krzysztof)
    • to be considered for 0.49, branch at lp:~tweenk/inkscape/waf-build)
  • (DONE) Move code hosting to Launchpad
  • Windows port improvements
    • (DONE) move devlibs to a Launchpad project
    • (DONE) Rebuild C++ libraries using TDM-GCC to fix Launchpad bug #173116 - exceptions not caught across DLLs
    • (DONE) Upgrade Windows devlibs to recent versions of GTK and GLib to fix several Windows bugs
    • Make the uninstaller work

Inkscape 0.49

0.49 will be a longer cycle focused on refactoring and new features.

  • (DONE) Merge GSoC 2010 work
  • Evaluate changing the numbering scheme to a date-based one, or setting more realistic goals for major (1.0, 2.0) releases
  • (DONE) Port renderer to Cairo (Krzysztof - GSoC 2010)
  • (DONE) Completely remove libnr
  • Introduce a backwards compatibility mechanism that will allow us to modify the XML representation of editing info. This is needed to bring the desktop coordinate system in line with SVG due to guideline and 3D box problems (they save desktop coordinates in the XML).
  • Using the above mechanism, make flowed text SVG-compliant.
  • Improve support for SVG switches: the first recognized element in a switch should appear directly in the SP tree, not as a child of the switch element.
  • Improve support for changing the name of the XML element node in response to SP tree changes.

Long term goals

  • Better modularization: separate the Inkscape codebase into several libraries that could be used by other programs.
  • General refactoring: make Inkscape a joy to develop.
  • SP tree refactoring: Port the object tree to C++ objects.
  • XML refactoring: Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods.
  • Hardware acceleration: make use of modern GPUs to speed up rendering.
  • Live path effects: investigate extending to cover generic vector transformations (vector effects). Provide live versions of several destructive operations: boolean ops, stroke to path, text to path, etc.
  • CSS support?
  • Animation support.
  • GtkMMification

??? - Inkscape 1.00 - Full SVG 1.1 support

Milestone [Future]

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