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Milestone 8 - GtkMM Architectural Change - Inkscape 0.42

General Gtkmm Interface

• (DONE) Merge the inkscape_gtkmm codebase into mainline with cmdline option to activate it [bryce]
• (DONE) Implement text in shape UI
• (DONE) Selection and node tools: double-click on group sets group as current layer (without altering inkscape:groupmode) [bb]
• Create a TreeEditor dialog for use by the XML editor, Extensions, Layers, etc.
• Develop a loadable keyboard accelerator "theme" system
• Create a CurrentColorWidget

Main Chrome

• Controls panel:
  • Implement Text controls
  • Implement X/Y spinbuttons for the Node controls
  • Add more spinbuttons to shape tools: center, radius, w/h, etc.
  • Make defaults settable in Preferences
• Develop Gtkmm Context Menu
• Develop Gtkmm Statusbar
• Implement a detachable toolbox

Icons and Cursors

• (DONE) Implement basic icon theming capability
• (DONE) Convert all xmp icons to svg's
• (DONE) Create one alternate icon/cursor set
• Add Gnome HIG-compliant ICON (Normal logo with NIB in it) [mental]
• Create a complete default icon/cursor set [bb]

Dialogs Redevelopment and HIG-Compliance

• Object Properties dialog
  • (DONE) Redesign Object Properties dialog
• (DONE) Align and Distribute Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• (DONE) Document Preferences Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• (DONE) Trace Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• (DONE) Transformation Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• (DONE) Overhaul Gradient UI to improve management and creation
• Preferences dialog
  • (DONE, for .44) Convert to Gtkmm
  • (DONE, for .44) Redesign so it's not tabs-in-tabs

• Fill/Stroke dialog
  • Convert to Gtkmm
• Text Properties dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• (DONE for .43/.44) Layers Dialog (Also see Layers section below)
• Export Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• Find Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• Messages Dialog - Convert to Gtkmm
• XML Editor - Convert to Gtkmm

Layer Enhancements

• (DONE, for .44) Implement a layer management dialog [mental]
• (DONE) search checks inkscape:label, and ignores layers [bb]
• (DONE, for )Layers... // opens the Layers dialog
• (DONE) Move to Layer Above Shift+PgUp
• (DONE) Move to Layer Below Shift+PgDn
• (DONE, for .43) Move to layer above/below
• Move to Layer... // let me choose layer name to move selection to
• Unlock All Layers // unlock all layers in the document
  • (or all siblings of the current layer?)
• Unhide All Layers
• Unlock All in Layer // unlock all children of the current layer
• Unhide All in Layer
• Group to Layer // convert group to layer
• Layer to Group

• (DONE) Clean up tool ("event context") code

Extension Infrastructure

• Sketch out a first cut at an extension manager dialog
• Decide on an API for extensions to interact with the XML tree / DOM (see DOM 3 spec)
• Add DOM/XPath support [ishmal]

Milestone 9 - Design Extension Architecture - Inkscape 0.43

• This architectural change will establish a new mechanism for how features are added and maintained in the codebase. see also: ExtensionArchitectureProposals

Internal

• Thoroughly document SPRepr
• Hook up the DOM stuff to Swig to enable scripting languages access to internals
  • foreach section of code to script, subclass NodeImpl and add fields and methods
• Redo the internal clipboard to use an SPDocument/SPObjects rather than being simply literal copying at the SPRepr level [mental]
• Specification Document for extension system including API
• Hook up system clipboard (via gtkmm). Ensure when copying, that 'image/png' and/or 'image/svg' get on the system clipboard
• Solidify the underlying Extensions infrastructure
  • Convert Extensions to OO
  • Rename extensions to be consistent with new naming scheme
• (DONE) Example extension package
• (DONE, for .44?) Implement support for SVG's "switch" element (SPItemGroup subclass, I think..), and the associated requiredFeatures, requiredExtensions and systemLanguage attributes (on SPItems in general)
• Look into implementing SVG filters via extensions
• Implement added Desktop file entries for GNOME 2.8 http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1885&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Drawing

• Fix inverted coordinate system [mental]
• Make clones respond sensibly to original duplication [bb]
• Review & plan out replacement of sp-file.*
  • Implement backup functionality for documents and preferences.xml, ideally with versioning like in Emacs
• Implement Rounding for arbitrary paths

Dialogs

• (DONE, for .44) Redevelop About screen
  • (DONE, for .44) break out the credited authors //+ Translators + License
  • possibly add tab or section to this with known issues/bugs
  • same for release notes
  • investigate use of GtkAbout

Milestone 10 - RFE's & Extensions Implementation - Inkscape 0.44

New/Changed Dependencies

• (DONE) Add libcroco

Internals

• masks/clippaths
  • (DONE) Implement creation
• (DONE) Load-from-URL

RFE's

• (DONE) tools: add/remove points on path, bezier drag

Maintenance

• (DONE) When run without installing, make it look for icon image file(s) locally so we don't get garbage icons

Testing

• (DONE) Implement tests of Inkscape against the W3C test suite [rick beton, bryce]

Statistics

• (DONE) Reduce open/total RFE ratio to 55%

Milestone 11 - Import/Export Feature Enhancements - Inkscape 0.45

New/Changed Dependencies

• (DONE) Change to Gtk 2.6
• (DONE) Drop libloudmouth

• (DONE) Bidirectional text in Pango needs attention
• (DONE) MakeVertical in Pango needs attention
• (DONE) integrate Googles_Summer_Of_Code 2006 work, i.e. SVG Filters and formalising the protocol for inkboard communication

• (DONE) Integrate use of libcroco for handling Cascading Style Sheets.
• (DONE) Create a swatches dialog

SVG Compliance

• • (BASICALLY DONE) layers
  • (DONE) color palette
  • (DONE) gradient tool
  • (DONE) patterns
  • (DONE) text on path and in shape
  • (DONE) text selection
  • (DONE) SVG filters
• (DONE) Investigate SVG docs where SVG is not the default namespace used at the root -- e.g. <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://...etc"><svg:rect.../><blah></svg:svg> -- <blah> would end up getting shoehorned into the svg namespace