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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