On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:02:19AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > With GNOME 3.0 going into code freeze any day now, it is high time > that we start looking beyond 3.0 and start collecting ideas and making > plans for what comes next. To that end, I have collected a list of > things that have fallen off the 3.0 train at one point or another, as > well as some other things that might be nice to put on the roadmap. > Some of these have designs and/or working implementations, others or > just ideas. > > I'd like to encourage everybody to chime in with their own ideas and > plans for GNOME 3.2. > > > Matthias > > > Shell / core stuff: > > - 'Finding and reminding' in the shell. There are fairly detailed > writeups about this, and the Zeitgeist team and Federico have been > working on something that at least looks similar. > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/FindingAndReminding > http://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2011-02.html#zeitgeist-in-gnome-shell > > > - Application menu / Actions / Jumplists. This got tied up in the > back-and-forth over GApplication and never really got finished. > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-February/msg00086.html > > > - Accessibility: As Jon said in the discussion about the Universal > Access menu, we don't really have a story to tell here. Still not in a > position where we can turn on toolkit a11y by default, and the shell > a11y leaves a lot to be desired too. > > > - On-screen keyboard: to really work, the osk needs to be integrated > in the shell; there's existing designs for this. > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/ScreenKeyboard > > > - Tablets / touch / scrollbars: Make GNOME work on touch devices. > > > - System dialogs: We got gnome-session and polkit dialogs converted, > gnome-keyring is next on the list. Work-in-progress patches exist. > > > - Device hotplug: There was the idea (and some mockups) for moving > this into either notifications or shell-style dialogs.
Since the shell removed the "Places and Devices" a couple of releases ago having the newly hotplugged devices as resident notifications containing an unmount button would be great. Cheers, -- Guido > > - Storage: Might be nice to turn palimpsest into a control-center > panel that covers simple cases. > > > - Sharing: We have rygel, and gnome-user-share, and vino but no > finished design for how this is going to appear in a control-center > panel > > > - Login screen: gdm got some facelift, but it is still pretty much a > gnome2 login screen. We have a design for a shell-style greeter. > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/LoginScreen > > > - Network: this has received a lot of effort recently, but the > control-center network panel will clearly need to be fleshed out more > completely for 3.2. > https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Network > > > > Applications: > > > - We don't have a good contracts story. There were discussions around > it (folks, web accounts, etc). It would be good to improve that in > 3.2. > > > - There was a proposal by the epiphany team to look at epiphany / > shell integration. > > > - Sadly, empathy is not a great chat application; with chat being such > a prominent feature in 3.0, we really should be doing much better > here. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
