Hello all, It's about time to decide on the major features we'll track for 3.4. Actually the release team already met yesterday and did a quick round up of the proposed features, here's a summary (title/url) of them as well a a quick release team note.
If you feel that something important hasn't been mentioned yet about a proposal, or if you have questions or comments about them, go ahead and speak now. + Zoom options dialog (universal access) https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00140.html → Some UI details needs to be worked out, but we want that. + Brightness and contrast functionality https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00141.html → Some techical details needs to be worked out, but want that. + Focus caret/tracking in GNOME Shell https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00142.html → Still need to be started but there is a good plan. + Braille Translator for Print Documents https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00143.html → Good thing, we should push dots to #gnome-design for some polish + Information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00144.html → We should bring dasher back to the -tested moduleset, and keep an eye on it, making sure it builds with our platform changes. + Alternative input system based on low-cost webcam https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-October/msg00145.html → out at the moment, the feature would need to be integrated to be part of GNOME + Application menu / Actions https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu → desrt put out his gio menu model code on a branch, mclasen wrote some gtk test code, mclasen needs to push walters to take a stap at the shell side, hopes to get a prototype by end of November. + Blank slate helps you get started https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Blank%20slate%20helps%20you%20get%20started → it's getting implemented in gedit, seif has been blogging about it, not sure how it would fit in other applications (we don't have a lot of "create document" applications). + Boxes https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Boxes → many commits, mclasen will push the developers to blog a progress report once they have something to show + Help Menus https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/HelpMenus → Shaun has been doing good progress, and reported them recently, still unsure about the way it will fit with app menus (this will probably need a pass in #gnome-design once we have an app menu prototype) but they would be used in other places, so we shouldn't block on this. + IBus/XKB support https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/IBus → many pieces are there, but details remain to be sorted out + Jumplists https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Jumplists → didn't heard much opinion of it from designers + Network zones https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/NetworkZones → many find the idea useful but all designers hate the idea, mclasen will update the page to reflect that + Lock Screen https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ScreenLock → Jon has started to put designs on the wiki + System Dialogs https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/SystemDialogs → mclasen will ask stef + a11y themes http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/ThreePointTwo/NiceToHaves → the feature page needs to be written, the idea seems to be to reuse symbolic icons where possible. + improvements in $foobar → Documents, network panel, user panel, wacom panel Fred _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
