On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:46:36 +0000 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> said:
> Hi Cedric, > > Great list thanks :) > > Along with all the breaking changes I thought I would throw a suggestion > into the mix... > How about we move non-core Elementary widgets out to an elm_extra library > not in main efl? There is so much in there that we are struggling to add > important stuff like tabs etc. If we could maintain a little less as a core > group this might be the time? > Also new widgets could start here rather than in efl... we can't really SPLIT things out. at least legacy efl api widgets have to be found in the same .so they were found in before. we can MERGE with symlinks but can't split... :( also if elm_extra is still part of the efl tree then it doesnt much matter as it has to be maintained along with the rest. if it's totally split out we end up with a mess of "well you basically have to also now build this elm extra lib in addition to efl just to have working apps". i do agre we have far too many widgets. some widgets we already marked for "will not have eo api for them" so they are basically being left to rot in legacy api only and then eventually for efl 2.0 dropped of course. i really think for example we just need an efl.ui.media object and no image + video + photocam + ... just one that displays some kind of media and what you point is at and its mode determine what it does. :) others seem to love the idea of specializing classes for everything (thus having LOTS of widgets). > Cheers, > Andy > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 at 22:06, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > So this email is going over what is left to be done to call EFL > > interface done. Most of this require still discussion also. Here it > > goes : > > > > - Merge Eo, Efl and Ecore > > - Make efl_uri_set/efl_file_set asynchronous > > - Convert Ecore_Exe to the new efl_io API > > - Fixup efl/interface/*.eo to all be in the correct namespace > > - Disable installation of evas/canvas/evas*.eo > > - Convert edje to become efl_canvas_layout > > - Update Edje with the new Text API > > - Convert elm_layout to become efl_ui_layout > > - Convert elm_widget to be an efl_ui_object of some sort > > - Update all efl data model to use efl_future/efl_promise > > - Add proper View and Controller for Genlist/Gengrid (see D3952 for some > > ideas) > > - There is still a large amount of .eo in elementary that are in elm > > namespace. This shouldn't be installed nor appear anywhere in the > > hierarchy. > > - Finish porting some of the widget to Efl.Ui namespace (photocam, > > index, entry, button, calendar, clock, menu, ...). This needs to be > > clarified with some pending patch in phab. > > > > This are quite a large todo list to be done with, hopefully it will... > > -- > > Cedric BAIL > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
