Hi all, To summarize the current situation… we should release: - Étoilé LiveCD 0.2 in next two weeks - Étoilé release 0.2 in the week following the LiveCD probably
After that I would like to have an extra release between 0.2 and 0.3, this intermediate release would be numbered 0.2.5. The aims of this release would be bug fixes and refined UI for the whole environment as it is now. Why? Mostly because we won't have a radically new desktop environment anytime soon and we should provide a basic desktop environment environment quite usable and rather polished. This involves some time/ work spent on UI improvements now. Even if they are further reshaped or time to time discarded when we will move away from monolithic applications to document-centric interaction, I'm strongly in favor of doing these improvements now rather than continuing development of a collection of application that behave and look differently and evolve in their own way at UI level. Making the demo really nice could help to attract more developers and/or potential users. By the way, the most compelling reason may just hold in the fact that being "shiny" is our real goal ;-) Main tasks would be: - polished UI for all applications - cleaned WildMenus (menu support should be perfect at this time) - stable Io + Spot reintroduced - standard UI control size and layout size - new UI font - preferences applications (Hardware + Look & Behavior even if they are partially implemented) - SystemConfig (related to the previous one) - both UI and API consistency for menulets by finishing ServicesBarKit - fully working IconKit - better website - better framework documentation Optional stuff: - cleaned Camaelon - really basic project support (mostly done at System level) - tabbed document support in PaneKit (this means all applications that use NSDocument would automatically benefit from PaneKit features for combining/displaying several documents in one window) - web browser prototype based on SimpleWebKit (may be a fork of Mantella) The target release date would be sometimes around July, August or September depending on the feature set finally choosen. LiveCD would be updated to match this release. I think release 0.3 will probably happen later this fall and will include new stuff like: - preliminary Project support - CoreObject prototype - etc. Feel free to comment, update… Cheers, Quentin. _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
