Hi all, Meld 3 (or whatever in HEAD will be called) should be basically okay at this point for daily use. However, there are still some major porting tasks to go, and lots of corners to fix. What follows is a bit of a brain dump of things that still need doing. While this is less of a roadmap and more of a wishlist, now is a good time to do all of these migrations.
* Themeing: We need to port from GtkStyle to GtkStyleContext. My current experience of GtkStyle in GTK3 is that it just doesn't work, though maybe I'm missing something. This is an 'easy' job that will just involve a fair bit of work figuring out how to integrate with StyleContext stuff and moving our themeing over. * Migrate from GtkTable to GtkGrid: I've seen some regressions from GTK 2 behaviour with table packing, so I don't think this is optional. Also, GtkGrid looks much, much nicer. * Command-line handling: We should look at porting to GApplicationCommandLine and GOptionContext. I'm not certain whether this is the best option, but it's worth a look. Either way, Meld needs to support creating new instances (i.e., and not just new tabs) before a release. * Help translation: We now use Mallard-based help, but don't have the necessary distutils magic to build and install translated help. This should 'just' be a matter of porting the yelp-tools m4 magic to distutils. I have no idea how hard this will be * Python 3: Honestly this won't be that difficult... mostly just a fix-rinse- repeat. The only place where I would expect pain is in matchers.py where we do some bytestring-style-stuff. Then there's the nice-to-haves: * Icon changes: We should stop using so many icons, and update the ones we still need. The apply/copy/delete ones have been slightly updated, but they could/should be better and we could... you know... stop using XPMs. Ideally, all of our icons would also be sensibly installed to the right place in a theme so that they can be overridden. * GIO: We currently use Python's IO for most of our file handling. It would be nice to migrate to GIO for better async support, as well as for stuff like accessing files on network shares, etc. * UIManager: This has just been deprecated in current GTK. This is an absolute nightmare. I have no idea how we migrate away from this sanely. * Plugins: We should start to setup some kind of plugin infrastructure, presumably based on libpeas. ...and I haven't even touched on Windows and OS X builds. If anyone wants to pick any of these up, that would be awesome. Otherwise I'll keep plugging away at this list... slowly. Some of these have been vaguely started already, but most are free for the taking. These are also just the high-level items. Most of this won't bring noticable feature improvements for users, just foundations. I could start talking about fixing text filters or better alignment for inline highlighting or toolbar updates for menubuttons... but I won't. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
