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'''GNUstep has no roadmap...!'''
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The roadmap is a living document- if you're a maintainer, please update it with your plans.
  
Anyway, here is small list of what has to be done. Refine the list, prioritize and build the roadmap. Perhaps some checklist would help...
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== Roadmap Introduction ==
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The GNUstep Roadmap represents where the team sees GNUstep going in future releases.  As decisions are made regarding what should go into a given release, it will be added here for that release.  This will help to track what features are planned in the future and what direction GNUstep will take in the future.
  
== Version 1.0 ==
 
  
''What needs to be done for GNUstep 1.0? Can someone provide a check-list?''
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== GNUstep 1.0 ==
  
== Version 1.1 ==
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* Make
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** Improvements for Windows (''see [[Roadmap to Windows#Make|Make on Windows]]'')
  
== Unsorted TODO ==
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* Base
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**  Improvements for Windows (''see [[Roadmap to Windows#Base|Base on Windows]]'')
  
* ease installation process (see [[GNUstep Installation Process]])
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* GUI
** what are potential platforms?
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** Improve printing support. 
** what are their possibilities of installation?
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*** Alpha support for printing.  All other operations are working.
** how can installation be combined for several platforms (one installation package for more linux distros, for example)
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** Stable interface
** how to distribute binary packages?
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*** GNUstep's API has stablized a lot recently.
** what should be in the binary package?
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** Correct any severe bugs which remain in the codebase (none known at this time)
** how should be the binary package installed? where? what should be configurable during installation?
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** popup/pulldown menu operation ... sometimes (often) popup menus seem to fail to track the mouse, so you can't select their buttons. cursor bug?
** how to cope with more than one GNUstep environments installed?
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*** [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?6152 Correct a few long standing, but minor, focus problems]
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*** [https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?10825 Support for NSColor colorWithPatternImage:] (done)
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** Complete [[Themability|themeing]] in GUI (and windows theme) (in progress)
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** In-window menu support for Windows (working)
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** Nib support in gui, complete keyed archiving support. (In progress)
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*** Phase 1: Nib reading (Percent complete: 100%)
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*** Phase 2: Nib writing (Percent complete: 75%)
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*** Phase 3: Xib reading (Percent complete: 100%)
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*** Phase 4: Storyboard reading (Percent compleete 90%)
  
* make GUI work on MS windows (see [[Portability]])
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* Back
** what is broken?
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**  Better Windows Support (''see [[Roadmap to Windows#Gui|Gui on Windows]]'')
** what needs to be done?
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** Focus issues
** who is working on it?
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**   Reliable window manager/desktop interaction: several target WM? -- window manager interaction ... I want clicking on windows to work <i>reliably</i>, so that when I click on any GNUstep window:
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*# The application activates (shows its menu and panels, and raises the window clicked on).
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*# The clicked window starts accepting keyboard input
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*# any other GNUstep application deactivates (hides its menu and panels)
  
* what is the objective of GNUstep GUI/AppKit 1.0?
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* Development Environment:
** what is missing?
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**  Gorm 1.4.x
** what does not work?
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**  ProjectCenter 0.6.x
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** Create an "xcodebuild" like tool, perhaps called simply "codebuild" which will allow users to build xcodeprojects on a GNUstep system without having to resort to writing GNUmakefiles. 
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*** 80% Done: see [[pbxbuild]]. (Deprecated)
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*** 95% Done: see [[buildtool]] and [[libs-xcode]]
  
* what is the objective of GNUstep core 1.0?
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* User apps
** what is missing?
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** GWorkspace 0.9.x
** what does not work?
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** Need more basic user apps
  
* Include distcc as part of GNUstep's developement like XCode's.
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* Other
** Put distcc in LiveCD for intel, then we can have a GNUstep compilation farm easily.
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** Initial public release of SimpleWebKit
  
[[Category:Project procedures]]
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* Packaging
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**  Package name, like GNUstep 1.0 for everything...
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== GNUstep 1.1 ==
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* GUI
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** Nib Compatibility Phase 2: Nib writing (Percent complete: 95%)
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* General
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** Maybe extract functionality from core libraries into other lightweight libraries if useful?

Latest revision as of 10:36, 13 December 2021

The roadmap is a living document- if you're a maintainer, please update it with your plans.

Roadmap Introduction

The GNUstep Roadmap represents where the team sees GNUstep going in future releases. As decisions are made regarding what should go into a given release, it will be added here for that release. This will help to track what features are planned in the future and what direction GNUstep will take in the future.


GNUstep 1.0

  • GUI
    • Improve printing support.
      • Alpha support for printing. All other operations are working.
    • Stable interface
      • GNUstep's API has stablized a lot recently.
    • Correct any severe bugs which remain in the codebase (none known at this time)
    • popup/pulldown menu operation ... sometimes (often) popup menus seem to fail to track the mouse, so you can't select their buttons. cursor bug?
    • Complete themeing in GUI (and windows theme) (in progress)
    • In-window menu support for Windows (working)
    • Nib support in gui, complete keyed archiving support. (In progress)
      • Phase 1: Nib reading (Percent complete: 100%)
      • Phase 2: Nib writing (Percent complete: 75%)
      • Phase 3: Xib reading (Percent complete: 100%)
      • Phase 4: Storyboard reading (Percent compleete 90%)
  • Back
    • Better Windows Support (see Gui on Windows)
    • Focus issues
    • Reliable window manager/desktop interaction: several target WM? -- window manager interaction ... I want clicking on windows to work reliably, so that when I click on any GNUstep window:
    1. The application activates (shows its menu and panels, and raises the window clicked on).
    2. The clicked window starts accepting keyboard input
    3. any other GNUstep application deactivates (hides its menu and panels)
  • Development Environment:
    • Gorm 1.4.x
    • ProjectCenter 0.6.x
    • Create an "xcodebuild" like tool, perhaps called simply "codebuild" which will allow users to build xcodeprojects on a GNUstep system without having to resort to writing GNUmakefiles.
  • User apps
    • GWorkspace 0.9.x
    • Need more basic user apps
  • Other
    • Initial public release of SimpleWebKit
  • Packaging
    • Package name, like GNUstep 1.0 for everything...

GNUstep 1.1

  • GUI
    • Nib Compatibility Phase 2: Nib writing (Percent complete: 95%)


  • General
    • Maybe extract functionality from core libraries into other lightweight libraries if useful?