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Development plan
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This development plan sets a specific set of milestones for future versions
of glabels.
Goals for 2.2.x:
- Bugfixes
- Translations
Goals for 2.3.x (current development branch for 3.0):
- Migrate to Gnome 3.0 platform
- Remove deprecations from Gnome 2.0 platform
- New color combo selector widget family
- New font selector widget family
- Undo, Redo capability
- Allow for management of custom templates
(i.e. delete, rename, edit).
- Improve documentation and translation maintainance
- Code cleanup
Possible Goals for future branches:
- Make text items rich. I.e. allow multiple characteristics
to exist within a single object. Basically each text object
will be a mini word processor. The bounding box for the object
will act like a page, where lines wrap on the word boundary.
- Text effects. (follow contour, non-rectangular text boxes,
...)
- Add additional "merge" backends. Candidates include:
gnome-db
internal database stored in glabels file
generic XML
freedb (CDDB) for CD labels
ADIF for generating QSL-cards
Address books of Thunderbird, Balsa, Claws Mail etc.
- Printer calibration tool: a facility for tweaking output
origin and scale. This should really be part of the
underlying print system but currently is not, so we may
want to add the hack.
- Adjustable grid spacing. Spacing of visible grid should
be user adjustable. This grid spacing should be an
integral multiple of a finer invisible grid. There should
be a "snap to grid" toggle, that causes all posistioning
and sizing performed on the canvas to snap to the closest
grid. The possible grid spacing should be appropriate
for the current units selected (e.g. .1 points, .01 mm,
1/64 inch, 0.001 inch).
- Ability to select/unselect individual records during a
merge-print.
- Merge templates which are now in seperate template definitions
because the product includes more than one unique shape. This could
be done by using tabs in the drawing area.
- Ability to define a free-form shape for a label/card. There are some
products which have unusual shapes. This includes free-form markup
objects. For the time being, the ability to concatenate a shape from
other basic shapes could be sufficient here.
- Migrating the docs creation from gnome-doc-utils to itstool, which would
be fine for translators. Itstool give us the ability to mark strings as
"not" translatable. This includes code examples, strings from the template files
which must not be translated. Itstool shrinks the translatable string count.
- See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=445119&group_id=46122&func=browse
for additional ideas.
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