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author | Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org> | 2002-04-19 23:05:49 +0000 |
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committer | Matthias Clasen <matthiasc@src.gnome.org> | 2002-04-19 23:05:49 +0000 |
commit | 7614512195c93ebb1851efc30b50d4d7141bec61 (patch) | |
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Remove some files whose content is either obsolete or has been moved
* TODO, TODO.xml, README.nanox, docs/Changes-1.2.txt,
docs/Changes-2.0.txt, docs/gtk-config.txt, docs/debugging.txt,
gdk/TODO: Remove some files whose content is either obsolete or
has been moved elsewhere.
* Makefile.am, gtk+.spec.in, docs/Makefile.am: Remove references
to these files.
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diff --git a/TODO.xml b/TODO.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 09967526c..000000000 --- a/TODO.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,739 +0,0 @@ -<!-- This is used to generate the online TODO list for GTK+ using - the script docs/make-todo. Whenever a change to this file is - committed to CVS,the file is run through make-todo and the online - version updated. If you modify this file, you should check for - parse errors by running: - - $ docs/make-todo TODO.xml > /dev/null - - before committing, or you may screw up the online version --> -<todo logourl="gtk-logo-rgb.gif"> - <title>GTK+ TODO list</title> - <section> - <title>GDK</title> - - <entry size="medium" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>Add backing store support</title> - <description> - <p> - GTK+'s drawing model involves clearing to a background, and - then drawing widgets on top of this. Without having - backing-store support, this results in flickering in various - situations. Backing store cannot be added widget-by-widget, - because the drawing in a particular window is not confined - to a single widget. Instead it needs to be added per GDK - window. - </p> - <p> - The way this is done is by having - <tt>gdk_window_begin_paint()</tt> - and <tt>gdk_window_end_paint()</tt> functions that - redirect all drawing to a particular window to an offscreen - pixmap, and then copy that offscreen pixmap back onto the - screen when the paint operation is done. The implementation - of this is mostly complete in the <tt>gtk-no-flicker</tt> branch of - GTK+. - </p> - </description> - <url>http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gtk/1.4/gdk-drawing.html</url> - <contact>Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>32 Bit Coordinates</title> - <description> - <p> - GTK+-1.2 and earlier share X's limitation on the - size of coordinates and restrict all dimensions - to 16 bit quantities. By clever use of X it is - possible to lift this restriction and present a - full 32-bit space to the user. - </p> - <p> - There are some difficulties with performance in this - approach - mostly because scrolling can involve mapping and - unmapping lots of widgets, but in general, current - trials in this area seem to work pretty well. - </p> - </description> - <url>http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gtk/1.4/gdk-drawing.html</url> - <contact>Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Customizable double-click timeout</title> - <description> - <p> - The current fixed double-click timeout in GTK+ - is too small for some users. This needs to be - customizable - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - <bugs>#3958</bugs> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Make color handling more convenient</title> - <description> - <p> - Add some color convenience functions; such as a way to get an - allocated GdkColor from GdkRGB, and export functions from gtkstyle.c - that lighten/darken a given color, and set a color from HSV in - addition to RGB. Also, consider having static variables that contain - preallocated common colors (gdk_blue, gdk_red, etc.), the problem - being colormap issues. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Cursors</title> - <description> - <p> - Two tasks: 1) move the cursors in the cursor font that people actually - care about to the top of the gdkcursor.h header file, and put a nice - list of the 15 cursors people actually care about in the docs 2) if - the cursor font lacks some commonly-useful cursors (like magnifying - glass), add these cursors to gdkcursor.h and then emulate them in - gdk_cursor_new by transparently creating the cursor from a bitmap. - The list of Qt cursors is worth http://doc.trolltech.com/qcursor.html - looking at for this task. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="100%" target="2.0"> - <title>Make GdkRGB work on any visual</title> - <description> - <p> - GdkRGB should be able to render to an arbitrary visual - (i.e. the visual shouldn't be fixed at gdk_rgb_init() - time). This will break gdk_rgb_gc_set_foreground() and - friends, though. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - </section> <!-- GDK --> - - <section> - <title>Internationalization</title> - - <entry size="big" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>Integrate Pango</title> - <description> - <p> - The purpose of the Pango project is to provide a system for - layout and rendering of internationalized text. It handles - most of the issues necessary to - </p> - </description> - <url>http://www.pango.org</url> - <contact>gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>Switch to using UTF-8</title> - <description> - <p> - This is closely related to Pango integration. Pango deals - with all strings in terms of UTF-8; by switching GTK+ over - to UTF-8 we make it considerably simpler for developers to - support multiple languages properly while still retaining - a large degree of compatibility with existing programs. - </p> - <p> - Some work has already been done on this as part of the Win32 - port, since the Win32 port is currently using UTF-8 for all - strings. In general, this should be an easy job; the hardest - parts are places like GtkFileSelection, cut and paste, and - input method support where there is interaction between GTK+ - and the operating system. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="60%" target="2.0"> - <title>Rewrite Input Method Support</title> - <description> - <p> - Support for Input Methods is GTK+-1.2 is done via XIM, with - supported styles being over-the-spot and the root-window - styles. However, the over-the-spot style is not going to - work well with the Pango integration, since it relies on the - text rendering in the program being done in the standard - Xlib style, so it will be necessary to also support - on-the-spot input. On-the-spot input is done by supplying a - set of callbacks that are invoked by the input methods. - </p> - <p> - GTK+-2.0 will have a new system with loadable input method - modules. These modules can either be implemented using XIM, - or written from scratch. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - </section> <!-- i18n --> - - <section> - <title>GTK+ Core</title> - - <entry size="big" status="60%" target="2.0"> - <title>GLib based object and type system</title> - <description> - <p> - The GTK+ object system is already in use in quite a few different - non-GUI applications; it would be desirable for these uses - to have the object and type systems separated from the GUI portions - of GTK+ and be generalized for non-GUI usage. - </p> - </description> - <contact>Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="1%" target="2.0"> - <title>Overall callback improvements</title> - <description> - <p> - The GTK+ type and signal systems need significant improvements to - allow signal creation with default handlers from language bindings - and to aid language bindings in deriving new objects. - One aspect of this is the Closure support, recently suggested by - Karl Nelson <kenelson@ece.ucdavis.edu>, but this also - requires a GLib based type and parameter system (ties in with - "GLib based object and type system"). - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>State change notification</title> - <description> - <p> - GTK+ objects emit various types of signals, some to perform - arbitrary actions, some to allow customization from user code, - and some signals are emitted to notify of certain changes - of an object. For the latter, what really is required is a - gneneric signal that can be used to monitor *any* kind of object - changes. For that, all object changes need to be routed through - a central point (otherwise the signal emissions are spread all - over the object implementation), i.e. an object argument setter. - The state change notification signal doesn't need to be emitted - syncronously, in fact, it's probably most effective to always - emit this asynchronously, so subsequent changes are accumulated. - </p> - </description> - <contact>Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="5%" target="2.0"> - <title>Widget as sensitivity/grab state machine</title> - <description> - <p> - Maintenance of pointer and keybnoard grabs is currently very - tedious and error-prone, most widget's cook up their own stuff - in this regard. - By moving the general concept of "Grabs" to the GTK+ level as - a widget state, and providing a new signal for alterations of - a widget's state ("visible", "visible+insensitive", - "visible+grab", "hidden", "hidden+insensitive", etc.), things - can be unified and more stabelize. A couple of bugs, such as - insensitive widgets still holding a grab, or buttons that - still think they are depressed when hidden, will be squeezed - automatically with that. - </p> - </description> - <contact>Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Allow argument customization</title> - <description> - <p> - Many types of object arguments (expander style in the CList, - default padding in button boxes, etc), conceptually go with - the theme, or as user preferences; they should not be set by - a particular program. - </p> - <p> - There needs to be a mechanism for themes to be able to - control these arguments from the RC file. - </p> - </description> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Allow global customization</title> - <description> - <p> - There are a number of global parameters in GTK+ and GDK that should be - customizable by the user, such as the double-click timeout, - or whether widgets should be backing-stored by default. - </p> - <p> - If we had argument customization from an RC file, it might - be possible to do this simply with a global object with - arguments for the various global parameters that was - customized in the same fashion as object arguments. - </p> - </description> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Gtk+ Modules installation directory</title> - <description> - <p> - Gtk+ needs to support an extra lib/ directory, to search - for dynamically loadable modules, it also needs to support - an environment variable to specify module search paths. - This has quite some cross-platform issues with the GModule - code (especially on AIX). - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - - <entry size="small" status="20%" target="2.0"> - <title>Convenient widget setup</title> - <description> - <p> - Make it simpler to set all the basic attributes of a widget. Might - want set_tooltip(), set_accel(), set_color(FOREGROUND, color), - set_min_size() (usize does this, but needs a rename), set_whatsthis(), - etc. set_accel() may not work for all widgets, may need a convenience - API for button and label accelerators specifically. - </p> - <p> - The idea is that it should be easy, out of the box, to set up a widget - with all the nice touches and features the widget really should - have. Users shouldn't need to do their own convenience functions for - this. - </p> - - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>Make selections/clipboard more convenient</title> - <description> - <p> - Make GtkSelectionData more like the MIME blobs in Swing and Qt. - Consider a GtkClipboard object to simplify cut-and-paste handling. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - - <entry size="small" status="80%" target="2.0"> - <title>Stock label/icon system</title> - <description> - <p> - A system like GnomeStock for getting a standard labels/icons - for menus and toolbars. Should be extensible by themes, and - by libgnomeui. Some work already done on this. - </p> - </description> - <contact>hp@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - - <entry size="big" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>Session Management</title> - <description> - <p> - Look in to session management. Consider whether to use - X11R6 SM, or some custom spec shared with KDE. Create - GTK+ API for this. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>Online help enhancements</title> - <description> - <p> - Look at a small "What's This" popup widget, - and a What's This system in general (this part - could maybe be done for 2.0). A more difficult, probably - a post-2.0 task, is to integrate a very simple little - help browser gizmo into GTK. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - - <entry size="medium" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>GUI-editable means of user configuration</title> - <description> - <p> - Need to be able to set double click time, whether cursors - blink, etc., from a control panel type of deal. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - </section> <!-- Core --> - - <section> - <title>GTK+ Widgets</title> - - <entry size="small" status="100%" target="2.0"> - <title>Make GtkFrame use a label</title> - <description> - <p> - The title of a frame should simply be another child widget - which, by default, holds a label widget. This will important - with Pango where proper text behavior will be more complex to - implement, but is also useful for certain user-interface - designs. (It can be useful, for example, to put a checkbutton - in that slot.) - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>Replace GtkText Widget</title> - <description> - <p> - The GtkText widget is badly in need of replacement, since it - is buggy and insufficiently feature rich. This is being done - using Havoc Pennington's port of the Tk Text widget. - </p> - <p> - As part of this job <a href="http://www.pango.org">Pango</a> - support is being added to the replacement. The structure of - the Tk text widget port is suited to this as it works - paragraph-by-paragraph, and Pango works at a sub-paragraph - scale. The main remaining tasks here are to implement - incremental reflow to make performance acceptable and to - implement embedded pixmaps and widgets. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="20%" target="2.0"> - <title>Improve Radio/Checkbutton Look</title> - <description> - <p> - The default look for the radio and checkbuttons is both - unattractive and not friendly to the user . Motif did not - get this one right, and we should not keep on following the - Motif look. The right thing here is probably to copy the - Windows appearance for these controls fairly closely. This - will fit in with well with the rest of the GTK+ look. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="99%" target="2.0"> - <title>Improve Submenu Navigation</title> - <description> - <p> - Navigating through a deep menu tree in GTK+ is currently - quite tricky, because as soon as one leaves a menu item, - the submenu disappears. The way that the Macintosh is - reputed to handle this is that to pop down the current - submenu, you have to leave the triangle defined by the - upper left hand corner of the menu item and right - side of the submenu. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0 ?"> - <title>Improve Spinbutton Look</title> - <description> - <p> - Spinbuttons currently appear to have lumpy boundaries, - because sides of the arrows aren't at an angle that - meshes well with the pixel grid. However, fixing this - would require making the spinbuttons narrower and - harder to hit. This points out a general problem with - the spinbutton (and the arrows on the scrollbars) - the - target area for clicks actually the bounding box of the - arrows, but the user thinks that they must click on the - arrows themselves. It would probably be more friendly - to use a square button with an arrow drawn on top instead - of a arrow-shaped button, the approach taken by most other - windowing systems. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>Supply horizontable/vertical wrapping boxes</title> - <description> - <p> - An often requested feature are wrapping containers, at this - point, gimp's development version already uses such widgets: - horizontable/vertical wrap boxes, that need to go into 2.0 - proper at some point. - </p> - </description> - <contact>Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="90%" target="2.0"> - <title>Improved generic combo support</title> - <description> - <p> - Gtk+'s combo box has several drawbacks in design and - implementation. An new attempt at providing the combo box - functionality with improved flexibility has been made with - the GtkClueHunter widget, sitting in the CVS module "gle". - </p> - </description> - <contact>Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org></contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="40%" target="2.0?"> - <title>Add unified set of List/Tree/Grid widgets</title> - <description> - <p> - Currently, GTK+ has a large number of list and tree widgets - (GtkList, GtkTree, GtkCList, GtkCTree), none of which are - ideal. The GtkList and GtkTree widgets perform badly on large - number of items. (GtkTree widget is also quite buggy.) GtkCList - and GtkCTree mostly solve the size problem, but are quite - complex and, despite that, not very flexible. They are limited to - displaying pixmaps and text, and can neither support arbitrary - widgets nor custom drawing functions. - </p> - <p> - In addition to list and tree widgets, a closely related need - is a sheet widget that displays a (possibly editable) 2-D grid. - It would be desirable to have a complete set of widgets that - could be presented as the one-true-solution for these needs. - Model/View techniques could be used effectively to increase - both the simplicity and power of the interfaces. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>GtkImage</title> - <description> - <p> - gdk-pixbuf is moving to become a GTK+ dependency, a new image-display - widget is thus needed. - </p> - </description> - <contact>hp@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Attempt to fix GtkStatusbar</title> - <description> - <p> - GtkStatusbar is too inconvenient to use. - The only non-breakage-inducing fix we could - come up with is to permit 0 as a context ID, so you - don't have to use gtk_statusbar_get_context_id(). - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="95%" target="2.0"> - <title>Decruft GtkProgress, GtkProgressbar</title> - <description> - <p>UPDATE: this is done, just need to apply the patch. - </p> - - <p> - This interface is just a disaster of overcomplexity; - it should pretty much just be set_percentage(), - pulse() (to move during activity mode), and set_text(). - There's no reason that there are two objects, should - just be one interface. Almost all the functions - that currently exist should be deprecated. - </p> - </description> - <contact>hp@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Entry validation hooks</title> - <description> - <p> - Simple hooks for validation in a GtkEntry. Pretty much just a - "validate" callback which takes a string (current entry contents) and - returns either VALID, INVALID, or COULDBEVALID. Then the - GtkEntry calls this function if it's set, and does the appropriate - UI things. GTK should come with validators for int and float, - see GtkSpinButton where these are already implemented. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>pseudo-MDI Widget</title> - <description> - <p> - Add a widget that lets you rearrange various views (similar to many - IDEs, like Visual SlickEdit or JBuilder). Basically there should be a - central slot and 4 slots around the sides; each slot holds one or more - views. If two views are dropped in the same slot, then a notebook is - created displaying both views. If a view is dropped outside the - application window, it becomes a standalone window. It should be - possible to restrict whether a view can be dropped on the sides, - horizontal/vertical sides only, in the central content area, or in - any of those places. - </p> - <p> - (Havoc has a proposed interface for this, mail hp@redhat.com) - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>Icon List Widget</title> - <description> - <p> - A simple icon list widget, suitable for creating a file selector or - the like. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>Dock widget</title> - <description> - <p> - Add a widget like GnomeDock (perhaps based on GnomeDock) - that allows people to put rearrangeable toolbars, menubars, etc. - around a central content area. The widget should have hooks for - saving the current positions of the various docked bars. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="big" status="0%" target="> 2.0"> - <title>Canvas widget</title> - <description> - <p> - Figure out how to get GnomeCanvas or a derived work into GTK+ itself. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="57%" target="2.0"> - <title>Menu scroll</title> - <description> - <p> - When menus are bigger than the screen, allow scrolling - as on the Mac. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="20%" target="2.0"> - <title>Toolbar/menubar wrap</title> - <description> - <p> - When toolbars and menubars are too wide, do some sort of - wrapping or drop-down deal. (See Windows/Mac apps for examples.) - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Blink cursor in GtkEntry</title> - <description> - <p> - Make the cursor optionally blink in GtkEntry. Beware, the entry code - is somewhat in flux; mail Owen and ask. - </p> - </description> - <contact>otaylor@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="100%" target="2.0"> - <title>Don't highlight first menu item when menus come up</title> - <description> - <p> - Keep GtkMenu from prelighting the first menu item. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="100%" target="2.0"> - <title>Integrate new color selector</title> - <description> - <p> - There's a new color selector in CVS (module gnome-colorsel), - it needs to be folded in to GTK and any remaining issues resolved. - (This new selector is API-compatible with the old one, and - still called GtkColorSelector). - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="medium" status="70%" target="2.0"> - <title>Write new font selector</title> - <description> - <p> - Pango introduces a new font handling system, - replacing the XLFD system. Need a font selector for this. - The XLFD selector should probably remain, for apps where - it makes sense (like gnome-terminal probably). - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Stack Widget</title> - <description> - <p> - Jonathan has a widget like a tabless/frameless notebook, used for - something like the GNOME control center where you want to toggle which - widget is visible to the user. Needs to be cleaned up and considered - for GTK. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org, jrb@redhat.com</contact> - </entry> - - <entry size="small" status="0%" target="2.0"> - <title>Clean up GtkNotebook</title> - <description> - <p> - GtkNotebook currently breaks GTK invariants about - mapping/visibility/etc., needs fixing. - </p> - </description> - <contact>gtk-devel-list@gnome.org</contact> - </entry> - - </section> <!-- GTK+ --> -</todo> - |