5 - Validate and clean up label templates:
10 This development plan sets a specific set of milestones for future
11 versions of glabels. Although subject to change, milestones leading
12 to version 2.0 are fairly well defined.
17 - port all current features/capabilities to the GNOME 2.0
20 - clean up the architecture, and create a bonobo shell.
26 - Clean up label and template formats.
27 (See data/glabels-2.0.dtd) [Completed]
29 - A Properties toolbar. This will let the user change
30 certain properties (font, colors, and line widths) of
31 selected objects en-masse. [Completed]
33 - A docked property dialog. Instead of popping up individual
34 property dialogs, a single dialog will be docked in the
35 main window. This dialog will be automatically displayed
36 for new objects, so that the user can begin editing
37 text, selecting images, or entering barcode data.
39 - Migrate to libgnomeprint-2.2. [Completed]
45 - Editing text in-place.
47 - Make text items rich. I.e. allow multiple characteristics
48 to exist within a single object.
50 - Text effects. (follow contour, non-rectangular text boxes,
53 - Object shadows. This is very important for text that
54 overlays photographs, so that it stands out against
57 - Undo, Redo capability
59 - Create a druid for creating new label templates.
60 As part of the druid allow test sheets to be printed
61 and the new labels e-mailed to me (at the user's request).
62 Include a mini-preview, as the label is constructed.
64 - Along those same lines, create a druid to download new
65 templates from a central repository, much like in GBonds.
67 - Allow multiple label styles per template. For instance
68 a sheet may contain a CD label, and cover label. This
69 may cause problems for document merges -- labels could be
70 considered grouped for document merges when their numbers
71 match or they could have document merge applied to them
72 independently but in parallel. Arrange in a tabbed
73 notebook, or as multiple canvases arranged in view?
75 - support for the import of vector graphics formats such
80 Odds and ends WISHLIST for future versions:
82 - Ability to select/unselect individual records during a merge-print.
84 - Add additional "merge" backends. Candidates include:
87 freedb (CDDB) for CD labels
89 - Add facility for tweaking output (origin). This should really be
90 part of the underlying print system but is currently difficult to
91 accomplish, so I may want to add the hack.