4 This development plan sets a specific set of milestones for future versions of glabels.
5 At this time (just prior to releasing 2.0.0) these milestones are somewhat nebulous and
16 Possible Goals for 2.1.x (next development branch):
18 - Undo, Redo capability (possibly backport to 2.0.x)
20 - Editing text in-place (may not be all that necessary with the new
21 object editor sidebar.
23 - Make text items rich. I.e. allow multiple characteristics
24 to exist within a single object.
26 - Text effects. (follow contour, non-rectangular text boxes,
29 - Object shadows. This is very important for text that
30 overlays photographs, so that it stands out against
33 - Possible technology upgrades:
35 o Pango. This is a must to support rich text items.
37 o Cairo-based canvas. Either someone elses or home-grown.
39 o Cairo print rendering.
42 - Ability to select/unselect individual records during a merge-print.
44 - Add additional "merge" backends. Candidates include:
47 freedb (CDDB) for CD labels
50 - Add facility for tweaking output (origin). This should really be
51 part of the underlying print system but is currently difficult to
52 accomplish, so I may want to add the hack. (candidate to backport