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