Development plan ---------------- 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. - See https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=445119&group_id=46122&func=browse for additional ideas.