Development plan
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-This development plan sets a specific set of milestones for future versions of glabels.
+This development plan sets a specific set of milestones for future versions
+of glabels.
Goals for 2.2.x:
- - Bugfixes
+ - Bugfixes
- - Translations
+ - Translations
-Possible Goals for 2.3.x (current development branch):
+Goals for 2.3.x (current development branch for 3.0):
- - Undo, Redo capability
+ - Migrate to Gnome 3.0 platform
- - Make text items rich. I.e. allow multiple characteristics
- to exist within a single object.
+ - Remove deprecations from Gnome 2.0 platform
- - Text effects. (follow contour, non-rectangular text boxes,
- ...)
+ - New color combo selector widget family
- - Ability to select/unselect individual records during a merge-print.
+ - New font selector widget family
- - Add additional "merge" backends. Candidates include:
- generic XML
- freedb (CDDB) for CD labels
- gnome-db
- ADIF for generating QSL-cards
+ - Undo, Redo capability
- - 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 I may want to add the hack.
+ - Allow for management of custom templates
+ (i.e. delete, rename, edit).
- - 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).
+ - Improve documentation and translation maintainance
- - Allow for management of custom templates
- (i.e. delete, rename, edit).
+ - 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.
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