Re: Adjusting the 2.4 schedule

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 17.59 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> Which is still rather ambitious, since that gives us 3 weeks
> to land the major outstanding features:
> 
>  - Icon theme
>  - File selector

Isn't the file selector stuff still blocked on getting interface
properties into gobject ?

>  - Color/font picker

These are done as far as I'm concerned. Should I merge them in ?

>  - Disclosure triangle

This one should also be ready for merge.

>  - X cursor support for GTK+

I've just attached an Xcursor-based implementation to the bug and would 
appreciate some feedback on it.

> My feeling is that we should revaluate where we are in 2 weeks
> and see if we need to a) extend the major feature freeze a bit
> more b) punt stuff to 2.6.

I believe that if we don't declare the things we have now as ready to
merge and start actually merging them, we will be at exactly the same
point in two weeks.

> Features from www.gtk.org/plan/2.4/ that I think we should definitely
> punt to 2.6 at this point are:
> 
>  - Height-for-width geometry management. (already punted in bugzilla)
>  - Reworked tooltips
>  - Optimized pixbuf operations
>  - Smooth scrolling", like in Internet Explorer (#103811) 
>    [ my impression is that more experimentation is needed
>      here to figure out the final API ]
>  - GtkResizeGrip -- a widget implementing a resize grip. (#73359)
>  - Integration of directfb port.
>  - Most of the GtkTreeView features. (I don't see how Kris
>    is going to  have time for Combo, Filter, and a dozen 
>    other features.)

Agreed. Lets merge what we have now and get 2.4 done in time.

Matthias