GNOME Research & Development

1. Goals & Research

Pages who work on long and short term goals for the future of GNOME.

• GnomeGoals - Concrete goals for GNOME, suitable for inexperienced programmers

1.1. Development Branches

• Current: ThreePointFive

2. Debugging & Development

Pages that help programmers or discuss certain topics.

• GnomeLove - an initiative that aims to help people who want to get started contributing to GNOME.

• Debugging Gnome components - Environment variables to get log output

• BackTalk - Collect good debug information from GNOME applications

• Bloopers - Learn from mistakes

• DevelTools - Bring more developers in through better tooling

• ReleaseSets - a proposal on a set of official GNOME release sets that follow the now famous GNOME release cycle and get pokage from the release team.

• scons - Explore the possibility to replace GNOME's build system from autotools/make to scons/python.

• GnomeRecipes - Howto program common task in Gnome world.

3. Refactoring projects

Pages who are related to more than one project or are not (yet) a real GNOME project of their own.

• AppletsRevisited - Applets for a new generation

• CorporateConfiguration - We need some tool to perform enterprise-wide deployments and manage profiles.

• DesktopPlaces - Thoughts about bookmarks and places consistently accessible for every app.

• GnomeNic - SNMP MIB registration and similar bureaucracy

• GnomePerformance - Improving time consumption desktop-wide

• GnomeStorageManager - General partitioning, resizing and backup tool.

• GnomeTelephony - Framework for handling diverse computer to telephone network technologies.

• GnomeVfsMetadata - Better handling of file metadata for the VFS.

• GnomeVfsPlans - The next generation Virtual Filesystem Layer

• GtkCairoIntegration - Better integration between Cairo and GTK+

• GtkStylusMode - modifications should be made when Gtk+ used in embedded devices such as PDA or phone.

• InputIntegration - take full advantage of all your buttons

• LightweightGNOME - Discussion on another approach for a lightweight and more flexible and portable GNOME system

• LocaleProject - New framework for locale information

• MemoryReduction - Dude, where's my RAM

• MouseIntegration - take full advantage of your pointer

• NewDefaultTheme - let's do it this time

• PreferencesRevisited

• PrivilegedOperations - Letting applications securely perform privileged operations with a friendly API

• RecentFilesAndBookmarks - Let's move this from libegg into a platform library, and get it right.

4. Module related pages

These propably be should be on ModuleMaintenanceWorkspaces

• EclipseIdeas - Ideas for how to make Eclipse a better GNOME IDE.

• Luminocity - wobbly translucent madness (and build instructions)

• PowerManager - to power management as NetworkManager is to networks

• ProjectUtopia - The ability for hardware devices to "Just Work" on a Linux system.

• PackagingAbstractionLayer - PAL, the packaging equivalent to HAL

• SystemToolsBackends - Thoughts about the next major version of the GST backends

5. Random pages

• AppIntegration - How can applications work better together? (Rich clipboard, drag and drop!)

• GnomeMaps - Working with maps in GNOME.

• High5 - Bumping people up to first-class objects--er, citizens via new infrastructure and applications

• UnixPowerForDesktop - Bring all UNIX power to the desktop.

6. Discussion pages

• Suggestions - how can GNOME improve?

• WidgetWishlist - a list of widgets that need to be created or merged into GTK+

• ☠ - group discussion sanity gone mad

• PanelAppletWishlist - Ideas for new panel applets.

7. Comments

I hav tried to sort things a bit because the list grew more and more. This sure needs more clean up and maybe different headers. But I hope this helps to once get a better overview. -- ThiloPfennig 2008-02-15 14:00:58