Feature Plans
This page lists major technical and user experience plans, and is intended as a way for contributors, distributors and partners to find out what to expect from future GNOME releases. It is maintained by the GNOME Release Team.
The features that are listed on this page can include user-facing changes (such as significant design or user interface changes) or initiatives that are primarily technical in nature. New modules or applications are considered to be features. A feature should be listed if it will impact on modules, distributions, or users in a non-trivial way.
Features should not be random wish list items. Each one should have an assigned owner.
GNOME contributors should ensure that the Release Team is informed of feature plans at an early stage, and are added to this list. An email to desktop-devel-list is also recommended as a good way to raise awareness about your plans.
Update: this page is no longer used, but it is still a good idea to communicate feature plans with the release team.
Plans for GNOME 3.30
Internet Radio Locator App
Owner: OleAamot
- Affected modules: gnome-internet-radio-locator
Plans for GNOME 3.28
New Usage App
Owner: PetrStetka
- Affected modules: gnome-usage, baobab, gnome-system-monitor
Sharing Framework
Implement sharing framework, using portals.
Owner: DebarshiRay
- Affected modules: gnome-online-accounts
Design page: Sharing
New On-Screen-Keyboard
Owner: CarlosGarnacho
- Affected modules: gnome-shell
Plans for GNOME 3.26
Debugging in Builder
Owner: ChristianHergert
- Affected modules: gnome-builder
Updated Display Settings
New Usage App
Owner: PetrStetka
- Affected modules: gnome-usage, baobab, gnome-system-monitor
Sharing Framework
Implement sharing framework, using portals.
Owner: DebarshiRay
- Affected modules: gnome-online-accounts
Design page: Sharing
Photos improvements
Owner: DebarshiRay
- Affected modules: gnome-photos
For further details see the roadmap
Passwords and Keys Application
A new application for managing stored passwords and keys, intended to replace Seahorse.
Owner: DaikiUeno
- Affected modules: seahorse
Design page: Passwords & Keys
RDP Support
Owner: FelipeBorges
- Affected modules: gnome-boxes
Javascript platform improvements
Owner: PhilipChimento
- Affected modules: gjs [+potentially gnome-shell, gnome-documents, polari, gnome-maps, etc.]
Recurrent events
Add UI to create and modify events with recurrences.
Owner: GeorgesNeto
- Affected modules: gnome-calendar
Todoist integration
Add Todoist integration in various modules.
Owner: GeorgesNeto, MatthiasClasen, DebarshiRay
- Affected modules: gnome-online-accounts, gnome-todo, recipes
Control Center redesign
Finish the implementation of the new Control Center shell.
Owner: GeorgesNeto, FelipeBorges, BastienNocera
- Affected modules: gnome-control-center
Quarter Tiling
Land the quarter tiling feature in Mutter.
Owner: GeorgesNeto, FlorianMuellner
- Affected modules: mutter
Sharing host's folders to guest
You can share your files from your computer to the Boxes'guest.
- Owner: Visarion Alexandru, Felipe Borges
- Affected modules: gnome-boxes
Plans for GNOME 3.24
Updated User Accounts Settings
Update the user settings panel to match the latest designs and facilitate the new settings shell design.
Owner: FelipeBorges
- Affected modules: gnome-control-center
Blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2016/01/13/a-settings-design-update/
Updated Printer Settings
Update the user settings panel to match the latest designs and facilitate the new settings shell design.
Owner: FelipeBorges
- Affected modules: gnome-control-center
Blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2016/01/13/a-settings-design-update/
Updated Online Accounts Settings
Update the online accounts panel to match the latest designs and facilitate the new settings shell design. Will hopefully also involve some improvements to Kerberos integration.
Owner: DebarshiRay
- Affected modules: gnome-control-center, gnome-online-accounts
Blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2016/01/13/a-settings-design-update/
Tag Editing in GNOME Music
Allow editing music metadata in the Music app. This work was initially done as a part of a GSoC project in 2016.
Owner: FelipeBorges
- Affected modules: gnome-music
ownCloud integration in GNOME Music
Allow listening to music stored in ownCloud using the Music app. This work was initially done as a part of a GSoC project in 2016.
Owner: FelipeBorges
- Affected modules: gnome-music
Revamped Header Bar and Bookmarks in Web
Redesign addresses existing issues with Web's (aka Epiphany) address bar and will greatly improve the bookmarks experience.
Owner: MichaelCatanzaro
- Affected modules: epiphany
Tracker bug: 755378
Design page: Web - Tentative Design
Browse as root in Files
Open a polkit dialog when the user tries to navigate into root-only parts of the filesystem.
Owner: CarlosSoriano
- Affected modules: nautilus, gvfs
Plans for GNOME 3.20
Wayland
Ongoing work is aiming to make it possible to have a full Wayland session with GNOME.
Owner: MatthiasClasen
- Affected modules: mutter, gnome-shell, gtk+, gnome-settings-daemon
Blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/01/19/gnome-wayland-porting-the-endgame/
Additional Calendar Information
A new calendar design landed in GNOME Shell for 3.16. For 3.20, we are aiming to add additional information to this, including weather and birthdays.
This work is being undertaken as a GSoC internship.
Owner: FlorianMuellner
- Affected modules: gnome-shell
Design page and blog post
LibreOffice integration in Documents
LibreOffice now offers an embeddable GTK+ widget that can render rich documents like ODFs, the various Microsoft Office formats, etc. that are supported by LibreOffice proper. It also has support for simple editing operations. We should be using this in Documents for rendering (and in future editing) such files.
The work on the LOKDocView GTK+ widget was undertaken as a GSoC internship.
Owners: Debarshi Ray and Pranav Kant
- Affected modules: gnome-documents
Preview of LibreOffice integration with Documents, making the widget introspectable and the final GSoC wrap-up report.
Editing in Photos
Leverage GEGL's non-destructive editing capabilities to add some commonly used operations in Photos. Like cropping, color adjustment and magic filters.
Owners: Debarshi Ray
- Affected modules: gnome-photos