Overview

This plan is just a first draft. Possible major themes for the 2.10 release are

• Platform consolidation
• Printing support
• Introspection

The platform consolidation plans are explained in detail on the Project Ridley page. Some ideas about printing are contained in Owens talk on the future of rendering in GNOME. Information about the full introspection plans can be found e.g. in bug #139486 or in this mailing list thread.

Tentative schedule

The current consensus is to aim for a 9 month release cycle, with a target date of mid-April 2006 for all major features to be complete and in mergeable shape, and a 2.10 release in May 2006. This should be far enough ahead of the likely GNOME 2.16 release to make the release team feel comfortable.

Possible features (filled circles denote features which are already in CVS)

• Printing

• Integrate libglade (details)

• Toolbar editor. See EggToolbarEditor in libegg. (#120645)

• Tray icon. See EggStatusIcon in libegg (#105101)

• Super, Hyper, Meta modifiers (#85780)

• Recent files support (details)

• Druid/Wizard support (#115348)

• Possible GtkTreeView features (Jonathan, Kris):
  • DnD with multiple items (#70479)
  • Tooltips on column headers and cells (#80980)
  • Grouping (#80869)
  • Save expanded node state (#50054)
  • Support for state saving (#50054)
  • A column editor (#80867)
• Possible GObject features:
  • Full introspection (#139486)

• GLib Bugs (unmilestoned)
• Pango Bugs (unmilestoned)
• GTK+ Bugs (unmilestoned)