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<todo>
<section>
<title>GDK</title>
<entry size="medium" status="70%" target="1.4">
<title>Add backing store support</title>
<description>
<p>
GTK+'s drawing model involves clearing to a background, and
then drawing widgets on top of this. Without having
backing-store support, this results in flickering in various
situations. Backing store cannot be added widget-by-widget,
because the drawing in a particular window is not confined
to a single widget. Instead it needs to be added per GDK
window.
</p>
<p>
The way this is done is by having
<tt>gdk_window_begin_paint()</tt>
and <tt>gdk_window_end_paint()</tt> functions that
redirect all drawing to a particular window to an offscreen
pixmap, and then copy that offscreen pixmap back onto the
screen when the paint operation is done. The implementation
of this is mostly complete in the <tt>gtk-no-flicker</tt> branch of
GTK+.
</p>
</description>
<url>http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gtk/1.4/gdk-drawing.html</url>
<contact>Owen Taylor &lt;otaylor@redhat.com&gt;</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="medium" status="70%" target="1.4">
<title>32 Bit Coordinates</title>
<description>
<p>
GTK+-1.2 and earlier share X's limitation on the
size of coordinates and restrict all dimensions
to 16 bit quantities. By clever use of X it is
possible to lift this restriction and present a
full 32-bit space to the user.
</p>
<p>
There are some difficulties with performance in this
approach, but in general, this seems possible to achieve
without all that much pain.
</p>
</description>
<url>http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/gtk/1.4/gdk-drawing.html</url>
<contact>Owen Taylor &lt;otaylor@redhat.com&gt;</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="small" status="0%" target="1.4">
<title>Customizable double-click timeout</title>
<description>
<p>
The current fixed double-click timeout in GTK+
is too small for some users. This needs to be
customizable
</p>
</description>
<contact>gtk-devel-list@redhat.com</contact>
<bugs>#3958</bugs>
</entry>
</section>
<section>
<title>Internationalization</title>
<entry size="big" status="0%" target="1.4">
<title>Integrate Pango</title>
<description>
<p>
The purpose of the Pango project is to provide a system for
layout and rendering of internationalized text. It handles
most of the issues necessary to
</p>
</description>
<url>http://www.pango.org</url>
<contact>gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="medium" status="20%" target="1.4">
<title>Switch to using UTF-8</title>
<description>
<p>
This is closely related to Pango integration. Pango deals
with all strings in terms of UTF-8; by switching GTK+ over
to UTF-8 we make it considerably simpler for developers to
support multiple languages properly while still retaining
a large degree of compatibility with existing programs.
</p>
<p>
Some work has already been done on this as part of the Win32
port, since the Win32 port is currently using UTF-8 for all
strings. In general, this should be an easy job; the hardest
parts are places like GtkFileSelection, cut and paste, and
input method support where there is interaction between GTK+
and the operating system.
</p>
</description>
<contact>gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="big" status="0%" target="1.4">
<title>Rewrite Input Method Support</title>
<description>
<p>
Current support for Input Methods is done via XIM, with
supported styles being over-the-spot and the root-window
styles. However, the over-the-spot style is not going to
work well with the Pango integration, since it relies on the
text rendering in the program being done in the standard
Xlib style, so it will be necessary to also support
on-the-spot input. On-the-spot input is done by supplying a
set of callbacks that are invoked by the input methods.
</p>
<p>
While adding the above support, it may be desirable to
generalize the input-method support to the point where
</p>
</description>
<contact>gtk-i18n-list@redhat.com</contact>
</entry>
</section>
<section>
<title>GTK+ Core</title>
<entry size="big" status="25%" target="1.4">
<title>Split GtkObject out</title>
<description>
<p>
The GTK+ object system is already in use in quite a few different
non-GUI applications; it would be desirable for these uses
to have the object system separated from the GUI portions
of GTK+.
</p>
</description>
<contact>Tim Janik &lt;timj@gtk.org&gt;</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="big" status="0%" target="1.4">
<title>Allow argument customization</title>
<description>
<p>
Many types of object arguments (expander style in the CList,
default padding in button boxes, etc), conceptually go with
the theme, or as user preferences; they should not be set by
a particular program.
</p>
<p>
There needs to be a mechanism for themes to be able to
control these arguments from the RC file.
</p>
</description>
</entry>
<entry size="medium" status="0%" target="1.4">
<title>Allow global customization</title>
<description>
<p>
There are a number of global parameters in GTK+ and GDK that should be
customizable by the user, such as the double-click timeout,
or whether widgets should be backing-stored by default.
</p>
<p>
If we had argument customization from an RC file, it might
be possible to do this simply with a global object with
arguments for the various global parameters that was
customized in the same fashion as object arguments.
</p>
</description>
</entry>
</section>
<section>
<title>GTK+ Widgets</title>
<entry size="small" status="0%" target="1.4">
<title>Make GtkFrame use a label</title>
<description>
<p>
The title of a frame should simply be another child widget
which, by default, holds a label widget. This will important
with Pango where proper text behavior will be more complex to
implement, but is also useful for certain user-interface
designs. (It can be useful, for example, to put a checkbutton
in that slot.)
</p>
</description>
<contact>gtk-devel-list@redhat.com</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="big" status="50%" target="1.4">
<title>Replace GtkText Widget</title>
<description>
<p>
The GtkText widget is badly in need of replacement, since it is
buggy and insufficiently feature rich. There are a number
of possible candidates for a replacement, with the most
promising at the current time being Havoc Pennington's
(hp@redhat.com) port of the Tk Text widget.
</p>
<p>
As part of this job it will be necessary to add
<a href="http://www.pango.org">Pango</a> support to the
replacement. The structure of the Tk text widget port seems
suited to this as it works paragraph-by-paragraph, and
Pango works at a sub-paragraph scale.
</p>
</description>
<contact>gtk-devel-list@redhat.com</contact>
</entry>
<entry size="big" status="0%" target="> 1.4">
<title>Add unified set of List/Tree/Grid widgets</title>
<description>
<p>
Currently, GTK+ has a large number of list and tree widgets
(GtkList, GtkTree, GtkCList, GtkCTree), none of which are
ideal. The GtkList and GtkTree widgets perform badly on large
number of items. (GtkTree widget is also quite buggy.) GtkCList
and GtkCTree mostly solve the size problem, but are quite
complex and, despite that, not very flexible. They are limited to
displaying pixmaps and text, and can neither support arbitrary
widgets nor custom drawing functions.
</p>
<p>
In addition to list and tree widgets, a closely related need
is a sheet widget that displays a (possibly editable) 2-D grid.
It would be desirable to have a complete set of widgets that
could be presented as the one-true-solution for these needs.
Model/View techniques could be used effectively to increase
both the simplicity and power of the interfaces.
</p>
</description>
<contact>gtk-devel-list@redhat.com</contact>
</entry>
</section>
</todo>