1 List of features to be implemented (not in any particular order)
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4 - collaborative editing (see discussion with Erik Demaine)
5 - porting to MacOS; merge Nokia port
6 - multiple-scenario undo history
8 - collaborative: allow non-x86 endianness (for ints, for floats?)
9 - collaborative: have an initial undo item = contents of the initial
10 xoj file + attachments for bitmap, pdf, and ps backgrounds
12 - cleanup of undo history (keep track of refcounts, delete old undo)
15 - RandR / recalibration awareness?
16 (e.g. if xinput events are far away from core events, re-query geometry?)
17 or see if removing the GTK bugfix would help? -- e.g. by recalling an
18 internal gtk init function?
21 ** lingering issues with synaptics touchpads? (#2872667)
22 (DONE) - add patch 0.4.5-fix-synaptics-v1.patch (fix ButtonDown events)
23 (todo) - set device to Absolute mode at startup? (GDK doesn't expose API,
24 cf XSetDeviceMode() in /usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h)
25 ** color picker into canvas doesn't work in GTK+ 2.16 (should disable
27 ** PDF export crashes in 64-bit due to wrong types (#2897699)
28 --- DONE --- patch by Robert Buchholz
29 ** export to PDF should see cropbox size if smaller, and map the
30 cropbox -- not the entire page -- to the page area! (2009-11-18 forum)
35 - bug: opening files with accents in name?
36 - bug: cairo-scaled-font in printing? (2009-11-18 bug tracker)
38 PATCHES TO INCORPORATE:
39 ** Italian translation (add_it_po.patch unless updated on tracker)
42 ** patch: ortho/snap (revised Apr 13 2009)
43 xournal_ortho_snap_patch_4 (by Josef Pavlicek)
45 ** patch (Ian-Woo Kim): multicolumn mode + LASSO SELECTION
46 xournal_lasso_multipage_zoom_button_20090620.patch
48 ** autosave patch (Edward Yang) (should fix: optional only, w/ menu + cfgfile
49 entries; fix: should clean up autosave.xoj.bg* files too; config interval)
50 0001-Implement-autosave-for-documents-revised.patch (2 seconds after
51 modification, vs original 5 seconds)
52 *** NEW VERSION: #2881919 (autosave for 0.4.5, w/ some changes)
53 NB: last modif should be triggered by prepare_new_undo() and undo/redo?
55 ** insert images patch (Victor Saase) #2890925
57 - customize paper ruling (Gautam Iyer e-mail Nov 28 2009, will update with
62 - PDF bg memory usage throttling / delete oldest pdf backgrounds
63 - replace ttsubset by something more modern? (eg. from cairo ?)
64 - auto-hide patch from ~/prog/src/xournal-autohide/ ?
65 (check for cpu usage; handle BOTH edges
66 and only (un)hide stuff at the correct edge!)
67 ** UI update (Bob McElrath) -- eliminating status bar, compact layout,
68 "compact interface" by default; themes, with line in config file
69 to load pixmaps from pixmaps/$THEME/ (see Jan 9, 2009 emails)
70 - horizontal mode instead of dual-view / multicolumn ?
71 ** "new page before/after" on a PDF bg page should ask: same page, other page of
72 PDF file, default paper
73 - new recognizer icon (andruk on patches tracker)
74 - recognizer: if variable-width, associate average width
75 - recognizer should snap to existing recognized geometric shapes
76 - patch to find text in PDF (dmg = Daniel German, Nov 13 2009)
78 - improve recognizer: two passes for polygons (low tolerance, then higher)
79 to better detect elongated rectangles? (if low tolerance recognizer
80 doesn't get a rectangle, then use higher tolerance for everything else,
81 since otherwise there's too much risk of splitting a segment into 2)
82 - snap-to-grid (also for ruler & recognizer vertices)
83 and maybe also snap-to-vertices (option for ruler and recognizer)?
84 - config option: config save current tool options instead of default ones
86 - bug in truetype subset generation w/ Adobe 9, see if gtk-print any better?
88 - drag-and-drop, copy-paste text & images directly into xournal
89 - proximity detection: eraser proximity switches mapping?
90 proximity out removes cursor until next motionnotify?
92 - render page to bitmap: for export, preview, and copy-paste
93 (render using libart, see how gnomecanvas does it?)
94 NO: render using Cairo !!! then can switch to GtkPrint as well.
95 (copy-paste: config option to render only current layer or all below?)
96 - cut-and-paste of selection into other apps (as bitmap; as SVG?)
97 - navigation sidebar with bitmap page previews
98 - bitmap preview for document icon in desktop environments?
99 - "organizer" side panel (hierarchy of notes), cf. gjots
100 - see iRex code for generic viewer + PDF plugin including caching,
101 throttling etc. (Marcel Hendrickx email of Sep 11 '09)
103 - allow toolbar to go vertical
104 - toolbar buttons should react to button 2/3 click to modify settings
107 - paste text directly into xournal, from xournal?
108 (instead of starting a text item and pasting into/from it)
109 - insert links (to URLs; within document/to other xoj? hand mode navigates)
110 - a command + keyboard shortcut to switch mappings (1<->2, 1<->3, 2<->3)
111 (A. Rechnitzer Sept 11, 2007)
112 - modify encoding of TrueType font subsets or provide cmap so pdf text
115 - smoothing of strokes (for users without tablets / with deficient drivers)
117 - add config option to limit total memory usage for PDF bitmaps
118 - ability to select entire page for copy-paste (as bitmap / reorder xournal)
119 - copy/paste of an entire page (beware if PDF bg is not compatible!)
120 - rewrite printing using GtkPrint + Cairo as GnomePrint replacement
121 (keep GnomePrint option for compatibility with GTK+ <2.10)
122 - insert images (screen capture or from file or from clipboard),
123 not as full-page backgrounds (new ITEM type)
125 - convert to/from Jarnal format; to/from MS Journal format???
126 - export as SVG, as bitmap (use Cairo for this)
127 - improved PDF viewer features (search text, hyperlink, page borders...)
128 (using full poppler api ?)
129 - search text: among PDF background (using poppler); among text annotations
131 - use system paper size as default (/etc/papersize)
132 - sticky notes (anchor visually text box to a bg location)
133 - use relative paths for bg documents (e.g. annotated PDF)
134 - flush display queue when drawing over a slow X server?
135 - more paper customization (in particular, 1/2 inch graph paper)
136 (2 custom papers with settings in config file?
137 a folder with blank PDF or xoj papers and quick-access?)
138 (also: engineering paper; isometric paper -- Dan Ott Sep 4 '09)
139 - option to map a button to a context menu (incl. tool selection, ...)
140 - option to map a button to "undo"
141 - xournal_page-shadow.diff (Martin Kiefel Feb 5 2007)
142 - xoj2pdf on command line
143 - 'insert blank page after' command (more useful in PDF annot !)
144 - load images as bg if given on command-line (as with PDF on commandline)
145 - lasso selection tool (see shoffsta patch)
146 (http://shoffsta.afraid.org/Projects/Xournal/)
147 - flatten (incl undo/redo...) - enabled only if nlayers>1
148 - color chooser (papercolor, pen color); have default colors and a history
149 appear as palette in there!
150 - printing: print-options, save printer settings (throughout a session,
151 and on disk) (maybe a separate config file .xournal/gnome-print-settings)
153 - option for highlighter to be always at bottom of its layer
154 - more pen/highlighter shapes (chisel)
155 - slanted tip pens (calligraphy)
156 - toolbar buttons to access custom preset tools (e.g. text or pen with settings)
157 - text boxes with opaque background
158 - recalibration upon screen resize / compensation for miscalibration
159 (use ConfigureNotify event and XInput? cf "Bugs" tracker 08/2007)
160 - find a better behavior for vertical space tool across page boundaries ?
161 config options? 1) when there's not enough space at bottom of page:
163 - move stuff to next page
164 - move stuff to a new page
165 2) when moving to another page:
167 - move only what doesn't fit (??? looks hard)
168 option for vert space tool to also move the background??
169 (PDF: cut-and-crop by running PDF code twice with 2 different clipboxes?)
170 - option to save all annotated files within the .xoj
171 - non-antialiased version for handhelds
172 - customize autogenerated save file names
173 - layer dialog box to set visibility status of each layer regardless of
174 which layer is being edited
175 - option to link layer creation and visibility status for all pages
176 (Eric Borghs 04/15/08)
177 - display corruption on scroll down when bottom of window is obscured??
178 (probably a gnomecanvas or X bug -- expose event generated for wrong
179 region, or not processed?)
180 - autosave at a regular interval in a given location
181 - keep only a few pages of a PDF file in memory at any given time; generate
182 pages by parsing pdf info rather than generating bitmaps for all of them.
183 - win32 port (Matteo Abrate)
184 - snap-to-grid tool? (Matteo Abrate)
185 - EPOS 7/24/07: Thumbnails pane
186 - EPOS: Connect to EPOS api which sends A4 mapped points
187 - EPOS: Cut and Paste into OpenOffice applications and the GIMP (as bitmap??)
188 - EPOS: Export pages to pictures in the Jpg and Png formats.
189 - EPOS: Rotate Ink in custom angle.
190 - handwriting recognition???? (cellwriter?) unlikely. we don't have grids
191 see galileon comment on 2008-07-29 to tracker #1925309: word recognizer
192 - handwritten stroke search in document (see cellwriter?)
193 (correlate inertia-normalized strokes in lift to unit cotangent bundle?)
194 - option: export to PDF with incremental pages for successive layers
195 (for presentations) (Daniel Brugarth 8/18/07)
196 - Samuel Hoffstaetter: lasso, gettext localization, sidebar thumbnails, ...
197 - YoYo Siska patch for desktop mode ??
198 - Vivek Ayer: rotate paper wrt screen (for environments where display
199 rotation doesn't work): gnome_canvas_item_affine_relative(canvas->root, ...)
200 would rotate all but text items (still need to modify scroll bbox, and
201 adjust event coordinates by inverse rotation).
202 - rotate PDF background pages (individually wrt each other, see #2099935)
203 - switch to libglade, and allow customization of key shortcuts (accels)
205 - command to copy a selected shape to a keybinding that will paste it
206 (so one can define symbols to insert into typed notes) (e.g. "be able
207 to bind Ctrl-B to draw a \beta" for class notes). (shape, binding) sets are
208 local to one session (different for different classes; but save them into
209 the xoj file maybe ?) [Felix Giannelia 09/29/2009]