List of features to be implemented (not in any particular order)
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-THINGS DONE IN THIS RELEASE:
-
-DONE: fix GTK+ 2.16/2.17 XInput issues with scrollbars and menus
-DONE: fix bug 2826845 (shape recognizer accel doesn't work in fullscreen mode)
-DONE: bug affecting resize zone in statusbar
-DONE: page spinbutton wide enough for 3 digits; avoid "deprecated" warning
-DONE: edit->paste command should refresh toolbar to unselect color/thickness
- (so can repaint sel)
-DONE: cursor doesn't reset properly after selection operation if primary
- tool is select mode (stays with arrow cursor instead of pointer)
-DONE: device with "eraser" at the end of its name is of type ERASER
- (Edward Yang)
-DONE: fix_xinput_coords() replaces buggy xinput events by core pointer
- coordinates
-DONE: use poppler to render PDF backgrounds (after patches contributed
- by Mike Ter Louw and Bob McElrath)
-DONE: gettext internationalization (contributed by David Planella)
-DONE: Catalan translation (by David Planella); French translation
-DONE: fix unresponsiveness to button events in text edition box (GTK+ 2.17)
- and segfaults when dragging text or using Layers combobox (GTK+ 2.17)
-DONE: Esc leaves text box if editing; and leaves fullscreen mode
-DONE: package our own copy of the ttsubset library (to remove a dependency
- on libgnomeprint), and create TT subfonts in memory
-DONE: use gtk-print instead of libgnomeprint
-DONE: remove deprecated "antialias bg" option
-DONE: fix fix_xinput_coords so it works ok without ENABLE_XINPUT_BUGFIX ?
-DONE: disable ctrl-left/right accelerators during text edition
-DONE: custom color chooser button (after a patch contributed by Alex Ray)
-DONE: remember last used directory (after a patch contributed by Lu Zhihe)
-DONE: discard Alt-click and Control-click events
-DONE: option to have buttons *toggle* the tool rather than act as tool
- (ie button 2 causes button 1 to map to tool 2) [Dylan Thurston]
-DONE: patch to fix focus + allow up/dn in single page mode (Bob McElrath)
-DONE: patch to fix underscores in MRU filename display (Bob McElrath)
-DONE: patch to avoid tiny file dialogs (Bob McElrath)
-DONE: further fixes for focus; can Esc out of page selection box
-DONE: further fixes for xinput under GTK+ 2.17
-DONE: option to auto-load *.pdf.xoj instead of *.pdf (Bob McElrath)
-DONE: look for PDF backgrounds in path of xoj file before prompting user
-DONE: paper color chooser (after a patch by ojb)
-DONE: remove "Discard core events" from options menu
-DONE: get_pressure_multiplier() accesses correct members of event union
-DONE: address recognizer bug on single-segment strokes (division by 0)
-DONE: remove binary installer (poppler is binary incompatible across versions)
- but provide configure script
-
-REMAINING THINGS TO DO:
-
- collaborative editing (see discussion with Erik Demaine)
-- porting to Win32 and MacOS; merge Nokia port
+- porting to MacOS; merge Nokia port
- multiple-scenario undo history
- collaborative: allow non-x86 endianness (for ints, for floats?)
- cleanup of undo history (keep track of refcounts, delete old undo)
save-and-clear-undo ?
-- RandR / recalibration awareness?
+- RandR / recalibration awareness? - NOT NEEDED ANYMORE?
(e.g. if xinput events are far away from core events, re-query geometry?)
or see if removing the GTK bugfix would help? -- e.g. by recalling an
internal gtk init function?
+ Also allow for SIGUSR1 to recalibrate (so rotate scripts could pkill
+ xournal). (cf #2944459). Recalibration probably requires talking directly
+ to X server to query input device geometry and compensate for GTK.
+
+TODO WITH IMAGE PATCH:
+TODO: paste and selresize don't put rectangle at top
+TODO: select click in image selects it
+TODO: option for image mode to revert to previous tool
+TODO: direct paste text
+
+BUGS:
+- lingering issues with synaptics touchpads? (#2872667)
+ (todo) - set device to Absolute mode at startup? (GDK doesn't expose API,
+ cf XSetDeviceMode() in /usr/include/X11/extensions/XInput.h)
+- color picker into canvas doesn't work in GTK+ 2.16 (should disable
+ xinput first?)
+- export to PDF should see cropbox size if smaller, and map the
+ cropbox -- not the entire page -- to the page area! (2009-11-18 forum)
+
+BEHAVIOR TODO:
+- option to have "Save Prefs" save current brushes as settings, not defaults
+- method to map more general devices to specific tools or to Ignore
+ (e.g.: X220T ignore trackpoint; map touchscreen to Hand, eraser to Eraser)
+
+WIN32:
+- test further
+- write an installer
+- bug: opening files with accents in name?
+- bug: cairo-scaled-font in printing? (2009-11-18 bug tracker)
+- bug: printf() sometimes generates stroke coordinates 1.#J -1.#J (???)
+ (filter out inf, -inf, nan, very large values when saving ???)
+
+PATCHES TO INCORPORATE:
+- ezyang e-mail of 11/28/2011: patches in Ubuntu to fix PDF showing up?
+http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/x/xournal/xournal_0.4.5-3.debian.tar.gz
+actually not necessary anymore? (ezyang 12/2/2011)
+
+- tauu e-mail of 12/1/2011: 8 small patches for win32, uploaded on tracker
+https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3447356&group_id=163434&atid=827735
+
+- patch: add Alt-Up/Dn accelerators for show/hide layer. See
+ show_hide_layer.patch
+
+* my own patch noresize_background_v1.patch (also in xournal-working/)
** patch: ortho/snap (revised Apr 13 2009)
xournal_ortho_snap_patch_4 (by Josef Pavlicek)
** patch (Ian-Woo Kim): multicolumn mode + LASSO SELECTION
xournal_lasso_multipage_zoom_button_20090620.patch
-** autosave patch (Edward Yang) (fix: optional only, w/ menu + cfgfile
+** autosave patch (Edward Yang) (should fix: optional only, w/ menu + cfgfile
entries; fix: should clean up autosave.xoj.bg* files too; config interval)
0001-Implement-autosave-for-documents-revised.patch (2 seconds after
modification, vs original 5 seconds)
+ *** NEW VERSION: #2881919 (autosave for 0.4.5, w/ some changes)
+ NB: last modif should be triggered by prepare_new_undo() and undo/redo?
+ *** NEW VERSION: with threading, by Man, e-mail 12/10/2009 10:51pm
+
+** insert images patch (Victor Saase) #2890925
+** as improved by Simon Guest April 14 2010
+** modified rev2 May 14, 2010: xournal-0.4.5-sjg-image-rev2.patch.gz
+** rev6 by now...
+
+** customize paper ruling (Gautam Iyer e-mail Nov 30 2009 / SF tracker)
+
+** cairo export to PNG (Man = Paulo Neves, e-mail Feb 3 '10, saved as
+ cairo-png-rendering.diff.txt (refactor printing of page to cairo surface
+ with the gtk-print code).
+
+- patch by S. Guest
+ shortcut to increase/decrease text font size by 1 point (?) - acts just
+ as if one had clicked font sel box and resized (affects sel text + cur font)
+
+- make line spacing in text objects customizable: to a fixed scaling factor,
+ a fixed number of units, or the paper ruling (esp. the latter!!)
+
+- page size dialog box should have a check button to keep background size
+ the same (so rescaling creates margin around bitmap or PDF background).
+ This will need an extension to the file format, to allow a page background
+ to have a different size from the page itself.
+
+- option to map device named "touch" to hand tool? (like "Eraser tip")
+
+
+- roadmap towards SVG support: see 1/25/2010 Mark Edgington email & reply
+ (1) export to SVG (using pages and groups for pages and layers;
+ use comment tags to make export nonlossy;
+ (2) import from this subset of SVG;
+ (3) add SVG to the file-open and save formats
+
+- roadmap towards PDF encapsulation: see 1/29/2010 forum posts
+ When exporting to PDF, don't just append our annotations as PDF code but
+ also include the .xoj file within the pdf, and ensure the initial pdf is
+ well-delimited from the rest. When opening a PDF that includes such
+ markings, discard the annotation part of the PDF and open the embedded xoj
+ instead. Later, offer such PDF as a file-open and save format (even when
+ there's no PDF background being annotated!!).
+
+*** should have Open, Save, Save As manipulate at least 3 formats:
+ - XOJ
+ - PDF with embedded xoj file in an object (opens with annot. in PDF viewer,
+ with background only + separate xoj in xournal)
+ - SVG (subset only)
+ additionally, should have "print to": printer, PDF, SVG, bitmap.
+
+- allow djvu and other backgrounds (but then can't export to PDF)
- PDF bg memory usage throttling / delete oldest pdf backgrounds
- replace ttsubset by something more modern? (eg. from cairo ?)
- horizontal mode instead of dual-view / multicolumn ?
** "new page before/after" on a PDF bg page should ask: same page, other page of
PDF file, default paper
+** should also have in Journal -> Paper style the option "Pdf page ..."
+ which then lets us change the page number.
- new recognizer icon (andruk on patches tracker)
- recognizer: if variable-width, associate average width
- recognizer should snap to existing recognized geometric shapes
+- patch to find text in PDF (dmg = Daniel German, Nov 13 2009)
+
+- search through text (xoj and PDF background) (with highlight? forwd/backwd)
+ (see evince). Also: ability to select rectangle on PDF bg and copy-paste
+ as bitmap or as text.
- improve recognizer: two passes for polygons (low tolerance, then higher)
to better detect elongated rectangles? (if low tolerance recognizer
- render page to bitmap: for export, preview, and copy-paste
(render using libart, see how gnomecanvas does it?)
- NO: render using Cairo !!! then can switch to GtkPrint as well.
+ NO: render using Cairo !!!
(copy-paste: config option to render only current layer or all below?)
- cut-and-paste of selection into other apps (as bitmap; as SVG?)
+
- navigation sidebar with bitmap page previews
- bitmap preview for document icon in desktop environments?
- "organizer" side panel (hierarchy of notes), cf. gjots
+- maintain e-library: table of md5sums of pdfs with associations
+ to the corresponding xoj's absolute paths (cf. forum topic
+ "Use MD5..." of Dec 2009)
+
- see iRex code for generic viewer + PDF plugin including caching,
throttling etc. (Marcel Hendrickx email of Sep 11 '09)
- allow toolbar to go vertical
- toolbar buttons should react to button 2/3 click to modify settings
- for that tool?
+ for that tool!!
- paste text directly into xournal, from xournal?
(instead of starting a text item and pasting into/from it)
- insert links (to URLs; within document/to other xoj? hand mode navigates)
-- increase width of spinPageNo to fit 3 digits
-- should escape '_' to '__' in MRU menu entries (else become mnemonics)
- a command + keyboard shortcut to switch mappings (1<->2, 1<->3, 2<->3)
(A. Rechnitzer Sept 11, 2007)
- modify encoding of TrueType font subsets or provide cmap so pdf text
- add config option to limit total memory usage for PDF bitmaps
- ability to select entire page for copy-paste (as bitmap / reorder xournal)
- copy/paste of an entire page (beware if PDF bg is not compatible!)
-- rewrite printing using GtkPrint + Cairo as GnomePrint replacement
- (keep GnomePrint option for compatibility with GTK+ <2.10)
-- insert images (screen capture or from file or from clipboard),
- not as full-page backgrounds (new ITEM type)
- convert to/from Jarnal format; to/from MS Journal format???
- export as SVG, as bitmap (use Cairo for this)
- improved PDF viewer features (search text, hyperlink, page borders...)
(using full poppler api ?)
+- search text: among PDF background (using poppler); among text annotations
- use system paper size as default (/etc/papersize)
-- autoload *.pdf.xoj if present when opening *.pdf ???
- sticky notes (anchor visually text box to a bg location)
- use relative paths for bg documents (e.g. annotated PDF)
- flush display queue when drawing over a slow X server?
- lasso selection tool (see shoffsta patch)
(http://shoffsta.afraid.org/Projects/Xournal/)
- flatten (incl undo/redo...) - enabled only if nlayers>1
-- color chooser (papercolor, pen color); maybe more default colors
- cf. ojb patch #2083103 adds paper color chooser
+- color chooser (papercolor, pen color); have default colors and a history
+ appear as palette in there!
- printing: print-options, save printer settings (throughout a session,
and on disk) (maybe a separate config file .xournal/gnome-print-settings)
- help index
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