X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=xournal.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2FTODO;h=704b7e6909cea5871572c1e9964063eae8ce9a34;hp=8323a095b19711d834026c7a4c126099b88c7fb0;hb=284ebb2e34c65e78f8597607c512204783ee0904;hpb=a78b442e4b673ac29d7dd29cfb2c9bca6f07130a diff --git a/src/TODO b/src/TODO index 8323a09..704b7e6 100644 --- a/src/TODO +++ b/src/TODO @@ -1,27 +1,256 @@ List of features to be implemented (not in any particular order) ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- map tools to stylus buttons (maybe: btn click on toolbar item affects - the corresponding tool; tool switching cleaner than for eraser) -- move selection to another page by drag-drop - (should apply to vertspacer when origin moves to another page, - but in the up direction only do so when all the stuff fits on prev page) - (SEE ALSO FEATURE REQUEST 1472482 and reply to it - optional behavior too?) -- lasso selection tool -- prefs file, save prefs -- flatten (incl undo/redo...) - enabled only if nlayers>1 -- resize selection -- text tool, font chooser, default font -- color chooser (papercolor, pen color); maybe more default colors -- printing: print-to-PDF? (with & without pdf background to merge) - opacity issue for highlighter strokes (maybe print them below ?) - save gnome printer settings (throughout a session, and on disk) - (maybe a separate config file .xournal/gnome-print-settings) -- file print-options, own print-to-ps/pdf -- help index -- pressure sensitivity +- collaborative editing (see discussion with Erik Demaine) +- porting to MacOS; merge Nokia port +- multiple-scenario undo history + +- collaborative: allow non-x86 endianness (for ints, for floats?) +- collaborative: have an initial undo item = contents of the initial + xoj file + attachments for bitmap, pdf, and ps backgrounds + +- cleanup of undo history (keep track of refcounts, delete old undo) + save-and-clear-undo ? + +- RandR / recalibration awareness? + (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. + +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) + +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 (???) + +PATCHES TO INCORPORATE: +** 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) (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 + +** 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). + +- make default in ok_to_close() box "cancel" rather than "no". + +- 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 ?) +- auto-hide patch from ~/prog/src/xournal-autohide/ ? + (check for cpu usage; handle BOTH edges + and only (un)hide stuff at the correct edge!) +** UI update (Bob McElrath) -- eliminating status bar, compact layout, + "compact interface" by default; themes, with line in config file + to load pixmaps from pixmaps/$THEME/ (see Jan 9, 2009 emails) +- 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 +- 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 + doesn't get a rectangle, then use higher tolerance for everything else, + since otherwise there's too much risk of splitting a segment into 2) +- snap-to-grid (also for ruler & recognizer vertices) + and maybe also snap-to-vertices (option for ruler and recognizer)? +- config option: config save current tool options instead of default ones + +- bug in truetype subset generation w/ Adobe 9, see if gtk-print any better? + +- drag-and-drop, copy-paste text & images directly into xournal +- proximity detection: eraser proximity switches mapping? + proximity out removes cursor until next motionnotify? + +- 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. + (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!! + +- 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) +- 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 + can be extracted + +- smoothing of strokes (for users without tablets / with deficient drivers) +- lasso tool +- 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) -- more pen/highlighter shapes (chisel) + - 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) +- 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? +- more paper customization (in particular, 1/2 inch graph paper) + (2 custom papers with settings in config file? + a folder with blank PDF or xoj papers and quick-access?) + (also: engineering paper; isometric paper -- Dan Ott Sep 4 '09) +- option to map a button to a context menu (incl. tool selection, ...) +- option to map a button to "undo" +- xournal_page-shadow.diff (Martin Kiefel Feb 5 2007) +- xoj2pdf on command line +- 'insert blank page after' command (more useful in PDF annot !) +- load images as bg if given on command-line (as with PDF on commandline) +- 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); 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 +- option for highlighter to be always at bottom of its layer +- more pen/highlighter shapes (chisel) +- slanted tip pens (calligraphy) +- toolbar buttons to access custom preset tools (e.g. text or pen with settings) +- text boxes with opaque background - recalibration upon screen resize / compensation for miscalibration + (use ConfigureNotify event and XInput? cf "Bugs" tracker 08/2007) +- find a better behavior for vertical space tool across page boundaries ? + config options? 1) when there's not enough space at bottom of page: + - resize the page + - move stuff to next page + - move stuff to a new page + 2) when moving to another page: + - move everything + - move only what doesn't fit (??? looks hard) + option for vert space tool to also move the background?? + (PDF: cut-and-crop by running PDF code twice with 2 different clipboxes?) +- option to save all annotated files within the .xoj +- non-antialiased version for handhelds +- customize autogenerated save file names +- layer dialog box to set visibility status of each layer regardless of + which layer is being edited +- option to link layer creation and visibility status for all pages + (Eric Borghs 04/15/08) +- display corruption on scroll down when bottom of window is obscured?? + (probably a gnomecanvas or X bug -- expose event generated for wrong + region, or not processed?) +- autosave at a regular interval in a given location +- keep only a few pages of a PDF file in memory at any given time; generate + pages by parsing pdf info rather than generating bitmaps for all of them. +- win32 port (Matteo Abrate) +- snap-to-grid tool? (Matteo Abrate) +- EPOS 7/24/07: Thumbnails pane +- EPOS: Connect to EPOS api which sends A4 mapped points +- EPOS: Cut and Paste into OpenOffice applications and the GIMP (as bitmap??) +- EPOS: Export pages to pictures in the Jpg and Png formats. +- EPOS: Rotate Ink in custom angle. +- handwriting recognition???? (cellwriter?) unlikely. we don't have grids + see galileon comment on 2008-07-29 to tracker #1925309: word recognizer +- handwritten stroke search in document (see cellwriter?) + (correlate inertia-normalized strokes in lift to unit cotangent bundle?) +- option: export to PDF with incremental pages for successive layers + (for presentations) (Daniel Brugarth 8/18/07) +- Samuel Hoffstaetter: lasso, gettext localization, sidebar thumbnails, ... +- YoYo Siska patch for desktop mode ?? +- Vivek Ayer: rotate paper wrt screen (for environments where display + rotation doesn't work): gnome_canvas_item_affine_relative(canvas->root, ...) + would rotate all but text items (still need to modify scroll bbox, and + adjust event coordinates by inverse rotation). +- rotate PDF background pages (individually wrt each other, see #2099935) +- switch to libglade, and allow customization of key shortcuts (accels) + +- command to copy a selected shape to a keybinding that will paste it + (so one can define symbols to insert into typed notes) (e.g. "be able + to bind Ctrl-B to draw a \beta" for class notes). (shape, binding) sets are + local to one session (different for different classes; but save them into + the xoj file maybe ?) [Felix Giannelia 09/29/2009]