[bt-devel] next steps

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Martin Gruner wrote:
> Hi Eeli, Gary, Joachim and all others,
>
> after a short review of our wiki (after a loooong time) it seems that there is 
> not much left for us to do for the 1.7final release.
>
> As you can see at http://devel.bibletime.info/wiki/Main_Page#Projects, there 
> are only a few outstanding bugs that we do need to fix. Eeli, Gary, is there 
> anything else you think we should put into the 1.7 basket as well? If you have 
> nothing to add, we should try to get those bugs fixed and work towards a 
> release as soon as possible. Maybe before Christmas? :D
>
>   

I was also going to write a post called "next steps" but you got it first :)

As I said, I must work with bookshelf and dnd so that we will have 
possibility to copy/move items.

I have marked the "Bookshelf opens two windows" bug closed. However, 
we've got problems. I found out that single/double click is style 
dependend. Just change between Plasma and Oxygen and you'll see. The 
code doesn't work logically - I thought it should work in all cases but 
it didn't. I have to do some heavier changes and I have already started it.

These are the major bugs/features which I'd like to see in the next 
release.  I suggest we release beta3. It would have also:
    - commentary editor toolbar ported to Qt (Gary; BTW, font list 
doesn't have to have a fancy fontified list - a simple list is enough)
    - possibly the Search analysis (Gary)
    - Gary is already working on finishing the Config dialog - how's 
that going?

So there's really not much left for that. The search analysis can be 
done later if needed. The time when these are ready depend mostly on my 
own items, the window opening and the bookmarks list. They require more 
work than just going through the code. If Gary gets his items ready 
before I do we have plenty of smaller bugs and new ideas... The shortcut 
editor is the one I especially miss.

The reason I'd like to see this beta3 is that replacing KHTML is a huge 
job and I wouldn't release 1.7final before it's ready. 1.7 would be free 
from KDE.  We have discussed about this roadmap earlier but I didn't 
find it in my archives. Staying in beta mode doesn't feel very 
motivating but I have given my opinion on that: it's better to say we 
are not ready and still publish than to say we are ready and get 
negative feedback/feelings for not really being ready.

On the KHTML/WebKit: Martin suggested using javascript. Have you looked 
at this any further? I would really appreciate if you could do it.



--Eeli Kaikkonen