Away for a week

[Fred Kiefer]

I will be away for a few days, but am already thinking about what to do 
after my return. In the last weeks I did mostly follow the complains on 
the mailing list and tried to fix what was on the top of the list, a 
rather frustrating way of programming. I want to get back to a mode, 
where the task at hand is a bit more planed.

There are different areas, where I have half thought up extensions for 
GNUstep. I will list some of them in this mail to get your comments 
while I am away:

1. Support for image colours. This feature would make most of the 
current themes support obsolete, as much of it would be obtainable by 
colour lists. The big missing part is the setting and drawing of image 
colours in the back end. To implement this we could use simple image 
tileing, similar to what is used in the themes bundle.

2. Better interaction with different windows manager. This is a bit 
harder, as it has loads of different aspects. First there is [NSScreen 
visibleFrame] and the use of it. Second the window borders. Third there 
is all the stuff from freedesktop.org.

3. I did promise some work on the Windows backend. Is there really 
anybody interested in that?

4. Clean up of the text system.

5. The old boring cleanup and bug fixes on GUI.

6. There is also the idea that I did write a few months ago in a mail to 
Richard, that we should use gdomap to implement more of the GUI general 
interaction methods (like hideOtherApplications:) by exporting the list 
of the running GNUstep applications with an interface similar to what 
gets used for the donames() function. This would be used by the 
GSServiceManager to provide some methods for NSApplication and NSWorkspace.

This is a lot more than I am able do for the rest of this year, so 
please give me your priorities.

Fred