XFE Cool Projects

Aurora:
• RDF-based Popup Widget (ramiro)
• Remaining Toolbar Work (slamm)
• New URL bar (ramiro) done
• Toolbar Icon States
• Show/Hide Toolbars
• Saving Toolbar State
• Make animated Logo RDF-based
• Custom Icons (radha) 50% done
• Other Privacy Prefs (mcafee)
• Aurora Popup Menus (slamm)
• Implement LiveBar
• TreeView
• Saving Tree View Column State (slamm)done
• Sort Tree Views (slamm) done
• Tree View Controls (radha)
• Custom Tree View (radha)
• Properties Hookup (radha)

Mail:
• External Mail Client Access and Prefs (mcafee)
• Resurrect the mozilla/cmd/xfe/altmail.c API
• Finish Shack (embeddable tree object)(mcafee)


Prefs:
• Aurora Prefs
• Privacy Cookie Prefs (mcafee) 50% done
• All Other Prefs


General UI:
• Drag and Drop, everywhere (mcafee, radha)
• Finish Top-level Menus
• Help Access in Dialogs
• [on its way] Implement UI Spec Changes
• [on its way] Usability Feedback Changes

• Prefs

Update what we have now:
• Nuke the fe_GlobalPrefs structure
• Yank the install() function
• Breakup PrefsDialogGeneral.cpp
• Error checking in XFE, we don't detect bogus prefs
• Move prefs into a separate library/directory, e.g. xfe/src/prefs
• Rewrite the Application helper pane, Windows version works well
• BackEnd: get Perl to generate all.h from all.js with
  the right string defines (alecf) 80% done
• BackEnd: Define enum's for pref values

Holy Grail of prefs:
• Ramiro widgets (ramiro)
• Make this easier to maintain.


• Fonts

The current font code is a complete mess, here's some ideas about how to clean this up:
• Implement xfeCmdIncreaseFont(), xfeCmdDecreaseFont()
• Break up the file into several files by function to make the code more maintainable:
• XFE font preferences (actually move this to the XFE font preferences UI code)
• X11 font cache
• 7 html sizes
• font substitution
• Latin 1 measuring/drawing
• EUC measuring/drawing
• Unicode measuring/drawing
• Fix the code to allow Japanese font size preference
• Fix the font cache scanning code
• Fix WebFonts for multibyte languages
• Add unicode printing (see recent non-latin1 PostScript patch)

Holy Grail of fonts: Include true type rendering logic in the client and completely ignore the server. Some links to get started:
• Server: http://hawk.ise.chuo-u.ac.jp/student/person/tshiozak/x-tt/index-eng.html
• Server: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/Xfstt-0.9.9.tgz
• Client: http://www.freetype.org


• Color


• Colormap tool that shows color usage on the fly


• Performance


• Resurrect the MOZILLA_GPROF build for Solaris/sparc (mcafee)


• Networking


• Fix the Async-DNS mechanism
  (cmd/xfe/xfe-dns.c, network/main/unix-dns.c)
• Fix the Off-line/Dropped-connection hang problem


• Remote


• Write a Remote Document! This one is 4 years old :(


• Resources


• Come up with an Alt/Cntl key abstraction