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The GNOME Goals
Setting small concrete goals that we should all try to achieve could definitely help with our work in integration and consistency. The goals may vary a lot, don't need to be ambitious, don't need to be about code. But they need to be achievable in a small timeframe. They are the GNOME goals.
Contact information
For information or help requests about the GNOME Goals, you can use:
the #gnome-love irc channel on irc.gnome.org
Current GNOME Goals
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GTK+3 related |
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Remove use of Glib deprecated symbols |
Under the hood |
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Remove use of GTK+ deprecated symbols |
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Clean up GLib and GTK+ includes |
Under the hood |
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Use GSEAL macro to detect direct access to the object fields and replace them with a call to an accessor function |
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Port GTK+ modules to GTK+3 |
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Migrate from deprecated GDK to cairo apis |
Under the hood |
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Use GtkBuilder instead of libglade |
Under the hood |
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Remove GtkObject uses |
Under the hood |
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Adapt your module to GTK+3 Rendering Cleanup |
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General |
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Use a correct Generic Name |
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Add GObject Introspection Support to your app |
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Migrate to GSettings / dconf |
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Port your python application to the new introspection-based bindings |
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Next goal candidates
Please add your comments to these goals proposals to have them the more accurate possible.
Goal |
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Update about dialogs |
User Interface |
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Create wiki pages for all the GNOME applications |
Under the hood |
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Ensure that every application will pass make distcheck without errors |
Under the hood |
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Update/add AUTHORS, MAINTAINERS, THANKS, README, etc. |
Miscellaneous |
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Remove markup in translatable messages |
Under the hood |
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Implement XDG config directory spec - clean the .hidden folder mess |
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Use g_timeout_add_seconds instead g_timeout_add for save the world! |
Under the hood |
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Make building GNOME clearer and faster by using automake1.11 option and libtool >= 2.2 |
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Add code coverage support with GCOV |
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Modernize your autotools configuration |
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Validate your GtkBuilder Files |
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Port your applet to new DBUS based panel |
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Correct your icon names to follow the freedesktop spec |
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You may want to add your ideas for new goals to the GnomeGoals/Proposals page...
Fully completed GNOME Goals
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Install theme-friendly icons |
All patches applied |
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Correct the location an application appears in menus |
All patches applied |
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Simplify the support of a new language for translators |
All patches applied |
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Use Glib command line options support |
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Migrate from using string context to msgctxt |
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Use gio for deprecated gnome-open and gnome-help |
Under the hood |
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Porting from gnome-vfs to gio/gvfs |
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Drop Libsexy library |
Under the hood |
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Porting from libgnomeprint[ui] to GtkPrint |
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