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Fedora Workstation 21

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification
Software Installer - better app data	Ryan Lerch	Underway, looking at making part of Fedora packaging guidelines	The Application installer is the primary method for our users to find new software. Having good application installer metadata for all Fedora software meant to be installed with the software installer is thus crucial for our end user experience. https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/414
Wayland keyboard layouts	Rui Matos	DONE
Wayland dnd	Benjamin Otte	DONE https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697855	Drag and Drop support is another area where we do not want to regress as we move to Wayland
Wayland - Xwayland	Adam Jackson/Jasper St Pierre	DONE	We need X support both for legacy applications and we will also keep relying on certain X technologies for the core desktop for a transition period
Wayland - clutter-gtk/subsurface	Bastien Nocera	DONE	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695737 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736564
Wayland - Colour management	Richard Hughes	DONE	We have a lot of users who rely on our great colour management support, like artists and animators. This is another area where we do not want to risk regressing with the Wayland switch
Wayland - GDM integration / session handling	Ray Strode/Jasper St Pierre	DONE	As we phase in Wayland we want users to be able to freely switch between the running an X session and a Wayland session.
Wayland basic HiDPI display support	Owen Taylor	DONE	Feature-parity with X hidpi support, mixed-monitor still outstanding
Multimonitor - better vertical stacking	Florian Muellner	DONE	A lot of developers and sysadmins use multimonitor setups. We need to have best of class handling of these kind of setups.
Multimonitor - remember which monitor windows were on	Florian Muellner	DONE	A lot of developers and sysadmins use multimonitor setups. We need to have best of class handling of these kind of setups.
Terminal - theme changes (white-on-black)	Debarshi Ray	DONE	We might need to tweak /etc/DIR_COLOURS also.
Terminal - bring back transparency	Debarshi Ray	DONE patch in Fedora	A lot of users like this feature for a varity of reasons. Upstream not interested so we will maintain it as a Fedora patch.
Terminal - Allow disabling all keybindings in one go	Matthias Clasen	DONE
Terminal - search provider	Debarshi Ray	DONE
Software Installer -use hawkey, already the case in rawhide	Richard Hughes	DONE
Software Installer - folder configuration	Richard Hughes	DONE
Software Installer - performance	Richard Hughes	DONE
Boxes side-by-side VMs	Zeeshan Ali	DONE
Boxes - snapshots	Zeeshan Ali	DONE https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710306
full touch support in GTK+	Carlos Garnacho	DONE	Modern laptops and all-in-one desktops are being shipped with touchscreens. If we do not have decent touchscreen support this will start to count as a disadvantage for our product and platform. Applications needs to be made touch aware on a case by case basis as makes sense.
Rygel, Chromecast etc., firewall interaction	Tomas Woerner and Bastien Nocera	DONE, http://www.hadess.net/2014/06/firewalls-and-per-network-sharing.html	We want desktop services to work flawlessly for users without having to fiddle with the firewall settings. Especially as the firewall getting in the way has a tendency to make people simply disable the firewall.
Totem UI refresh	Bastien Nocera	DONE
HIG Guidelines	Allan Day	DONE http://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/21/new-human-interface-guidelines-for-gnome-and-gtk/	Having a good HIG available is important to help developers who want to target our product be able to produce a nicely integrated experience. Our goal here it to make a compelling open source desktop that can stand on its own in comparison with Windows and MacOS X.
Wayland - Input devices	Peter Hutterer	DONE, Libinput released and used
Include devassistant		DONE
OverlayFS	jwb/dhowells	DONE	This is one of the features we need to be able to do desktop containers in a nice and efficient way. This will in fact also be very useful for any kind of containers so the expectation is that once we manage to land this all Docker containers will use it.
Terminal - improve preference dialogs	Allan Day	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724110, general and scrolling tabs are done
Evolution - composer webkit port	Tomas Popela	done

Fedora Workstation 22

Software Installer - better app data	Ryan Lerch	Underway, looking at making part of Fedora packaging guidelines	The Application installer is the primary method for our users to find new software. Having good application installer metadata for all Fedora software meant to be installed with the software installer is thus crucial for our end user experience. https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/414
gnome-session gdbus port	Ray Strode	DONE	Preparation for systemd user sesssions
Boxes - add a way to change vts	Zeeshan Ali	DONE (initial support done, may add more later)	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725303
Terminal - long-running job notification	Debarshi Ray	done as downstream patches in Fedora	Feature parity with other OS's. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711059, will copy the elementary OS approach
Wayland - input configuration protocol/library API	Peter Hutterer/Hans de Goede/Carlos Garnacho	mostly DONE here	Feature parity with X
Wayland - input configuration UI	Rui Matos	Done	feature parity with X
Wayland - pointer barriers	Jonas Ådahl	DONE	Feature parity with X. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706655
Use Wayland on the login screen	Ray Strode	done	gets us wider exposure without requiring a full session Changes/Login_Screen_Over_Wayland
Make sure xorg-x11-drv-libinput is in the Workstation package set	Hans de Goede	Done	Add a dependency in the fedora-workstation package, since we don't want to force it across board yet in xorg-x11-drivers
Software Installer - Search in disabled repositories	Richard Hughes	Done	code blog post
Software Installer - Codec installation	Kalev Lember	done	Move the gnome-packagekit session service for codec, mime handler, font, etc installation to gnome-software and drop our remaining gnome-packagekit dependency
Desktop log viewer - improve performance	David King	Done	Investigate using a worker thread for journal interaction, using async api
Abrt - integrate with privacy settings	Bastien Nocera, Abrt team	done	Use a privacy panel setting rather than gnome-abrt preferences, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742375, https://github.com/abrt/gnome-abrt/issues/74, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027006.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182635
Abrt - improve notifications	Bastien Nocera, Abrt team	done	https://github.com/abrt/gnome-abrt/issues/105
nautilus - port to GAction, complete the design refresh work	Carlos Soriano	done	Changes/Nautilus_Improvements
Firefox GTK3 port	Martin Stransky	Enabled in rawhide	Important migration to make sure Firefox can keep working as an integral part of the desktop
Firefox screensaver inhibition	Martin Stransky	done	Firefox uses the dbus interface to inhibit screen locking during media playback
Qt - Adwaita theme	Martin Briza	done	We want all applications to feel native and run well in the Workstation, regardless of if they are written using GTK, Qt, Java or something else. A developer should be able to choose the tools he or she wants without having to think about how their tools of choice have been implemented. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176658
Qt - ibus support	Martin Briza	OK	Support for various kinds of language input should also be transparent across toolkits status: ibus works with Qt apps out of the box. You just need to install ibus-qt to have the popup right over the text you're writing - otherwise it's at the bottom of the window.
Qt - ensure ibus-qt is installed by default	Matthias	done
Qt notifications	Martin Briza	OK	This may need work on the gnome-shell side too status: Notifications do work - they're shown right. However, some Qt apps use tray status icons, which aren't shown anywhere - Clementine does this, for example.
gnome-shell - new notification design	Florian Muellner	done	here The message tray is a remaining weak spot of the original gnome-shell design Changes/GnomeShell_NewNotifications https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/log/?h=wip/fmuellner/notification-redux

Fedora Workstation 23

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification
Ambient backlight handling	Bastien Nocera + Richard Hughes	Mostly done	Make sure we have ambient backlight drivers for important modules in the kernel, add support to gnome-settings-daemon.
Wayland - mixed HiDPI display support for Wayland clients	Jonas Ådahl	done	We want perfect support for HiDPI displays with Wayland as going forward those are probably going to end up being the default displays on any new system. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728902
Make X launching code paths similar to Wayland in gdm	Ray Strode	Done	Move towards socket activation for X and Wayland
Port libgdata to newer Google apis	Debarshi Ray	done	The api used in the Google Drive backend will stop working April 2015 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684920
nautilus - Google Drive support	Debarshi Ray	done	Will be implemented as a gvfs module, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739008
Chromium screensaver inhibition	Tomas Popela	done
Polari IRC client		SoC project done	Already somewhat done, need community involvement to take to production level
Introduce xdg-app in Fedora	David King, Alexander Larsson	available in a Fedora	Make xdg-app available for building, installing and running app bundles
Qt/KDE - ensure mouse and other input settings transfer accross when running Qt/KDE apps	Jan Grulich	verified	mbriza: Will test when the configuration dialog works in F22 GNOME. Anyway, since there are virtually no settings there, it will be fun. Also: regarding keyboard layout, GNOME doesn't use ibus-setup so it's not likely anything will be transferred.
liveusb-creator - visual refresh	Martin Briza/Jakub Steiner	Done	This is the 'first point of contact' with Fedora - it should look polished and modern https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LiveUsbCreatorFacelift mockups
Software Installer - Integrate Bios/Firmware updates	Richard Hughes, Peter Jones	done
Abrt - improve desktop client	Bastien Nocera, Abrt team	partially done	https://github.com/abrt/gnome-abrt/issues

Fedora Workstation 24

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification
GTK+ - application keybinding overview	Matthias Clasen	done	https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/HelpOverlay#System_Shortcuts
Eclipse port to GTK3	Red Hat Tools team	done	As of Fedora 22 Eclipse default to GTK 3.x with improvements/fixes ongoing
GSSAPI in libsoup	Tomas Popela	done	Adding GSSAPI to libsoup which will enable us to add ImD integration features in different parts of the desktop.
Software Installer - Integrate distro upgrade	Kalev Lember, Richard Hughes	done	Design, gnome-software should inform the user when an upgrade of the OS is available, and offer to start it. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712149 https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6081
Software Installer - xdg-app support	Richard Hughes	done
Software Installer - user feedback	Richard Hughes	initial support done
Wayland pointer locking and confinement - protocol	Jonas Ådahl	done	needed for many games, see here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-May/022315.html
Mac Port of Live USB Creator	Martin Briza	done	Port of Fedora Live USB Creator to OS X
Introduce pinos	Wim Taymans	done	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259416
gnome-shell - bring music notifications back	Florian Muellner	done	Integrate Summer of Code project results
systemd --user and user bus	Ray Strode	done
gnome-builder - xdg-app support	Christian Hergert	initial support has landed
Wayland support in LibreOffice	Caolan McNamara	mostly done	LibreOffice has been ported to GTK3 (experimental option in F23), that's the main prerequisite for Wayland support.
Qt - enforcing Adwaita theme	Martin Briza/Jan Grulich	done	Handled by QtGNOME Platform module

Fedora Workstation 25

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification/Comment
GL Dispatch, EGL streams, EGL device	Adam Jackson	Done	Work is being done on this by both us and NVidia, expectation is that this will hit Fedora 25.
Software - Install shell extensions	Richard Hughes	done
Wayland - Wacom support	Peter Hutterer, Carlos Garnacho	done, split in "tablet" and "buttonset". both planned for 1.10	This is a crucial tool for animators and graphics artists wanting to use our platform. Working closely with Wacom on this. feature partity with X
control center - Wayland Wacom support	Carlos Garnacho	Done
Wayland pointer locking and confinement - compositor implementations	Jonas Ådahl	done	needed for many games
Wayland pointer locking and confinement - SDL support	Jonas Ådahl	done	needed for many games
Wayland On-screen keyboard	Carlos Garnacho	osk works again	Important for especially non-desktop use of Wayland
Scriptless RPMS for desktop	Kalev Lember	ongoing cleanup File triggers are enabled in F24 rawhide. Need to actually use this functionality now.	We want to avoid requiring scripts to be called from RPMS as far as possible as any such manual steps increase the risk for bugs and issues happening during upgrades. Working on removing the need for such things will increase overall system robustness and make upgrades less of a challenge. It also makes our updates more alike to image based installations. gsettings schemas - file triggers in place gconf schemas - not worth doing im modules - file triggers in place gio modules - file triggers in place pixbuf loaders - file triggers in place systemd units - not a cache, just annoying post scripts desktop file mime extraction - file triggers in place mime database updates - file triggers in place app data validation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149141
Mac Port of Fedora Media Writer	Martin Briza	done	To support macOS properly LUC needs a complete rewrite, will be done for F25.
Fedora Media Writer for Flatpak	Martin Briza	done	This will allow support for multiple distributions with just a single installation file.
Fedora Media Writer as Primary Downloadable	Jiri Eischmann/Martin Briza/Dennis Gilmore	done	Make FMW the primary downloadable on getfedora.org, requires transparent builds
Codecs - openh264	Kalev Lember, Wim Taymans	done	Build openh264 codecs in koji and make them available through a repo hosted by cisco
Desktop log viewer - hook up GLib logging to the journal	David King	done

Fedora Workstation 26

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification/Comment
Software - Third-party repo policy		done	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal
Software - Third-party repo: chrome		done
Software - Third-party repo: nvidia		done
Deal better with binary NVidia driver	Hans De Goede	done	We will try to handle dealing with binary driver through some kind of dnf/pkgkit plugin or similar
gnome-shell - bring weather notifications back	Florian Muellner	done
Initial setup - skip timezone	Rui Matos	done	Anaconda will add a way for us to learn if the user configured the timezone during installation (or if it was detected by geoip). In that case, we don't want to ask the user again, but skip that step.
Qt - test Qt/KDE apps under Wayland/XWayland	Jan Grulich	done	Wayland should become default in F24, test if Qt/KDE apps can run on Wayland/XWayland in GNOME.
Qt - High Contrast theme	Martin Briza	done	Accessibility is important for us and should work without a hitch accross toolkits
Qt - Adwaita dark theme	Martin Briza	done	Qt match for the GTK Adwaita dark theme.
Qt - flatpak portals	Jan Grulich	done	Flatpak portals for Qt applications.
Fleet Commander	Alberto Ruiz	We expect to have Fleet Commander 'production ready' for F26	We want our systems to be deployed in large software engineering organizations. Providing good tools for managing such deployments could be an important differentiator for us.