Roadmap

erladronm

The primary goal is to get as far as buzz did. That means loading buzz song, loading the machines, have similar editing.
Second step is small improvments, user guide, intensive testing and collecting ideas. Its very likely that things like midi-support will fall into this phase as well.
Third step is more applications, new features and so on.

[edit] Release Planning

explicit windows and macosx support as soon as someone volunteers to maintain it
move own widgets into a separate lib (src/lib/libbtwidgets)?
additional end user apps (bt-live)

From this version on we'll aim for new features

This version will target to provide all major features of buzz

gui color themes
change wires while playing
pattern recording
ui improvements
- full ui state persistence
- shall we have a tip-of-the-day dialog?
- own ruler widgets
  - for analysis window scales
  - for volume and panorama popups
- add Help buttons to dialogs
Refactorisation
- make Application a singleton and remove app member from all the objects
- use G_DEFINE_TYPE
- use own treeviewmodels (implement the GtkTreeModel interface)

This version will bring wavetable support and UI usability improvments.

~~ui improvements~~
- ~~recent used files support (gtk 2.10)~~
- ~~new icons~~
  - ~~tab icons~~
  - ~~machine view icons~~
~~vu-meters in machine icons~~
clipboard support (cut/copy/paste)
wavetable
- ~~loading waves~~
- handle more wave properties (volume, loop-mode)
- ~~waveform display~~
- ~~wavetable mapping into buzzmachines~~
  - ~~buzztard to gstbml (need iface or property)~~
  - ~~gstbml to bml (needs api in bml)~~
~~support song files as zip files~~
translations
- register with the Translation Project or Transiflex
- check against http://www.open-tran.eu/
Refactorisation
- ~~more flexible song-io plugin api~~

This version will improve stability and make the pattern editor useable.

~~lots of Keyboard shortcuts~~
improved editing of sequence and patterns
- ~~selection fixes~~
- ~~navigation workaround (gtk+ bugs)~~
- ~~better input handling~~
- ~~insert and delete for lines and tracks~~
- pattern editing
  - ~~custom widget for patterns~~
  - ~~support volume and panorama in sources and processors~~
  - ~~support master volume~~
improved machine view
- ~~show volume and panorama~~
- ~~add panorama editing~~
~~better format negotiation when connecting machines~~
- ~~autoplug panorama element if needed~~
partial ui state persistence
GObject update
- ~~static strings in param specs~~
Refactorisation
- ~~move all dialogs to separate classes (for ui tests)~~
- ~~handle interaction controller assignments in machine and not in dialog~~
~~Multitrack recording~~
- ~~song rendering support from the ui~~

This version will target UI usability improvments and introduce more interactivity.

preset handling in machines
- ~~machine settings layout information~~
- ~~design a preset handling interface~~
  - ~~implementation for buzzmachine presets~~
  - generic implementation for gst element presets
~~sequence~~ and pattern view table headings
~~allow to confirm dialogs with enter key~~
~~check installed utility elements~~
~~help view for machines~~
~~enhance machine window layout~~
~~make more settings instant apply~~
~~interaction controller and playback controller foundation~~
- ~~new baselibrary interaction controller~~
- ~~UI settings for controllers~~
- ~~popup-menu for machine preoperties to assign controllers~~

This version should serve as a technical preview. That is - everything can change. These are the pending TODOs:

~~check machines when loading song~~
~~preview warning requester/ first time install requester~~
- ~~merge with about, show NEWS (ReleaseNotes)~~
- ~~need to show this once per version, settings news-seen="0.1"~~
~~gui-dialog screenshoter for the manual~~
~~bring manual up-to-date~~
~~update german translation~~
~~add lgpl headers in sources~~
~~change /home/ensonic in READMEs to $HOME~~