Topic: Development Plans for the Next Release of GParted (0.17.0)
With the next release of GParted (0.17.0) we plan to work on enhancements and bug fixes.
GParted 0.17.0 is planned for release December 9, 2013.
Candidates under consideration for GParted 0.17.0 include:
Done? - Bug# - Description
Yes - Bug 708107 - Usage of swap space is not reported
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 709276 - Percentage indicator for subcommands
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set to turn on resize2fs progress bars
Yes - Partial - Bug 652044 Comment 23 - uses deprecated APIs
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch to stop using deprecated method free_colors(). This patch is a step towards removing deprecated APIs from GParted.
Yes - Partial - Bug 652044 Comment 25 - uses deprecated APIs
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch to stop using deprecated widget alignment enumerators. This patch is a step towards removing deprecated APIs from GParted.
Yes - Bug 709640 - Linux Swap Suspend and Software RAID partitions not recognised
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 705596 - Partition Information Dialog - let user copy warnings
Mike Fleetwood has provided a patch.
Yes - Bug 712533 - Partitions not detected as busy inside Software RAID on some distros
Mike Fleetwood and Curtis Gedak have provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 708378 - Advertised new feature: Use systemctl runtime mask to prevent automounting (#701676) doesn't work
Curtis Gedak has provided a patch set.
Yes - Bug 711114 - Change default fs to ext4
Phillip Susi has provided a patch.
Yes - Bug 694622 - Add support for online resize
Phillip Susi and Curtis Gedak have provided a patch set to allow GParted to resize partitions online with kernel >= 3.6 for file systems which support it.
Yes - Bug 709164 - [patch] Please include an AppData file
Richard Hughes has provided a patch.
No - Bug 690953 - Partition name support
Sinlu Bes is working on this enhancement.
No - Bug 691681 - Improve Partition Info dialog to be Partition properties dialog
Sinlu Bes is working on this enhancement.
No - Bug 688883 - Improve SSD handling by using TRIM
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.
No - Bug 696149 - Double refresh of display introduced with default unallocated space selection
Mike Fleetwood is working on this enhancement.
No - Bug 467925 - gparted: add progress bar during operation
Phillip Susi is working on this enhancement.
no - Bug 627701 - option to encrypt new partitions (using LUKS)
Matthias Gehre is working on this enhancement.
no - Bug 671784 - enhancement: convert partitions from one file system to another
Massimiliano Ghilardi is working on this enhancement.
no - Bug 673166 - NTFS partition trashed when resized to minimum size
Vladimir Panteleev has provided a patch. Further testing is required.
no - Bug 342682 - too much information in 'features' dialog
Patrick Verner is working on this enhancement.
With the 1.0.0 release of GParted we plan to work on preparing GParted to work with GNOME 3.0.
The release will become 1.0.0 if and when we drop support for the gtkmm-2.4 API. The plan with the first few releases is to maintain compatibility with both gtkmm-2.4 and gtkmm-3.0.
Candidates under consideration for GParted 1.0.0 include:
Done? - Bug# - Description
no - Bug 652044 - uses deprecated APIs
Colin Watson has created an initial patch. More development work and testing is required.
Curtis Gedak is working on this enhancement.
Your comments and responses are welcome in this forum post.