E. What Is Planned¶
The Planned boxes of this book, collected in one place, sorted by where they belong. The milestones (M12 and so on) are those of the ROADMAP, where the plan is kept up to date. Contributions to any of them are welcome.
The system¶
| What | Milestone | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| The first release, with a download page, signed images and release notes | M12 | 6, 11 |
| A live stick that starts with Secure Boot on | M12 | 13 |
| A keyring service of amadeOS's own, in Java | M12 | 58 |
| Disk encryption, a separate home partition, shrinking a partition in the installer | M14 | 14, 58 |
| The clock settled between Windows and amadeOS | M14 | 15 |
| An amadeOS package repository, so that amadeOS is updated like Debian | M16 | 6, 51, 60 |
| Moving to the next Debian release | M16 | 52 |
The desktop¶
| What | Chapter |
|---|---|
| More keys for the windows: moving a window to another workspace, switching workspaces | 21, A |
| Moving a window to another workspace, or showing it on all of them | 24 |
| A Bluetooth cell in the Front Panel | 22, 27 |
| Opening the windows of the last session again at login | 35, 55 |
| Maximizing on one monitor, and the Front Panel on the primary monitor, with several monitors | 39 |
| More or fewer than four workspaces | 37 |
| The Front Panel at the top or a side of the screen | 37 |
| Formats of dates and numbers apart from the language | 38 |
| A Users program for accounts | 53 |
| A network settings window for fixed addresses, hidden networks and VPNs | 54 |
| More panels than the CDE Front Panel | 55 |
| More languages | 25 |
The applications¶
| Program | What comes next | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| File Manager | Folders that refresh by themselves, quick search, tabs and bookmarks, an icon view with a folder tree, drag and drop, Open With…, archives as folders, folders on other computers | 41 |
| WritePad | Opening and saving OpenDocument, Word and RTF; pictures, header and footer, print preview, Find, tables, spell checking, PDF | 4, 43 |
| Mailer | New mail shown at once, folder management, drafts and templates, search, threads, printing, reading without a network | 44 |
| Calendar | One place for all accounts, other calendars next to your own, keeping in step with a CalDAV server | 45 |
| Contacts | Attendees from your contacts in the Calendar, keeping in step with a CardDAV server, merging two contacts by hand | 45 |
| Video Player | A face like the Audio Station's, DVD titles and chapters, playlists, audio and subtitle tracks, full screen, volume | 46 |
| Image Viewer | A picture as the backdrop of a workspace, moving GIF and WebP pictures, HEIC photos, cropping, brightness and contrast, editing title and keywords | 47 |
| Image Scan | Several pages into one PDF, brightness and contrast, straightening, the scanner's button | 47 |
| PDF Viewer | A night mode, filling in forms, highlighting and notes, comic archives inside PDF | 48 |
| Books | A scrolling view, comics in CBR and PDF form, notes and highlighting, tables and vertical writing | 48 |
| Calculator | A mode for converting units, later currencies | 48 |
| Documentation Viewer | A table of contents of all documentation, full-text search, manual pages, bookmarks | 48 |
Tip
What is planned changes as amadeOS grows. The chapter of each item has the details; the ROADMAP has the current state.