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Planning page for SWT work for Oxygen (4.7)
This page disscusses target fixes and improvements to SWT for upcomming Oxygen release. A list of open and resolved bugs for 4.7-4.7M4 can be found via this query.
Common
- Update SWT to use Java 8
- Evaluate and provide (if possible) Java 8 lambda enabled API for listeners - bug 441116
- SWT_ AWT bridge support for Java 9 - bug 482318
- Investigate support for CTabfolder vertical tabs - bug 58945
- Investigate SWT support for Chromium based on external contributions - bug 405031
Cocoa
- Provide better support for Mac OS X 10.11 - bug 494879
- Provide support for Mac OS X 10.12 (macOS Sierra)
- HiDPI Support of GC APIs on Mac - bug 489451
GTK
- Bug 441568 - [GTK3] Port SWT Browser to webkit2gtk
- Implement transparency support Bug 477950 - [GTK3] Port SWT colors from using GdkColor to GdkRGBA so alpha is not lost
- Automate testing of SWT on multiple GTK versions Bug 494540 - [GTK] [autotester] Automated testing script for running SWT JUnit on multiple versions of GTK
- Ongoing improvements to Eclipse stability on GTK3, (graphical glitches, missing icons etc..)
- Make Eclipse usable on Wayland as backend with GTK3
- Tree should expand/collapse on Arrow_Left/Arrow_Right - bug 372607