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Planning page for SWT for Photon (4.8)
This page discusses target fixes and improvements to SWT for the upcoming Photon release. A list of open and resolved bugs for 4.8 can be found via this query.
Common
- Review patches from the community
- Move SWT native builds to Eclipse Foundation
- Improve HiDPI support for eclipse platform - bug 517055
- Drop support for XULRunner on all platforms - bug 518446
Cocoa
- Provide support for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
- Provide better support for Mac OS X 10.11 - bug 516837
GTK
- Port SWT Browser to webkit2gtk - bug 516838
- Implement transparency support Bug 477950 - [GTK3] Port SWT colors from using GdkColor to GdkRGBA so alpha is not lost
- Ongoing improvements to Eclipse stability on GTK3, (graphical glitches, missing icons etc..) - bug 516839
- Make Eclipse usable on Wayland as backend with GTK3 - bug 516841
- Fix accessibility issues on Linux - bug 470031 and bug 481824
Win32
- Move to new Windows SDK and modern Look & Feel
- Table/Tree header need improvements under dark theme. bug 517055
- Support modern native directory dialog. bug 443250