SWT/Plan/4.7

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

• [FIXED] Update SWT to use Java 8 bug 481195
• [FIXED] Evaluate and provide (if possible) Java 8 lambda enabled API for listeners - bug 441116 and others
• [FIXED] 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

• [IN PROGRESS] Provide better support for Mac OS X 10.11 - bug 494879
• [IN PROGRESS] Provide support for Mac OS X 10.12 (macOS Sierra)
• [IN PROGRESS] HiDPI Support of GC APIs on Mac - bug 489451

GTK

• [IN PROGRESS] 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
• [FIXED] Automate testing of SWT on multiple GTK versions Bug 494540 - [GTK] [autotester] Automated testing script for running SWT JUnit on multiple versions of GTK
• [IN PROGRESS] Ongoing improvements to Eclipse stability on GTK3, (graphical glitches, missing icons etc..) - bug 494883
• [IN PROGRESS] Make Eclipse usable on Wayland as backend with GTK3 - bug 496923
• [FIXED] Tree should expand/collapse on Arrow_Left/Arrow_Right - bug 372607
• Fix accessibility issues on Linux - bug 470031 and bug 481824

Win32

• [FIXED] Provide/Leverage native HiDPI support for IE Browser's Image to scale - bug 493666
• [FIXED] Provide custom support for Button to respect foreground and background color on Windows to improve Dark Theme experience - bug 23837
• [FIXED] Improve HiDPI support w.r.t. to Printer usage, with an API option to skip auto-scaling for devices like Printer - bug 498876
• [FIXED] Eclipse must support the U.S. 508 Refresh for accessibility - bug 445551