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SWT/Plan/4.8

SWT Planning page 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
  • 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
  • Implement native notifications for GTK - bug 497946

Win32

  • Move to new Windows SDK and modern Look & Feel
  • Table/Tree header need improvements under dark theme. bug 517003
  • Support modern native directory dialog. bug 443250

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