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
• Provide lambda helpers consistently for all listeners - COMPLETED
• Move SWT native builds to Eclipse Foundation - bug 520200 - COMPLETED
• Improve HiDPI support for eclipse platform - bug 517055 - PARTLY DELIVERED, rest DEFERRED to bug 534932
• Provide Monitor-specific DPI values - bug 509534 - COMPLETED
• Drop support for XULRunner on all platforms - bug 518446 - COMPLETED

Cocoa

• Provide support for macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) - bug 527287 - PARTLY DELIVERED, rest DEFERRED to bug 534934
• Provide better support for Mac OS X 10.11 - bug 516837 - COMPLETED
• Improve support for the dark theme - bug 455854 and bug 505835 - COMPLETED

GTK

• Port SWT Browser to webkit2gtk - bug 516838 - COMPLETED
• Ongoing improvements to Eclipse stability on GTK3, (graphical glitches, missing icons etc..) - bug 516839 - PARTLY DELIVERED, rest DEFERRED to bug 535255
• Make Eclipse usable on Wayland as backend with GTK3 - bug 516841 - PARTLY DELIVERED, rest DEFERRED to bug 535260
• Fix accessibility issues on Linux - bug 470031 and bug 481824 - COMPLETED
• Implement native notifications for GTK - bug 497946 - DEFERRED

Win32

• Move to new Windows SDK and modern Look & Feel. - bug 520299 - COMPLETED
• Table/Tree header need improvements under dark theme. - bug 517003 - DEFERRED
• Support modern native directory dialog. - bug 443250 - COMPLETED
• Remove support for Windows versions older than Vista - bug 531097 - COMPLETED