Week 4
June 17 - 21
This Week:
Globally quite an unproductive week GSoC wise as I was busy with a personal project I couldn’t postpone from Thursday to Monday afternoon. However, starting tomorrow, I’ll have my entire week free to work on the project and catch back up.
Still, this week, I worked on non-inline titlebar macOS decoration for non-main windows (Preferences, popped-out editors, Render View, etc…) which I plan to release this week as a standalone PR along with a separate refactor PR of the Cocoa/Objective-C GHOST macOS layer.
Following that idea, I decided with my two mentors to postpone prototyping on the main inline window decoration task for now to focus on landing usable and finished macOS UI/UX deliverables for users to play with. And will thus next focus on fixing the macOS window sizing and placement bugs, and possibly work on globally improving window restoration, as was discussed in this PR.
Once that’s done, I will split my time between continuing work on inline window decorations (see previous reports), and working on other macOS UX deliverables, such as iCloud integration, improved text cursor behavior, better system interactions, maybe better app packaging using Universal Binaries, and if I have some additional time, some global UI papercuts improvements.