Current Status

We are currently working hard on building a stable base on which Étoilé will be constructed.

The current Étoilé release is 0.4.2, released in April 2012.

Roadmap

0.4.3 (2014)

Developer Stuff:

• CoreObject (first release, an early prototype was released in 0.4.1)
• LanguageKit
• SourceCodeKit
• EtoileFoundation (fully cleaned e.g. mixins, prototype support for the new GNU runtime)
• UnitKit (fully cleaned)

0.4.x

User-visible Stuff:

• Nesedah and Narcissus themes (rewritten to use the GNUstep theme engine)
• Generic Object Manager
• Worktable (compound document editor)
• Mélodie (rewritten to use the latest CoreObject and EtoileUI API, support undo/redo and pick/drop etc.)
• PhotoManager
• ProjectManager
• OverlayShelf
• CodeMonkey IDE
• UI builder
• Inbox (generic messaging UI that may supercede StepChat)
• StructuredTextEditor (hybrid text editor / outliner based on EtoileText that may supercede Typewriter)
• Terminal

Developer Stuff:

• OMeta and new Smalltalk parser
• EtoileUI
• EtoileText (semantic and structured text editing that leverages CoreObject)
• EtoilePaint (hybrid vector/bitmap graphics editing framework built on top of EtoileUI)
• Video support in MediaKit and a video player
• SystemConfig (keyboard configuration, DBusKit integration etc.)
• Contact and Bookmark APIs on top of CoreObject
• Cleaned EtoileXML
• Fully cleaned XMPPKit (API naming and consistency check)
• Mock object testing for UnitKit

0.5

In the next years, we hope to release Étoilé 0.5, which will be our first release aimed at users - it will be a functioning preview of the desktop environment we have been planning and developing for the past ten years.

Planned features are:

• Working services, using EtoileUI and CoreObject:
  • Music manager
  • Photo manager
  • Contact manager
  • Generic object manager
  • IDE
  • Structured graphics editor
  • Structured text editor
• Message store system
• Desktop notification system
• Project manager
• Fully polished themes (Narcissus and/or Nesedah)