Roadmap

The Fyne project has significant ambitions which will take a long time to realise. To help any potential contributions we have set out this roadmap (which we'd love feedback on). The vision is grouped into the main projects involved, each of which which will be split into multiple milestones as they progress.

Every stage of development should follow our design principles as well as exemplifying ease of use for developers and end users.

Basic cross-platform UI toolkit

The aim of this phase is to get a full UI toolkit ready for 3rd party developers. It will be demonstrated by multiple apps and some examples that show how easy it is to use. The work here will include:

• Standard UI toolkit widgets - windows, buttons, menus, layouts, dialogs etc
• Lower level canvas manipulation - exposing drawing primitives through a separate namespace for greater control
• Themes (light and dark) produced following Material Design
• A complete Development environment - IDE, tooling etc standardised for trivial setup
• Bootstrap documentation or apps to ensure any system is ready for Fyne development / runtime

Full featured application framework

This phase provides all the APIs and tools that make it possible to deliver rich, smart UI applications that integrate with all of our supported platforms.

• Higher level interaction and workflow definitions - navigation, app scaffold, notifications etc
• Web-service integration for working with cloud services etc
• Multimedia integration
• Interoperability with other applications or UI providers (file pickers, document viewers etc)
• Payment integration

Complete, beautiful desktop environment

The culmination of Fyne's ambition, a fully open source desktop environment to rival the most polished commercial systems.

• Window management and virtual desktops
• Plugins / modules for desktop widgets and accessories
• Delivered as an ISO liveCD or bootstrap UI for existing systems
• Application discovery and management through a central website / app interface

Contributions are not limited to progressing through this list in order, but we wish to be able to focus on the next milestone each time a release approaches so that a quality experience is always maintained for our users.