TASK	DESCRIPTION	ASSIGNED	MS	BUG
work on GimpRectangleTool	Selection + crop tool specification [1] conformance in 2.6.	Martin Nordholts	2.6
iwarp	make iwarp into a tool.	Tor Lillqvist
paint tools enhancement	add support for color jitter in the paint tools	Adrian Likins		323921
	paint tools should support "smudging" as they paint.	Adrian Likins		163050
persistent parasites	save all state associated with the image, so that you can reload the file later and continue exactly where you left off.
metadata viewer/editor - metadata core	migrate some parts of the metadata core to a library that can be  used by the main app. as well as some plug-ins		2.6
	clean up the PDB interface		2.6
	convert EXIF to XMP		2.6
	convert XMP to EXIF		2.6
	convert IPTC to XMP (IPTC Core for XMP)
	convert XMP to IPTC
	rewrite the XMP parser and the internal data model
metadata viewer/editor - metadata viewer	implement the "user-friendly" tabs in the metadata editor		2.6
	make the tabs configurable, similar to Adobe's XMP panels
	easy merging of XMP presets from a drop-down list or something  similar (e.g. to apply a Creative Commons license or to set a group of properties such as creator, publisher, etc.)
	allow the creation of such XMP presets
	warn the user if the metadata states that editing the image is not allowed (XMP Rights Management)
	implement history tracking for XMP Media Management
	allow creative editing of the embedded thumbnail
metadata viewer/editor - jpeg plug-in	simplify the user interface: the default view should show only a  selection between a few options		2.6
	remove the prompt for EXIF orientation: it should always be done		2.6
	allow lossless or nearly lossless saves if only a few changes have been applied to the original image
metadata viewer/editor – file plug-ins	handle metadata correctly (at least for jpeg, tiff, png)		2.6
	make sure that the last used settings are saved in a parasite attached to the image instead of using global "save_vals", etc.		2.6
	make it easy to save and restore settings (more than one set) in case the user wants to apply the same settings to several images
Finish work on the text box.	allow the user to create a rectangular text box so that the text flows into it.
Allow text transformations.	apply linear transformations to text layers and to store the transformation with the text layer
Evaluate porting (text) to PangoCairo	use the same backend for rendering the layer as we would use if we added in-place editing
Axis Constrain for move tool.
"add layer" button	click will create a new empty layer, shift-click will open the new layer dialog
evaluate “shift suppresses dialog”	go through the list of all of these and publish a spec with rationale of which should be switched over,	UI Team	2.6
"tools" dialog,	incorporate tools dialog into the "toolbox" tab in the preferences
revamp GUI to maximize screen estate	see http://www.blog.ohweb.com.ar/?p=59 for a nice mockup of one solution. Another would be switching from “tabbed” to “floating”
Port internals to GEGL	need details on how to port internals to GEGL		2.6
Port display drawing to Cairo	need details on where and how to draw in Cairo		2.6
Add named parameters and default values to the PDB	introduce an alternative PDB API that has named parameters and default values.		2.6