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Yeah, we haven't published Pardus 2009 roadmap, that's right, but that doesn't mean we don't have one :) Everyone has a secret roadmap and list of cool features, I'm the first to give a clue. I won't spolit other's TODO lists, you have to wait a little more. Ok, ok, I can't resist, KDE 4 will be our primary (it won't be the only one) desktop environment.

I'm working on COMAR, our friendly configuration manager, who's behind the curtain. You know the Network Manager, or any manager application on TASMA, right? COMAR is a dog breed and TASMA is collar. All managers are simply (well, ok, not that "simple". i'll blog about it, i promise) D-Bus clients and use COMAR service to configure system. COMAR provides an easy to use API with access control features so GUI developers won't have to worry about low level configuration stuff. Users also won't have to worry about system configuration, of course; we're extending API when necessary, developing GUI's asap and provide them easy to use command center.

I won't go deep into COMAR architecture, that would be boring. But no magic happens in COMAR, i have to say that, it's all Python code. Alright, maybe as magical as a Khayyám poem; some say code is poetry, and there are great poets around ;) Every call made through COMAR is handled by a Python script, that is distributed with related PiSi package (our own package management system), and COMAR API developers write that magical Python files (if one has to suffer, that should be developers, not users). Wireless tools package has a COMAR script to handle network connections, ethernet tools package also has one, etc. We all love Python, we adore Python. Our package manager, many TASMA applications, our boot system also written in Python. Did I mention we love Python?

COMAR is behind the curtain, there won't be any remarkable changes for users. But there will be tones of new features and API's for GUI developers. Users can expect more from GUI developers: new manager applications, KDE 4 plasmoids (now we have two KDE developers) and new TASMA. Mock-ups will be here soon. 2009 will be legendary. Just wait for it...