This page is a collection of API changes we intend to make as soon as we drop BeOS backward compatibility. Feel free to add comments concerning any API removal/change/addition to be done.
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'''General:'''
 * Redo shared libraries: there should be one library per kit and corresponding names for each. (possible conventions are "libsupport.so", "libSupport.so", "libSupportKit.so")

'''POSIX:'''
 * Drop stat_beos in favor of stat.
 * Maybe implement some non-standard POSIX pieces that Linux/BSDs have? e.g. ptrace (would be nice for GDB/QtCreator porting)

'''Support Kit:'''
 * Replace BAutolock with a proper template based AutoLocker, like the one we have in shared already.
 * convert_encoding_open() convert_encoding_close() with respect to UTF-8, #976 (or perhaps drop textencoding altogether and create a ByteArray class in the Support Kit that can handle encodings?)

'''Interface Kit:'''
 * Derive BView from BLayoutItem and drop BViewLayoutItem.
 * Create a model/view infrastructure for the column list view and OutlineListView. (maybe look at Qt's [rejected] Model/Views 2.0?)
 * BAlerts should be layout-aware along with all other rich text views.
 * All rich text views should accept (simple) HTML as input and as output.
 * Add a BToolbar API (the currently-private ToolBarView should be a good basis, it needs support to add arbitrary BViews and vertical toolbars)
   * Also need a standard icons directory, probably following [http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html FreeDesktop's spec].

'''Media Kit:'''
 * The API uses add_on and AddOn, but also addon - the latter should be faded out.