Avogadro 2.2 Roadmap

Development
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I was thinking about this more broadly as I finished up the 2.1 release and what I wrote in the long-term vision thread.

I’ll probably revise this over time. The target date for v2.2 will be 06-Feb-2027 with a string-freeze about 3 weeks earlier.

Accessibility:

  • Add a unified settings dialog, including color options, font sizes, etc.
    • Likely tweaking a few key issues, e.g. F / H contrast, colors options for non-covalent and close-contact rendering, selections…
  • Further work on keyboard access for everything
  • (ideas welcome)

Performance:

  • Improved rendering speed (e.g., handling trajectories with ~1M atoms at ~60 fps)
    • Right now on my MacBook, I’m getting
  • Batched charges for electrostatic potentials
  • Molecule speed (i.e., we’re currently copying around entire cubes at times)

Code Quality:

  • Continue improving test coverage / fuzz tests (~70-80% in core, less in rendering and qtplugins)
  • Continue modernizing with clang-tidy likely with good-first-issue and help-wanted issues

Automation / Scripting / RPC:

  • Complete the set. Get as many features with RPC commands as possible, not only for automation but because it increases testing.