Setting up expectations for a Beta release

Here's a list of must-have features that will be implemented during the ongoing alpha cycle.
This list is a Work in Progress and it can change based on availability and technical challenges.

General UI

• Create missing symbolic icons.
• Allow swapping the order of the Options Panel and Layers Panel. Feature: Allow user to invert order of side panels. Fixes #79 #365
• Implement a Global Color Picker. Implement a global Color Picker #432

Canvas

• Click and drag on an empty canvas area to select multiple shapes. Add multi selection by click and drag #684
• Click and hold Shift to add items to the selection. Improve multi selection #661
• Zooming with keyboard should always use currently selected items as pivot point.
• Zooming with mouse wheel should use cursor location as pivot point. Solved Zoom to mouse issue/request #406 #417
• Selecting an item from the Layers Panel should move the Canvas to visually center it.
• Optional "smart guides" when shapes align to adjacent shapes. First snapping implementation #507
• Show/Hide pixel grid. Implement canvas pixel grid #499
• Show/Hide rulers.
• Hold Shift to resize shapes from center. Scale from item center (merge after code-cleanup) #523

Artboards

• Control background color of artboards from the standard Fill Color panel. Improve artboard item selection #400
• Child shapes should be masked if outside the artboard edges. Improve artboard item selection #400
• Shapes should snap to Artboard's edges. Filter candidates and specialize artboard snaps #509

Shapes

• Copy/Paste of shapes.
• Copy/Paste of shape properties
• Duplicate shape.
• Implement the Line shape.
• Implement the Curve/Pen tool.
• Shapes snapping to adjacent shapes. First snapping implementation #507

File Format

• Implement built-in version control, creating a new commit at every save.
• Create a screenshot of the canvas for every commit.
• Implement visual navigation of previous versions.
• Create a preview widget when opening Akira files.

Export

• Export in SVG.
• Export in PDF.
• Export in TIFF.

Text Tool

• Implement double click to edit text.
• Implement simple font picker.
• Implement bold, italic, and underline options.
• Implement uppercase, lowercase, and capitalized options.
• Implement letter spacing and line height options.
• Control fill color from the standard Fill Color panel.

Colors Panel

• Implement adding and removing multiple colors for both borders and fills. Handle multiple colors #505
• Implement gradients.
• Implement textures/images as fill.
• Implement document library of recently used colors.

Borders Panel

• Implement uneven border radii. Uneven border radii #267
• Implement inside, outside, center border option.

Others

• Implement alignment of single shapes. Selection alignment #675
• Implement sorting of multiple shapes.
• Implement Undo/Redo history. Inefficient implementation of undo/redo #699
• Implement layer groups.
• Implement Export of Artboards and multiple selected items.
• Implement Image cropping.