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Below is a tentative roadmap, based on a review of all kst bugs referenced in [http://bugs.kde.org KDE's bugzilla].
Below is a tentative roadmap for future versions, based on a review of all kst bugs referenced in [http://bugs.kde.org KDE's bugzilla] and mailing list discussions. Kst versions 2.x, based on Qt4 and available on all major platforms, are considered stable and the latest Kst 2 version is recommended for production use. The Kst 1.x series, based on Qt3 and KDE libraries is no longer maintained.
A summary of the changes introduced in previous 2.x versions can be found on the [[previous versions]] page.


== 2.0 Series: early adopters and new users ==
== 2.0 Series: new version ported to Qt4, stable ==
=== 2.0.1: Intermediate bug fix release (released Nov. 12th 2010) ===
=== Previous version: 2.0.7  (released July 17th 2013) ===
* <del>finalize menu/toolbar reorganization ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249799 249799])</del>
For a more complete summary of the main new features see the [http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kst/2013-July/021367.html release announcement].
* <del>finalize move plots between tabs ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248885 248885])</del>
* <del>fix crash when moving view items ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253165 253165])</del>
* <del>proper escaping of special characters ([https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250014 250014])</del>
* <del>finish plot dialog revamp ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252289 252289]) - basically:</del>
** <del>connect the "Edit" button in the Contents page</del>
** <del>ensure right order of elements in the left pane (right now the first two are not the most relevant ones)</del>
** <del>make sure the left pane is always large enough (in width)</del>
* <del>special characters escaping ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250014 250014])</del>
* <del>update pb in the data manager ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248888 248888])</del>
* <del>X-only zoom and Y-only zoom toolbar buttons ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252080 252080])</del>


=== 2.0.2: Critical bugfix (released Nov. 18th 2010) ===
* New features
Released close to 2.0.1 due to a critical bug in 2.0.1 that made it basically unusable. Also implemented some small stuff:
** ASCII read time in HH:MM:SS.sss format ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243684 243684]+[http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243445 243445])
* <del>fix clipping when dragging</del>
** ASCII performance improvements
* <del>allow inserting vector/scalar names at cursor position in the equation editor</del>
** Support for threaded reading and file buffer to overcome Windows 32 bit memory-per-process limitations (useful when reading >1GB ASCII files!)
** Scripting: plugins, histograms and spectrums
** Automatic "unpacking" of netCDF vectors of type ncShort if they have scale_factor and add_offset attributes
** Improve naming of exported graphics by using the tab's name as suffix


=== 2.0.3: Polishing ===
* UI
* Bugfixes/polish
** Actions to copy parts of the window status bar into the clipboard: X copies the X coordinate, Y the Y coordinate and Ctrl + C copies the window status message
** update fixes (plugin -> equation -> etc, dependencies not always updated)
** Improve formatting of many dialogs
** PDF export vs PDFCreator ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219845 219845])
** Drawing points: separate point size
** y-local zoom with shared axis box ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236678 236678])
** In tied zoom mode, X only and Y only cursor extension lines appear in all tied windows
** <del>Saving and reloading a file leads to empty data manager ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256401 256401]) + other session management issues</del>
 
** data manager UI detail: click on the + symbol, then double-click on the item below => you get the dialog corresponding to the wrong item
* Bug fixes
** labels from vectors with special chars in their names need to be properly escaped
** Fix a bug where if you drag a plot to a new tab, it wasn't picked up by future autoformat actions nor listed in plot lists
** labels generated by fits are broken
** Fix printing to PDF under Windows
** empty labels not taken into account in plot dialog (needs one space)
** Fix purge so ancestors of ancestors of curves used in plots don't get purged, and so that scalars/vectors used in labels (and their ancestors) don't get purged
** apply button greyed out in some dialogs
** Fix gaussian + Lorentzian fits so that they actually fit
** distribution of points sometimes very uneven if show points density < all
** Make relative file paths work regardless of where kst2 is called from
** dimensions tab for line/arrow: x,y instead of length, angle
** Various fixes to font scaling
 
=== Current version: 2.0.8 - new GUI features and polish (released July 19th 2014) ===
For a more complete summary of the main new features see the [http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kst/2014-July/022074.html release announcement].
 
* Version control
** Switch to git: "git clone [email protected]:kst-plot", mirrored on github: http://github.com/Kst-plot/kst
 
* UI
** Provide translations thanks to KDE's i18n team
** Declutter the data manager / find-as-you-type filter as in kst 1.x ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257164 257164])
** Revamped  vector view with more display formats and multiple simultaneous vectors ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257285 257285], [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257287 257287]) - see labplot/scidavis/origin
** Scalar selector improvements including bug [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325087 325087]
** When selecting multiple objects in "edit multiple" mode, '*' character no longer needed at the beginning or at the end of the filter string
** feedback during loading of large documents ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92868 92868]+[http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92870 92870])
 
* Misc
** Allow reading specific subsets of ASCII starting at any line+ improve ASCII datasource again
** New command line option -T to create a new tab
** Differentiate plugin now uses consecutive points
** Allow importing vectors without creating plots (bug [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307723 307723])
** Datamode improvements with matrices
** Update system fixes (bug [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325314 325314])
** Fix viewitems so that the dialogs are properly updated when in 'fix to data' mode
** New datasource: sourcelist, repetition of otherwise identical sources
** New datasource: FITS table
** Equations: add 'degree' versions of the trig functions: sind, cosd, etc + atan2(x, y)
** Add an "unwind" filter: for data fields that have wrapped
 
* Bug fixes
** Wrong prefix to session and data file lists on Windows (bug [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325086 325086])
** Filter loses vector selection (bug [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325393 325393])
** Fixes to update system
** Make sure custom color applies to all lines of a multi line text label
** Fix enabling/disabling widgets in FFT options -> BUG: [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328371 328371]
** In datawizard, don't create plots if no curves -> BUG: [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307723 307723]
** Update curve names in plot dialog when changed -> BUG: [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318139 318139]
** Further performance improvements
 
=== Planned for future releases (2.1.0) ===
* Scripting
** Finish and package python scripting (at least a beta release), on all platforms
 
* Bug fixes
** with many plots in a window and large axis numbers, the labels overlap
** with many plots in a window and large axis numbers, the labels overlap
** legends should be wrapped to always fit inside their plot
** <del>edit multiple for vectors: the UI offers it but nothing is active. Either remove the edit multiple button for vectors, or activate the fields</del>
** anti-aliased rotated axes labels ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257682 257682])
** anti-aliased rotated axes labels ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257682 257682])
* UI changes
** user-visible string changes ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249805 249805])
** finish UI revamp (esp. context menus + connect plot dialog pages to the way the dialog is opened, e.g. double click on axes opens plot dialog in the right place)
** legends in more prominent place in plot dialog ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236473 236473])


* Various checks
* Various checks
** check change data file tool
** check change multiple (esp. on view objects)...
** check change multiple...
** check remember last settings in various dialogs (data wizard, etc)
** default names (plugins, etc...) + automatic labels (top-label) sometimes disturbing
** undo/redo
** undo/redo
** tab order
** tooltips + What's this
** tooltips + What's this
** check less often-used plot types
** check less often-used plot types
** features that need to be available from the command line (shared axis box?)
** documentation


* Small features
* UI
** <del>strings from data file or vectors to be shown in View->Strings dialog (as scalars)</del>
** legends in more prominent place in plot dialog ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236473 236473])
** new curve placement widget missing tab selection
** layout mode span tabs
** layout mode span tabs
** <del>tied zoom span tabs ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221673 221673])</del>
** SVG export ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142986 142986]) - do we still need EPS?
** File->Recent files... ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252079 252079])
** Capability to insert scalar in x/y markers ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257153 257153])
** Declutter the data manager / find-as-you-type filter as in kst 1.x ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257164 257164])
** more capable vector view with more display formats and multiple simultaneous vectors ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257285 257285], [http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257287 257287])
** datawizard jumping back to the top of the list
** new curve placement widget missing tab selection
** feedback during loading of large documents (92868+92870)
** change scalar value directly in the scalar selection combobox
** proper support or warning for files with non-unique field names ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130195 130195]) Fixed?
** scientific notation for extreme axis numbers
** data source should text box should handle ~/ as shortcut to $HOME


* Misc
* Features
** <del>web site revamp</del> + promotion work
** jump to next marker
** documentation
** time-based range tools
** equations and plugins should no longer generate X slave vector ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272575 272575])
** capability to insert scalar in x/y markers ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257153 257153])
** new options to create/edit vectors
 
== 2.1 Series: new features + reactivate main missing things from kst 1.x ==
=== 2.1.0: New features requiring .kst file format update ===
* Impact on the file format
** dimensions tab for line/arrow: x,y instead of length, angle
** save vectors to file (or embedded) ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238923 238923]+...)
** different colors/sizes for symbols and lines
** each marker should have its own graphic properties


=== 2.0.4: more new features ===
* Features
* view items should have an option to scroll/zoom with the contents of the plot
** text box resizing ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221823 221823])
* ASCII configs ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216744 216744])
** cut/copy/paste
* <del>ASCII units ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216730 216730])</del>
** ASCII configs ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216744 216744])
* ASCII read time in HH:MM:SS.sss format ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243684 243684]+[http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243445 243445])
** ASCII could have an "auto format" mode which uses heuristics to detect the format
* ASCII could have an "auto format" mode which uses heuristics to detect the format
** proper support or warning for files with non-unique field names ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130195 130195]) Fixed?
* text box resizing ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221823 221823])
** in-line changing of axis ranges, if easy ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118774 118774])
* jump to next marker
* <del>more metadata (netcdf) - watch out for update problems + show in UI (View->strings)</del>
* cut/copy/paste
* as-you-type search in comboboxes (vector selection)
* in-line changing of axis ranges, if easy ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118774 118774])


== 2.1 Series: kst 1.x users can transition ==
=== 2.1.1: All kst 1.x features available ===
=== 2.1.0: Feature parity ===
* easy "basic plugins" a la kst 1.x with plugin manager
* scripting (QtScript + dbus?)
* plugins (including easy "basic plugins" a la kst 1.x and plugin manager)
* command line switches + full batch operation
* save vectors to file (or embedded) ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238923 238923]+...)
* read kst 1.x files, at least load the data and create data objects, layout may not be pixel-perfect
* read kst 1.x files, at least load the data and create data objects, layout may not be pixel-perfect


=== 2.1.1: KDE integration ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248184 248184]) ===
=== 2.1.2: More KDE integration ([http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248184 248184]) ===
* icons
* file dialog
* file dialog
* cmake
* toolbar customization
* toolbar customization
* GHNS (scripts, sample data, ...)
* GHNS (scripts, sample data, ...)
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* new datasource: general-purpose configurable binary reader
* new datasource: general-purpose configurable binary reader
* new datasource: general-purpose configurable XML reader
* new datasource: general-purpose configurable XML reader
* new datasource: Matlab .mat file reader (Matlab pretty much sucks at plotting, that'd be a pretty interesting move and there's a spec at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/matlab/matfile_format.pdf)
* new datasource: general-purpose configurable database (SQL) reader
* end-to-end Arinc429 support?
* end-to-end Arinc429 support?
* 3D features? (or suggest paraview instead?)
* 3D features? (or suggest paraview instead?)

Latest revision as of 11:41, 28 July 2014


Below is a tentative roadmap for future versions, based on a review of all kst bugs referenced in KDE's bugzilla and mailing list discussions. Kst versions 2.x, based on Qt4 and available on all major platforms, are considered stable and the latest Kst 2 version is recommended for production use. The Kst 1.x series, based on Qt3 and KDE libraries is no longer maintained. A summary of the changes introduced in previous 2.x versions can be found on the previous versions page.

2.0 Series: new version ported to Qt4, stable

Previous version: 2.0.7 (released July 17th 2013)

For a more complete summary of the main new features see the release announcement.

  • New features
    • ASCII read time in HH:MM:SS.sss format (243684+243445)
    • ASCII performance improvements
    • Support for threaded reading and file buffer to overcome Windows 32 bit memory-per-process limitations (useful when reading >1GB ASCII files!)
    • Scripting: plugins, histograms and spectrums
    • Automatic "unpacking" of netCDF vectors of type ncShort if they have scale_factor and add_offset attributes
    • Improve naming of exported graphics by using the tab's name as suffix
  • UI
    • Actions to copy parts of the window status bar into the clipboard: X copies the X coordinate, Y the Y coordinate and Ctrl + C copies the window status message
    • Improve formatting of many dialogs
    • Drawing points: separate point size
    • In tied zoom mode, X only and Y only cursor extension lines appear in all tied windows
  • Bug fixes
    • Fix a bug where if you drag a plot to a new tab, it wasn't picked up by future autoformat actions nor listed in plot lists
    • Fix printing to PDF under Windows
    • Fix purge so ancestors of ancestors of curves used in plots don't get purged, and so that scalars/vectors used in labels (and their ancestors) don't get purged
    • Fix gaussian + Lorentzian fits so that they actually fit
    • Make relative file paths work regardless of where kst2 is called from
    • Various fixes to font scaling

Current version: 2.0.8 - new GUI features and polish (released July 19th 2014)

For a more complete summary of the main new features see the release announcement.

  • UI
    • Provide translations thanks to KDE's i18n team
    • Declutter the data manager / find-as-you-type filter as in kst 1.x (257164)
    • Revamped vector view with more display formats and multiple simultaneous vectors (257285, 257287) - see labplot/scidavis/origin
    • Scalar selector improvements including bug 325087
    • When selecting multiple objects in "edit multiple" mode, '*' character no longer needed at the beginning or at the end of the filter string
    • feedback during loading of large documents (92868+92870)
  • Misc
    • Allow reading specific subsets of ASCII starting at any line+ improve ASCII datasource again
    • New command line option -T to create a new tab
    • Differentiate plugin now uses consecutive points
    • Allow importing vectors without creating plots (bug 307723)
    • Datamode improvements with matrices
    • Update system fixes (bug 325314)
    • Fix viewitems so that the dialogs are properly updated when in 'fix to data' mode
    • New datasource: sourcelist, repetition of otherwise identical sources
    • New datasource: FITS table
    • Equations: add 'degree' versions of the trig functions: sind, cosd, etc + atan2(x, y)
    • Add an "unwind" filter: for data fields that have wrapped
  • Bug fixes
    • Wrong prefix to session and data file lists on Windows (bug 325086)
    • Filter loses vector selection (bug 325393)
    • Fixes to update system
    • Make sure custom color applies to all lines of a multi line text label
    • Fix enabling/disabling widgets in FFT options -> BUG: 328371
    • In datawizard, don't create plots if no curves -> BUG: 307723
    • Update curve names in plot dialog when changed -> BUG: 318139
    • Further performance improvements

Planned for future releases (2.1.0)

  • Scripting
    • Finish and package python scripting (at least a beta release), on all platforms
  • Bug fixes
    • with many plots in a window and large axis numbers, the labels overlap
    • anti-aliased rotated axes labels (257682)
  • Various checks
    • check change multiple (esp. on view objects)...
    • undo/redo
    • tooltips + What's this
    • check less often-used plot types
    • documentation
  • UI
    • legends in more prominent place in plot dialog (236473)
    • new curve placement widget missing tab selection
    • layout mode span tabs
  • Features
    • jump to next marker
    • time-based range tools
    • equations and plugins should no longer generate X slave vector (272575)
    • capability to insert scalar in x/y markers (257153)
    • new options to create/edit vectors

2.1 Series: new features + reactivate main missing things from kst 1.x

2.1.0: New features requiring .kst file format update

  • Impact on the file format
    • dimensions tab for line/arrow: x,y instead of length, angle
    • save vectors to file (or embedded) (238923+...)
    • different colors/sizes for symbols and lines
    • each marker should have its own graphic properties
  • Features
    • text box resizing (221823)
    • cut/copy/paste
    • ASCII configs (216744)
    • ASCII could have an "auto format" mode which uses heuristics to detect the format
    • proper support or warning for files with non-unique field names (130195) Fixed?
    • in-line changing of axis ranges, if easy (118774)

2.1.1: All kst 1.x features available

  • easy "basic plugins" a la kst 1.x with plugin manager
  • read kst 1.x files, at least load the data and create data objects, layout may not be pixel-perfect

2.1.2: More KDE integration (248184)

  • file dialog
  • toolbar customization
  • GHNS (scripts, sample data, ...)
  • etc...

2.2 Series: Further improvements

  • mask data points for plugin operation (need to review 112549+110734+96249+86915)
  • quick curve creation RMB menu (136780)
  • multi-file data wizard if the above is not sufficient (124942)
  • multiple y axes (126743)
  • custom strings in general settings (142641)
  • sticky "color per file" (124558)
  • flow-around objects (115136+109430+157791), mostly for metadata/custom strings in the borders - for advanced layouting maybe but SVG export may be a nice way to get around it
  • once custom strings and flow-around exist, add support for templates (109472)
  • multiple -Fx switches on command line (115662, comment #8)
  • "buddyVector" feature for automatic detection of X-axis vector (mail on the list, point 2)
  • data sinks to save data back to disk
  • plot manager (124090)
  • proper approach for the update of file metadata used in labels when using change data file ("Metadata updates" mail to be sent by NB)
  • thread kst2
  • edit multiple for view objects, or "style paste" option à la Word or inkscape
  • new datasource: general-purpose configurable binary reader
  • new datasource: general-purpose configurable XML reader
  • new datasource: general-purpose configurable database (SQL) reader
  • end-to-end Arinc429 support?
  • 3D features? (or suggest paraview instead?)

Long term (GSoC ?)

  • turn kst into a real cool signal processing tool (filter design, etc...)
  • ...
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