Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.7 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

• todo => not started yet
• in-progress => started, but not completed yet
• done => completed

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KLocale	Number grouping support
DONE	KLocale	Narrow date name format support
DONE	KLocale	Week Numbers support
DONE	kdecore/io/klockfile	For 4.7.1: Implement locking on non-NFS systems using O_EXCL. Good for VFAT, CFIS and other filesystems, as it makes KConfig work and thus many KDE Applications. Details in #203554. Conducted by KDAB and Intevation; funded by IT Services of ETH Zurich.
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Windows Backend
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	New date/time edit widgets from kdepim
IN PROGRESS	KHelpMenu	Fast action searching
IN PROGRESS	KFilePlaces	Activity-specific Places
IN PROGRESS	KCookieJar	Storing cookies in KWallet
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	WebIDL usage
TO DO	KHTML	Accessibility improvements	Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>
TO DO	Nepomuk	Query term class to query graph meta data	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Preconfigurable plasmoids	David Palacio <[email protected]>

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Dolphin	Support Fwd/Back Mouse Buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Polish the default user interface to minimize visual clutter (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html)
DONE	Dolphin	Improve user interface for searching files and metadata
IN PROGRESS	Locale KCM	Support for Number Grouping, Windows Backend, Country Subdivsions
IN PROGRESS	nspluginviewer	npruntime support improvements
TO DO	Dolphin	Popup menu for advanced queries on the metadata display	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio_sftp	async download support
IN PROGRESS	Locale definition files	Migrate Country and Currency Codes to xml/po formats, re-arrange l10n files including settings and flags, add Subdivision code files.
TO DO	kio-upnp-ms	Merge from playground (https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kio-upnp-ms/) into kde-runtime	Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]>
DONE	network:/ kio-slave	port to Cagibi 0.2
DONE	Nepomuk Datamanagement Service	Merge it into the master branch
DONE	Port Strigi Service to DMS	The Strigi Service needs to use the DMS API
DONE	Nepomuk	KCM to manage the removable storages to index

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Allow a shortcut per keyboard layout (bug 224489)
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Session management for keyboard layouts (bug 52095, 174948)
DONE	klipper	Support qrcode as well as datamatrix for mobile barcodes
DONE	weather	Support debian weather
DONE	Oxygen	Various widgets polishing (scrollbars, progressbars, sliders, toolbuttons, menu and menubar selection, etc.)
DONE	Oxygen	Implement kwin's new shadow system for menus, drop-downlists, etc.
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Clock/Calendar	improve usability, settings, akonadi and holiday data. See Plasma wiki.
DONE	Plasma Desktop	launch krunner when the user starts typing
KDM
DONE	KDM	GRUB2 support for KDM (see http://ksmanis.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/hello-planet-and-grub2-support-for-kdm/)
KWin
DONE	Compositor	OpenGL 2.x/OpenGL ES 2.0 compositing backend (see http://www.kdenews.org/2011/02/18/kwin-embraces-new-platforms-opengl-es-20-support)
DONE	Compositor	New Shadow System (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/new-kwin-shadows/)
DONE	Effects	Effect to render outlines
DONE	Decorations	Do not require a decoration
IN PROGRESS	Core	Export most recently used windows to an X property
IN PROGRESS	BoxSwitch Effect	Animated Selection (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/02/is-kwin-rocket-science/)
IN PROGRESS	libkwineffects	API cleanup
TO DO	libkwineffects	JavaScript bindings for writing Effects	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Mouse Emulation	Better accessibility support in mouse emulation
DONE	kwin	Add multi head support
IN PROGRESS	kwin	DBusMenu in Windeco
DONE	ksplashx	Add multi head support
TO DO	krunner	Add multi head support	Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwinrules kcm	UI cleanup (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101041/)
IN PROGRESS	kwincompositing kcm	Rearm unsafe OpenGL precheck (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101061/)
IN PROGRESS	PresentWindows Effect	Better highlight indication & close button handling)
IN PROGRESS	general	Remove jargon from user interface. Remove all instances of Akonadi/Nepomuk related jargon from the desktop, replace with meaningful text where needed.

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Bookmark Manager
DONE	Marble	QML Bindings: GPS Tracking
DONE	Marble	Offline Address Search
DONE	Marble	Support monav version 0.3
DONE	Marble	Polish the Map Wizard: simpler UI, comprehensive validation of user input immediately on each page
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Reduce memory footprint of cached tiles
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping
TO DO	Marble	Implement mouse cursor wrapping a la Okular or Gwenview	Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Integrate the Qalculate backend
DONE	Kalzium	Use KUnitConversion for all the Unit handling
DONE	KTurtle	Add getdirection command
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
DONE	Step	Copy-and-Paste of items
DONE	Step	Zoom on mouse wheel
DONE	Step	Automatic expanding canvas
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Auto - Handling of the Canvas
DONE	Rocs	Remove the thread for QtConcurrent on he core
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Polish the User Interface
DONE	Rocs	New Plugin for Automaticaly Graph Generation
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Bugfixes in the List Plugin
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Speedup in the drawing code
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Kalgebra backend
DONE	Rocs	Transform graph edges plugin
DONE	Rocs	Assign values to edges/nodes plugin
DONE	Kalzium	Titration calculator
IN PROGRESS	KStars	SQLite Database of NGC Objects

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi
DONE	KAlarm	Allow reminders after the main alarm
DONE	KAlarm	Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Add support for Holiday Types and Observance Types
DONE	Akonadi-contacts/kaddressbook	Show 2d barcodes of contact data

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Adjustable Clock	Plasmoid for displaying date and time in very customizable way
IN PROGRESS	Comic Plasmoid	Support random comic strips
DONE	Comic Plasmoid	Support creation of comic Comic Book Archive files
DONE	Comic Plasmoid	Highlight comics that have a new comic strip
TO DO	Events Runner	Support parsing weekdays (e.g. "in next monday"	Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>

kdetoys

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KTeaTime	Port to KStatusNotifierItem
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	New svg based status icons
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	Support categories
TO DO	KTeaTime	Improved command line	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Tea runner	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Port to KConfigXT	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	Remote translation memories
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	QA: translation checks against user-specified regex-based rules
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Continue implementing XLIFF spec	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Segmentation [editing] functionality	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Properly support strings (various Unicode encodings) in structures tool
TO DO	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add tool to convert between char encodings
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	QDockWidget based interface
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	KDE4 icon theme and eye candies
TO DO	Umbrello	Replace the current code viewer with katepart	Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
DONE	Umbrello	Add a zoom widget in the statusbar
DONE	Kate	Add a new search in files plugin

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Level editor
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Load levelset option + 2 new levelsets
TO DO	KBreakout	Port to QGraphicsView	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KPat	Create new saved game format that stores undo/redo history
IN PROGRESS	libtagaro	Move first version into the kdegames module
TO DO	libtagaro	Use the new library: at least in Granatier and Kolf (to replace existing static source copies) and KDiamond	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Cleanup interface
DONE	Palapeli	Reduce memory consumption for big puzzles
IN PROGRESS	all games	Add useful fullscreen mode + option to switch between fullscreen/window

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KGet	Working Mms plugin
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support for connection limit to servers

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Directory support in Comic Book Generator
IN PROGRESS	Okular	7zip support in Comic Book Generator
DONE	libksane	Enable gui less operation
DONE	libksane	Add a way to get scanner device list
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Compare mode
TO DO	Gwenview	Merge "Semantic Information" and "Meta Information" sidebar groups	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>