Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the 4.4 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan

Legend:

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

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	kttsd	Clean up kttsd by making it a simple wrapper around speech-dispatcher

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Konqueror	Sidebar cleanups; re-introducing the history module
DONE	Dolphin	Version control integration
DONE	Dolphin	Improved search bar including search configuration
DONE	DolphinPart	Remember the Details View expansion state in the DolphinPart
DONE	DolphinPart	Restore the "Edit->Selection" menu that was in Konqueror 3
DONE	Dolphin	Open URL in a new tab if the Back, Forward or Up button in the toolbar is middle-clicked
DONE	Dolphin	Clickable tags and other resources in the metadata view: tags for example are opened as search folders in the same Dolphin window

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Oxygen Animated	Add smooth animations and transitions (e.g. on hover, when switching tabs, etc.) to the oxygen widget style.
DONE	smb kioslave	add kwallet support
DONE	Nepomuk	Remove the ontologies and make kdebase depend on the upcoming shared-ontologies package
DONE	Nepomuk	Integrate removable storage service to handle mounting/unmounting of removable devices and allow searching of files on non-mounted media. The user will be asked to insert the medium in question in case it is not mounted.
DONE	Nepomuk	New timeline KIO slave which allows to browse files by modification date in case the Nepomuk Strigi service is running.
DONE	Nepomuk	Give better user feedback if Nepomuk could not be initialized.
DONE	Locale KCM	Add support for new KLocale Currency Code and Decimal Places options (see kdelibs/klocale section).
DONE	Device Automounting	Add support for storage device automounting
DONE	Nepomuk	Port Nepomuk to Virtuoso: query service, strigi service: better performance especially when searching.
DONE	thumbnail kioslave	Support for comic-book cover previews (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt files)
DONE	Nepomuk	Add nepomuk kio slave which handles all stating of Nepomuk resources. It can even display a small HTML page for non-file resources.
DONE	thumbnail kioslave	Support for rotated jpegs

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
IN PROGRESS	Date/Time KCM	Plasma themed clock
IN PROGRESS	System Setitngs	Reorganize modules
IN PROGRESS	Mouse KCM	XInput2 support
DONE	Attica KCM, KDE plugin	KCM added, Attica uses KIO with the KDE plugin
IN PROGRESS	Solid::Control network environment tracking	Access a high level view of wireless networks by interface, testing in playground
DONE	System Activity	Add scripting support
DONE	Solid	RemoteControl Manager/Interface + Lirc backend
DONE	System Activity	KAuth integration
DONE	System Settings	Improve module appearance for Icons View and provide searching hints
DONE	Font Installer KCM	Use PolicyKit for installing system-wide fonts
DONE	Font Installer KCM	When multiple fonts are selected, use a list style preview of all selected fonts
KRunner
DONE	KRunner	Solid device runner
DONE	KRunner	Manage actions in default interface
DONE	KRunner	Single runner mode
DONE	KRunner	Window management runner
DONE	KRunner	Add Firefox support to the bookmark runner
Plasma - Priority Features
DONE	netbook shell	a plasma shell and various containments/applets tailored for netbooks (tech preview status in 4.4)
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	Quicklaunch Plasmoid	new icon size/rows config ui
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Weather Ion	New Weather Ion for the wetter.com data source provider
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Animator	Create new Plasma::Animator API based on Qt 4.6 Kinetic
IN PROGRESS	Plasma KineticScrolling	Port KineticScrolling to Qt 4.6 Kinetic
IN PROGRESS	Plasma-Netbook Animated Layouts	Create Animated Layouts to SAL and NewsPaper
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	Show the PopupApplet's BusyWidget inside the popup
DONE	Widgets Explorer	New widgets explorer
DONE	Widgets Explorer	Install widgets from file, Google Gadgets and GHNS
IN PROGRESS	Notification queueing
IN PROGRESS	Trust Levels	package signing and verification
IN PROGRESS	JS plasmoid improvements	Animations, KIO and QFile bindings; latter two by security policy
IN PROGRESS	Kiosk improvements
IN PROGRESS	Activity Bar
DONE	folderview	Hover action icons in the icon view
DONE	folderview	Hover animations
DONE	libplasma/kwin	slide animation for popups done by kwin
DONE	System tray	Plasmoid support in the system tray
DONE	System tray	config ui to decide between always shown, always hidden and auto hide for each systray item
DONE	Window List	A new plasmoid to show list of opened windows
DONE	Device Notifier	show the device actions inside the plasmoid, show the fixed devices too, other improvements
DONE	Color Wallpaper Plugin	add support for gradients
DONE	libplasma	better text box look with new svg elements
DONE	systemtray	Make possible to browse old notifications by application name (this actually replaced the above feature)
DONE	libplasma	Show Holiday and Holiday Region in Clock Tooltip.
DONE	libplasma	Allow user to choose Calendar System to be displayed in Calendar and Clock widgets
DONE	knowledge base plasmoid	new plasmoid: Opendesktop.org knowledgebase client
DONE	opendesktop plasmoid	show friends activity
DONE	Plasma Addon	Battery popup layout improvements
DONE	Plasma Mouse Plugins UI	Yet Another UI Redesign
KWin - Core
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window tiling
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Support for new EWMH hints
DONE	KWin	Quick window maximization and tiling by dragging windows to the edge of the screen
DONE	KWin	Improved virtual desktop KCM
DONE	KWin	Improved window switcher (Alt+Tab)
DONE	KWin	SVG based window decoration theme engine (Aurorae)
DONE	KWin	Merged Ozone and Nitrogen window decorations into Oxygen
DONE	KWin	Window tabbing
KWin - Desktop Effects
DONE	KWin	Mouse action support in Present Windows effect
DONE	KWin	New present windows mode to only display windows from a single application
DONE	KWin	Improved flip switch effect
DONE	KWin	Improved logout blur effect
KDM

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	pykde4	Python 3 support for PyKDE4
DONE	qyoto	Replace the current C# cmake macros with more sophisticated ones that also work on windows.
IN PROGRESS	qyoto	Create a new generator for the C# assemblies

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool )
IN PROGRESS	Kalzium	Remove libavogadro snapshot, port to use system libavogadro
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Add "download region" feature
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Editing Tools
IN PROGRESS	Marble	OSM Import
IN PROGRESS	Marble	UI Simplification
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Custom Layouts
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Discrete Zoom Levels
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Performance Improvements
IN PROGRESS	Marble	KML Improvements
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Sky Mode
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Measure Tool Plugin
DONE	Marble	Settings for plugins
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Kinetic Scrolling
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Optimized 2D Mode
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Bookmarks
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Time KML support
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Editing GeoDataFeatures
DONE	Marble	Update Map ("F5")
DONE	Marble	Layer Management Class
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Plugin architecture for map layers
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Extending GeoPainter
DONE	Marble	Marble Runners
IN PROGRESS	Marble	GeoClue Integration
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing
IN PROGRESS	Marble	More map providers (WMS?)
IN PROGRESS	Marble	GeoData Model/View rework
DONE	KAlgebra	KAlgebra backend for Cantor
DONE	KAlgebra	Support for lists
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved MathML Presentation support
DONE	KAlgebra	Added 2D parametric function plotting
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved jump detections
DONE	KAlgebra	Made lambda expressions more usable
DONE	KStars	Improve Observing List Wizard
DONE	KStars	A rather sophisticated Observation Plan Manager
DONE	KTurtle	Add F2 context help
DONE	KTurtle	Add SVG export for the canvas
DONE	KTurtle	Add HTML export of the code
DONE	KTurtle	Add printing support for the canvas
DONE	Cantor	Import to kdeedu
DONE	Rocs	Import to kdeedu
DONE	KTouch	Update the "Colemak" keyboad layout and training lecture

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Allow arbitrary jumps in the undo/redo history
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	New Go game for KDE 4
IN PROGRESS	Gluon	release first gluon lib with one game. [1]
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	Implement all Bonuses from the default theme
IN PROGRESS	KsirK	Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...)
DONE	KAtomic	Level Sets
DONE	Bovo	Highlight the last move to be easier to spot
DONE	Bovo	Enable undo after the game has ended, to be able to correct a fatal mis-click
DONE	Granatier	New Bomberman like game for KDE 4
DONE	Granatier	Sidebar with informations regarding the players, like bonuses, handicaps ...
DONE	Granatier	Add support for a background
DONE	Granatier	Replace Phonon with QtMultimedia for better sound
DONE	KBreakOut	Improved keyboard support
DONE	KBreakOut	Fullscreen support
DONE	KDiamond	Improve time display
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add Mazes game (37 levels), contributed by Steve Mann.
DONE	Killbots	Add a new game type parameter to make fast enemies a bit more intelligent.
DONE	KsirK	Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774
DONE	Kigo	Fix smaller issues with KNS2
DONE	Kigo	Improve final score visuals
DONE	Kigo	Beautify the default theme
DONE	KPat	Large internal code cleanup. Lots of small annoyances fixed.
DONE	KPat	Port animations to Qt Kinetic for significant performance improvements
DONE	Palapeli	New puzzle game for KDE SC 4

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	gwenview	Folder thumbnails
DONE	gwenview	Rework start page
DONE	gwenview	Implement picture importer
DONE	gwenview	New save-as behavior (go to saved as document)
DONE	libksane	External API for handling selections (patch from Matthias Nagl)
DONE	libksane	Add basic twain support on Windows
DONE	libksane	External API for specifying preview resolution
DONE	libkexiv2	Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray. Bug 183171
DONE	libkexiv2	Expose exiv2 API for accessing embedded previews in RAW files.

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Move event-filter installation out of KApplication and into a new class
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Support floating point font sizes
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Finish the time chooser widget
IN PROGRESS	kio	Limit number of connections per host (per application), add job priorities
IN PROGRESS	kio	Support for automatically renaming conflicting files during copy and move operations
IN PROGRESS	kio	Remember downloads via Nepomuk
IN PROGRESS	buildsystem	Modular build of KDE modules
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Improve katepart Vim mode.
IN PROGRESS	kfile	Make status of file I/O display on file/folder icons("progress in icons").
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Factor out a generic high-level search class from the search bar. To be used by the VI input mode.
DONE	knewstuff	Introduce binary incompatible knewstuff library (as knewstuff3, keeping knewstuff2 as well) which can talk directly to open desktop services via libattica
DONE	knewstuff3	Make use of Open Collaboration Services - let users rate items, become fan, see details, have bigger preview pictures
DONE	kdecore	Polkit-1 backend for KAuth
DONE	KLocale	Implement ISO 4217 Currency Code support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).
DONE	KLocale	Separate numeric decimal places and monetary decimal places.
DONE	katepart	Add mapping support for the vi input mode's normal mode
DONE	katepart	Support byte-order mark in unicode files
DONE	katepart	Enable command line scripting again
DONE	katepart	Improve TemplateInterface, i.e. snippet support
DONE	katepart	Add interface to access highlighting information, port html-export plugin
DONE	katepart	push improved AutoBrace plugin to kdelibs
DONE	KCalendarSystem	Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, Ethiopian, Coptic.
DONE	KDEPrint	Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS.
DONE	nepomuk	Get libnepomukquery into kdelibs
DONE	webkit	Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!)
DONE	katepart	Implement on-the-fly spell checking for arbitrary documents.
DONE	nepomuk	Add const versions of the accessor methods to the Nepomuk::Types classes
DONE	kdeui	Finalize the api for the new systemtray: KStatusNotifierItem

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Add WhatsThis help on controls (Bug 70042)
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Generic per-App volume tab ( pulse,phonon,oss4)
DONE	KMix	Amend Keyboard Shortcuts
DONE	KMix	Allow arbitrary ordering of controls (Bug 57946)
DONE	KMix	Nicer OSD (icon, mute state)
DONE	JuK	Allow disabling crossfade
DONE	JuK	Add support for MP4 and ASF files (when present in Taglib). Patch taken from Kubuntu patchset, thanks to Kubuntu devs and Jeff Mitchell.

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support for custom NewTransferDialog in BTPlugin
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Telepathy protocol plugin
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Telepathy Tubes Desktop Sharing plugin
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Akonadi Logger(modify the history plugin)
IN PROGRESS	Krfb	Telepathy Tubes support
IN PROGRESS	Krfb	Core restructuring
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Account Management KCM
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Mission Control launcher KDED
DONE	Kopete	Create avatars from a webcam device
DONE	Krdc	Redesigned workflow to create a new connection
DONE	Krdc	Telepathy Tubes support
DONE	Krdc	Full Screen Switching
DONE	KGet	Support for verifying signed files
DONE	KGet	Verification of downloads using checksums
DONE	KGet	Downloading checksums for downloads
DONE	KGet	Repairing broken downloads
DONE	KGet	Moving and renaming files while downloading
DONE	KGet	Adding mirrors to downloads while downloading
DONE	KGet	Changing the number of connections per mirror of downloads while downloading
DONE	KGet	Assistant to create Metalinks

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KJots	Port to Akonadi
IN PROGRESS	KJots	Port to Grantlee for theming support
IN PROGRESS	Akregator	Port to use KNotificationItem
DONE	KMail	Archiving function for mails
DONE	KMail	Clean up UI for aggregation and theme settings
DONE	KMail	Improve recipient picker
DONE	KMail	Allow to search by tag and to use filters for adding tags
DONE	KMail	Port addressbook-related functions to Akonadi
DONE	KMail	Make the HTML status bar clickable
DONE	KMail	Add a context menu entry for mailing lists to the message viewer
DONE	KMail	When switching identities in the composer, switch the template too
DONE	KMail	Ask for the transport to use when dealing with an invitation
DONE	KMail	Make the To and CC fields expandable/collapseable in the fancy header style
DONE	KMail	Support inline images in signatures
DONE	KMail	Add a SIGNATURE command for templates
DONE	KMail	Use passive popups for error messages while checking for mail
DONE	KAlarm	Provide audio-only alarms
DONE	KAddressbook	Completely new KAddressbook based on Akonadi
DONE	Akonadi	POP3 Resource for Akonadi

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop	Add messaging
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop	Add friendship management
IN PROGRESS	ocs engine	Add possibility to use different providers, use attica from kdesupport
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop	port opendesktop plasmoid to new engine and rename accordingly
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop activities	port opendesktop activities plasmoid to new engine and rename accordingly
IN PROGRESS	microblogging	new appearance and new twitter api pieces support
DONE	plasmaboard	Added a virtual keyboard plasmoid for touchscreen users
DONE	FifteenPuzzle	Made it work with multiple rows and cols
DONE	Qalculate	A new advanced calculator plasmoid
DONE	KDE Observatory	A new plasmoid for visualizing KDE projects status (commits, commiters, bugs, krazy status, etc)
DONE	Spell Check	A new plasmoid for fast spell checking
DONE	Project Silk	generic Mediawiki KRunner
DONE	Project Silk	Webslice Plasmoid, qgraphicswidget
DONE	Solid	Network Manager Plasmoid

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate	Integrate GHNS into snippets TNG
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Refactor parts from snippets TNG plugin into a common library for use by the plugin and for use in kdevelop
DONE	Kate	Add common vim commands like :wq, :new, :bp/bn, etc.

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGpg	Add "caff" mode for keysigning
DONE	kdelirc	Integrate solid backend into kdelirc frontend
DONE	kdelirc	Communicate to lirc through solid
DONE	KGpg	Add improved key import result window (with useful summary, filtering, reasonable default size etc.)
DONE	KGpg	Make generating a key a KJob so it get's better notification support
DONE	Okteta	Add tool to view decoding of complex structures
DONE	Okteta	Rename libkakao to Kasten and make the Okteta KPart use it
DONE	Okteta	Add embedded dialog to set selection range
DONE	Okteta	Add Base64 encoder
DONE	Okteta	Added data generators, like pattern, sequence or from clipboard
DONE	Okteta	Added option to split views
DONE	Okteta	Add marking of bytearray section to widgets, so tools like strings or pod decoder can mark the source, instead of selecting it
DONE	Okteta	add editing capability to Decoding table
DONE	Okteta	Make dialogs for Goto and Select embedded
DONE	Okteta	Add UTF-8 option to bytearray lineedit

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	kdesupport	Add libattica to kdesupport
DONE	Solid	KNetworkManager