Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the 4.3 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan
• Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Release Goals

Legend:

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

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Akonadi	Various Akonadi related items can be found here http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Scheduled_for_4.3	Akonadi Developers <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KLocale	Investigate adding Currency Code and currency minor units support based on ISO 4217 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add new astronomical calculation support classes to be used in kdelibs to build new astronomically based calendar systems, and in kdepim to build new version of libkholiday.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, etc.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	If no file printing support in Qt4.5, migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter. To be discussed on k-c-d first.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	Add framework for standard actions for 'Send to...' for e-mail, fax, etc by printing to PDF/PS.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	new bookmark system	Port KBookmarks to akonadi/nepomuk. Will need help on this. Details	Xavier Vello <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO	Kxkb	Support for languages in keyboard layout descriptions	Andriy Rysin <rysin:AT:kde.org>
KRunner
Plasma - Priority Features
Plasma
TO DO	Now Playing data engine	Support for MPD	Alex Merry <kde:AT:randomguy3.me.uk>
KWin - Core
TO DO	KWin	Redesign KWin system settings GUI	Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin	ARGB support for decorations	Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin	Improved active screen edges	Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window docking/quick tiling
KWin - Desktop Effects
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Improved mouse mark/scribble effect
TO DO	KWin	Expand present windows into other effects (E.g. Desktop Grid)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Fade desktop effect (Desktop switcher)

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	UPnp Support
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3)
TO DO	Kopete	Update Kopete to better support Decibel	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle video support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle ICE support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid
IN PROGRESS	KGet	MultiSource-Downloading
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms
TO DO	KGet	MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGet	Advanced Details	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KRDC	NX support
TO DO	KRDC	Minimal-clutter mode to optimize screen real estate usage	Guillaume Pothier <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	make editing capability to Decoding table	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for import by drop, both url and data	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for memory mapping of files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add further export formats like s-record and intel 16	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for jobs like io, printing, string search or filter	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	krossjava	Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up.	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO	krossjava	Documentation++	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO	krossfalcon	Documentation++	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Kolf	Replace with Kolf 2 (please help!)	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSpaceDuel	rewrite AI code	Dirk Rathlev <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	rewrite AI code or at least correct most problems related in bug #170777. Volunteers wanted!	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...)	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	Boost playing over Jabber	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	ktron	Port and remake the KTron game for KDE 4.3

kdeadmin

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KGrubEditor	Integrate KGrubEditor into KDE Admin http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgrubeditor. Approved by Nicolas Ternisien <[email protected]>	Konstantinos Smanis <artemis_dot_fowl_dot_2007@gmail_dot_com>
TO DO	Guidance	Port Guidance to KDE 4, and move it to KDE Admin http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/.	Nicolas Ternisien <[email protected]>
TO DO	system-config-printer-kde	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	john Layt <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	XLIFF support
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	various Translation Memory enhancements
TO DO	Lokalize	Kross-based scripting	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	QA: glossary checklists
TO DO	KAppTemplate	Add DBUS support in templates	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	Merge in SoC qgraphicsview port branch

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KAlgebra	Add ability to draw 3D plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.	Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView.	Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Remove the libavogadro snapshot, depend on libavogadro directly.	Benoit Jacob <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Plasmoid to access Kalzium database	Carsten Niehaus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KEduca	Rewrite of the classic test writing/taking application
TO DO	KHangMan	Integrate an editor	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Plasmoid	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Properties dialog for objects.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve construction of bisect lines.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve feedback when constructing objects.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	More geometric objects.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Script objects as macros (to be reused more than once).	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve the Cabri import filter.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve the new/edit script wizard.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Visual Indicator when letter is wrong	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Number support	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Marble widget for Geolocation tool	Médéric Boquien <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Better printed star charts	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Sync KStars time from device	Jasem Mutlaq <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Better rendering of comets/asteroids	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Texture mapping of the skymap???	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Improve Observing List Wizard	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Display Comet Magnitudes whenever possible	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Information links in-place for each technical term	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Tool to suggest star-hopping techniques???	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Extend conjunction tool to have one object unspecified, but have a genre of objects specified instead	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Simulate Lunar Eclipses	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Simulate Satellites and Iridium Flares	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Social and Geographical Integration for KStars	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Generator for Mobipocket format
IN PROGRESS	strigi	Thumbnailer and analyzer for Mobipocket format
IN PROGRESS	strigi	Thumbnailer and analyzer for epub format
TO DO	Okular	Sound annotations.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Link annotations.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Caret annotations.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Support .snp and .emf file formats	Brad Hards <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Synctex support.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Rich-text for annotations text.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	kio_bookmarks	Refactoring using the new bookmarks system and qt/plasma for displaying	Xavier Vello <[email protected]>

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	konq_thumbnails	Basic thumbnail support for KHTMLPart views(almost finished, now cleanup code)
TO DO	konq_thumbnails	thumbnail support for all KonqFrame	Siyuan Cao <[email protected]>
TO DO	konq_thumbnails	more thumbnail page styles and customization	Siyuan Cao <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact