Revision as of 14:43, 7 December 2010

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.6 release.

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Konsole	Move to KTabWidget
DONE	Dolphin	Faceted browsing via Nepomuk
DONE	Dolphin	Searching support for non-indexed files
DONE	Dolphin	Git-plugin (implemented by Sebastian Dörner and Johannes Steffen)
DONE	Dolphin	Resizeable columns in the column-view
DONE	Dolphin	Allow leading zeros when renaming multiple files (implemented by Matthias Fuchs)
IN PROGRESS	nspluginviewer	Full npruntime support
TO DO	Dolphin	Smooth scrolling	Fredrikh Höglund <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Plasma	Plasma KPart	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Declarative AppletScript to write QML plasmoids
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Optimize the Newspaper containment for the use with touchscreens and the Plasma KPart
DONE	KWin	Focus tracking for the zoom plugin (uses kaccessible)
DONE	KWin	Extend mouse tracking modes for the zoom plugin
DONE	Nepomuk Backup & Sync	Provide Backup and Sync capabilities to Nepomuk
TO DO	Web Metadata extractor	Provide a framework to get additional data about resources	Vishesh Handa <[email protected]>
DONE	Activities manager service	Merge the kded and nepomuk modules for activities into one service
IN PROGRESS	Activities manager service	Register desktop events instead directly linking the activities to resources
IN PROGRESS	KNotify	Add support for relative present actions in contexts
DONE	KNotify	Add Plugin Loading Support (No UI Support For Now)
IN PROGRESS	Locale KCM	Complete re-write to improve usability, support for new localization features
IN PROGRESS	Phonon KCM	Add video input device configuration support
IN PROGRESS	ksecretserviced	Make it replace KWallet

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Plasma
DONE	libtaskmanager / tasks-applet	support for Windows 7 like launchers
IN PROGRESS	notifications	rework notification applet appearance
IN PROGRESS	notifications	make various dataengines use Plasma::Storage
DONE	plasma-desktop	UI for editing activity name and icon
TO DO	plasma-desktop	add some default activities	Mario Fux <[email protected]>
DONE	plasma	finish support for activity templates
IN PROGRESS	plasma-devicenotifier	Improve notification support
TO DO	plasma-devicenotifier	Signal to the user which apps are blocking a device	Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected] >
DONE	quicklaunch	populate new applets with user's default browser, file manager, ... instead of hardcoded ones
DONE	quicklaunch	allow editing of existing launchers (including ones that do not point to a .desktop file)
DONE	libplasma	Plasma calendar supports multiple Holiday Regions.
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	Make Calendar DataEngine a Service.
DONE	plasma-desktop	integrate activity-sessions
IN PROGRESS	plasma-desktop	activity dataengine
KWin
IN PROGRESS	windowgeometry effect	compositor powered move/resize windowgeometry display
DONE	dashboard effect	new effect for Plasma dashboard
DONE	kwin/ksmserver	activity sessions
DONE	libtaskmanager/kwin?	some activity integration in taskbar/pager
TO DO	libtaskmanager/kwin]	Expose Window Tabs to taskmanager	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	ARB Shader support	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Aurorae	Tooltips on window tabs
DONE	Present Windows	Close window GUI control
DONE	Startup Feedback	Effect to replace the Startup Feedback notification
DONE	Screenshot Effect	KSanpshot can use KWin for screenshots
TO DO	KCM Compositing	Allow compositing even if GL is buggy/X crashes	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin Killer	Use notification instead of dialog	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Compositing	Improved platform detection
KDE Power Management system
DONE	core	PowerDevil v2 core
DONE	actions	Basic actions for feature parity with PowerDevil v1
IN PROGRESS	actions	More actions for advanced users
DONE	policy-handler	Create a new policy handler for handling inhibition properly, and have kdelibs' Solid API use it
System Settings
DONE	keyboard	Support for "spare layouts"
DONE	keyboard	Support for > 4 layouts
IN PROGRESS	driconf	New module for configuring DRI drivers
Blue Devil
IN PROGRESS	Review	Get into kdebase
IN PROGRESS	kio_obexftp	Better error handling
TO DO	usability	Review all the components improving hig/elegance	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	share folders	Be able to share folders via obexftp	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	Devices KCM	Add further information about devices, like address...	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
TO DO	Devices KCM	Allow to connect to devices services	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libbluedevil	Review DBus handling
TO DO	libbluedevil	Add support for services	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Monolithic	Fix listing problems under certain conditions

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	libnepomuk	Convenience operator overloads for query construction
DONE	libnepomuk	New query flags and improved handling of full text matching scores including sorting
TO DO	kdeui	Generic find bar widget	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	kdeui	Allow getting and setting the size of the pixmap cache in KImageCache
DONE	katepart	scripted actions
DONE	katepart	QAccessibleInterface's for document+cursor
DONE	libplasma	PluginLoader class
DONE	libplasma	Allow SVGs to use systemcolors before rendering
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	DeclarativeWidget to load QML scenes in Plasma
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	finish up the gsoc project about Plasma::Storage service
DONE	libplasma	let Plasma::SVG find the best matching size hinted element if there is no exact match
DONE	libnepomuk/KIO	Search excerpts
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk	Standardqueries for convenience
DONE	libnepomuk	GUI elements for resource/file searching including faceted browsing
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuksync	Sync library to be used in BackupSync, Strigi, Akonadi, WebExtractor and Removable Media
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Add more possible synchronization primitives to KSharedDataCache to expand OS support. POSIX Semaphores Contributed by Alberto Villa of the FreeBSD project. Windows support may still occur as well.
TO DO	kdecore	Add fallback to QCache<QString,QByteArray> in KSharedDataCache.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
DONE	kdecore	Add cache-wide timestamp to KSharedDataCache.
TO DO	kdecore	Add ability to make KSharedDataCache strictly read-only for laptop support.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Social About Dialog
DONE	kdeui	Allow to hide icons in menus
DONE	KLocale	Auto-detect new users Country from their system country.
DONE	KLocale	New configuration option for AM/PM symbols, .
DONE	KLocale	Seperate backends available for each supported platform/desktop, use of platform localization in place of KDE locale planned for 4.7.
DONE	KLocalizedDate	New convenience class to make date localization easy.
DONE	KCalendarSystem	Add api for first/last day of year/month.
DONE	KCalendarSystem	Add configuration option for Short Year Window.
DONE	KCalendarSystem	Separated date / time parsing code into new private KDateTimeParser and KDateTimeFormatter classes to share with KLocale and KDateTime.
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	HTML5 postMessage.
TO DO	kcookiejar	New domain specific cookie policy based on patch provided in bug#54300	Dawit A. <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kcookiejar	Implement storing cookies in KWallet
IN PROGRESS	ksecretservice	Make KWallet::Wallet use the secrets-service API
IN PROGRESS	anywhere	Allow to build without deprecated symbols
IN PROGRESS	KIO	Use `net usershare` in KSambaShare

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Loading of routes in .kml format (Maemo)
DONE	Marble	Route printing (map and directions, configurabe)
DONE	Marble	Route state saving and restoring
DONE	Marble	Convert MarbleRunners to plugins
DONE	Marble	worldwide and offline routing
DONE	Marble	Extend MarbleRunner interface to handle reverse geocoding and routing requests; Display of alternative routes
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API
DONE	Marble	"Go To" dialog for Maemo
DONE	Marble	Tile download along the route for offline usage
DONE	Marble	Turn-by-turn navigation mode
DONE	Marble	QtDeclarative plugin and QML examples (experimental)
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Improve GeoData API
DONE	Marble	Convert Gps tracking to GeoDataDocument
DONE	Marble	Provide a treeModel for GeoDataDocuments
DONE	Marble	Draw the geometries of multiple GeoDataDocuments
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Load Pnt vector data files as GeoData
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data
DONE	Cantor	Backend for GNU Octave
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Merge R improvement branch
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Variable management panel
TO DO	Cantor	Formulas inside Text Entries	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
DONE	Kalzium	Port Kalzium to use QGV based periodic table widget
DONE	KAlgebra	Implicit functions plot
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved execution speed on the calculator
DONE	KAlgebra	Better integration between the Console and the Plotting facilities
DONE	KAlgebra	Lighter version aimed to mobile users
IN PROGRESS	KStars	OpenGL rendering support for KStars
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Better designed object database
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Star Hop Generator
DONE	Kig	LaTeX/TikZ exporter

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	JuK	Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Add MPRIS support to JuK so that the NowPlaying applet doesn't need to special-case JuK.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Update JuK's MusicBrainz support to a modern version of MusicBrainz.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kmix	Improved volume OSD

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	libkdegames	Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Fix KNewStuff provider issues
DONE	Palapeli	Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.
DONE	Palapeli	Bevel effect creates three-dimensional appearance for puzzle pieces.
DONE	Palapeli	Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog.
DONE	Kajongg	Docbook: Describe the basic game, until now I supposed the player already knows how to play Mah Jong.
DONE	Kajongg	Tiles can be discarded with drag&drop.
DONE	Kajongg	Make robot player AI more intelligent.
DONE	Kajongg	Make tiles in the hand larger and the wall tiles smaller for better playability on small screens.
DONE	Kajongg	Make games suspendable/resumable.
DONE	Kajongg	Animate moving tiles.
DONE	Kajongg	Demo mode.
DONE	Kajongg	Introduce an option to only offer possible actions.
TO DO	Kajongg	Add more rulesets like other Classical Chinese variants and the international tournament rules.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Save and restore the current control-mode, keyboard-control option and game-speed settings.
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add a keyboard-mode option to start moving when a direction-key is pressed and stop when it is released. Support multiple keys being pressed.
DONE	Klickety	An adaptation of the "clickomania" game.Rewrite the kde3 version.
DONE	Klickety	Merge KSame into Klickety.
DONE	Kolf	Port to KGameRenderer, cleanup all QGraphicsView- and physics-related code (and physics engine), incorporate ideas from Kolf-NG.
DONE	Granatier	Port to KGameRenderer.
DONE	Granatier	Use TagaroAudio for sound.
DONE	Knights	New game: Chess board for KDE4

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	gwenview	Simplify photo sharing
DONE	gwenview	Improve resize dialog

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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	Remote translation memories	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]>
TO DO	Nepomukshell	New Nepomukshell development tool allowing to browse and debug Nepomuk data	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Git plugin
DONE	Kate	GDB plugin

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Ark	Add a "Preview with..." context menu item	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Get rid of the Observer code in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make error reporting work as expected in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make Kerfuffle really thread-safe (and use threads in less places)	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Simplify Kerfuffle's API (jobs, interfaces etc) and try to make it stable	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files)	Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add a general KPart adapter to Kasten, than finish port of Okteta KPart to Okteta Kasten	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Kate-like combined dialogs to query for actions on files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Okular like embedded notifications	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	add support for memory mapping of files and 64-bit addressing	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]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add view profiles, incl. editor/manager	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	Improve the titels of the changes to the bytearray to be more descriptive, best using ids to avoid text string	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Merge row and column widgets into one	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.
TO DO	Okteta	Add view profiles	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Better workflow to edit encrypted files	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description
IN PROGRESS	Kontact	Plasma-based Summary Page
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Add support for holiday types and day-off types.
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Holiday Region selection widget.
DONE	KHolidays	Holiday duration api.
DONE	KHolidays	Default Holiday Region api.
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi
DONE	KAlarm	Option to not notify execution errors for pre-alarm actions
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Allow reminders after the main alarm
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description
DONE	KAccessible	Added a dbus-service and a QAccessibleBridgePlugin for focus tracking (used in KMagnifier and the KWin zoom plugin).
DONE	KMagnifier	Follow Focus Mode for Focus Tracking (uses kaccessible).
DONE	KAccessible	Added Screenreader (uses speech-dispatcher)

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KDE Asciiquarium	Added a new ASCII sprite (a submarine). Contributed by Ryan Meldrum.

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Shelf	Automatic sizing of the popup
DONE	Shelf	Setting a custom popup icon
TO DO	Shelf	Cascading popup menus for folders	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
DONE	Shelf	Keyboard navigation
DONE	Shelf	Search completion
IN PROGRESS	libLancelot-datamodels	Akonadi integration
TO DO	libLancelot-datamodels	Folder contents sorting	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Lancelot	Theme improvements, animations
DONE	Events Runner	Event search
DONE	Comic plasmoid	Per comic max cache limit
DONE	Comic plasmoid	Change behaviour when comic can't be found
DONE	GroupingDesktop	Added two desktop containments and a panel containment with applet grouping support

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	krfb	Refactor Core to make it more maintainable/extensible
DONE	krfb	Telepathy Tubes support
DONE	krfb	UI Improvements to support new features/deal with some existing bug reports
TO DO	kget	Log for transfers	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>

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