Plasma/Workspace Sprint/Kanban

Todo

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Refining

• Make distros ship defaults
  • Distros to look up to: Kubuntu, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, Chakra, Mageia, Fedora
  • Collect defaults, ask why?
  • Proceed to merge to upstream if it's a sensible change. ignore the changes (if it's just branding/wallpapering), or negotiate middle grounds.
• Review default activities
  • Make sure they are useful, gain expertise in them
  • Improve naming
• Location API
  • Goals
    • Change timezone when changing country/borders
    • Weather applet shows relevant location
  • Tasklist
    • We currently have a location dataengine. It supports gps and hostip, it doesn't work any time I've tested it (d_ed in England and Barcelona)
    • Investigate Geoclue (Marble did at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/GeoClue)
    • In geoclue only one engine that worked was "Ubuntu GeoClue". (hostip also fails here)
    • Need to have more backends in the dataengine so that it can be considered reliable /or/ reconsider using Geoclue.

• NM redesign
  • Implement new applet following future guidelines (QML port in progress)
  • Redesign current KCM to improve usability
  • Previous work
• Web accounts
• Activities support in apps
  • Konversation, ¿Quassel?. Activity per chat room, global chat rooms?
  • KDevelop. Match Session and activity
  • PIM. Depends on the application, need feedback from PIM developers.
  • Gwenview. Improve welcome page to match the activity
  • Gwenview. Streamline image importer
    • When an SDCard is plugged, recursively show all images. If a harddisk is plugged, let the user browse the folder hierarchy
  • Konqueror, rekonq. Browsing+Activities FTW
  • Firefox, Chrome. Figure out if we can get something done there, maybe extensions?
  • KDE Telepathy
    • Blocking on a usability discussion documented on the KTp mailing lists about Global Presence. Emailing Usability Expert.
  • Yakuake. Different tab sets per activity?
• Consolidate screen edge actions
• Taskbar entries should be merged with KSNI
  • Find a way of making application developers stop using the systray as a taskbar.
  • We must find a way of merge KSNI and taskbar entries.
  • It seems that Canonical developed something called BAMF that apparently does the job. Research BAMF.

• Startup performance
  • Plasma start-up profiling
  • Nepomuk start-up profiling
  • Nepomuk on-demand activation
  • KDED start-up profiling
  • Figure out if some tooling is needed?
  • Test Active start script on Desktop
• Screen Management
  • Mechanisms to start working fast after connecting a monitor
  • Properly react to screen unplugging
  • Make sure it's properly integrated with activities
• Sync Framework
  • Implement a Sync Framework, capable of having multiple backends
  • Implement Owncloud support for sync framework
  • Sync metadata (nepomuk)
• iPhone support
  • Sync music
  • Sync Calendar
  • Sync Contacts
• Bookmark switching
• Chrome and Firefox nepomuk integration
  • Arranging app's
• Streamline ui's look&feel of popup applets/panel
  • Document inconsistencies we have right now (Bluetooth, Network, Klipper...)
  • Create guidelines of how applets should look (Bluetooth, Network, Klipper...)
• Visual feedback on window edges
  • Make present windows discoverable
  • Visual feedback on hot corners
  • See: KWin/Screen_Edges
  • Improve visual feedback for hidden panels
• IM needs improvement
  • The Plasma experience of IM is not perfect. The Telepathy team is on it.
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• SLC for the desktop
  • Figure out how we want to use the Share, Like and Connect facilities in a windowed environment
    • Discuss it in plasma-devel
  • Make Kamoso use SLC
  • Make Gwenview use SLC
  • Pastebin-like share applet
  • Consolidate share implementations (pastebin, kipi, etc.)
• Redesign notifications
  • Activity-based Notifications
• Improve localization support, multi-language environments
  • Make installing language support easy
  • Make sure input in different languages/alphabets is possible
  • Spell-checking of mixed languages in the same document, consider actually using two dictionaries at a time (vishesh commented that it's common to use hindi and english in the same text)
• File support for Clara and Raj
  • Redesign openWith dialog
    • Ways to install application for a mime type
  • Design a way of installing applications that support X mimetype (for example, offer to install Calligra when the user tries to open a .odt)
• Sound integration
  • Plasmify KMix
  • Write new PA integration that make full use of it
• Find better concept for "Plasma Active Welcome Screen"
• Improve / new system sounds (Dario)
  • Move to freedesktop standard ?
• Redesign Activity swithcer
• Fix activity switching and stacking (d_ed)
• Streamline Images importer (Aurélien Cake)
• Paper-cuts for applications (get started), app UI bugs
  • Better UI reviews
  • KDE Quality team (d_ed made a wonderful speech there)
• Fix mapping windows <---> Activity in kwin (Martin G)
• Reliable Nepomuk Everywhere
  • Nepomuk + KDE Telepathy
  • Nepomuk + Akonadi
  • Nepomuk + Zeitgeist
• QtQuick Components
  • We need styled components
  • Fix Plasma Components
    • Proper scrolls
    • Shortcuts, Accelerators
  • Actual differences between Active and a
  • Qt5 Components
• Software discoverability
  • We need a "libre" solution to create content galleries/stores
  • We probably want to figure out if we want a KDE-wide solution
• Raise PowerTop awareness (d_ed)
• Social Feed (mck182)
  • Make a social feed available for apps to consume (based on Akonadi)
  • Ship a plasmoid (for dashboard?), possibly making it work in self-contained window (like microblog)
  • Add it to some desktop apps?
  • Implement notifications from the social feed to the workspace
• Frozen app warning in KWin
• Default memory consumption
  • Research how much memory default installation uses and see what we can optimize

Ready

• "Open-with" dialog redesign
  • Only list apps supporting the file mime-type
  • Reduce list as user types
  • Produce good-looking .desktop files when the "Always use" checkbox is checked

In Progress

• Explain how activities and virtual desktops relate
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Done

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