Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the 4.2 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan
• Schedules/KDE4/4.1 Feature Plan

Legend:

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

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	System Settings	add Administrator mode button. See Bug 151669	Alessandro Diaferia <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	PolicyKit integration	Add PolicyKit support for KDE
IN PROGRESS	KPackageKit	Pushing in KPackageKit (dependant on PolicyKit integration)
DONE	Eigen	Make Eigen 2 ready for KDE, and move it to kdesupport
DONE	Eigen	Port all Eigen-using code in KDE and KOffice to Eigen 2.0
IN PROGRESS	KNotify	Create OSD based replacement for current KPassivePopup [Deferred to 4.3]
TO DO	Dikku Context Framework	Create a context framework with working activities	Harikrishna Anandhan <[email protected]>
DONE	kwrited	Use knotify in kwrited
IN PROGRESS	Akonadi	Various Akonadi related items can be found here http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Scheduled_for_4.2
DONE	Printer Admin	KDEPrint is dead, long live system-config-printer-kde (kdeadmin) and printer-applet (kdeutils)! Thanks to jriddell for these.

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	kross	Extend QtScript integration.
DONE	KLocale	Implement KLocale based methods to return correct working week start and end days and day of religious worship for the locale.
DONE	KDateTable	Correctly draw weekends and day of worship for locale using new KLocale settings.
TO DO	Phonon	add Port class for fine grained control over data flow between Phonon objects	Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	make AbstractMediaStream/Streamterface threadsafe
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	"low-level" PCM I/O with at least an ALSA implementation
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	VideoWidget snapshot function
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	API review and export KConfigBackend
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	Make KConfigSkeleton KConfigGroup aware
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	Make KConfigDialog work nicer with KConfigSkeleton + manually managed widgets
DONE	KUrlNavigator	Provide an option to always show the full path in the breadcrumb mode.
DONE	Katepart	Make a Vi input mode for Katepart
TO DO	KIO::Global	Make KDynamicJobTracker do the checking if the kuiserver service is registered or not, for full implementation of "Progress in the same window"	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KJS	Further performance improvements
DONE	KJS and KHTML	Support for transparent reindenting of standalone sources in debugger
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	SVG support in KHTML (port from WebKit)
DONE	KHTML	Use of IDString (hashed strings) for local names, prefixes and namespaces in DOM core instead of document-related ids, in particular for better API compatibility with WebCore
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	Significant CSS performance improvements
TO DO	KHTML	Scriptable extension plug-ins	Harri <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHTML	Gaussian SVG filter	Fredrik Höglund <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	Support for CSS3 border-* properties
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	Finish support of Video/Audio elements
DONE	KHTML	Early domain name resolution (prefetch)
DONE	KHTML	KHTMLFindBar - an embedded search/find-as-you-type bar
TO DO	KHTML	Faster page cache	Germain Garand <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHTML	More automation in JS/C++ bindings generation	Maksim Orlovich and Vyacheslav Tokarev <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHTML	XPath level 1	Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>
DONE	kwallet	Move kwalletd to kdebase-runtime
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Rich text builders for KTextEdit, including BBCode, html, plain text markup, mediawiki and markdown output.
DONE	i18n	proper filenames decoding for FAT mounting, in KUrls and content-disposition
DONE	Kross	expose KAssistantDialog as part of forms module
DONE	KLocale	Method to strip accelerator marker from UI strings; needs to take into account CJK-style markers too.
IN PROGRESS	KStyle	New branch style for treeviews
IN PROGRESS	CMake	Reduced library link interface
TO DO	CMake	Exporting and importing (library) targets	Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Calendar KCM	Add support for setting new KLocale settings for Working Week and Day or Religious Worship.
TO DO	Color KCM	Add 'smart setting' of extended colors	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	Color KCM	Add KDE3 scheme import	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	Color KCM	Query kwin for supported colors; add full set of kwin colors	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
DONE	Power Manager	import PowerDevil
TO DO	Font Installer KCM	Use PolicyKit for installtion of system-wide fonts.	Craig Drummond <[email protected]>
DONE	Kephal	Import kephal for better xrandr-support.
DONE	ConsoleKit support	Add ConsoleKit support to kdm.
DONE	Nepomuk KIO Slave	Nepomuk Desktop search KIO slave nepomuksearch:/
KRunner
IN PROGRESS	Krunner	Configuration options for blacklisting, user ranking, runner ranking, learning
IN PROGRESS	Krunner	SearchMatch configuration
TO DO	Krunner	Simple learning	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Simple GUI for above options	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Runners able to share parsing	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
DONE	Krunner	Noun-Verb support
TO DO	Krunner	Implement Nuno's UI polishings	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Runtime syntax documentation	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Runner configuration	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Search set paging	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	KRunner	runner for the plasma dbus interface	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
DONE	KRunner	Konqueror history runner
DONE	KRunner	Kate sessions runner
DONE	KRunner	Recent Documents runner
DONE	KRunner	Improve KDE startup speed by delaying KRunner startup
DONE	KRunner	Nepomuk desktop search runner
Plasma - Priority Features
TO DO	Plasma	Welcome plasmoid	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	JOLIE Integration
DONE	Plasma	Notification plasmoid (integrated in systemtray)
DONE	Plasma	Kuiserver plasmoid (integrated in systemtray)
TO DO	KWin	Make it possible to focus plasma panels	Chani <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	panel->desktop dragging
TO DO	Plasma	Expand cashew to full action bar when zoomed out	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasmagik packaging (and package classes)
DONE	Plasma	Improved Battery applet for Powerdevil
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Networkmanager Plasmoid and DataEngine
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	New ECMA Script Scriptengines
DONE	Plasma	Extenders
DONE	Plasma	Wallpaper plugins
DONE	Plasma	Separate Desktop Settings from DesktopContainment
TO DO	Plasma	Script Security Framework	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	Python support
DONE	Plasma	Ruby support
Plasma
DONE	Plasma	Plasma Popup Tips
DONE	Plasma	Collapsing Applet convenience class
DONE	Plasma	Taskbar grouping
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Small Form Factors
DONE	Plasma	Plasma On Screensaver
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Website update
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Grid applet
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Techbase Tutorials
TO DO	Plasma	Context menu plugins	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	Add New Widgets: Pluggable widget browser
DONE	Plasma	Activity<->Virtual Desktop Affinity
DONE	Plasma	Optional Per-Virtual Desktop DesktopView
TO DO	Plasma	Make non-SVG painting in Plasma low-color and non-anim friendly	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Runtime DataEngine documentation (sources, usage, etc)	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	Panel Autohide
DONE	Plasma	Keyboard Shortcut Config UI
DONE	Plasma	Systray++ Spec
DONE	Plasma	Save icon positioning in folderview
TO DO	Plasma	New wallpapers	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Import Raptor	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	Quicklaunch Plasmoid
TO DO	Plasma	Preserve wallpaper choice by copying user paper to home dir	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	New way of handling wallpapers and different sizes (package format, and so on...)	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Top-level windows plasmoids	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	drop indicator in panel
TO DO	Plasma	improve usability of appletbrowser delete button	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	adding containments from the appletbrowser (and remove the "add panel" from DefaultDesktop)	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	highlight the applet with active keyboard shortcuts	Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	dbus interface	Chani <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	make the panel controller a bit more usable
DONE	Plasma	nicely draw the desktop toolbox when it's moved because of a panel
DONE	Plasma	theme Plasma::PushButton with svg
DONE	Plasma	Tabbar widget derived from QTabBar and themed with svg
DONE	Plasma	Complete the panel size sliders feature: an applet can ask the panel to resize
DONE	Plasma	New theming capabilities by expanding the lower level theming classes (Theme and PanelSvg)
DONE	Plasma	Activitybar: an applet to quickly switch between activities
DONE	Plasma	A new plasmoid that implements the functionality of a simple web browser
DONE	Plasma	Visual clue when dragging applets from applet browser to the panel
TO DO	Plasma	Wallpaper plugin: Mandelbrot fractal explorer	Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	Google Gadgets support
DONE	Plasma	Add Google Gadgets from Internet through AppletBrowser
DONE	Plasma	Panel form factor support in the folderview applet
TO DO	Plasma	Support for creating applets for dropped URLs in the folderview applet when it's acting as a containment	Fredrik Höglund <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma	Add a places combo box to the location page in the folderview config dialog
KWin - Core
DONE	KWin	New window snapping zones; screen center and window corners
DONE	KWin	Move maximized windows between Xinerama screens
DONE	KWin	Support for decoration shadows
DONE	KWin	Implement _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS EWMH spec hint
KWin - Desktop Effects
DONE	KWin	Compositing enabled by default
DONE	KWin	Compositing self-check
DONE	KWin	Global animation speed setting
DONE	KWin	Motion dynamics
DONE	KWin	Improved UI for selecting window/desktop switcher
DONE	KWin	UI for assigning effects to screen edges
DONE	KWin	Cube/cylinder/sphere effect
DONE	KWin	Magic lamp minimize effect
DONE	KWin	Animation in box switch effect
DONE	KWin	Mouse interaction for cover switch Effect
DONE	KWin	Thumbnail bar in the cover switch effect
DONE	KWin	Improved snow effect; Different sizes, better randomness and different directions
DONE	KWin	Shader for snow effect
DONE	KWin	Improved desktop grid
DONE	KWin	New present window layout modes
DONE	KWin	Invert only selected windows
DONE	KWin	Unredirecting of fullscreen windows

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KCal Library	Make the KCal library dependent on the external libical package (from freeassocation) rather than our own old, forked version.

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kopete	MSNP15 implementation for MSN
DONE	Kopete	Move file transfer request into chat window
DONE	Kopete	Message delivery notifications
DONE	Kopete	Improve file transfer progress dialog
DONE	Kopete	Jabber Jingle Audio support (raw-udp)
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Network Manager Applet
DONE	KRDC	Greatly improve experience for LDAP (e.g. MS Active Directory) administrators
DONE	KRDC	Improve per-host settings (remember scaling mode and other options)

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Akregator	Basic support for enclosures (Displaying links, mimetype and size)
DONE	KAlarm	Improve alarm edit and preferences dialog layouts
DONE	KAlarm	Add holidays support
DONE	Kjots	Import notes from KnowIt as KJots pages.
DONE	KMail	Aggregated attachment view in the mail header area of the reader window
DONE	KMail	Merge the new message list from the SoC branch
DONE	KNotes	Zeroconf support for sending notes on LAN
DONE	KonsoleKalendar	Add an option to support resources that might need a GUI (i.e. all resources)
DONE	Kontact	New Planner summary; combines Appointment+To-do+SpecialDates into 1 pretty summary
DONE	KOrganizer	Drag and drop in the free-busy view
DONE	KOrganizer	Support for comments in replies to invitations
DONE	Kleopatra	Konqueror and Dolphin Kleopatra plugins

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Okteta	rework Decoding table, add int64 and UTF-8
DONE	Okteta	refactor KByteArrayView and add a row-oriented view
DONE	Okteta	work on Tabs: add remove button, accept drop of url as load command
DONE	Okteta	Add option to extend selection in Goto dialog
DONE	Okteta	parameter dialog for "Copy as..." and "Export as..."
DONE	Okteta	Status bar contains settings like cursor position or Insertmode
DONE	Okteta	add a file info tool
IN PROGRESS	Ark	Implement proper drag/drop between Ark/dolphin
DONE	Ark	Make the service menu work (possibly doing it as a KonqPopupPlugin
DONE	Ark	Proper password support
TO DO	Ark	Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files)	Harald Hvaal <haraldhv((at))stud(dot)ntnu.no>
IN PROGRESS	Ark	Implement a plugin for .gz files
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	Harald Hvaal <haraldhv((at))stud(dot)ntnu.no>

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	krosspython and krossruby	Support custom types via handlers
DONE	krosspython and krossruby	Support QList<CustomType*> constructs
DONE	Smoke	Wrap some more APIs (at least Akanodi for all languages and Plasma for C#)
DONE	PyKDE	KCM support and other plugins
DONE	krossfalcon	Move krossfalcon to kdebindings-trunk.
IN PROGRESS	krossfalcon	Unittests++

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	New highscore management system
DONE	kdiamond	Drag jewels
DONE	kdiamond	Support for untimed games
TO DO	kdiamond	Optional OpenGL rendering	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE	ksirk	Map scrolling arrows
DONE	ksirk	KHotNewStuff skins
DONE	ksirk	Jabber based net game finding (initial version)
DONE	ksirk	Use only names in skins instead of numeric ids
DONE	ksirk	Skins editor
IN PROGRESS	KBreakOut	(Optional) fire on mouse click
TO DO	KBreakOut	Sounds	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakOut	Custom levelsets	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakOut	KHotNewStuff support for themes	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KNetWalk	Support for custom and non-square board sizes	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGoldrunner	Improvement to sound support and themes	<[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add the Count game (17 levels), contributed by Steve Mann.
DONE	KBlocks	Support for sounds
TO DO	KMahjongg	Support for sounds	Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]>
DONE	Killbots	New app for 4.2
TO DO	KSudoku	Port of "print game" feature from old version	Paulo Roberto Cattai <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSudoku	Redesign of symbol themes	Paulo Roberto Cattai <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSudoku	Replace the core engine with a new version that will solve most bugs related to gameplay	Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate	Port and reenable the Snippets plugin.
DONE	perldoc KIOSlave	Add KIOSlave to allow reading Perldoc documentation.
DONE	Lokalize	wrap all windows belonging to one project into one MDI window
DONE	Umbrello	Port code generation wizard to QWizard and replace all q3 widgets
DONE	Kate	Move the kate-ctags plugin to kdesdk.
DONE	Kate	Replace the make-plugin with katebuild-plugin.

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KAlgebra	New parser (using QLALR) and new lexer
DONE	KAlgebra	Import capability for MathML Presentation Markup in libanalitza
DONE	Kalzium	Visualization of Schemes and Gradients at same time
DONE	KBruch	Usability Improvements
DONE	KBruch	Merging KPercentage functionalities into KBruch
DONE	KHangMan	Add a Open File action
DONE	Marble	Python bindings to the Marble widget and classes
DONE	KStars	Display millions of stars
DONE	KStars	Tool to predict Conjunctions
DONE	KStars	Support of Non-western Constellations
DONE	KStars	Include HD Catalog Numbers (in search, in display)
DONE	KStars	Separate INDI From KStars
DONE	KStars	Sky Calendar Tool
DONE	KStars	Earth Satellites
DONE	KTurtle	Add command line
DONE	KTurtle	Add a color picker
DONE	KTurtle	Export canvas as image
DONE	Parley	Rework main window infrastructure

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KsCD	Dbus Connection for Now Playing plasmoid
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	Make Dragon indipendent from Xine
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	File Manager
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	play media dialog
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	slider changes
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	show info while playing audio files

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KbStatusApplet	Port the KDE3 applet to a Plasma applet and get it fully working again
TO DO	KMagnifier	Refactor color menu, re-add invert, break current color blindness code into "daltonize" and "simulate"	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMagnifier	Add color-shift modes to help people with color blindness	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Screensavers	Add the "KDE Asciiquarium" screensaver. Ported to KDE by Michael Pyne and Maksim Orlovich, original screensaver by Kirk Baucom

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KSnapshot	Add support for grabbing a single screen in multihead
DONE	KSnapshot	Increase jpeg image quality from 75% to 85%
DONE	KSnapshot	If we're saving the window decorations then record the window title and class in the image (if the format supports it) to play nice with indexers like strigi
TO DO	Okular	Improve annotation support: for existing types (rubber stamps, line, note, etc), and for the way they are constructed and handled.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Support for videos & movie annotations.
DONE	Gwenview	Support for animated images (.gif and .mng)
DONE	Gwenview	Red Eye Reduction
DONE	Gwenview	Nepomuk integration
DONE	Gwenview	Dolphin-like single-click selection
TO DO	Gwenview	Optional tree view	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Usable inverse search.
IN PROGRESS	Okular	"Okular document package" for import/export a document with metadata (eg annotations).
DONE	Okular	New backend for fax documents.
TO DO	Okular	Usability improvements.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	kio_bookmarks	A new konqueror home page displaying user bookmarks. See [description]
IN PROGRESS	kuiserver	KUiServer Goya port. General improvements for usability improvements
DONE	kio fish/sftp	port fish and sftp to windows

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	konqueror	A new konqueror recover-dialog replacement	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
TO DO	konqueror	Rework bookmarks using Akonadi	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
DONE	dolphin	Add zoom slider into the status bar and general zooming improvments
DONE	dolphin	Tooltip previews
TO DO	dolphin	ui to select preferred default settings for directory view	Loic Marteau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	konqueror	Tagging and rating of webpages using Nepomuk - Already finished in playground.

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	PoTD engine	Import from playground	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
DONE	Frame plasmoid	Honor EXIF rotation - see bug 164605
TO DO	Frame plasmoid	Previous, Pause and Next buttons - see bug 164704	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
DONE	Comic dataengine	Port all comics to QScript and offer them through GHNS
DONE	Comic dataengine	Finish script support
DONE	Eyes applet	xeyes clone applet