Revision as of 22:14, 28 October 2009

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

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeadmin

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	system-config-printer-kde	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Konqueror	Improvements in session-management	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
TO DO	Konqueror	Improvements in tab-bar widget	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Konqueror	New Konqueror bookmarks using Akonadi and Nepomuk, awesome bar
IN PROGRESS	Konqueror	Sidebar cleanups; re-introducing the history module
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Version control intergration
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Improved search bar including search configuration
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Refactoring of Information Panel. KMetaDataWidget and KMetaDataConfigurationDialog should be moved to kdelibs.

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KWallet	Single Sign On using PAM	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO	smb kioslave	add kwallet support	Carlo Segato <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	thumbnail kioslave	Support for comic-book cover previews (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt files)

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO	Icons KCM	More configurable icon sizes	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	Fonts KCM	More configurable fonts	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	System Activity	Show CPU usage etc	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Date/Time KCM	Plasma themed clock
IN PROGRESS	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
IN PROGRESS	System Setitngs	Reorganize modules
KRunner
DONE	KRunner	Window management runner
TO DO	KRunner	Single runner mode	Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected]>
Plasma - Priority Features
IN PROGRESS	netbook shell	a plasma shell and various containments/applets tailored for netbooks (tech preview status in 4.4)
Plasma
TO DO	libplasma	better text box look with new svg elements	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO	libplasma	Allow display of multiple Holiday Regions in same Calendar widget	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	knowledge base plasmoid	new plasmoid: Opendesktop.org knowledgebase client
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	Allow user to choose Calendar System to be displayed in Calendar widgets
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop plasmoid	show friends activity
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
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Addon	Wikipedia KRunner
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Addon	Webslice Plasmoid, qgraphicswidget
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Addon	Battery popup layout improvements
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Mouse Plugins UI	Yet Another UI Redesign
TO DO	libplasma	Plasmoid Cloning - because having to set things up from scratch repeatedly gets old fast	Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO	taskbar	"other desktops" group - I may not have time for this, feel free to take it	Chani <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Weather Ion	New Weather Ion for the wetter.com data source provider
KWin - Core
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window tabbing
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window tiling
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
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
KDM

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	pykde4	Python 3 support for PyKDE4	Simon Edwards <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	qyoto	Create a new generator for the C# assemblies
TO DO	qyoto	Replace the current C# cmake macros with more sophisticated ones that also work on windows.	Arno Rehn <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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]>
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	Better rendering of comets/asteroids	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Texture mapping of the skymap???	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Import to kdeedu - currently in kdereview
IN PROGRESS	KAlgebra	Support for lists
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Add "download region" feature
IN PROGRESS	Parley	Rewritten practice
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	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

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KBreakOut	Level Sets	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakOut	Sound	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Intelligent animation pre-caching	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Refactor Board and Diamond classes	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kolf	Replace with Kolf 2 (help on coding, artwork and level design desired) >>delayed to KDE 4.5<<	Stefan Majewsky <[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	Boost playing over Jabber	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSquares	Re-write computer player, make it act faster and more intelligent	Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSquares	Add more types of boards: hexagonal, triangular	Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gluon	release first gluon lib with one game. [1]
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	New Bomberman like game for KDE 4
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	Implement all Bonuses from the default theme
DONE	Granatier	Add support for a background
TO DO	Granatier	Sidebar with informations regarding the players, like bonuses, handicaps ...	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
TO DO	Granatier	Arena Editor	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAtomic	Level Sets
IN PROGRESS	KsirK	Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...)
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	New puzzle game for KDE 4
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	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	KsirK	Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	New Go game for KDE 4
DONE	Kigo	Fix smaller issues with KNS2
DONE	Kigo	Beautify the default theme
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Allow arbitrary jumps in the undo/redo history
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Improve final score visuals

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	libkexiv2	Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray. Bug 183171	Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
TO DO	libkdcraw	Make color management options more flexible	Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
DONE	libksane	Add basic twain support on Windows
DONE	libksane	External API for specifying preview resolution
IN PROGRESS	libksane	External API for handling selections
TO DO	libksane	Improve auto-selection	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	gwenview	Rework start page
IN PROGRESS	gwenview	Implement picture importer
IN PROGRESS	gwenview	New save-as behavior (go to saved as document)
TO DO	gwenview	Show Nepomuk info in image meta info	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO	gwenview	Persistent changes	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO	gwenview	Folder thumbnails	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	katepart	Add interface to access highlighting information, port html-export plugin	Milian Wolff <[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	kdecore	Group policy (Windows) backend for KAuth	Dario Freddi <[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	kdeui	Implement caps-lock warning for password entry widgets	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
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	Khtml	Improvements in kwallet integration	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kfile	Move KMetaDataWidget and KMetaDataConfigurationDialog from Dolphin to kfile
DONE	katepart	Add mapping support for the vi input mode's normal mode
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Improve TemplateInterface, i.e. snippet support
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Move event-filter installation out of KApplication and into a new class
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Polkit-1 backend for KAuth
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	webkit	Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!)
IN PROGRESS	buildsystem	Modular build of KDE modules
DONE	katepart	Enable command line scripting again
DONE	katepart	Support byte-order mark in unicode files
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Improve katepart Vim mode.

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KMix	Nicer OSD (icon, mute state)	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMix	Amend Keyboard Shortcuts	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Allow arbitrary ordering of controls
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Add WhatsThis help on controls (Bug 70042)

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Kopete	UPnp Support	Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle video support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle ICE support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Add support for urls to Bonjour plugin	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Rich text support for ICQ	Roman Jarosz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support for verifying signed files
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid
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	Krdc	Telepathy Tubes support
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	Full Screen Switching

kdepim

Status	Project	Description
IN PROGRESS	Akregator	Port to use KNotificationItem
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Implement Akonadi support
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Provide audio-only alarms

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact

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]>
DONE	Kate	Add common vim commands like :wq, :new, :bp/bn, etc.

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	Harald Hvaal <[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	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Make keyserver actions possible to use on multiple keyservers at once	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Add "caff" mode for keysigning	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Allow searching for trust path in keyring	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Add improved key import result window (with useful summary, filtering, reasonable default size etc.)	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Make generating a key a KJob so it get's better notification support	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add 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]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Okular like embedded notifications	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	Okteta	Add global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add QIODevice for AbstractByteArrayModel and make mimetype detection use this instead of only filename	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Make dialogs for Goto, Search & Replace embedded
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add tool to view decoding of complex structures
DONE	kdelirc	Communicate to lirc through solid
IN PROGRESS	kdelirc	Integrate solid backend into kdelirc frontend
TO DO	kdelirc	Cycle mode function	Frank Scheffold <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdelirc	Add a try button in configurations	Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
DONE	Okteta	Rename libkakao to Kasten and make the Okteta KPart use it
DONE	Okteta	Add embedded dialog to set selection range

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact