Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan

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

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Konsole	Move to KTabWidget
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Faceted browsing via Nepomuk

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
IN PROGRESS	Nepomuk Backup & Sync	Provide Backup and Sync capabilities to Nepomuk

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	libtaskmanager	support for Windows 7 like launchers
IN PROGRESS	notifications	rework notification applet appearance
IN PROGRESS	notifications	make various dataengines use Plasma::Storage
KWin
IN PROGRESS	dashboard effect	new effect for Plasma dashboard

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
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk/KIO	Search excerpts
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk	Standardqueries for convenience
IN PROGRESS	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]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add cache-wide timestamp to KSharedDataCache.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add ability to make KSharedDataCache strictly read-only for laptop support.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Marble	GPX import of routes	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
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
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]>
DONE	Marble	Tile download along the route for offline usage
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Turn-by-turn navigation mode
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
TO DO	Cantor	Merge R improvement branch	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
TO DO	Cantor	Variable management panel	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
IN PROGRESS	KStars	OpenGL rendering support for KStars
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Better designed object database
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Star Hop Generator

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]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Fix KNewStuff provider issues
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.
TO DO	Palapeli	Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
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.
IN PROGRESS	Kajongg	Animate moving tiles.
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.
IN PROGRESS	Klickety	Merge KSame into Klickety.

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]>

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]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kontact	Plasma-based Summary Page

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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.