Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.7 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Dolphin	Support Fwd/Back Mouse Buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Polish the default user interface to minimize visual clutter (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html)
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Improve user interface for searching files and metadata

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio_sftp	async download support

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Allow a shortcut per keyboard layout (bug 224489)
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Session management for keyboard layouts (bug 52095, 174948)
KWin
DONE	Compositor	OpenGL 2.x/OpenGL ES 2.0 compositing backend (see http://www.kdenews.org/2011/02/18/kwin-embraces-new-platforms-opengl-es-20-support)
IN PROGRESS	Compositor	New Shadow System (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/new-kwin-shadows/)
IN PROGRESS	BoxSwitch Effect	Animated Selection (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/02/is-kwin-rocket-science/)
IN PROGRESS	libkwineffects	API cleanup
TO DO	libkwineffects	JavaScript bindings for writing Effects	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Mouse Emulation	Better accessibility support in mouse emulation
IN PROGRESS	kwin	Add multi head support

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Bookmark Manager
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Extended QML Bindings
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API
TO DO	Marble	Offline Address Search	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
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]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Integrate the Qalculate backend
TO DO	Kalzium	Use KUnitConversion for all the Unit handling	Etienne Rebetez <etienne.rebetez@oberwallisch>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add getdirection command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Allow reminders after the main alarm
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Adjustable Clock	Plasmoid for displaying date and time in very customizable way
IN PROGRESS	Comic Plasmoid	Support random comic strips
TO DO	Comic Plasmoid	Support creation of comic Comic Book Archive files	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO	Events Runner	Support parsing weekdays (e.g. "in next monday"	Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>

kdetoys

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KTeaTime	Port to KStatusNotifierItem
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	New svg based status icons
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	Support categories
TO DO	KTeaTime	Improved command line	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Tea runner	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Port to KConfigXT	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	Remote translation memories
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	QA: translation checks against user-specified regex-based rules
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	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]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Level editor
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Load levelset option + 2 new levelsets
TO DO	KBreakout	Port to QGraphicsView	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Working Mms plugin