Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.8 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Take over screensaver/locking management from KRunner
IN PROGRESS	KCM	make mouse cursor size configurable (http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101701/)
DONE	powerdevil	Remove Desktop Effects Management
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Allow static profiles only
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Allow activity interaction
TO DO	Plasma	Add MPRIS2 support to nowplaying	Alex Merry <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Allow task grouping on the taskbar to work together with kwin window tabbing
IN PROGRESS	KWin	QML based Window switcher (Tabbox)
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Texture Rectangle ARB support in Shaders
IN PROGRESS	KWin	No Compositor restart on screen change
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Initial Wayland support
TO DO	KWin	Support for thumbnails in QML	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Screenlocker	New Screenlocker and daemon

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	ksecretsserviced	KSecretsService daemon implementing the freedesktop.org secrets API. KDE applications will want to use the related kdelibs API (see below)
IN PROGRESS	DrKonqi	Better duplicate detection
IN PROGRESS	KIO Thumbnails	webthumbnails plugin
IN PROGRESS	DrKonqi	Scripting support

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate Part	Line modification system
DONE	Kate Part	Modeline Editor
DONE	Kate Part	Reliable code folding
DONE	Kate Part	Improved vi input mode
IN PROGRESS	KIO	PreviewJob supports URLs
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	KSecretsService API addition
IN PROGRESS	kdeui/util	Connect KWallet class to KSecretsService client API

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Implement new view-engine for Dolphin 2.0 (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html)
TO DO	Dolphin	Implement support for back/forward mouse buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate	Search & Replace in files plugin
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Make GDB target selection behave like the build plugin
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Add convenience options for remote debugging

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KTouch	New organisation of keyboard and lecture files according to languages
IN PROGRESS	KTouch	New organisation of menu system: Training, Statistic, Settings
TO DO	KTouch	End of lecture statistics	Rüthemann Peter <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Alignment Actions to minimize crossing graph edges
TO DO	Rocs	Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Stepped Execution of Algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Resurrect import-/export-features
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	User Interface Cleanup
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Add Qalculate backend
DONE	Marble	Marble Runner plugins for Parsing files
DONE	Marble	(GSoC) OSM file rendering
DONE	Marble	Marble Graphics Scene (Performance of Vector Drawing)
DONE	Marble	Gps Info Plugin
DONE	Marble	Improve LatLonEdit to allow input as Radian and DM
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Adjustable Map Orientation (Rotation in Screen Plane)
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Speedometer Plugin
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Plasma Runner for geo coords and Marble bookmarks
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Make bookmark editor support editing the lonlat coordinates
TO DO	Marble	Fix GeoDataCoordinates parsing from a QString	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	attachment:/ kio-slave	Implement kio-slave to access (email) attachments in Akonadi	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi
TO DO	sieve: implement wizard	Implement wizard to help user to create sieve script	Montel Laurent <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	HTML Replies	Give messagecomposer (especially for KMail) the ability to compose replies in HTML

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add Flags Datatype to structures tool
IN PROGRESS	dolphin-plugins	Mercurial plugin for Dolphin

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Libkdegames	Improve graphics performance in all games by standardizing on the use of Qt Raster Graphics.
IN PROGRESS	KSudoku	Add a new generator and solver to KSudoku, based on published algorithms. This will provide a full range of puzzle difficulties, rather than mainly easy puzzles, and will address bug 217925 and its duplicates 228614 and 237262 (now nearly two years old).
IN PROGRESS	KSudoku	Re-implement the puzzle-symmetry feature.
IN PROGRESS	KSudoku	Re-order the puzzle types on the welcome screen. Use KDE Games Difficulty combo-box instead of a slider. Save user's choices of puzzle between sessions. Do minor tidy-ups of the user interface.
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the championship level "Gold Rush" game, with Traditional rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the championship level "Jail Break" game, with KGoldrunner rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Reset Form Action support
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Animated image transitions

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	ksecrets	A suite of tools related to the KSecretsService infrastructure

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Better interaction for torrents if they are seeding and other downloads stopped because of that
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Class that handles deleting files

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kimpanel	Port kimpanel to DataEngine based one

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	JuK	MPRIS2 support	Alex Merry <[email protected]>