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

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
IN PROGRESS	kcookiejar	New domain specific cookie policy based on patch provided in bug#54300

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
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasma QML QtComponents

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KWin	Activity switcher	Will Stephenson <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Activity UI improvements	Will Stephenson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Take over screensaver/locking management from KRunner
DONE	KCM	make mouse cursor size configurable (http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101701/)
DONE	powerdevil	Remove Desktop Effects Management
DONE	powerdevil	Allow static profiles only
DONE	powerdevil	Allow activity interaction
DONE	Plasma	Add MPRIS2 support to nowplaying
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Allow task grouping on the taskbar to work together with kwin window tabbing
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Merge the QML version of the device notifier
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Merge the QML version of the battery applet
DONE	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
DONE	KWin	Support for thumbnails in QML
DONE	KWin	Add AnimationEffect class
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Option to prefer the mouse position over the focus chain
DONE	KWin	More cleanup in the window rules kcm
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Trade 1 frame lag for deterministic framerate
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Improved resizing of windows with thin or no borders
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Move Workspace's compositing functionality to own class Compositor
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Introduce class DecorationPaintRedirector for decoration handling when Compositing is active
IN PROGRESS	Screenlocker	New Screenlocker and daemon
DONE	Plasma	Merge IconTask's taskmanager changes
DONE	KCM	Allow flag and label in keyboard layout indicator
IN PROGRESS	KSplash	QML based ksplash

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Dolphin	Implement new view-engine for Dolphin 2.0 (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html and http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2012/01/dolphin-20-status-update.html)
TO DO	Dolphin	Implement support for back/forward mouse buttons (Postponed to 4.9)	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
DONE	Settings	Improve proxy configuration dialog

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]>
DONE	Rocs	Context menu for graph scene
DONE	Rocs	Resurrect import-/export-features
DONE	Rocs	User Interface Cleanup
DONE	Cantor	Add Qalculate backend
DONE	Cantor	Add Scilab 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	Marble Touch (GSoC, Marble on MeeGo/N9)
DONE	Marble	Routing API
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Adjustable Map Orientation (Rotation in Screen Plane)
DONE	Marble	Speedometer Plugin
DONE	Marble	Plasma Runner for geo coords and Marble bookmarks
DONE	Marble	Make bookmark editor support editing the lonlat coordinates
DONE	Marble	Fix GeoDataCoordinates parsing from a QString
DONE	Marble	OsmNominatim improved display
TO DO	Marble	Create New Marble About Dialog	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Add Float Item Management	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	New Search	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Make API more QML-friendly
DONE	KTurtle	Add modulo command
DONE	KGeography	Merge stuff from the cherry_field branch

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Libkdegames	Improve graphics performance in all games by standardizing on the use of Qt Raster Graphics.
DONE	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).
DONE	KSudoku	Re-implement the puzzle-symmetry feature.
DONE	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.
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add the championship level "Gold Rush" game, with Traditional rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.
DONE	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
DONE	Okular	Viewer Mode & Interface.
DONE	Okular	Table selection tool improvements
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Animated image transitions

kdemultimedia

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

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
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Akonadi History Plugin

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]>
DONE	HTML Replies	Give messagecomposer (especially for KMail) the ability to compose replies in HTML
IN PROGRESS	KMail import	KMail1 setup import instead of migration
IN PROGRESS	Agent control workspace integration	Monitoring and control of Akonadi agents through Plasma workspace facilitites

kdeplasma-addons

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

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Okteta	Add Flags Datatype to structures tool
DONE	dolphin-plugins	Mercurial plugin for Dolphin
DONE	KCachegrind	Upgrade interface to Callgrind (use callgrind_control instead of writing a command file, for > VG 3.7.x)
DONE	Umbrello	Add code import wizard

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	ark	Allow Ark to be used as a KPart again
IN PROGRESS	ksecrets	A suite of tools related to the KSecretsService infrastructure