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OBSOLETE current todo list at http://todo.kde.org
This is currently a brainstorming page, feel free to add things to it that may not end up staying. Discussion is happening on the plasma-devel at kde.org mailing list.
4.7
- QML++
Desktop
- Activities advancements
- Panels associated with activities
- Add an activities button to the default panel arrangement
- Drag taskbar entries on activity manager icons to assign?
- System tray:
- tasks widget integration for the "application" tasks, out of the tray by default
- xembed tasks hidden in the popup by default
- property extended from the standard: what plasmoid can represent this task, use it for keyboard layout
- grouping of network icons in a single one (with icons+lionmail in the popup?)
- multimedia category? (grouped, + nowplaying in the popup?)
- Support for more mouse buttons:
- Described by rickst29 on the Mailing List (Vol 31, issue 52). Resolves two of KDE's all-time "top 20" RFE bugs.
- rickst29 will create the necessary Qt code and Header updates.
- TBD, and quickly: do we have a preferred convention for specific button and signal names from Qt?
- Shortcut Widget, plus Plasma Updates to use them.
- Subtopic Plasma versus Compiz; add 'Close Window' via shortcut (e.g., mouse button); also allow the "Desktop Effects" GUI to support arbitrary user command strings via shortcuts. TBD, other "useful and popular" plugin capabilities which we currently lack.
- if possible, allow multi-button shortcuts (i.e., one button used like a modifier key, creating "alternate identities" for other buttons pressed simultaneously). This could provide users with a much larger set of one-handed, mouse-only shortcut actions. A few examples:
Button2 with Wheel Spin Event (Up/Down/Left/Right) Button2 With "Back" Button (Kernel's Button #8, IIRC) Button2 With "Forward" Button (Button #9) "Back" Button with Wheel Spin event (Up/Down-/Left/Right)
Mobile
Use activities, use it as "guinea pig" for qml plasmoids, device profiles for Package etc
Netbook/Tablet
the shell itself for tablet makes more sense to be the mobile one.. merge mobile and netbook shells?
Classroom
- Containment for "lesson plans"
- Network (web?) service that pushes lesson plans
- Monitor app
KDE Applications
- Activity awareness
- first release of selkie? first prototype of qml plasmoids shipping in selkie packages
4.8
Desktop
- Redesign of desktop activity contents
- new containment? maybe grid desktop?
- Integrated search?
- merge krunner, desktop toolbox, activity manager...
- always show that window in the present windows effect
- Switch from kickoff to ?
Classroom
Classroom profiles for netbook/tablet/mobile
KDE applications
- Identifying common places where applications could use qml/plasma widgets in their main ui. example: dock widgets?
- Selkie release, to experiment with the point above has plasmoids as full applications, the html view becomes a "fallback"