Contributing

If you would like to support and become part of the Plasma Active team, you can use the following list of open tasks as inspiration. Please pick one of these tasks, for questions, you can always get in touch with us.

Priority 1

Startactive

klauncher problems when startactive is used

Configuration

finish the clock configuration module: the old kcm is not built anymore

Default setup/packaging

ship a complete pre-made home directory

Perfornance

current structure of one preview job per icon isn't acceptable

Nepomuk

seems it's indexing a single file per folder, packaging issue of libstreamanalyzer?

Priority 2

Default Configuration

KWallet configuation -> passwordless and no questions for access

Network Management Plasmoid (openSuse)

Check size hint of networking Plasmoid so that it doesn't shrink so small

On Screen Keyboard

Add arrow keys to the tablet layout

Add Widgets

Close keyboard if opened due to focussing in on filter bar

Activity screen

Custom titles for widgets, and a way for applets to set custom titles

Panel

Put application icons after status icons

Default Configuration

Unscheduled

Panel

hardcoded positions of containments (panel containment)
hardcoded positions of slc and clock (systray)

Javascript Setup

Ability to load initial widgets positions with a Javascript (ala Plasma Desktop Scripting)

On Screen Keyboard

KWin virtual keyboard awareness (always keep on everything else, e.g.)
Copy/paste of text?
Add arrow keys to the tablet layout
Characters for more locales (e.g. German, French, etc)
Gtk+ IM plugin to trigger it
Multi-byte input
Rewrite in QML
Ensure that line edit does not get obscured by keyboard (mitigated now by being able to manually move it)

Launcher

Show most used / favorites as first line on first page

MeeGo Support

Connman backend for network management stack needed (either kded module or Plasma::DataEngine): quick and dirty applet now in place, will have to be replaced in PA2

Unsorted

SLC

Better artwork: connect icon is very odd
Not matter what is touched, Connect is always shown: probable touch screen bug: the touch event arrives always in the same coordinates unless a connected usb mouse is moved-> actually old qgraphicsview bug: occurs also in the desktop taskbar group menus, partially fixed
Bigger target invoking popup, and implement dragable
~~Show title of URI to be operated on in the context menu~~

Window Management

OpenGL ES on MeeGO

Application workflow

Not obvious where apps are
Visual feedback between time when activity is selected and when the activity appears (so we know something is actually happening)

Window Strip

Window sorting
- find solution to get at methods Martin added to kdelibs/*/kworkspace MRU
- Put new windows after the current window
Show windows from current activity only
Sticky windows and moving windows across activities (SLC?)

Active Browser

search in page
save-as menus (e.g. for images)
"back" repositions page to last viewed position
plugin support -> 100% depends from qtwebkit i.e. flash tries to work, but doesn't really ;)
display ssl status
accepting non-verifiable SSL certs
connect downloaded files to the activity (nepomuk bug)

Image viewer

nicer ui
possibility to browse sd cards/download/upload images
search ui
albums?

Multimedia

Create multimedia activity
Good touch volume applet
Mediaplayer (minitube? bangarang? tomahawk? Plasma Mediacenter components?)
Webcam (kamoso?)

Social Networks

touch-friendly configuration for PIM (email, contacts, events.)
touch-friendly setup of Facebook via Akonadi
touch-friendly setup of Google via Akonadi
Akonadi model for QML plasmoids
Plasma QML widgets for
- Contacts
- Messages
- Events

Workspace

Dynamic switching of Plasma workspace types, eg from the display manager, or due to hardware events such as docking?

KDM

Touch friendly login screen for eg touchscreen all-in-one PCs to use (low priority; we have auto-login)

Tools

Make Plasmate release-ready
- Improve editor for QML
- Implement scripting console
- Fix sizing problems in previewer

Artwork

Improve Plasma theme
Make Contour logo play well with Active logo
Sounds are jarring for a tablet; new sound theme needed

Documentation

Improve QML Plasma docs
Improve installation docs
Create user docs (pending UI freeze)

Support and Testing

Help others with getting Plasma Active runnning on #active and the mailing list
Test Plasma Active on more hardware, find solutions for problems encountered, document them

Goals and Larger Ideas for PA2

Geolocation
- Document and complete API
- Use geolocation in more widgets
- Cache geolocation
libplasma2 & QSceneGraph port
test GLES backend for kwin
DBusmenu implementation in QML
KToolBar replacement in QML (using a KActionCollection)
KXmlGui actions access in QML
KConfig integration with ownCloud
Finish porting all KDE applications to the mobile profile (mostly removing deprecated calls)