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.

Packaging & Deployment

openSUSE

profile and optimize boot process (bootchart)
2.6.38 by default
change default font to Droid Sans 12, small to 9, monospace to 10
clean up startup / login process
remove unneeded autostart application
create clean setup to start reviewing applications to offer
create separate artwork package (kdebase4-workspace-branding-plasmaactive)
rename plasma-mobile to plasma-active
install plasma-declarative-widgets by default
Make TabletBrowser.desktop the default webbrowser
Active RSS Reader App, install, make visible
add scripts to kdeprefix/env/ that are sourced on login by startkde to set environment variables to set the desktop shell type
export env vars from news-tablet.desktop in declarative widgets package to global session
package Calligra Mobile
Marble to go

Completed Tasks

consolidate packages into KDE:Active OBS project
package Kontact Touch

Meego Packaging

create installer image
consolidate packages
fix up defaults

Hacking

Berlin Desktop Summit "Top 5" Lists

Activity add/configure

Doesn't show applications (adding an application is unintuitive: go to launcher, long press)

Default Configuration

Nepomuk Backup Sync -> die die die
KWallet configuation -> passwordless and no questions for access
Disable KWin effects that don't matter
Boot and Contour start QML Splash screen (and no wait on boot?)
Screensaver -> must be above all items and no password request

Panel

hardcoded positions of slc and clock (systray)
hardcded positions of containments (panel containment)
layouting of plasmoids screwed up
drag the panel from everywhere w/o confliting with icons
flickers on closing

On Screen Keyboard

Rewrite in QML
Proper default layout, including application-triggered switching (numbers when only numbers needed etc.)
KWin virtual keyboard effect
Layout switching
Ensure that line edit does not get obscurred by keyboard

Nepomuk Recommendation

score the recom engines
pause the film while lights are up
bus station (gps)
create activity if the user is doing something new
change activity based on context (track location when switching activities)

Launcher

Fix selecting / filtering in tag cloud (doesn't work unless you put in a search and then clear)
Tag cloud: scrolling higher is not obvious; icon (near search?) to scroll higher
Sort applications by alpha
Splitter divider betweeen app rows
When filter is cleared, reset the view

SLC

Enabled state is not obvious enough: find better visuals
Better artwork: connect icon is very odd
Not matter what is touched, Connect is always shown
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
Focus to docks
Grab to move in Oxygen
Window switcher
Screen edge handling

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)
Keep handle visible for activity switcher

Window Strip

Remove homescreen from it: swipe from bottom to show? (At least get rid of close button)
- look at gitorious qt-components/meego/*view* grep for swipe
Window sorting
- find solution to get at methods Martin added to kdelibs/*/kworkspace MRU
- Put new windows after the current window
- Check out how Harmatan Keyboard works
Show windows from current activity only
Sticky windows and moving windows across activities (SLC?)

Web Integration

create web activity with bookmarks (use previewengine)
Nepomuk-driven bookmarks engine
improve Active Browser (rekonq active?)

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

Infrastructure

Geolocation
- Document and complete API
- Use geolocation in more widgets
- Cache geolocation
libplasma2 & QSceneGraph port
test GLES backend for kwin
hovering for close doesn't work on touchscreens (in present windows KWin effect)
a Plasma::PackageStructure to be used to retrieve the QML UI of complex, C++ applications
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)
Connman backend for network management stack needed (either kded module or Plasma::DataEngine)

Workspace

For testing: allow dynamic switching of Plasma workspace types, eg from the display manager
Virtual Keyboard
- Solution to squash workarea, when virtual keyboard is displayed, while remaining usable.
  - Struts? Might make the workarea so small that layouts break. Also what about large textedits whose minimum size exceeds the workarea. The UI should be good for eg wiki editing
  - Replace the input widget with one integrated into the keyboard while the keyboard is shown (Maemo style)? Disadvantage: loses any context surrounding the original input widget.
- Integrate virtual keyboard with non-Qt apps and Qt apps using nonstandard widgets that do not support usual input method signals (konsole), or find standard alternatives for these
- Add a way (systray widget?) to manually show/hide virtual keyboard when IM toggling fails
Port C++ plasmoids to QML
Touch friendly login screen for eg touchscreen all-in-one PCs to use
- PAM integration
Touch friendly unlock UI for single user tablets

Tools

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

Artwork

Improve Plasma theme
Plasma Active logo
Make Contour logo play well with Active logo
Wallpaper
Example documents
Artwork and theming of boot process

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