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)
clean up startup / login process
create clean setup to start reviewing applications to offer
create separate artwork package (kdebase4-workspace-branding-plasmaactive)

variables to set the desktop shell type

export env vars from news-tablet.desktop in declarative widgets package to global session
Marble to go

Meego Packaging

create installer image
consolidate packages
fix up defaults

Hacking

Polish & Testing Needed

~~Add an applications category to the Activity's Add dialog~~
~~Launcher: clearing of tag cloud items with Show Everything; button needs alignment fixes, should clear search line too~~
~~Applets should not be draggable when inside the Contour boxes~~

Priority 1

Add Widgets

~~Harmonize "add widgets" with "add apps" (from Activity Add Dialog)~~: now they look and behave the same: moving the add resources dialog in the add widgets one could still be needed, possible for PA2

Contour Pages

~~Hide config button for widgets with no configuration (or always make the button active for access to, e.g., share)~~
don't load any mouse button plugin

Default Configuration

KWallet configuation -> passwordless and no questions for access

Network Management Plasmoid

Check size hint of networking Plasmoid so that it doesn't shrink so small
kill the notifications from network connecting

Notifications Plasmoid

~~Remove single-line of text on new notifications~~

On Screen Keyboard

Add arrow keys to the tablet layout

Launcher

~~Sort applications by alpha~~

Priority 2

Activity Switcher

Show a loading animation when switching between activities (currently no feedback given)

Add Widgets

Close keyboard if opened due to focussing in on filter bar

Contour Pages

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

Panel

Make status icons all the same width (and big enough to hit without too much pain): should be better now
Put application icons after status icons

Default Configuration

Diable Nepomuk Backup Sync

Unscheduled

Panel

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

KWin

Screensaver/locker -> must be above all items and no password request
Unlock should live in kwin, a top-level windowthat shows some draggable item to unlock (a proof-of-concept exists already on start up, but that needs to move out of the shell)

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

Akonadi Qt-Mobility integration

For optimal Meego-compatibility a bridge between Akonadi and Qt-Mobility is required. This essentially means three sub-tasks:

The Contact Manager Engine provides an implementation of QContactManagerEngine as a backend for The QtContacts framework.
The Organizer Manager Engine provides an implementation of QOrganizerManagerEngine as a backend for The QtOrganizer framework.
The Messaging Integration in Qt-Mobility is slighly more complicated than contact or organizer item storage since the QMF framework is not pluggable. There is no way for storing messages in Akonadi without patching Qt-Mobility itself. It is unclear whether this is worth the effort at all.

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
Focus to docks
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)

Window Strip

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?)

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
Plasma Active logo
Make Contour logo play well with Active logo
Wallpaper
Boot and Contour start QML Splash screen
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)