Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Feature Plan
This is a list of planned features for the 4.4 release.
See also:
- Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Schedule
- Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Goals
- Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan
Legend:
- todo => not started yet
- in-progress => started, but not completed yet
- done => completed
kdeaccessibility
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | kttsd | Clean up kttsd by making it a simple wrapper around speech-dispatcher |
kdeartwork
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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kdebase-apps
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Konqueror | Sidebar cleanups; re-introducing the history module | |
DONE | Dolphin |
Version control integration | |
DONE | Dolphin | Improved search bar including search configuration | |
DONE | DolphinPart | Remember the Details View expansion state in the DolphinPart | |
DONE | DolphinPart | Restore the "Edit->Selection" menu that was in Konqueror 3 | |
DONE | Dolphin | Open URL in a new tab if the Back, Forward or Up button in the toolbar is middle-clicked | |
DONE | Dolphin | Clickable tags and other resources in the metadata view: tags for example are opened as search folders in the same Dolphin window
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kdebase-runtime
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Oxygen Animated | Add smooth animations and transitions (e.g. on hover, when switching tabs, etc.) to the oxygen widget style. | |
DONE | smb kioslave | add kwallet support | |
DONE | Nepomuk | Remove the ontologies and make kdebase depend on the upcoming shared-ontologies package | |
DONE | Nepomuk | Integrate removable storage service to handle mounting/unmounting of removable devices and allow searching of files on non-mounted media. The user will be asked to insert the medium in question in case it is not mounted. | |
DONE | Nepomuk | New timeline KIO slave which allows to browse files by modification date in case the Nepomuk Strigi service is running. | |
DONE | Nepomuk | Give better user feedback if Nepomuk could not be initialized. | |
DONE | Locale KCM | Add support for new KLocale Currency Code and Decimal Places options (see kdelibs/klocale section). | |
DONE | Device Automounting | Add support for storage device automounting | |
DONE | Nepomuk | Port Nepomuk to Virtuoso: query service, strigi service: better performance especially when searching. | |
DONE | thumbnail kioslave | Support for comic-book cover previews (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt files) | |
DONE | Nepomuk | Add nepomuk kio slave which handles all stating of Nepomuk resources. It can even display a small HTML page for non-file resources. | |
DONE | thumbnail kioslave | Support for rotated jpegs |
kdebase-workspace
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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Non-Plasma, Non-KWin | |||
IN PROGRESS | Date/Time KCM | Plasma themed clock | |
IN PROGRESS | System Setitngs | Reorganize modules | |
IN PROGRESS | Mouse KCM | XInput2 support | |
DONE | Attica KCM, KDE plugin | KCM added, Attica uses KIO with the KDE plugin | |
IN PROGRESS | Solid::Control network environment tracking | Access a high level view of wireless networks by interface, testing in playground | |
DONE | System Activity | Add scripting support | |
DONE | Solid | RemoteControl Manager/Interface + Lirc backend | |
DONE | System Activity | KAuth integration | |
DONE | System Settings | Improve module appearance for Icons View and provide searching hints | |
DONE | Font Installer KCM | Use PolicyKit for installing system-wide fonts | |
DONE | Font Installer KCM | When multiple fonts are selected, use a list style preview of all selected fonts | |
IN PROGRESS | Kxkb | Split kxkb app into kded daemon and plasma applet | |
IN PROGRESS | Kxkb | Merge keyboard hardware and layout KCM UI | |
IN PROGRESS | Kxkb | Add layouts by language | |
KRunner | |||
DONE | KRunner | Solid device runner | |
DONE | KRunner | Manage actions in default interface | |
DONE | KRunner | Single runner mode | |
DONE | KRunner | Window management runner | |
DONE | KRunner | Add Firefox support to the bookmark runner | |
Plasma - Priority Features | |||
DONE | netbook shell | a plasma shell and various containments/applets tailored for netbooks (tech preview status in 4.4)
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Plasma | |||
IN PROGRESS | Quicklaunch Plasmoid | new icon size/rows config ui | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma Weather Ion | New Weather Ion for the wetter.com data source provider | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma Animator | Create new Plasma::Animator API based on Qt 4.6 Kinetic | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma KineticScrolling | Port KineticScrolling to Qt 4.6 Kinetic | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma-Netbook Animated Layouts | Create Animated Layouts to SAL and NewsPaper | |
IN PROGRESS | libplasma | Show the PopupApplet's BusyWidget inside the popup | |
DONE | Widgets Explorer | New widgets explorer | |
DONE | Widgets Explorer | Install widgets from file, Google Gadgets and GHNS | |
IN PROGRESS | Notification queueing | ||
IN PROGRESS | Trust Levels | package signing and verification | |
IN PROGRESS | JS plasmoid improvements | Animations, KIO and QFile bindings; latter two by security policy | |
IN PROGRESS | Kiosk improvements | ||
IN PROGRESS | Activity Bar | ||
DONE | folderview | Hover action icons in the icon view | |
DONE | folderview | Hover animations | |
DONE | libplasma/kwin | slide animation for popups done by kwin | |
DONE | System tray | Plasmoid support in the system tray | |
DONE | System tray | config ui to decide between always shown, always hidden and auto hide for each systray item | |
DONE | Window List | A new plasmoid to show list of opened windows | |
DONE | Device Notifier | show the device actions inside the plasmoid, show the fixed devices too, other improvements | |
DONE | Color Wallpaper Plugin | add support for gradients | |
DONE | libplasma | better text box look with new svg elements | |
DONE | systemtray | Make possible to browse old notifications by application name (this actually replaced the above feature) | |
DONE | libplasma | Show Holiday and Holiday Region in Clock Tooltip. | |
DONE | libplasma | Allow user to choose Calendar System to be displayed in Calendar and Clock widgets | |
DONE | knowledge base plasmoid | new plasmoid: Opendesktop.org knowledgebase client | |
DONE | opendesktop plasmoid | show friends activity | |
DONE | Plasma Addon | Battery popup layout improvements | |
DONE | Plasma Mouse Plugins UI | Yet Another UI Redesign | |
KWin - Core | |||
IN PROGRESS | KWin | Window tiling | |
IN PROGRESS | KWin | Support for new EWMH hints | |
DONE | KWin | Quick window maximization and tiling by dragging windows to the edge of the screen | |
DONE | KWin | Improved virtual desktop KCM | |
DONE | KWin | Improved window switcher (Alt+Tab) | |
DONE | KWin | SVG based window decoration theme engine (Aurorae) | |
DONE | KWin | Merged Ozone and Nitrogen window decorations into Oxygen | |
DONE | KWin | Window tabbing
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KWin - Desktop Effects | |||
DONE | KWin | Mouse action support in Present Windows effect | |
DONE | KWin | New present windows mode to only display windows from a single application | |
DONE | KWin | Improved flip switch effect | |
DONE | KWin | Improved logout blur effect
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KDM |
kdebindings
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | pykde4 | Python 3 support for PyKDE4 | |
DONE | qyoto | Replace the current C# cmake macros with more sophisticated ones that also work on windows. | |
IN PROGRESS | qyoto | Create a new generator for the C# assemblies
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kdeedu
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Marble | Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool ) | |
IN PROGRESS | Kalzium | Remove libavogadro snapshot, port to use system libavogadro | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Add "download region" feature | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Editing Tools | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | OSM Import | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | UI Simplification | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Custom Layouts | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Discrete Zoom Levels | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Performance Improvements | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | KML Improvements | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Sky Mode | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Measure Tool Plugin | |
DONE | Marble | Settings for plugins | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Kinetic Scrolling | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Optimized 2D Mode | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Bookmarks | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Time KML support | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Editing GeoDataFeatures | |
DONE | Marble | Update Map ("F5") | |
DONE | Marble | Layer Management Class | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Plugin architecture for map layers | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Extending GeoPainter | |
DONE | Marble | Marble Runners | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | GeoClue Integration | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Routing | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | More map providers (WMS?) | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | GeoData Model/View rework | |
DONE | KAlgebra | KAlgebra backend for Cantor | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Support for lists | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Improved MathML Presentation support | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Added 2D parametric function plotting | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Improved jump detections | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Made lambda expressions more usable | |
DONE | KStars | Improve Observing List Wizard | |
DONE | KStars | A rather sophisticated Observation Plan Manager | |
DONE | KTurtle | Add F2 context help | |
DONE | KTurtle | Add SVG export for the canvas | |
DONE | KTurtle | Add HTML export of the code | |
DONE | KTurtle | Add printing support for the canvas | |
DONE | Cantor | Import to kdeedu | |
DONE | Rocs | Import to kdeedu | |
DONE | KTouch | Update the "Colemak" keyboad layout and training lecture |
kdegames
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Kigo | Allow arbitrary jumps in the undo/redo history | |
IN PROGRESS | Kigo | New Go game for KDE 4 | |
IN PROGRESS | Gluon | release first gluon lib with one game. [1] | |
IN PROGRESS | Granatier | Implement all Bonuses from the default theme | |
IN PROGRESS | KsirK | Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...) | |
DONE | KAtomic | Level Sets | |
DONE | Bovo | Highlight the last move to be easier to spot | |
DONE | Bovo | Enable undo after the game has ended, to be able to correct a fatal mis-click | |
DONE | Granatier | New Bomberman like game for KDE 4 | |
DONE | Granatier | Sidebar with informations regarding the players, like bonuses, handicaps ... | |
DONE | Granatier | Add support for a background | |
DONE | Granatier | Replace Phonon with QtMultimedia for better sound | |
DONE | KBreakOut | Improved keyboard support | |
DONE | KBreakOut | Fullscreen support | |
DONE | KDiamond | Improve time display | |
DONE | KGoldrunner | Add Mazes game (37 levels), contributed by Steve Mann. | |
DONE | Killbots | Add a new game type parameter to make fast enemies a bit more intelligent. | |
DONE | KsirK | Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774 | |
DONE | Kigo | Fix smaller issues with KNS2 | |
DONE | Kigo | Improve final score visuals | |
DONE | Kigo | Beautify the default theme | |
DONE | KPat | Large internal code cleanup. Lots of small annoyances fixed. | |
DONE | KPat | Port animations to Qt Kinetic for significant performance improvements | |
DONE | Palapeli | New puzzle game for KDE SC 4 |
kdegraphics
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | gwenview | Folder thumbnails | |
DONE | gwenview | Rework start page | |
DONE | gwenview | Implement picture importer | |
DONE | gwenview | New save-as behavior (go to saved as document) | |
DONE | libksane | External API for handling selections (patch from
Matthias Nagl) | |
DONE | libksane | Add basic twain support on Windows | |
DONE | libksane | External API for specifying preview resolution | |
DONE | libkexiv2 | Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray. Bug 183171 | |
DONE | libkexiv2 | Expose exiv2 API for accessing embedded previews in RAW files.
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kdelibs
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | kdecore | Move event-filter installation out of KApplication and into a new class | |
IN PROGRESS | kdeui | Support floating point font sizes | |
IN PROGRESS | kdeui | Finish the time chooser widget | |
IN PROGRESS | kio | Limit number of connections per host (per application), add job priorities | |
IN PROGRESS | kio | Support for automatically renaming conflicting files during copy and move operations | |
IN PROGRESS | kio | Remember downloads via Nepomuk | |
IN PROGRESS | buildsystem | Modular build of KDE modules | |
IN PROGRESS | katepart | Improve katepart Vim mode. | |
IN PROGRESS | kfile | Make status of file I/O display on file/folder icons("progress in icons"). | |
IN PROGRESS | katepart | Factor out a generic high-level search class from the search bar. To be used by the VI input mode. | |
DONE | knewstuff | Introduce binary incompatible knewstuff library (as knewstuff3, keeping knewstuff2 as well) which can talk directly to open desktop services via libattica | |
DONE | knewstuff3 | Make use of Open Collaboration Services - let users rate items, become fan, see details, have bigger preview pictures | |
DONE | kdecore | Polkit-1 backend for KAuth | |
DONE | KLocale | Implement ISO 4217 Currency Code support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217). | |
DONE | KLocale | Separate numeric decimal places and monetary decimal places. | |
DONE | katepart | Add mapping support for the vi input mode's normal mode | |
DONE | katepart | Support byte-order mark in unicode files | |
DONE | katepart | Enable command line scripting again | |
DONE | katepart | Improve TemplateInterface, i.e. snippet support | |
DONE | katepart | Add interface to access highlighting information, port html-export plugin | |
DONE | katepart | push improved AutoBrace plugin to kdelibs | |
DONE | KCalendarSystem | Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, Ethiopian, Coptic. | |
DONE | KDEPrint | Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS. | |
DONE | nepomuk | Get libnepomukquery into kdelibs | |
DONE | webkit | Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!) | |
DONE | katepart | Implement on-the-fly spell checking for arbitrary documents. | |
DONE | nepomuk | Add const versions of the accessor methods to the Nepomuk::Types classes | |
DONE | kdeui | Finalize the api for the new systemtray: KStatusNotifierItem
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kdemultimedia
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | KMix | Add WhatsThis help on controls (Bug 70042) | |
IN PROGRESS | KMix | Generic per-App volume tab ( pulse,phonon,oss4) | |
DONE | KMix | Amend Keyboard Shortcuts | |
DONE | KMix | Allow arbitrary ordering of controls (Bug 57946) | |
DONE | KMix | Nicer OSD (icon, mute state) | |
DONE | JuK | Allow disabling crossfade | |
DONE | JuK | Add support for MP4 and ASF files (when present in Taglib). Patch taken from Kubuntu patchset, thanks to Kubuntu devs and Jeff Mitchell. |
kdenetwork
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | KGet | Support for custom NewTransferDialog in BTPlugin | |
IN PROGRESS | Kopete | Telepathy protocol plugin | |
IN PROGRESS | Kopete | Telepathy Tubes Desktop Sharing plugin | |
IN PROGRESS | Kopete | Akonadi Logger(modify the history plugin) | |
IN PROGRESS | Krfb | Telepathy Tubes support | |
IN PROGRESS | Krfb | Core restructuring | |
IN PROGRESS | Telepathy | Account Management KCM | |
IN PROGRESS | Telepathy | Mission Control launcher KDED | |
DONE | Kopete | Create avatars from a webcam device | |
DONE | Krdc | Redesigned workflow to create a new connection | |
DONE | Krdc | Telepathy Tubes support | |
DONE | Krdc | Full Screen Switching | |
DONE | KGet | Support for verifying signed files | |
DONE | KGet | Verification of downloads using checksums | |
DONE | KGet | Downloading checksums for downloads | |
DONE | KGet | Repairing broken downloads | |
DONE | KGet | Moving and renaming files while downloading | |
DONE | KGet | Adding mirrors to downloads while downloading | |
DONE | KGet | Changing the number of connections per mirror of downloads while downloading | |
DONE | KGet | Assistant to create Metalinks
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kdepim
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | KJots | Port to Akonadi | |
IN PROGRESS | KJots | Port to Grantlee for theming support | |
IN PROGRESS | Akregator | Port to use KNotificationItem | |
DONE | KMail | Archiving function for mails | |
DONE | KMail | Clean up UI for aggregation and theme settings | |
DONE | KMail | Improve recipient picker | |
DONE | KMail | Allow to search by tag and to use filters for adding tags | |
DONE | KMail | Port addressbook-related functions to Akonadi | |
DONE | KMail | Make the HTML status bar clickable | |
DONE | KMail | Add a context menu entry for mailing lists to the message viewer | |
DONE | KMail | When switching identities in the composer, switch the template too | |
DONE | KMail | Ask for the transport to use when dealing with an invitation | |
DONE | KMail | Make the To and CC fields expandable/collapseable in the fancy header style | |
DONE | KMail | Support inline images in signatures | |
DONE | KMail | Add a SIGNATURE command for templates | |
DONE | KMail | Use passive popups for error messages while checking for mail | |
DONE | KAlarm | Provide audio-only alarms | |
DONE | KAddressbook | Completely new KAddressbook based on Akonadi | |
DONE | Akonadi | POP3 Resource for Akonadi |
kdepimlibs
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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kdeplasma-addons
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | opendesktop | Add messaging | |
IN PROGRESS | opendesktop | Add friendship management | |
IN PROGRESS | ocs engine | Add possibility to use different providers, use attica from kdesupport | |
IN PROGRESS | opendesktop | port opendesktop plasmoid to new engine and rename accordingly | |
IN PROGRESS | opendesktop activities | port opendesktop activities plasmoid to new engine and rename accordingly | |
IN PROGRESS | microblogging | new appearance and new twitter api pieces support | |
DONE | plasmaboard | Added a virtual keyboard plasmoid for touchscreen users | |
DONE | FifteenPuzzle | Made it work with multiple rows and cols | |
DONE | Qalculate | A new advanced calculator plasmoid | |
DONE | KDE Observatory | A new plasmoid for visualizing KDE projects status (commits, commiters, bugs, krazy status, etc) | |
DONE | Spell Check | A new plasmoid for fast spell checking | |
DONE | Project Silk | generic Mediawiki KRunner | |
DONE | Project Silk | Webslice Plasmoid, qgraphicswidget | |
DONE | Solid | Network Manager Plasmoid |
kdesdk
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Kate | Integrate GHNS into snippets TNG | |
IN PROGRESS | Kate | Refactor parts from snippets TNG plugin into a common library for use by the plugin and for use in kdevelop | |
DONE | Kate | Add common vim commands like :wq, :new, :bp/bn, etc.
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kdeutils
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | KGpg | Add "caff" mode for keysigning | |
DONE | kdelirc | Integrate solid backend into kdelirc frontend | |
DONE | kdelirc | Communicate to lirc through solid | |
DONE | KGpg | Add improved key import result window (with useful summary, filtering, reasonable default size etc.) | |
DONE | KGpg | Make generating a key a KJob so it get's better notification support | |
DONE | Okteta | Add tool to view decoding of complex structures | |
DONE | Okteta | Rename libkakao to Kasten and make the Okteta KPart use it | |
DONE | Okteta | Add embedded dialog to set selection range | |
DONE | Okteta | Add Base64 encoder | |
DONE | Okteta | Added data generators, like pattern, sequence or from clipboard | |
DONE | Okteta | Added option to split views | |
DONE | Okteta | Add marking of bytearray section to widgets, so tools like strings or pod decoder can mark the source, instead of selecting it | |
DONE | Okteta | add editing capability to Decoding table | |
DONE | Okteta | Make dialogs for Goto and Select embedded | |
DONE | Okteta | Add UTF-8 option to bytearray lineedit |
Other
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | kdesupport | Add libattica to kdesupport | |
DONE | Solid | KNetworkManager
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