Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Feature Plan
This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.9 release.
See also:
- Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Release Schedule
- Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan (previous major release)
Legend:
- todo => not started yet
- in-progress => started, but not completed yet
- done => completed
kdelibs
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | KGlobalSettings | Make KGlobalSettings reread locale settings before calling settingsChanged(). | |
DONE | Kate Part | Reworked Color Configuration | |
DONE | KActivities | Encryption for private activities (not available via UI). | |
DONE | KActivities | Linking files to activities in Dolphin, Konqueror, Folder View. | |
DONE | KActivities | Activities KIO. |
kde-runtime
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Thumbnail | fix for bookmarks
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kde-workspace
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | ksmserver | Port shutdown dialog to QML | |
IN PROGRESS | ksmserver | Merge the new qml based screen locker | |
DONE | plasma | MPRIS2 dataengine | |
TO DO | kwin | windows that are moved to another desktop should be treated as sticky windows (Bug #213847) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Fix fullscreen state handling: NETWM says it's bound to focus and not stacking order, also see bug #224600 (Bug #296076) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Lanczos Filter broken after screen size changes (Bug #296065) | <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | kwin | GHNS support for KWin Scripts (Bug #296774, Review 104877) | |
TO DO | kwin | KConf Update Script for KWin 4.9 (Bug #296775) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Request category for scripted KWin Effects on kde-(look|app).org (Bug #297634) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Request category for KWin Scripts on kde-(look|app).org (Bug #297635) | <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | kwin | GHNS support for Window Switching Layouts (Bug #297636, Review 104894) | |
TO DO | kwin | Request category for Window Switcher Layouts on kde-(look|app).org (Bug #297637) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Update Documentation for Window Switcher Layouts (Bug #297638) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | ThumbnailItem allows upscaling of Windows (Bug #297864) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Window Tab support for QML based Aurorae (Bug #299138) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Increase ABI version for KDecorations (Bug #299140) | <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | Break NETWM to allow inner xinerama struts (Bug #299247) | <[email protected]> |
DONE | kwin | Useraction menu closes when focus passes to another window (Bug #81743) | |
DONE | kwin | JJ: change focus only when moving mouse (Bug #92290) | |
DONE | kwin | JJ: kwin fulscreen / un-fullscreen system notifications (Bug #124612, Review 104457) | |
DONE | kwin | Insufficient stacking order handling for deleted windows (Bug #158262, Review 104519) | |
DONE | kwin | JJ: Use arrow keys to control cover switch. (Bug #178595, Review 104438) | |
DONE | kwin | No reason given why some desktop effects cannot be activated (Bug #209213, Review 104847) | |
DONE | kwin | Dragging a title bar against a bottom panel twice makes it go under the panel on the second time (Bug #210926) | |
DONE | kwin | Wobbly windows wobbles strange after quick-maximization (Bug #222102) | |
DONE | kwin | "Move" command should allow off-screen window moving same as Alt + click trick (Bug #229942) | |
DONE | kwin | Bug with shading always inactive windows (Bug #242217) | |
DONE | kwin | Change title of menu item "Configure window behaviour..." (Bug #249486) | |
DONE | kwin | Task switcher message when no windows looks ugly with stars (Bug #260938) | |
DONE | kwin | Placement Policy 'under mouse' (Bug #272162) | |
DONE | kwin | JJ: Synchronize Show Desktop wording in all tabbox effects (Bug #273478, Review 104436) | |
DONE | kwin | closing session crash (Bug #282933, Review 104690) | |
DONE | kwin | Window Specific Settings dialog has no help function (Bug #286783) | |
DONE | kwin | Add "Present Windows - Window Class" to "Screen Edges" functions (Bug #288960) | |
DONE | kwin | [JJ] Select next window with arrow key in Alt+Tab (Bug #291916) | |
DONE | kwin | KWin crashed when I was switching windows (Bug #292614) | |
DONE | kwin | Kill helper should be out of process (Bug #295940) | |
DONE | kwin | Synchronize user actions menu with libtaskmanager (Bug #296056) | |
DONE | kwin | Different binary name for KWin Active (Bug #296084) | |
DONE | kwin | Window Switcher KCM needs to be reworked (Bug #297639, Review 104525) | |
DONE | kwin | Document global JavaScript methods in KWin Scripting API documentation (Bug #297640) | |
DONE | kwin | Elevate windows in addition to highlight (Bug #297809) | |
DONE | kwin | KWin crashes when interacting with Plasma (Bug #298669, Review 104714) | |
DONE | kwin | Add ABI check to KDecorations (Bug #299141) | |
DONE | kwin | Effects cannot be configured (Bug #299163) | |
DONE | kwin | Adding proper window thumbnail clipping to the QML tabbox (Bug #299198) | |
DONE | kwin | Improve VSync strategy (Bug #299274) | |
DONE | kwin | Screen Edge bindings for KWin Scripting (Bug #299275, Review 104904) | |
DONE | kwin | Better QML selection list for Window Switcher layout (Bug #299278) | |
DONE | kwin | Add layout specification to D-Bus call for invoking TabBox (Bug #299279, Review 104838) | |
DONE | kwin | Default Bindings for Switching between Windows of current Application (Bug #299308, Review 104730) | |
DONE | kwin | Make desktop focus chains activities aware (Bug #299309, Review 104649) | |
DONE | kwin | Activity window rules (Review 104972) | |
DONE | kwin | Desktop Zoom should be saved between sessions (Bug #189956, Review 104597) |
kde-baseapps
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | FolderView | Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment | Ignat Semenov <[email protected]> |
DONE | FolderView | Show files related to an activity | |
DONE | Dolphin | Allow to show any kind of metadata like ratings, tags, comments, image-sizes, music-artist, ... beside each item of the view (see http://ppenz.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/improved-views.html for details) | |
DONE | Dolphin | Use KMessageWidget for information- and error-messages (see http://agateau.com/2011/04/21/kde-ux-2011/ for details) | |
DONE | Dolphin | Optionally remember the column-widths of the details view | |
DONE | Dolphin | Allow to disable the expandable folders of the details view | |
DONE | Dolphin | Implement inline renaming for the new view-engine | |
DONE | Dolphin | Allow to optionally set a maximum number of lines for the icons-view | |
DONE | Dolphin | Implement support for back/forward mouse buttons | |
TO DO | Dolphin | Implement files quick preview feature (named Klook) | Evgeniy Auzhin <[email protected]> |
DONE | Konsole | Move menubar and tabbar settings out of profile and into "Configure Konsole" | |
DONE | Konsole | Add command line options for controlling the visibility of menubar and tabbar | |
DONE | Konsole | Allow dragging tab out of current window and into its own window | |
DONE | Konsole | Add "Clone Tab" action for opening new tab using the same profile used by current tab | |
DONE | Konsole | Add "Change Directory To" action in the popup menu of drag & drop operation | |
DONE | Konsole | Allow action in the context menu for searching selected text using KDE WebShortcuts | |
DONE | Konsole | Provide the searching ability in konsolepart | |
DONE | Konsole | konsolepart can notify the hosting application(e.g, dolphin) of the changing of current directory | |
DONE | Konsole | Allow changing tab title through escape sequence like "\e]30;Tab Title\a" | |
DONE | Konsole | Allow users to have better control of the copy & paste behavior of mouse within Konsole
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kdeedu
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | Marble | Have support for "repeatX" in the projection classes | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Satellite Map NG | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Mars & Venus satellite plugin | Torsten Rahn / Gerhard Holtkamp <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Solar Eclipse Plugin | Torsten Rahn / Gerhard Holtkamp <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Help Menu polishing / Support page inclusion | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Toolbar polishing/refactoring | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Solar Eclipse Plugin | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Worldwide hillshading | |
TO DO | Marble | Extended library API (no MarbleWidget dependency for tasks like parsing, routing) | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Marble Touch on Plasma Active | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Marble Touch on Android | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Support for loading geolocated photos (e.g. in a Gallery activity in Marble Touch) | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Layer Management (by the user: Toggle layer visibility; maybe move layers from legend and layers in menus to one central place/tab) | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
DONE | Marble | Flightgear position provider plugin | |
DONE | Rocs | Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms | |
DONE | Rocs | Extend graph data structure to support overlay graphs | |
DONE | Rocs | Stepped execution of algorithms | |
DONE | Rocs | General unit test cleanup and overhauling | |
DONE | Rocs | Data types and pointer types | |
DONE | Kig | Improve Cancel Construction and Undo actions | |
DONE | Pairs | New memory game | |
DONE | KAlgebra Mobile | Many improvements, including Android and better Active support |
kdegames
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | libkdegames | Major cleanup and rewrite (done, except for the new highscore classes) Release team: please link to the porting instructions for third-party developers | |
DONE | Granatier | improve config UI for player and arena selection | |
DONE | Kajongg | tooltips giving playings hints | |
DONE | Kajongg | new config option: propose what to do | |
DONE | Kajongg | make it possible to replay a game from a screen shot (for better debugging) | |
DONE | Kajongg | improve Robot AI | |
DONE | Kajongg | Add default voices | |
DONE | Kajongg | Players can chat with each other from within kajongg | |
DONE | Kajongg | Define a central game server, making it easier to play over the internet (no more tweaking of firewalls for the server side) | |
DONE | KGoldrunner | Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky | |
DONE | KGoldrunner | Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games | |
DONE | KPatience | Saved game files now include the whole game history | |
DONE | KSudoku | Simplify the XML descriptions of puzzle shapes | |
DONE | KSudoku | Add XML and Desktop files for seven new two-dimensional puzzle shapes | |
DONE | KSudoku | Add XML and Desktop files for three new three-dimensional puzzle shapes | |
DONE | KSudoku | Improve the quality and relevance of KSudoku hints | |
DONE | KSudoku | Make Load and Save work correctly for all puzzle types, including display of small markers/notes and restart of the puzzle clock from a saved value | |
DONE | KSudoku | Integrate the new generator/solver and the old KSudoku code more closely | |
DONE | KSudoku | Make puzzle features easier to see and use by improving highlighting, control and settings in both 2-D and 3-D puzzles and adding keyboard input to 3-D puzzles | |
DONE | KMahjongg | Make the BoardEditor running again | |
DONE | KMahjongg | Implement an option for random layouts |
kdegraphics
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Gwenview | Fullscreen browse | |
DONE | Okular | Store annotations with documents Bug #151614 | |
DONE | Okular | Print annotations in PDF documents | |
DONE | Okular | Annotations Screen support (embedded movies in PDF) Bug #172847 | |
DONE | Okular | Aggressive page preloading Bug #184196 | |
DONE | Okular | Hyphen-aware search Bug #190433 | |
DONE | Okular | Multiple bookmarks per page Bug #157198 | |
DONE | Okular | Allow the renaming of bookmark "parent" items | |
DONE | Okular | Allow the page number selector to be added to the toolbar Bug #279128 | |
DONE | Okular | Double click to select workds Bug #187347 | |
DONE | Okular | Make Okular inhibit sleep and screen power management when in Presentation mode | |
DONE | Okular | Behavior for left/right arrow keys (Review 104596) | |
DONE | Okular | Remember the mouse mode on exit | |
DONE | Okular | Make search from the current page the default |
kdemultimedia
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | JuK | last.fm scrobbling | |
DONE | JuK | cover-fetching from last.fm | |
DONE | JuK | MPRIS2 support | |
DONE | JuK | MPRIS2 support | |
DONE | Dragon | MPRIS2 support | |
DONE | JuK | Support embedded cover art for MP4/AAC files |
kdenetwork
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Kopete | Add option to group all offline users into a "Offline Users" group | |
DONE | Kopete | Show contact's status change in chat window | |
DONE | Kopete | Add context option "rename" to contacts and allow changing custom display name inline. |
kdepim
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Akonadi Google Resources | Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime
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DONE | KTnef | Bring back KTnef from the KDE3 days. KTnef is a standalone TNEF attachment viewer
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DONE | Akonadi Kolab Resources | Kolab resource using the Kolab libraries to kdepim-runtime
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DONE | Extend Akonotes Format | Extend the akonotes format to support features required by zanshin and kolab
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DONE | Import pim data | ImportWizard allows to import settings/mails/filters/calendar/addressbook from thunderbird/evolution/etc. when exists.
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DONE | Archive Mail Agent | Archive Mail Agent archives your mail folders on a scheduled basis.
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DONE | Backup Mail | Backup Mail saves/restores mail config/config (akonadi)/database nepomuk/resources etc.
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kdeplasma-addons
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Now Playing | replace with QML version | |
IN PROGRESS | Microblog | replace with QML version | |
IN PROGRESS | StackFolder | Add applet for quick browse the stack of folders |
kdesdk
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Okteta | Add view profiles, incl. editor/manager | |
TO DO | Okteta | Add a general KPart adapter to Kasten, than finish port of Okteta KPart to Okteta Kasten | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Add global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Add Kate-like combined dialogs to query for actions on files | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | add Kate-like search tool | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Add Okular like embedded notifications | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | add support for import by drop, both url and data | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | add support for memory mapping of files and 64-bit addressing | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | add support for jobs like io, printing, string search or filter | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Improve the titels of the changes to the bytearray to be more descriptive, best using ids to avoid text string | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Merge row and column widgets into one | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Store bookmarks | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | Add custom datatypes to structures tool | Alex Richardson <[email protected]> |
DONE | Lokalize | Optimize TM fuzzy searching | |
DONE | Lokalize | File search tab | |
DONE | Lokalize | .ts support | |
DONE | Umbrello | diagram auto layout support | |
DONE | Umbrello | diagram graphviz dot export | |
DONE | Thumbnail | PO thumbnailer |
kdeutils
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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