Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the 4.3 release.

See also:


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  • todo => not started yet
  • in-progress => started, but not completed yet
  • done => completed

Other

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Akonadi Various Akonadi related items can be found here http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Scheduled_for_KDE_4.3_.2F_Akonadi_1.2 Akonadi Developers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KPackageKit Pushing in KPackageKit (dependant on PolicyKit integration)

kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KLocale Investigate adding Currency Code and currency minor units support based on ISO 4217 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217). John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdecore Thread safety in ksycoca (KService, KMimeType etc.)
IN PROGRESS Sonnet Implement language detection
IN PROGRESS Sonnet Integrate language detection with spellchecking
TO DO Sonnet Integrate language detection with strigi Jakub Stachowski <[email protected]>
TO DO Sonnet Grammar checking (at least for English) Jakub Stachowski <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kio Move KTcpSocket to kio and make it public; some cleanup required
TO DO KCalendarSystem Add new astronomical calculation support classes to be used in kdelibs to build new astronomically based calendar systems, and in kdepim to build new version of libkholiday. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalendarSystem Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, etc. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KDEPrint If no file printing support in Qt4.5, migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter. To be discussed on k-c-d first. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KDEPrint Add framework for standard actions for 'Send to...' for e-mail, fax, etc by printing to PDF/PS. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO kdeui entries to help menu and aboutdata pointing to UserBase entry and forum.kde.org Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO kdesu Classes to help kde-apps open ports in the local firewall (via IPTables/IPFW, etc...) Tejas Dinkar <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO Kxkb Support for languages in keyboard layout descriptions Andriy Rysin <rysin:AT:kde.org>
DONE PolicyKit integration Import PolicyKit-KDE from extragear
DONE Solid Actions KCM Import Solid actions KControl module from playground
TO DO KControl4 Import refactor of systemsettings with Tree and Icon view support Ben Cooksley and Mathias Soeken <ben(at)eclipse(dot)endoftheinternet(dot)org+msoeken(at)informatik(dot)uni-bremen(dot)de>
DONE KSysguard Added GetHotNewStuff support
IN PROGRESS KActiveEdges Split active screen edges from KWin
IN PROGRESS Solid Wicd Engine Import Solid Wicd engine from github/playground
DONE Klipper Made klipper automatically find possible actions based on filename copied to clipboard
DONE Klipper Improved action adding/editing workflow by implementing a special dialog for editing a certain action


KRunner
Plasma - Priority Features
Plasma
TO DO Now Playing data engine Support for MPD Alex Merry <kde:AT:randomguy3.me.uk>
DONE Classic Menu Launcher Optional recently used applications and System Settings menu
IN PROGRESS Reusable video widget A widget in libplasma that can play video and audio
IN PROGRESS Message box A message box shown as an overlay over plasmoids
IN PROGRESS Systemtray protocol New systemtray protocol beginnings: daemon and systemtray widget part
IN PROGRESS Default theme Air: new default Plasma theme
IN PROGRESS screensaver security constraints
IN PROGRESS keyboard shortcuts configuration
TO DO icon plasmoid make it suck less Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO desktop make a plasmoid when I paste stuff Chani <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS extenders Add grouping support to extenders
IN PROGRESS systemtray Group multiple jobs and notifications


KWin - Core
TO DO KWin Redesign KWin system settings GUI Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
TO DO KWin ARGB support for decorations Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KWin Window docking/quick tiling
TO DO KWin Internal desktop layout/pager support Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KWin Non-composited Present Windows
IN PROGRESS KWin Tabbox improvements
KWin - Desktop Effects
TO DO KWin Expand present windows into other effects (E.g. Desktop Grid) Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO KWin OpenGL 3 compatible Shaders Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO KWin Improved cube reflection Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Fade desktop effect (Desktop switcher)
DONE KWin Highlight window effect

kdepimlibs

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Buildsystem Require OpenLDAP (coordinate with the Windows team) Allen Winter <[email protected]>
TO DO Buildsystem Require Cyrus-SASL (coordinate with the Windows team) Allen Winter <[email protected]>
TO DO libkleopatraclient New interface library for kleopatra uiserver clients Marc Mutz <[email protected]>
TO DO pimtextedit New library around text edits, to provide support for inline images in the signature editor, among others Thomas McGuire <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Kopete UPnp Support
DONE Kopete Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3)
TO DO Kopete Update Kopete to better support Decibel Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Jabber Jingle video support Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Jabber Jingle ICE support Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Contacts plasmoid
IN PROGRESS KGet MultiSource-Downloading
TO DO KGet Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO KGet MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO KGet Advanced Details Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KRDC NX support
TO DO KRDC Minimal-clutter mode to optimize screen real estate usage Guillaume Pothier <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Telepathy Telepathy-specification compliant Account Manager using KWallet to store account data
IN PROGRESS Telepathy Account Editing UI for Telepathy

kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Akonadi Migration of contacts and calendar data from KResource to Akonadi (Details)
IN PROGRESS Akregator Support for syncing the feed list with Google Reader
DONE KAlarm Add export of alarms to a new calendar file
DONE KAlarm Allow configuration of default deferral time interval
DONE KAlarm Accept drag-and-drop of Todo entries to create a new alarm
DONE KAlarm Show command execution error indication in alarm list
DONE KAlarm Add option to spread alarm windows across screen
TO DO KAlarm Port to Akonadi David Jarvie <[email protected]>
TO DO KBlogger KBlogger, a blogging application Christian Weilbach <[email protected]>
TO DO KBlogger Port to use KRichTextEdit (Or KMEditor) Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KContactManager A new Akonadi-based address book to replace KAddressbook
IN PROGRESS Kjots Create and port to akonadi model.
TO DO Kjots Add support for nepomuk including tagging, possibly storage, and linking. Also a nepomuk tag proxy model for representing the structure as tagged. Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kjots Create plasmoid capable of showing the entire tree, or a single book.
TO DO Kjots Email KJots pages using default mail client (Bug #124509. Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kleopatra OpenPGP support
DONE KMail Add support for HTML images
TO DO KMail Use asynchronous Kleo Marc Mutz <[email protected]>
TO DO KMail Save metadata about attachments to Nepomuk when saving them Ismail Onur Filiz <[email protected]>
TO DO KNode Port to use KRichTextEdit (Or KMEditor) Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
TO DO Kontact Support for Kontact wide profiles Kolab Konsortium <[email protected]>
TO DO Kontact Tip-of-the-Day summary Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]>
TO DO KOrganizer Support for extended free-busy lists Kolab Konsortium <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KPilot Port old conduits to new base conduit architecture and KDE4/Qt4
IN PROGRESS KPilot Finish Keyring conduit, base conduit code and test cases, category syncing

kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO printer-applet Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta make editing capability to Decoding table Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add Kate-like search tool 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 copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add support for memory mapping of files Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add further export formats like s-record and intel 16 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 kwalletmanager Move kwalletmanager to the Model/View architecture and redesign the UI. Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdelirc Bring back kdelirc
TO DO ark Improve support for pure gzip and bzip2 files Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>

kdebindings

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO krossjava Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up. Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO krossjava Documentation++ Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO krossfalcon Documentation++ Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KGoldrunner Add Curse of the Mummy game (20 levels), contributed by Steve Mann.
IN PROGRESS KGoldrunner Major rewrite, mainly of the game engine and editor.
IN PROGRESS KGoldrunner More accurate and reliable pause and resume.
TO DO KGoldrunner Save and reload at any instant in a game. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
TO DO KGoldrunner Record and replay games. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
TO DO KGoldrunner Run demos ... especially at startup or as hints for difficult levels. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
TO DO KGoldrunner Hot-new-stuff support for themes and game sets. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
TO DO KGoldrunner Integration of the Scavenger game (180 new levels) and its rule-set. This would also involve allowing different grid dimensions for different games, as a feature of the new game engine. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
TO DO KGoldrunner Better support for beginners, such as graphical cues for false bricks and hidden ladders, extra messages with "don't tell me this again", etc. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Killbots Add "sonic screwdriver" functionality.
TO DO Killbots Add a tutorial for beginners. Parker Coates <[email protected]>
TO DO Kolf Replace with Kolf 2 (please help!) Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE KPatience Add a command line switch to manually launch a game of a certain type.
DONE KPatience Add an option to save the game state at shutdown to be automatically be restored on next run.
DONE KPatience Add the ability to return to the game selection screen after selecting a game.
TO DO KsirK rewrite AI code or at least correct most problems related in bug #170777. Volunteers wanted! Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774 Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...) Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK Boost playing over Jabber Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KSpaceDuel rewrite AI code Dirk Rathlev <[email protected]>
DONE ktron Port and remake the KTron game for KDE 4.3
TO DO KSudoku Import the new logic engine as a library Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>
TO DO KSudoku Port KSudoku to the new engine Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>
TO DO KSudoku Add interactive help Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>

kdeadmin

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KGrubEditor Integrate KGrubEditor into KDE Admin http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgrubeditor. Approved by Nicolas Ternisien <[email protected]> Konstantinos Smanis <artemis_dot_fowl_dot_2007@gmail_dot_com>
TO DO Guidance Port Guidance to KDE 4, and move it to KDE Admin http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/. Nicolas Ternisien <[email protected]>
TO DO system-config-printer-kde Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. john Layt <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Lokalize XLIFF support
IN PROGRESS Lokalize various Translation Memory enhancements
IN PROGRESS Lokalize Kross-based scripting
TO DO Lokalize QA: glossary checklists Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO KAppTemplate Add DBUS support in templates Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
DONE Umbrello Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant
IN PROGRESS Umbrello Merge in SoC qgraphicsview port branch

kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KAlgebra Export to MathML Presentation Markup Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
TO DO KAlgebra Some integration with the new KFormula widget Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KAlgebra Add ability to draw 3D plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
TO DO Kalzium Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView. Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
TO DO Kalzium Remove the libavogadro snapshot, depend on libavogadro directly. Benoit Jacob <[email protected]>
TO DO Kalzium Plasmoid to access Kalzium database Carsten Niehaus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KEduca Rewrite of the classic test writing/taking application
TO DO KHangMan Integrate an editor Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KHangMan Plasmoid Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KHangMan Theme manager Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Properties dialog for objects. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve construction of bisect lines. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve feedback when constructing objects. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig More geometric objects. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Script objects as macros (to be reused more than once). Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve the Cabri import filter. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve the new/edit script wizard. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Visual Indicator when letter is wrong Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Number support Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Theme manager Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Marble widget for Geolocation tool Médéric Boquien <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Better printed star charts Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Sync KStars time from device Jasem Mutlaq <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Better rendering of comets/asteroids Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Texture mapping of the skymap??? Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Improve Observing List Wizard Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Display Comet Magnitudes whenever possible Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Information links in-place for each technical term Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Tool to suggest star-hopping techniques??? Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Extend conjunction tool to have one object unspecified, but have a genre of objects specified instead Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Simulate Lunar Eclipses Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Simulate Satellites and Iridium Flares Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Social and Geographical Integration for KStars Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KTurtle Optional rulers/grid for canvas units Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Export map to MxN pixel bitmap Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Bookmarks Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool ) Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Map Contents translation Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Editing GeoDataFeatures Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Layer Management Class
IN PROGRESS Marble Plugin architecture for map layers
IN PROGRESS Marble Extending GeoPainter
IN PROGRESS Marble Marble Runners
IN PROGRESS Marble GeoClue Integration
IN PROGRESS Marble Routing
IN PROGRESS Marble More map providers (WMS?)
IN PROGRESS Marble Winkel Triple projection / equivalent
IN PROGRESS Marble Marble WorldClock Plasmoid
IN PROGRESS Marble Qt-Version settings dialog
IN PROGRESS Marble Panoramio Support
IN PROGRESS Marble Twitter Plugin
IN PROGRESS Marble TimeZone Support
IN PROGRESS Marble Support for other planets and the moon
IN PROGRESS Marble DGML2 Support
IN PROGRESS Marble Support for imperial units
IN PROGRESS Marble Graticule plugin
IN PROGRESS Marble MeasureTool plugin
IN PROGRESS Marble Port authors list from the Qt-About dialog to the KDE-About dialog
IN PROGRESS Marble Basic KML support
IN PROGRESS Marble GeoData Model/View Visualization
IN PROGRESS Marble More generic projection support
IN PROGRESS Marble Network plugins
IN PROGRESS Parley Declensions
TO DO Step Improve GUI for creating softbody Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
TO DO Step Use common constraints handling code for collisions Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO JuK Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
DONE JuK Use XCOMPOSITE real transparency when available for the track announcement popup
TO DO JuK Allow disabling crossfade Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status Project Description Contact

kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Okular Generator for Mobipocket format
DONE strigi Thumbnailer and analyzer for Mobipocket format
DONE strigi Analyzer for epub format
TO DO Okular Sound annotations. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Okular Link annotations. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Okular Caret annotations. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Okular Support .snp and .emf file formats Brad Hards <[email protected]>
TO DO Okular Synctex support. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Okular Rich-text for annotations text. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO kruler More ruler shapes. Mathias Soeken <msoeken_at_tzi_dot_de>
DONE kruler Configurable shortcuts.
TO DO kruler DBUS Interface. Mathias Soeken <msoeken_at_tzi_dot_de>
DONE kruler Transparent background and opaque drawing of the lines and numbers (Qt 4.5).
TO DO gwenview Folder view. Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Make thumbnail bar more customizable (orientation, number of row/column). Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Add back video support. Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
DONE libksane Add "Auto selection" after preview.

kdebase-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS drkonqi DrKonqi new dialog UI + Guided crash reporting tool
IN PROGRESS drkonqi Backtrace parsing and rating
TO DO drkonqi DrKonqi native english texts + guide Dario Andres <[email protected]>

kdebase-apps

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS konq_thumbnails Basic thumbnail support for KHTMLPart views(almost finished, now cleanup code)
TO DO konq_thumbnails thumbnail support for all KonqFrame Siyuan Cao <[email protected]>
TO DO konq_thumbnails more thumbnail page styles and customization Siyuan Cao <[email protected]>
TO DO konqueror "Places" sidebar to replace KDE3's "media:/" Simon St James <kdedevel_at_etotheipiplusone_dot_com>
TO DO konqueror Move Dolphin's Treeview to libkonq so that it can be used in Konqueror Simon St James <kdedevel_at_etotheipiplusone_dot_com>
TO DO konqueror Move Dolphin's Information panel to libkonq so that it can be used in Konqueror Simon St James <kdedevel_at_etotheipiplusone_dot_com>
IN PROGRESS dolphin Matthias's Audio/ Video preview in Information panel
TO DO dolphin Allow to configure and download service menus Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS dolphin Nepomuk search integration
IN PROGRESS dolphin Use Nepomuk to receive the meta data for the Information panel
IN PROGRESS konsole Get a working DBus interface
TO DO konsole Redesign manage profile dialog to allow users to sort profiles Kurt Hindenburg <[email protected]>
TO DO konsole Allow window/terminal size to be set in profiles Kurt Hindenburg <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Video Plasmoid a media player widget complete with a basic dbus interface
DONE System Load Viewer A tiny monitor for CPU, RAM and swap usage (known as System Monitor in KDE3)
IN PROGRESS Comic Plasmoid Clean up the config-dialog
TO DO Comic Plasmoid Port to popup applet Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO PoTD Engine Import PoTD engine Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Metadata Engine Import Metadata engine Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Frame Plasmoid Display Picture Metadata Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Frame Plasmoid Add url as setting Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Frame Plasmoid Add buttons Next/Previous/pause in slideshow mode Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>