Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.6 release.

See also:


Legend:

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


kdebase-apps

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Konsole Move to KTabWidget
IN PROGRESS Dolphin Faceted browsing via Nepomuk


kdebase-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Plasma Plasma KPart Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Focus tracking for the zoom plugin (uses kaccessible)
DONE KWin Extend mouse tracking modes for the zoom plugin


kdebase-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
Plasma
IN PROGRESS libtaskmanager support for Windows 7 like launchers
KWin
IN PROGRESS dashboard effect new effect for Plasma dashboard


kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
DONE libnepomuk Convenience operator overloads for query construction
DONE libnepomuk New query flags and improved handling of full text matching scores including sorting
TO DO kdeui Generic find bar widget Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE kdeui Allow getting and setting the size of the pixmap cache in KImageCache
DONE katepart scripted actions
DONE katepart QAccessibleInterface's for document+cursor
DONE libplasma PluginLoader class
DONE libplasma Allow SVGs to use systemcolors before rendering
IN PROGRESS libnepomuk/KIO Search excerpts
IN PROGRESS libnepomuk Standardqueries for convenience
IN PROGRESS libnepomuk GUI elements for resource/file searching including faceted browsing
IN PROGRESS kdecore Add more possible synchronization primitives to KSharedDataCache to expand OS support. POSIX Semaphores Contributed by Alberto Villa of the FreeBSD project. Windows support may still occur as well.
TO DO kdecore Add fallback to QCache<QString,QByteArray> in KSharedDataCache. Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO kdecore Add cache-wide timestamp to KSharedDataCache. Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO kdecore Add ability to make KSharedDataCache strictly read-only for laptop support. Michael Pyne <[email protected]>


kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Marble GPX import of routes Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE Marble Route printing (map and directions, configurabe)
DONE Marble Route state saving and restoring
DONE Marble Convert MarbleRunners to plugins
DONE Marble worldwide and offline routing
DONE Marble Extend MarbleRunner interface to handle reverse geocoding and routing requests; Display of alternative routes
IN PROGRESS Marble Routing API
IN PROGRESS Marble Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending
TO DO Marble Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE Marble Tile download along the route for offline usage
IN PROGRESS Marble Turn-by-turn navigation mode
TO DO Marble Multi threaded texture mapping Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE Marble Improve GeoData API
DONE Marble Convert Gps tracking to GeoDataDocument
DONE Marble Provide a treeModel for GeoDataDocuments
DONE Marble Draw the geometries of multiple GeoDataDocuments
IN PROGRESS Marble Load Pnt vector data files as GeoData
IN PROGRESS Marble Manipulate Gps track data
DONE Cantor Backend for GNU Octave
TO DO Cantor Merge R improvement branch Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
TO DO Cantor Variable management panel Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
DONE Kalzium Port Kalzium to use QGV based periodic table widget
DONE KAlgebra Implicit functions plot
DONE KAlgebra Improved execution speed on the calculator
DONE KAlgebra Better integration between the Console and the Plotting facilities


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]>
TO DO JuK Add MPRIS support to JuK so that the NowPlaying applet doesn't need to special-case JuK. Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Update JuK's MusicBrainz support to a modern version of MusicBrainz. Michael Pyne <[email protected]>



kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS libkdegames Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.
IN PROGRESS Kigo Fix KNewStuff provider issues
IN PROGRESS Palapeli Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.
TO DO Palapeli Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog. Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE Kajongg Docbook: Describe the basic game, until now I supposed the player already knows how to play Mah Jong.
DONE Kajongg Tiles can be discarded with drag&drop.
DONE Kajongg Make robot player AI more intelligent.
DONE Kajongg Make tiles in the hand larger and the wall tiles smaller for better playability on small screens.
DONE Kajongg Make games suspendable/resumable.
IN PROGRESS Kajongg Animate moving tiles.
TO DO Kajongg Add more rulesets like other Classical Chinese variants and the international tournament rules. Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE KGoldrunner Save and restore the current control-mode, keyboard-control option and game-speed settings.
DONE KGoldrunner Add a keyboard-mode option to start moving when a direction-key is pressed and stop when it is released. Support multiple keys being pressed.
DONE Klickety An adaptation of the "clickomania" game.Rewrite the kde3 version.
IN PROGRESS Klickety Merge KSame into Klickety.


kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Lokalize Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Continue implementing XLIFF spec Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Segmentation [editing] functionality Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO Lokalize Remote translation memories Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!) Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518) Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Nepomukshell New Nepomukshell development tool allowing to browse and debug Nepomuk data Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>


kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Ark Add a "Preview with..." context menu item Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Add an options dialog (maybe) Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Get rid of the Observer code in Kerfuffle Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Make error reporting work as expected in Kerfuffle Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Make Kerfuffle really thread-safe (and use threads in less places) Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Make the internal previewer optional Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Simplify Kerfuffle's API (jobs, interfaces etc) and try to make it stable Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files) Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
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 Add view profiles, incl. editor/manager 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 printer-applet Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.
TO DO Okteta Add view profiles Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>


kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Kontact Plasma-based Summary Page



kdeaccessibility

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KAccessible Added a dbus-service and a QAccessibleBridgePlugin for focus tracking (used in KMagnifier and the KWin zoom plugin).
DONE KMagnifier Follow Focus Mode for Focus Tracking (uses kaccessible).
DONE KAccessible Added Screenreader (uses speech-dispatcher)


kdeartwork

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KDE Asciiquarium Added a new ASCII sprite (a submarine). Contributed by Ryan Meldrum.