Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.8 release.

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


kde-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KWin Take over screensaver/locking management from KRunner
IN PROGRESS KCM make mouse cursor size configurable (http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101701/)
DONE powerdevil Remove Desktop Effects Management
IN PROGRESS powerdevil Allow static profiles only
IN PROGRESS powerdevil Allow activity interaction
TO DO Plasma Add MPRIS2 support to nowplaying Alex Merry <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Allow task grouping on the taskbar to work together with kwin window tabbing


kde-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS ksecretsserviced KSecretsService daemon implementing the freedesktop.org secrets API. KDE applications will want to use the related kdelibs API (see below)


IN PROGRESS DrKonqi Better duplicate detection
IN PROGRESS DrKonqi Scripting support


kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Kate Part Line modification system
DONE Kate Part Modeline Editor
DONE Kate Part Reliable code folding
DONE Kate Part Improved vi input mode
IN PROGRESS kdeui KSecretsService API addition
IN PROGRESS kdeui/util Connect KWallet class to KSecretsService client API


kde-baseapps

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Dolphin Implement new view-engine for Dolphin 2.0 (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html)
TO DO Dolphin Implement support for back/forward mouse buttons Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE Kate Search & Replace in files plugin
IN PROGRESS Kate Make GDB target selection behave like the build plugin
IN PROGRESS Kate Add convenience options for remote debugging


kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KTouch New organisation of keyboard and lecture files according to languages
IN PROGRESS KTouch New organisation of menu system: Training, Statistic, Settings
TO DO KTouch End of lecture statistics Rüthemann Peter <[email protected]>
DONE Rocs Alignment Actions to minimize crossing graph edges
TO DO Rocs Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO Rocs Stepped Execution of Algorithms Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Resurrect import-/export-features
IN PROGRESS Rocs User Interface Cleanup
IN PROGRESS Cantor Add Qalculate backend
DONE Marble Marble Runner plugins for Parsing files
DONE Marble (GSoC) OSM file rendering
DONE Marble Marble Graphics Scene (Performance of Vector Drawing)
DONE Marble Gps Info Plugin
IN PROGRESS Marble Routing API
IN PROGRESS Marble Adjustable Map Orientation (Rotation in Screen Plane)
IN PROGRESS Marble Speedometer Plugin
TO DO KTurtle Add modulo command Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>


kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO attachment:/ kio-slave Implement kio-slave to access (email) attachments in Akonadi Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KAlarm Port to Akonadi


TO DO sieve: implement wizard Implement wizard to help user to create sieve script Montel Laurent <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS HTML Replies Give messagecomposer (especially for KMail) the ability to compose replies in HTML



kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
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 Okteta Add custom datatypes to structures tool Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Okteta Add Flags Datatype to structures tool
IN PROGRESS dolphin-plugins Mercurial plugin for Dolphin


kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Libkdegames Improve graphics performance in all games by standardizing on the use of Qt Raster Graphics.
IN PROGRESS KSudoku Add a new generator and solver to KSudoku, based on published algorithms. This will provide a full range of puzzle difficulties, rather than mainly easy puzzles, and will address bug 217925 and its duplicates 228614 and 237262 (now nearly two years old).
IN PROGRESS KSudoku Re-implement the puzzle-symmetry feature.
IN PROGRESS KSudoku Re-order the puzzle types on the welcome screen. Use KDE Games Difficulty combo-box instead of a slider. Save user's choices of puzzle between sessions. Do minor tidy-ups of the user interface.
IN PROGRESS KGoldrunner Add the championship level "Gold Rush" game, with Traditional rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.
IN PROGRESS KGoldrunner Add the championship level "Jail Break" game, with KGoldrunner rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.


kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Okular Reset Form Action support
IN PROGRESS Gwenview Animated image transitions


kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS ksecrets A suite of tools related to the KSecretsService infrastructure