Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Feature Plan

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Revision as of 23:30, 22 April 2012 by *>Pippin (→‎kde-workspace)

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.9 release.

See also:


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


kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KGlobalSettings Make KGlobalSettings reread locale settings before calling settingsChanged().


kde-runtime

Status Project Description Contact


kde-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
DONE ksmserver Port shutdown dialog to QML
IN PROGRESS plasma MPRIS2 dataengine
TO DO kwin "Move" command should allow off-screen window moving same as Alt + click trick (Bug 229942) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Quick Tile shortcuts should be toggle buttons (Bug 263755) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Display application menu and title bar side by side for maximized windows (Bug 102607) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Insufficient stacking order handling for deleted windows (Bug 158262) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin No reason given why some desktop effects cannot be activated (Bug 209213) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Add support for appmenu-qt (Bug 266596) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Placement Policy 'under mouse' (Bug 272162) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Kill helper should be out of process (Bug 295940) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Decoration KCM should show comment for decoration (Bug 296041) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Lanczos Filter broken after screen size changes (Bug 296065) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin DesktopThumbnailItem for QML (Bug 296067) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Packages for Desktop Switching Layouts (Bug 296068) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Walk Through Desktop layout rendering desktop previews (Bug 296069) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Move ThumbnailBar from BoxSwitch to CoverSwitch (Bug 296070) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Drop BoxSwitch effect (Bug 296071) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Different binary name for KWin Active (Bug 296084) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Import Scripted Effect from All Effets Tab (Bug 296772) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin GHNS support for Scripted Effects (Bug 296773) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin GHNS support for KWin Scripts (Bug 296774) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin KConf Update Script for KWin 4.9 (Bug 296775) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Long caption in Thumbnail layout overlaps box for only one item (Bug 297028) <[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]>
TO DO kwin GHNS support for Window Switching Layouts (Bug 297636) <[email protected]>
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 Window Switcher KCM needs to be reworked (Bug 297639) <[email protected]>
TO DO kwin Document global JavaScript methods in KWin Scripting API documentation (Bug 297640) <[email protected]>
DONE kwin JJ: kwin fulscreen / un-fullscreen system notifications (Bug 124612)
DONE kwin JJ: Use arrow keys to control cover switch. (Bug 178595)
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 JJ: Synchronize Show Desktop wording in all tabbox effects (Bug 273478)
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 Synchronize user actions menu with libtaskmanager (Bug 296056)


kde-baseapps

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO FolderView Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment Ignat Semenov <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dolphin Allow to show any kind of metadata like ratings, tags, comments, image-sizes, music-artist, ... beside each item of the view.
IN PROGRESS 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
TO DO Dolphin Implement inline renaming for the new view-engine Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE Dolphin Allow to optionally set a maximum number of lines for the icons-view



kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
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 Rocs Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms
DONE Rocs Extend graph data structure to support overlay graphs
DONE Rocs Stepped execution of algorithms
IN PROGRESS Rocs General unit test cleanup and overhauling
TO DO Rocs New Project Wizard - guided creation based on loaded plugins Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Project journal files
TO DO Kig Improve Cancel Construction and Undo actions David E. Narváez <[email protected]>


kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
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)
IN PROGRESS Kajongg Add support for other rule variants, starting with Classical Chinese variants
TO DO Kajongg Print rulesets, also more than one in parallel for comparisons Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS libkdegames Major cleanup and rewrite
IN PROGRESS KGoldrunner Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky
TO DO KGoldrunner Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games, possibly using Get Hot New Stuff Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
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


kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Gwenview Fullscreen browse Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>



kdemultimedia

Status Project Description Contact
DONE JuK last.fm scrobbling
DONE JuK cover-fetching from last.fm
IN PROGRESS JuK MPRIS2 support


kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
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
TO DO Akonadi Google Resources Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime Dan Vratil <[email protected]>


DONE KTnef Bring back KTnef from the KDE3 days. KTnef is a standalone TNEF attachment viewer



kdeplasma-addons

Status Project Description Contact


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]>
DONE Lokalize Optimize TM fuzzy searching
DONE Lokalize File search tab
TO DO Lokalize .ts support
IN PROGRESS Umbrello diagram auto layout support
IN PROGRESS Umbrello diagram graphviz dot export


kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact