Contribute/ImportantWorkToBeDone

Contents 1 General 2 KDE technologies 3 KDE applications 3.1 Unmaintained 3.2 Maintained 4 Bugtracker: bugs.kde.org 5 Other

General

• FIXME comments: http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=cpp&string=%2F%2FFIXME
• TODO comments: http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=cpp&string=%2F%2FTODO
• Warning compiler comments: http://lxr.kde.org/search?filestring=cpp&string=%23warning

KDE technologies

• KDELIBS
  • Update KBugReport to use the new enterbug form (which replaces the wizard) Wizard was adapted to forward the data to enter_bug
  • Improve the KBugReport UI dialog, improve the app/component selection

• Phonon
  • (In progress) Get someone to review phonon bug reports on BKO; or submit them upstream [sandsmark]
  • More collaboration/connection between KDE and Qt teams about this technology Qt "dropped" Phonon, KDE team takes responsibility
  • Pulseaudio mess Fixed in latest Phonon

• Solid
  • (In progress) Solid-bluetooth needs a maintainer [afiestas got the maintainership of kbluetooth]

• Other
  • libkcddb needs a maintainer

KDE applications

Unmaintained

• KThemeManager could be removed from the code (kdebase/workspace/kcontrol)

• Find a maintainer for KFind
  • It needs a rewrite/check of some parts (to not use Process events)
  • Improve UI / Extract to UI file
  • Strigi/Nepomuk integration
  • KFindPart should be removed (unused according to lxr.kde.org) Done for KDESC4.5

• Find a maintainer for KWikdisk/KDiskFree [sandmark has suggest to replace those apps with filelight]
  • Integrate Solid devices
  • More portable / system-independant code
  • Fixes on the treewidget and model implementation

• Find a maintainer for KSystraycmd
  • Port to the new systray icon library

• Find a maintainer for DragonPlayer [eean is the official maintainer, sandsmark is willing to accept bug reports]

• Find a maintainer for KRFB (or remove/replace it) [grundleborg?]
• Find a maintainer for KInfoCenter?
  • Some modules need porting to Qt4 classes David Hubner is the new maintainer and he introduced a new solid-based device listing kcm

• Find maintainers for KCMs
  • (System Settings is maintained as of 4.3. Complete rewrite)

• Find a maintainer for KPPP

• Find a maintainer for KsCD

• Find a maintainer for Cervisia

• Find a maintainer for SuperKaramba? (or deprecate it?)

• Maintainer for KFloppy [replace it using DeviceKit by WindowsUninstall]

• Maintainer for KDETv

• Maintainer for Kiriki

• General maintainer for kde-bluetooth [afiestas]

• KWeather (kdetoys) could be removed done [hilefoks]

Maintained

• KScreenSaver + PowerDevil conflicts (dafre?)

• kdelibs and kdebase
  • Remove the use of Qt3/KDE3 classes
    • Screensaver KCM Implemented by DarioAndres
  • Do not use own deprecated API
  • Krazy2 fixes

• KDE apps
  • Don't use old icons (kappfinder) App moved to extragear...

• Plasma fixes
  • Kickoff should not delete all the setting when switching from/to Classical/Kickoff mode (patch proposed at http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2923/) patch is committed.

• Kopete
  • IRC Support
  • More developers needed!

• Konqueror
  • Search bar plugin assignee

• System Settings
  • Reorganize the KCM categories to follow some logic: (http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea54187 , http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea40210 , bug #157587
    • -> http://techbase.kde.org/User:DarioAndres/SystemSettingWork

• Plasmoid resizing issues:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasmoid-Issues --FiNeX 22:34, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• KEditBookmarks is very buggy. (it got some fixes lately so it should be more stable, however I still think a person was doing a rewrite...)

• KMenuEditor should be ported to not use Q3/K3 classes

• KHelpCenter needs to be ported to not use Q3/K3 classes

Bugtracker: bugs.kde.org

• Clean assignees (ping Nightrose) [Dario_Andres is working on it]
  • -> and... http://techbase.kde.org/User:DarioAndres/BugzillaCleanup
• Close KDE3 unmaintained crash reports of apps which have a KDE4 version:
  • Kaffeine?
• Find assigne person/ML for "kde" product
• Test bug reports and write steps/testcases
• Check old kde3 bug reports against their Kde4 versions and close/(or move to the proper category if needed)
  • kde, kdelibs, kio
  • kcontrol/systemsettings-kde3 -> systemsettings
  • kicker-> plasma
    • FiNeX : http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Kicker-bugs
  • kpdf -> okular
  • konqueror/filebrowsing -> dolphin
    • FiNeX : I'm working on this.
• Create a product for kinfocenter with its kcm_modules as components Product created and reassigned to its new maintainer
• (In progress) Reassign "k3b" to mandriva people too? [there is a new CC for k3b besides trueg] New maintainer

Other

• KDESCCodeCleanup