Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the 4.2 release.

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  • done => completed

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Status Project Description Contact
TO DO System Settings add Administrator mode button ? <?>
IN PROGRESS Eigen Finish version 2.0 and move it to kdesupport Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>
TO DO Eigen Port all Eigen-using code in KDE and KOffice to Eigen 2.0 Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS kross Extend QtScript integration. Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KDEPrint Reintroduce KDEPrint in some form, depending on what Qt4.4 delivers. 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 KDEPrint Migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter, modify to utilise new Qt4.4 features. To be discussed on k-c-d first. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalenderSystem Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian. (Note, not all may live in kdelibs or be available as a global calendar system) John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement KLocale based methods to return weekend days and day of religious observance. Currently KCalendarSystem provides dayOfPray(), but for Gregorian this is not correct in all locales where it is used. Currently KDatePicker hardcodes Saturday and dayOfPray() as weekend days which may not be correct in all locales. To be discussed first on k-c-d and with kdepim. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO Phonon add Port class for fine grained control over data flow between Phonon objects Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Phonon make AbstractMediaStream/StreamInterface threadsafe Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Phonon "low-level" PCM I/O with at least an ALSA implementation Matthias Kretz and Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Phonon VideoWidget snapshot function Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KDEPrint reintroduce KDEPrint Print Management tools, e.g. KCM, kprinter, kjobviewer, etc. Depends upon progress of kdelibs side of KDEPrint and Qt4.4 feature set. john Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma welcome plasmoid Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Plasmagik packaging (and package classes) Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Networkmanager Plasmoid and DataEngine Christopher Blauvelt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Krunner Configuration options for blacklisting, user ranking, runner ranking, learning Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Simple learning Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Simple GUI for above options Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Runners able to share parsing Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Noun-Verb support Ryan P. Bitanga <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma physics-based animator Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Improve the base set of plasmoids Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma New wallpapers Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma New way of handling wallpapers and different sizes (package format, and so on...) Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Top-level windows plasmoids Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>

kdepimlibs

Status Project Description Contact

kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Kopete MSNP15 implementation for MSN Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete UPnp Support Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3) Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Update Kopete to better support Decibel Kopete Developers <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Kjots Import notes from KNotes as KJots pages. Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
TO DO Kjots Email KJots pages using default mail client (bug #124509. Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Power Manager import either Guidance Power Manager or move kde4powersaver into kdeutils ? <?>
TO DO Okteta add Kate-like search tool Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta refactor KByteArrayView 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 parameter dialog for "Copy as..." Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>

kdebindings

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Smoke Wrap some more APIs (at least Akanodi for all languages and Plasma for C#) KDE-bindings developers <[email protected]>
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]>

kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS libkdegames New highscore management system Matt Williams <milliams>
TO DO kdiamond Drag jewels Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS ksirk Map scrolling arrows Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO ksirk KHotNewStuff skins Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO ksirk Jabber based net game finding Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Kate Port and reenable the Snippets plugin. Jakob Petsovits <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Lokalize XLIFF support Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
IN PROGRESS Lokalize various Translation Memory enhancements Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO Lokalize Kross-based scripting Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
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]>

kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KLettres Number support Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Theme manager Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KHangMan Add a Open File action Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
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 KLettres Visual indicator when letter is wrong Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Kalzium Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView. Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
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]>