Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Goals

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    KDE Development Platform

    • Nepomuk is now able to search on non-mounted media
    • Nepomuk: New Virtuoso backend, much faster, more scalable
    • Nepomuk: KIO slave for querying Nepomuk resources
    • libksane (scanner library): basic scanner support for Windows
    • improved exiv2 support in libkexiv2
    • Add Odd/Even page selection and server-side page selection when using CUPS
       Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!)
    
    • Thumbnail previews for Comicbook format
    • KAuth: Authorization framework, harnesses PolicyKit, used in
      • Font installer
      • System Activity



    Plasma Workspace and basic widgets

    • Storage devices can now automatically be mounted
    • Networkmanager frontend (knetworkmanager)
      • Experimental network-manager plasma widget
    • Bookmark runner now also supports Firefox' bookmarks
    • Improved layout for the battery widget's popup
    • OpenGL accelerated popup animation
    • Support for Plasma widgets in the system tray
    • System tray items can now be automatically shown or hidden
    • Workflow and layout improvements in the device manager widget
    • Improved KMix OSD
    • Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian.

    Other widgets and addons

    Window & Compositing Manager

    • New: Window maximizing and tiling by snapping to the screen-edges ("Aero Snap")
    • Native window tabs: Arbitrary windows can be grouped in tabs
    • Window Management Plugin for KRunner
    • Subtle animations in the window decoration, and other options to customize the window behavior
    • Alt+Tab window switching improvements
    • Improvements in present windows, flip switch, logout effect


    KDE Applications

    • KStars: Observation plan manager
    • KAlgebra
      • support for lists
      • better MathML presentation support, lambda expressions, jump detections
      • new 2d parametric function plotting
    • New Edu app: Cantor
    • New Edu app: Rocs
    • New game: Granatier
    • New game: Palapeli

    Network

    • Kopete: Create avatars from a webcam
    • KRDC:
      • Telepathy Tubes support,
      • full screen switching
    • KGet:
      • better support for verification of downloaded files
      • Broken downloads can be repaired
      • Support for adding mirrors, moving and renaming files while downloading
      • Assistant to create metalinks

    PIM / Groupware

    • New: KAddressbook rewrite for Akonadi
    • KMail:
      • Archiving of emails
      • Improved recipient picker
      • searching by tag
      • Clickable HTML statusbar
      • Collapsible recipient fields
      • Error messages are now passive, less disturbant to workflow
      • Templating improvements

    Utils

    • Okteta Hex Editor:
      • Improved selecting mechanism
      • Base64 encoding
      • Split views
      • Storing of bookmarks