Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.5 release.

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


kdeadmin

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO system-config-printer-kde Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. [mailto: Jonathan Riddell, John Layt <>]



kdeartwork

Status Project Description Contact


kdebase-apps

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Konqueror Improvements in session-management Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
TO DO Konqueror Improvements in tab-bar widget Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Konqueror New Konqueror bookmarks using Akonadi and Nepomuk, awesome bar Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>


kdebase-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KWallet Single Sign On using PAM Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO network kioslave Backend for LISa Friedrich Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO network kioslave Backend for SMB Friedrich Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO network kioslave Integrate with remote and zeroconf kioslaves Friedrich Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Locale KCM Add support for new KLocale features (see kdelibs section) including Digit Groups, AM/PM, etc. Improvements to usability of existing money display options. John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS network kioslave Backend for UPnP Friedrich Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO network kioslave Backend to discover bluetooth devices and they services Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS bluetooth kioslave Backend to browse bluetooth devices Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>


kdebase-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO Icons KCM More configurable icon sizes Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO Fonts KCM More configurable fonts Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO Solid Write a new Bluetooth backend Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>


Plasma
TO DO systemtray visual connection between notifications and new protocol systray icons Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO libplasma/desktop Activity Manager UI Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO accounts applet a plasma widget that is a central place to add accounts to social sites like identica and opendesktop, optimized for the netbook shell Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO libplasma Improvements to Calendar/Clock widgets. Improved config ui. Allow multiple holidays on same day. Allow multiple Holiday Regions. Weekends. etc. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO folderview "Open folder" icon to open folder into pop-up at request instead of automatically. Bruno Bigras <[email protected]>



kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KStars Display Comet Magnitudes whenever possible Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Information links in-place for each technical term Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Tool to suggest star-hopping techniques??? Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Extend conjunction tool to have one object unspecified, but have a genre of objects specified instead Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Simulate Lunar Eclipses Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Simulate Satellites and Iridium Flares Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Social and Geographical Integration for KStars Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Marble widget for Geolocation tool Médéric Boquien <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Better printed star charts Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Better rendering of comets/asteroids Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Texture mapping of the skymap??? Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Add proper support for GPX waypoints, tracks and routes display Anders Lund <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Export map to MxN pixel bitmap Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Map Contents translation Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO Kalzium Port Kalzium to use QGV based periodic table widget Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
DONE Marble Support OpenStreetMap Nominatim as search backend (MarbleRunner) Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Generalized Animations with GeoDataLookAt support Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Online-Routing Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>


kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KBreakOut Level Sets Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO KBreakOut Sound Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO Kolf Replace with Kolf 2 (help on coding and artwork desired) Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK rewrite AI code or at least correct most problems related in bug #170777. Volunteers wanted! Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK Boost playing over Jabber Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KSquares Re-write computer player, make it act faster and more intelligent Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO KSquares Add more types of boards: hexagonal, triangular Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO KSudoku Import new engine Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>
TO DO KSudoku Port game to new engine Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>
TO DO KSudoku Adapt view to show information provided by engine Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>
TO DO KSudoku Add new actions to GUI Johannes Bergmeier <[email protected]>
TO DO Granatier Arena Editor Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kajongg New traditional Mahjongg for four players Wolfang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE Kigo Load SGF games from command line and register to mimetype 'application/x-go-sgf' Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KTuberling A new "fast switch" between playgrounds Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO Palapeli Recieve new puzzles over KNewStuff Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO Palapeli Introduce handicap as a means to configure difficulty Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO Palapeli Implement puzzle piles to organize pieces Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO Palapeli Quick piece grouping Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO Palapeli Add magnifying glass Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>


kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO libkdcraw Make color management options more flexible Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
TO DO libksane Improve auto-selection Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Show Nepomuk info in image meta info Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Persistent changes Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO okular Thumb creators via Okular Core Harsh J <[email protected]>



kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO katepart Add visual block mode and make the basic commands support it Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>
TO DO kdeui API to integrate KStatusNotifierItem and KNotification: both as class api and DBus specification API Davide Bettio <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalendarSystem Add new astronomical calculation support classes to be used in kdelibs to build new astronomically based calendar systems, and in kdepim to build new version of libkholiday. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalendarSystem Add new calendar systems: Bahaii, Coptic, Ethiopean, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, etc. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO kdecore Group policy (Windows) backend for KAuth Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
TO DO KDEPrint If no file printing support in Qt4.5, migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter. To be discussed on k-c-d first. 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 kdeui Implement caps-lock warning for password entry widgets Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO kio Better file information in file conflict dialog Todd <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement support for number grouping other than thousands using LC_NUMERIC and LC_MONETARY formats, e.g. India 00 00 000 and China 0000 0000. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Add configuration for AM/PM symbols. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Full POSIX compliant format support for date, time, numbers and money. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement more 'named' date/time formats, e.g. ISO, UnixTimestamp, RFC3339, etc. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Add Full date format in addition to existing short and long. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Add default colour to optionally display negative numbers. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement separate backends for each supported platform/desktop to use platform localisation in place of KDE locale. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement support for additional Country Code standards: ISO Alpha 3, ISO Numeric 3, FIPS-10. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement support for Country Code sub-regions, i.e. States/Provinces/etc. Needed for new KHolidays. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO kdeui Improvements to KDatePicker/KDateTable for feature parity with Plasma Calendar widget, i.e. holiday support, select calendar system, etc. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO kdeui DBus interface in StatusNotifierItem to connect it with freedesktop notifications instances Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO Khtml Improvements in kwallet integration Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
TO DO Khtml Basic audio/video tag support Michael Howell and Germain Garand <[email protected]>
TO DO Khtml Implement more of DOM3's CSSOM View module Germain Garand <[email protected]>



kdemultimedia

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO JuK Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements -- will move to KDE 4.5 feature plan Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however -- will move to KDE 4.5 feature plan Michael Pyne <mpyne.org>



kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Kopete UPnp Support Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Jabber Jingle video support Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Jabber Jingle ICE support Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Add support for urls to Bonjour plugin Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Rich text support for ICQ Roman Jarosz <[email protected]>
TO DO Krdc Connection status screen and reconnect Tony Murray <[email protected]>
DONE Krdc Much improved new connection screen: more info, sortable, interactive, and better use of space Tony Murray <[email protected]>


kdeplasma-addons

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO knowledgebase port knowledgebase plasmoid to new engine Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO knowledgebase Add categories Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
DONE Bookmarks widget New Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE Mandelbrot Wallpaper Performance improvements Benoit Jacob <[email protected]>
DONE Mandelbrot Wallpaper Rendering improvements (through dithering, extra iterations, and better/simpler formulas) Benoit Jacob <[email protected]>
DONE Mandelbrot Wallpaper Allow to import/export parameters and to export to PNG images Benoit Jacob <[email protected]>


kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Lokalize Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Continue implementing XLIFF spec Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Segmentation [editing] functionality Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO Lokalize Remote translation memories Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!) Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Kate Replace old snippet plugin through TNG plugin Joseph Wenninger <jowenn(you_know)kde(here_too)org>


kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Ark Add an options dialog (maybe) Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files) Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Make the internal previewer optional Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO KGpg Make keyserver actions possible to use on multiple keyservers at once Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add Kate-like search tool 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 copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard 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 Okular like embedded notifications 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 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 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 Merge row and column widgets into one Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Refactor mouse input to controllers for the bytearray widget Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
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 Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Store bookmarks Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO printer-applet Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. [mailto: Jonathon Riddell, John Layt <>]
IN PROGRESS kdelirc/kremotecontrol Transition from KDELirc to KRemoteControl Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
DONE Okteta new export formats: S-Record, Intel Hex, Base32, Ascii85, Uuencoding, Xxencoding Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE Okteta add QIODevice for AbstractByteArrayModel and make mimetype detection use this instead of only filename Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>


Other

Status Project Description Contact