Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan

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

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.1 Feature Plan
• Schedules/KDE4/Goals

Legend:

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

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	System Settings	add Administrator mode button	? <?>

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]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Power Manager	import either Guidance Power Manager or move kde4powersaver into kdeutils	? <?>
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]>

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>

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]>