Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Feature Plan

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

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Feature Plan

Legend:

• 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	thumbnail kioslave	EPub and FictionBook Previews	Harsh J <[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	KDiamond	Refactor Board and Diamond classes	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kolf	Replace with Kolf 2 (help on coding, artwork and level design desired) >>delayed to KDE 4.5<<	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]>

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]>

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