Revision as of 00:01, 28 October 2010

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.6 release.

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Konsole	Move to KTabWidget	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Faceted browsing via Nepomuk	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Searching support for non-indexed files	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Git-plugin (implemented by Sebastian Dörner and Johannes Steffen)	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Resizeable columns in the column-view	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Allow leading zeros when renaming multiple files (implemented by Matthias Fuchs)	Peter Penz <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Plasma	Plasma KPart	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Declarative AppletScript to write QML plasmoids	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Optimize the Newspaper containment for the use with touchscreens and the Plasma KPart	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Focus tracking for the zoom plugin (uses kaccessible)	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Extend mouse tracking modes for the zoom plugin	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Nepomuk Backup & Sync	Provide Backup and Sync capabilities to Nepomuk	Vishesh Handa <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Activities manager service	Merge the kded and nepomuk modules for activities into one service	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Activities manager service	Register desktop events instead directly linking the activities to resources	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KNotify	Add support for relative present actions in contexts	Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Locale KCM	Complete re-write to improve usability, support for new localization features	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon KCM	Add video input device configuration support	George Kiagiadakis <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	libtaskmanager / tasks-applet	support for Windows 7 like launchers	Anton Kreuzkamp <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	notifications	rework notification applet appearance	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	notifications	make various dataengines use Plasma::Storage	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	plasma-desktop	UI for editing activity name and icon	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
TO DO	plasma-desktop	add some default activities	Mario Fux <[email protected]>
TO DO	plasma	finish support for activity templates	[mailto: ?? < >]
IN PROGRESS	plasma-devicenotifier	Improve notification support	Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	quicklaunch	populate new applets with user's default browser, file manager, ... instead of hardcoded ones	Ingomar Wesp <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	quicklaunch	allow editing of existing launchers (including ones that do not point to a .desktop file)	Ingomar Wesp <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	quicklaunch	better layout for desktop and media center form factors	Ingomar Wesp <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	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]>
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	Make Calendar DataEngine a Service.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	plasma-desktop	integrate activity-sessions	Ivan/Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO	plasma-desktop	activity dataengine?	Chani <[email protected]>
KWin
IN PROGRESS	windowgeometry effect	compositor powered move/resize windowgeometry display	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	dashboard effect	new effect for Plasma dashboard	Andreas Demmer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwin/ksmserver	activity sessions	Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO	libtaskmanager/kwin?	combine the three window-contextmenu codebases into one	[mailto: ?? < >]
TO DO	libtaskmanager/kwin]	Expose Window Tabs to taskmanager	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	ARB Shader support	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Aurorae	Tooltips on window tabs	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	Present Windows	Close window GUI control	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	Startup Feedback	Effect to replace the Startup Feedback notification	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	Screenshot Effect	KSanpshot can use KWin for screenshots	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCM Compositing	Allow compositing even if GL is buggy/X crashes	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin Killer	Use notification instead of dialog	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
KDE Power Management system
DONE	core	PowerDevil v2 core	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
DONE	actions	Basic actions for feature parity with PowerDevil v1	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	actions	More actions for advanced users	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	policy-handler	Create a new policy handler for handling inhibition properly, and have kdelibs' Solid API use it	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
System Settings
IN PROGRESS	keyboard	Support for sticky layout switching	Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	keyboard	Support for > 4 layouts	Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
Blue Devil
IN PROGRESS	Review	Get into kdebase	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kio_obexftp	Better error handling	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	usability	Review all the components improving hig/elegance	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	share folders	Be able to share folders via obexftp	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
TO DO	Devices KCM	Add further information about devices, like address...	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
TO DO	Devices KCM	Allow to connect to devices services	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
TO DO	libbluedevil	Review DBus handling	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
TO DO	libbluedevil	Add support for services	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>
TO DO	Monolithic	Fix listing problems under certain conditions	Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	libnepomuk	Convenience operator overloads for query construction	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
DONE	libnepomuk	New query flags and improved handling of full text matching scores including sorting	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdeui	Generic find bar widget	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	kdeui	Allow getting and setting the size of the pixmap cache in KImageCache	Manuel Mommertz <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	scripted actions	Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	QAccessibleInterface's for document+cursor	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	libplasma	PluginLoader class	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
DONE	libplasma	Allow SVGs to use systemcolors before rendering	Manuel Mommertz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	DeclarativeWidget to load QML scenes in Plasma	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	finish up the gsoc project about Plasma::Storage service	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	let Plasma::SVG find the best matching size hinted element if there is no exact match	Ingomar Wesp <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk/KIO	Search excerpts	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk	Standardqueries for convenience	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk	GUI elements for resource/file searching including faceted browsing	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuksync	Sync library to be used in BackupSync, Strigi, Akonadi, WebExtractor and Removable Media	Vishesh Handa <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Add more possible synchronization primitives to KSharedDataCache to expand OS support. POSIX Semaphores Contributed by Alberto Villa of the FreeBSD project. Windows support may still occur as well.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add fallback to QCache<QString,QByteArray> in KSharedDataCache.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add cache-wide timestamp to KSharedDataCache.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add ability to make KSharedDataCache strictly read-only for laptop support.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Social About Dialog	Teo Mrnjavac <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem		John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add astronomical calculation support classes and astronomical based calendars.	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	KCalendarSystem	Add api for first/last day of year/month.	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KDate	New convenience class to make date localization easy.	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	KLocale	Add configuration for AM/PM symbols.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLocale	Add default colour to optionally display negative numbers.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLocale	Add more date formats.	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Full POSIX compliant format support for date, time, numbers and money, including but not limited to: traditional/US week numbers, AM/PM symbols, number grouping	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Implement separate backends for each supported platform/desktop to use platform localization in place of KDE locale.	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Implement support for Country Code sub-regions and other country code standard conversions.	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	HTML5 postMessage.	Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Marble	GPX import of routes	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Route printing (map and directions, configurabe)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Route state saving and restoring	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Convert MarbleRunners to plugins	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	worldwide and offline routing	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Extend MarbleRunner interface to handle reverse geocoding and routing requests; Display of alternative routes	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Open/save routes as kml	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	"Go To" dialog for Maemo	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	QtDeclarative plugin (possibly rather in 4.7)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Tile download along the route for offline usage	Siddharth Srivastavah <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Turn-by-turn navigation mode	Siddharth Srivastavah <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Improve GeoData API	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	Convert Gps tracking to GeoDataDocument	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	Provide a treeModel for GeoDataDocuments	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	Draw the geometries of multiple GeoDataDocuments	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Load Pnt vector data files as GeoData	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Cantor	Backend for GNU Octave	Miha Čančula <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Merge R improvement branch	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Variable management panel	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
TO DO	Cantor	Formulas inside Text Entries	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
DONE	Kalzium	Port Kalzium to use QGV based periodic table widget	Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Implicit functions plot	Percy Aucahuasi <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved execution speed on the calculator	Aleix Pol Gonzalez <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Better integration between the Console and the Plotting facilities	Aleix Pol Gonzalez <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KStars	OpenGL rendering support for KStars	Harry de Valence, Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Better designed object database	Victor Carbune, Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Star Hop Generator	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
DONE	Kig	LaTeX/TikZ exporter	Miha Čančula <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	JuK	Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Add MPRIS support to JuK so that the NowPlaying applet doesn't need to special-case JuK.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Update JuK's MusicBrainz support to a modern version of MusicBrainz.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	libkdegames	Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Fix KNewStuff provider issues	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	Palapeli	Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.	Johannes Loehnert <[email protected]>
DONE	Palapeli	Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Docbook: Describe the basic game, until now I supposed the player already knows how to play Mah Jong.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Tiles can be discarded with drag&drop.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Make robot player AI more intelligent.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Make tiles in the hand larger and the wall tiles smaller for better playability on small screens.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Make games suspendable/resumable.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kajongg	Animate moving tiles.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kajongg	Demo mode.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kajongg	Introduce an option to only offer possible actions.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kajongg	Add more rulesets like other Classical Chinese variants and the international tournament rules.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Save and restore the current control-mode, keyboard-control option and game-speed settings.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add a keyboard-mode option to start moving when a direction-key is pressed and stop when it is released. Support multiple keys being pressed.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	Klickety	An adaptation of the "clickomania" game.Rewrite the kde3 version.	Ni Hui <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Klickety	IMerge KSame into Klickety.	Ni Hui <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kolf	Port to KGameRenderer, cleanup all QGraphicsView- and physics-related code (and physics engine), incorporate ideas from Kolf-NG.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	Port to KGameRenderer.	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	Use TagaroAudio for sound.	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
DONE	Knights	New game: Chess board for KDE4	Miha Čančula <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	gwenview	Simplify photo sharing	Aurélien Gâteau <[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	Lokalize	loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Nepomukshell	New Nepomukshell development tool allowing to browse and debug Nepomuk data	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Git plugin	Sebastian Doerner <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate	GDB plugin	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Ark	Add a "Preview with..." context menu item	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	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	Get rid of the Observer code in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make error reporting work as expected in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make Kerfuffle really thread-safe (and use threads in less places)	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Simplify Kerfuffle's API (jobs, interfaces etc) and try to make it stable	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[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	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[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	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	add Kate-like search tool	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Okular like embedded notifications	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	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 view profiles, incl. editor/manager	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	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	Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based	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	Store bookmarks	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	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	[mailto: Jonathon Riddell, John Layt <>]
TO DO	Okteta	Add view profiles	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kontact	Plasma-based Summary Page	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Add support for holiday types and day-off types.	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Holiday Region selection widget.	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	KHolidays	Holiday duration api.	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	KHolidays	Default Holiday Region api.	John Layt <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KAccessible	Added a dbus-service and a QAccessibleBridgePlugin for focus tracking (used in KMagnifier and the KWin zoom plugin).	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	KMagnifier	Follow Focus Mode for Focus Tracking (uses kaccessible).	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	KAccessible	Added Screenreader (uses speech-dispatcher)	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KDE Asciiquarium	Added a new ASCII sprite (a submarine). Contributed by Ryan Meldrum.	Michael Pyne <[email protected].>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Shelf	Automatic sizing of the popup	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
DONE	Shelf	Setting a custom popup icon	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
TO DO	Shelf	Cascading popup menus for folders	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
DONE	Shelf	Keyboard navigation	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
DONE	Shelf	Search completion	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libLancelot-datamodels	Akonadi integration	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
TO DO	libLancelot-datamodels	Folder contents sorting	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Lancelot	Theme improvements, animations	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
TO DO	Events Runner	Event search	Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	krfb	Refactor Core to make it more maintainable/extensible	George Goldberg <[email protected].>
IN PROGRESS	krfb	Telepathy Tubes support	George Goldberg <[email protected].>
IN PROGRESS	krfb	UI Improvements to support new features/deal with some existing bug reports	George Goldberg <[email protected].>
TO DO	kget	Log for transfers	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>

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