Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.8 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Take over screensaver/locking management from KRunner	Alex Merry <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KCM	make mouse cursor size configurable (http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101701/)	Lukas Sommer <[email protected]>
DONE	powerdevil	Remove Desktop Effects Management	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Allow static profiles only	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Allow activity interaction	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Add MPRIS2 support to nowplaying	Alex Merry <[email protected]>

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	ksecretsserviced	KSecretsService daemon implementing the freedesktop.org secrets API. KDE applications will want to use the related kdelibs API (see below)	Valentin Rusu <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate Part	Line modification system	Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate Part	Modeline Editor	Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate Part	Search & Replace in files plugin	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate Part	Reliable code folding	Adrian Lungu <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate Part	Improved vi input mode	Svyatoslav Kuzmich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	KSecretsService API addition	Valentin Rusu <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui/util	Connect KWallet class to KSecretsService client API	Valentin Rusu <[email protected]>

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Implement new view-engine for Dolphin 2.0 (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html)	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
TO DO	Dolphin	Implement support for back/forward mouse buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KTouch	New organisation of keyboard and lecture files according to languages	Rüthemann Peter <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KTouch	New organisation of menu system: Training, Statistic, Settings	Rüthemann Peter <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTouch	End of lecture statistics	Rüthemann Peter <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Alignment Actions to minimize crossing graph edges	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Stepped Execution of Algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Resurrect import-/export-features	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	User Interface Cleanup	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Add Qalculate backend	Matteo Agostinelli <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Marble Runner plugins for Parsing files	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	(GSoC) OSM file rendering	Konstantin Oblaukhov <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Marble Graphics Scene (Performance of Vector Drawing)	Konstantin Oblaukhov <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Gps Info Plugin	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	attachment:/ kio-slave	Implement kio-slave to access (email) attachments in Akonadi	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
TO DO	sieve: implement wizard	Implement wizard to help user to create sieve script	Montel Laurent <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add Flags Datatype to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Libkdegames	Improve graphics performance in all games by standardizing on the use of Qt Raster Graphics.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KSudoku	Add a new generator and solver to KSudoku, based on published algorithms. This will provide a full range of puzzle difficulties, rather than mainly easy puzzles, and will address bug 217925 and its duplicates 228614 and 237262 (now nearly two years old).	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the championship level "Gold Rush" game, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Reset Form Action support	Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Animated image transitions	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>