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

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	Reliable code folding	Adrian Lungu <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate Part	Improved vi input mode	Svyatoslav Kuzmich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KIO	PreviewJob supports URLs	Sebastian Kügler <[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-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]>
IN PROGRESS	DrKonqi	Better duplicate detection	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KIO Thumbnails	webthumbnails plugin	Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	DrKonqi	Scripting support	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasma QML QtComponents	Marco Martin <[email protected]>

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KWin	Activity switcher	Will Stephenson <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Activity UI improvements	Will Stephenson <[email protected]>
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]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Allow task grouping on the taskbar to work together with kwin window tabbing	Anton Kreuzkamp <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Merge the QML version of the device notifier	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Merge the QML version of the battery applet	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	QML based Window switcher (Tabbox)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Texture Rectangle ARB support in Shaders	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	No Compositor restart on screen change	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Initial Wayland support	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin	Support for thumbnails in QML	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Add AnimationEffect class	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Option to prefer the mouse position over the focus chain	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin	More cleanup in the window rules kcm	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Improved resizing of windows with thin or no borders	Fredrik Höglund <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Move Workspace's compositing functionality to own class Compositor	Arthur Arlt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Introduce class DecorationPaintRedirector for decoration handling when Compositing is active	Arthur Arlt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Screenlocker	New Screenlocker and daemon	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Merge IconTask's taskmanager changes	Craig Drummond <[email protected]>
DONE	KCM	Allow flag and label in keyboard layout indicator	Andriy Rysin <[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]>
DONE	Kate	Search & Replace in files plugin	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Make GDB target selection behave like the build plugin	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Add convenience options for remote debugging	Kåre Särs <[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]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Context menu for graph scene	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]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Add Scilab backend	Filipe Saraiva <[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>
DONE	Marble	Improve LatLonEdit to allow input as Radian and DM	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Adjustable Map Orientation (Rotation in Screen Plane)	Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Speedometer Plugin	Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Plasma Runner for geo coords and Marble bookmarks	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Make bookmark editor support editing the lonlat coordinates	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Shapefile support	Thibaut Gridel / Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Fix GeoDataCoordinates parsing from a QString	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Create New Marble About Dialog	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Add Float Item Management	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	New Search	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
TO DO	KGeography	Merge stuff from the cherry_field branch	Albert Astals Cid <[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	KSudoku	Re-implement the puzzle-symmetry feature.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KSudoku	Re-order the puzzle types on the welcome screen. Use KDE Games Difficulty combo-box instead of a slider. Save user's choices of puzzle between sessions. Do minor tidy-ups of the user interface.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the championship level "Gold Rush" game, with Traditional rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the championship level "Jail Break" game, with KGoldrunner rules, 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	Okular	Viewer Mode & Interface.	Michel Ludwig <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Table selection tool improvements	Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Animated image transitions	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	JuK	MPRIS2 support	Alex Merry <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Better interaction for torrents if they are seeding and other downloads stopped because of that	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Class that handles deleting files	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Akonadi History Plugin	Kaushik Saurabh <[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]>
IN PROGRESS	HTML Replies	Give messagecomposer (especially for KMail) the ability to compose replies in HTML	Torgny Nyblom <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KMail import	KMail1 setup import instead of migration	Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Agent control workspace integration	Monitoring and control of Akonadi agents through Plasma workspace facilitites	Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kimpanel	Port kimpanel to DataEngine based one	Xuetian Weng <[email protected]>
TO DO	IconTasks	Import IconTasks	Craig Drummond <[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]>
IN PROGRESS	dolphin-plugins	Mercurial plugin for Dolphin	Vishesh Yadav <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCachegrind	Upgrade interface to Callgrind (use callgrind_control instead of writing a command file, for > VG 3.7.x)	Josef Weidendorfer <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	ark	Allow Ark to be used as a KPart again	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	ksecrets	A suite of tools related to the KSecretsService infrastructure	Valentin Rusu <[email protected]>