Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.9 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 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	KGlobalSettings	Make KGlobalSettings reread locale settings before calling settingsChanged().	Lamarque V. Souza <[email protected]>

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Thumbnail	fix for bookmarks	Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	ksmserver	Port shutdown dialog to QML	Lamarque V. Souza <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	ksmserver	Merge the new qml based screen locker	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	plasma	MPRIS2 dataengine	Alex Merry <[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	windows that are moved to another desktop should be treated as sticky windows (Bug 213847)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Quick Tile shortcuts should be toggle buttons (Bug 263755)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Fix fullscreen state handling: NETWM says it's bound to focus and not stacking order, also see bug #224600 (Bug 296076)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Display application menu and title bar side by side for maximized windows (Bug 102607)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	No reason given why some desktop effects cannot be activated (Bug 209213)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Add support for appmenu-qt (Bug 266596)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Decoration KCM should show comment for decoration (Bug 296041)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Lanczos Filter broken after screen size changes (Bug 296065)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	DesktopThumbnailItem for QML (Bug 296067)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Packages for Desktop Switching Layouts (Bug 296068)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Walk Through Desktop layout rendering desktop previews (Bug 296069)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Move ThumbnailBar from BoxSwitch to CoverSwitch (Bug 296070)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Drop BoxSwitch effect (Bug 296071)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Different binary name for KWin Active (Bug 296084)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Import Scripted Effect from All Effets Tab (Bug 296772)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	GHNS support for Scripted Effects (Bug 296773)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	GHNS support for KWin Scripts (Bug 296774)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	KConf Update Script for KWin 4.9 (Bug 296775)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Request category for scripted KWin Effects on kde-(look|app).org (Bug 297634)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Request category for KWin Scripts on kde-(look|app).org (Bug 297635)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	GHNS support for Window Switching Layouts (Bug 297636)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Request category for Window Switcher Layouts on kde-(look|app).org (Bug 297637)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Update Documentation for Window Switcher Layouts (Bug 297638)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Window Switcher KCM needs to be reworked (Bug 297639)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	ThumbnailItem allows upscaling of Windows (Bug 297864)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Redesign the kwin's kcm "All effects" (Bug 298991)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Window Tab support for QML based Aurorae (Bug 299138)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Increase ABI version for KDecorations (Bug 299140)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Add ABI check to KDecorations (Bug 299141)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	New Window Decoration for Thin Clients (Bug 299143)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Remove legacy window decorations (Bug 299144)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Get rid of "Display borders on maximized windows" setting (Bug 299245)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Break NETWM to allow inner xinerama struts (Bug 299247)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Improve VSync strategy (Bug 299274)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Screen Edge bindings for KWin Scripting (Bug 299275)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Support Plasma API Extensions in KWin Scripting (Bug 299276)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Move Workspace's compositing functionality to own class Compositor (Bug 299277)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Better QML selection list for Window Switcher layout (Bug 299278)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Add layout specification to D-Bus call for invoking TabBox (Bug 299279)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Default Bindings for Switching between Windows of current Application (Bug 299308)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Make desktop focus chains activities aware (Bug 299309)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Useraction menu closes when focus passes to another window (Bug 81743)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	JJ: change focus only when moving mouse (Bug 92290)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	JJ: kwin fulscreen / un-fullscreen system notifications (Bug 124612)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Insufficient stacking order handling for deleted windows (Bug 158262)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	JJ: Use arrow keys to control cover switch. (Bug 178595)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Dragging a title bar against a bottom panel twice makes it go under the panel on the second time (Bug 210926)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Wobbly windows wobbles strange after quick-maximization (Bug 222102)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	"Move" command should allow off-screen window moving same as Alt + click trick (Bug 229942)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Bug with shading always inactive windows (Bug 242217)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Change title of menu item "Configure window behaviour..." (Bug 249486)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Task switcher message when no windows looks ugly with stars (Bug 260938)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Placement Policy 'under mouse' (Bug 272162)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	JJ: Synchronize Show Desktop wording in all tabbox effects (Bug 273478)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	closing session crash (Bug 282933)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Window Specific Settings dialog has no help function (Bug 286783)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Add "Present Windows - Window Class" to "Screen Edges" functions (Bug 288960)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	[JJ] Select next window with arrow key in Alt+Tab (Bug 291916)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	KWin crashed when I was switching windows (Bug 292614)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Kill helper should be out of process (Bug 295940)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Synchronize user actions menu with libtaskmanager (Bug 296056)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Document global JavaScript methods in KWin Scripting API documentation (Bug 297640)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Elevate windows in addition to highlight (Bug 297809)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	KWin crashes when interacting with Plasma (Bug 298669)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Effects cannot be configured (Bug 299163)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Adding proper window thumbnail clipping to the QML tabbox (Bug 299198)	<[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Desktop Zoom should be saved between sessions (Bug 189956)	<[email protected]>

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	FolderView	Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment	Ignat Semenov <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Allow to show any kind of metadata like ratings, tags, comments, image-sizes, music-artist, ... beside each item of the view.	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Use KMessageWidget for information- and error-messages (see http://agateau.com/2011/04/21/kde-ux-2011/ for details)	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Optionally remember the column-widths of the details view	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Allow to disable the expandable folders of the details view	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Implement inline renaming for the new view-engine	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Allow to optionally set a maximum number of lines for the icons-view	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
TO DO	Dolphin	Implement files quick preview feature (named Klook)	Evgeniy Auzhin <[email protected]>
TO DO	Konsole	Add command line options for controlling the visibility of menubar and tabbar	Jekyll Wu <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Worldwide hillshading	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Extended library API (no MarbleWidget dependency for tasks like parsing, routing)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Plasma Active	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Android	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Support for loading geolocated photos (e.g. in a Gallery activity in Marble Touch)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Layer Management (by the user: Toggle layer visibility; maybe move layers from legend and layers in menus to one central place/tab)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Extend graph data structure to support overlay graphs	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Stepped execution of algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	General unit test cleanup and overhauling	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	New Project Wizard - guided creation based on loaded plugins	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Project journal files	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	New Add-Node/Add-Link Toolbar for data types and pointer types	Rocs Developers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve Cancel Construction and Undo actions	David E. Narváez <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Major cleanup and rewrite (done, except for the new highscore classes)	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	Granatier	improve config UI for player and arena selection	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	tooltips giving playings hints	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	new config option: propose what to do	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	make it possible to replay a game from a screen shot (for better debugging)	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	improve Robot AI	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Add default voices	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Players can chat with each other from within kajongg	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Define a central game server, making it easier to play over the internet (no more tweaking of firewalls for the server side)	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kajongg	Add support for other rule variants, starting with Classical Chinese variants	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kajongg	Print rulesets, also more than one in parallel for comparisons	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games, possibly using Get Hot New Stuff	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Simplify the XML descriptions of puzzle shapes	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Add XML and Desktop files for seven new two-dimensional puzzle shapes	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Add XML and Desktop files for three new three-dimensional puzzle shapes	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Improve the quality and relevance of KSudoku hints	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Make Load and Save work correctly for all puzzle types, including display of small markers/notes and restart of the puzzle clock from a saved value	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Integrate the new generator/solver and the old KSudoku code more closely	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Make puzzle features easier to see and use by improving highlighting, control and settings in both 2-D and 3-D puzzles and adding keyboard input to 3-D puzzles	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Gwenview	Fullscreen browse	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	JuK	last.fm scrobbling	Martin Sandsmark <[email protected]>
DONE	JuK	cover-fetching from last.fm	Martin Sandsmark <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	JuK	MPRIS2 support	Alex Merry <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kopete	Add option to group all offline users into a "Offline Users" group	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
DONE	Kopete	Show contact's status change in chat window	Igor Poboiko <[email protected]>
DONE	Kopete	Add context option "rename" to contacts and allow changing custom display name inline.	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Akonadi Google Resources	Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime	Dan Vratil <[email protected]>
DONE	KTnef	Bring back KTnef from the KDE3 days. KTnef is a standalone TNEF attachment viewer	Allen Winter <[email protected]>
TO DO	Akonadi Kolab Resources	Kolab resource using the Kolab libraries to kdepim-runtime	Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
TO DO	Extend Akonotes Format	Extend the akonotes format to support features required by zanshin and kolab	Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Now Playing	replace with QML version	Alex Merry <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Microblog	replace with QML version	Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	StackFolder	Add applet for quick browse the stack of folders	Ural Mullabaev <[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]>
DONE	Lokalize	Optimize TM fuzzy searching	[mailto: Nick Shaforostoff <>]
DONE	Lokalize	File search tab	[mailto: Nick Shaforostoff <>]
TO DO	Lokalize	.ts support	[mailto: Nick Shaforostoff <>]
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	diagram auto layout support	Ralf Habacker <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	diagram graphviz dot export	Ralf Habacker <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact