Schedules/KDE 3.0 Feature Plan

If you cannot finish a feature in time, please consider moving it to the KDE 3.1 Planned Features.

TODO
Showstoppers	General All outstanding critical bugs in the bug wizard, if any Showstoppers found on kde-core-devel
In Progress (works mostly)	Konqueror / KHTML part KHTML: configurable disabling of automatic redirects / reloads, Dirk KDE Bindings update existing Java bindings add Objective C bindings add C bindings
Finished	aRts More PlayObjects (more fileformats) Improvements of the MIDI capabilities (alsa support) Integration of new GSL scheduling code More support for using samples as instruments (.PAT loader) Environments/Mixers Recording support in the APIs ([email protected]) Threaded OSS support (should run more reliable on more kernel drivers) Konqueror / KHTML part KHTML: support for http-post reloadk KHTML: Fixed the widget placement problem finally KHTML: <KEYGEN> support (Dirk) Kate Plugin and new KTextEditor interface Konqueror Add GUI for configuring "animated gifs", Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> Major rework of the ECMAScript ("javascript") implementation Improvements in the DHTML compatibility with other browsers Smart "window.open" Javascript policy Konqueror actions work in new sidebar "New directory" feature in sidebar's directory tree adding Sidebar mediaplayer - Joseph Wenninger <[email protected]> display metadata about files in tool tips and edit them in the props dialog <[email protected]> KDE Libs Completion of certificate and CA management tools, George Staikos KCertPart, George Staikos URL Speedbar in KFileDialog, Carsten Pfeiffer Simple bookmark editing facility for KFileDialog, Carsten Pfeiffer Tries to add button icon support for KDialogBase and KMessageBox <[email protected]> KAction: separate attributes into a dedicated GUI item class, Martijn / Simon / Holger Add a plugin interface to the RenameDlg in KIO <[email protected]> Improved service activation (dcopstart), Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> Multi-key shortcut (emacs-style) allow a user to define a sequence of keys leading to a particular action. For example: Meta+I,I => ksirc, Meta+I,M => kmail, Meta+I,K => konqueror. Ellis Whitehead <[email protected]> WebDAV support, Hamish Rodda <[email protected]> A new plugin system to get/modify meta information about files specific to their mimetype. Primary use is Konqueror, but it can be used anywhere, Rolf Magnus <[email protected]> Add caching to KDirLister, Michael Brade <[email protected]> Emulation of traditional Mac keyboard, where Ctrl is called "Control", Win "Option", and Alt "Command" -- and Command has the function of Ctrl. (Does not work for all keyboard layouts) Ellis Whitehead <[email protected]> KWin switching desktops as necessary when dragging a window, <[email protected]> KDE Print CUPS support improved ==Noatun== <[email protected]> Global XML import/export for the playlist Winamp skin loader Icecast/Shoutcast streaming Hide close status and tag displaying KonqPopupPlugins Add at least kuick the quick copy and move plugin <[email protected]> Konsole New parameters: --nomenubar, --noframe, --noscrollbar and -tn <foo> (set $TERM=<foo>) Keyboard shortcuts to activate menubar and rename session (Defaults: Ctrl-Alt-m & Ctrl-Alt-s). New options: Blinking cursor, configurable line spacing, no/system/visible bell Monitoring for activity and/or silence, sending of input to all sessions (cluster management) History of a session can be cleared, searched and saved to a file. Session types can specify a working directory. Changed behaviour of "New" in toolbar, now starts session of type last selected. Session buttons display state (e.g. bell) and session type icons. Double click renames them. Sessions can be reordered via menu entries or keyboard shortcuts (Default: Ctrl-Shift-Left/Right). Extend selection until end of line if no more characters are printed on that line. Stop scrolling of output when selecting. Drag & drop of selected text (like CDE's dtterm) Pressing Ctrl while pasting with middle mouse button will send selection buffer. Hollow out cursor when losing focus. Support for ScrollLock with LED display. Write utmp entries (requires installed utempter library). Proper implementation of secondary device attributes, MODE_Mouse1000 and wrapped lines. Session management remembers and activates last active session. DCOP interface, sets environment variables KONSOLE_DCOP & KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION Made embeddable Konsole part configurable. KDE Control Center: Added "Terminal Size Hint" option and session type editor. KRegExpEditor added regexp-editor integration in various places in KDE added context specific regexps in the list box KDesktop Redesign of the KDesktop class (modularization) and support for merging dirs ($KDEDIRS) Kicker Implement support for having the panel centered on the screen edge - Fredrik Kicker Applets kpf - web server applet, designed for sharing files. Rik Hemsley (rikkus) <[email protected]> Kate XML Plugin, Daniel Naber <[email protected]> KMail Maildir support Distribution lists and aliases SMTP authentication SMTP over SSL/TLS Pipelining for POP3 (faster mail download on slow responding networks) On demand downloading or deleting without downloading of big mails on a POP3 server Various improvements for IMAP Permanent header caching Header fetching is much faster Creating/removing of folders Drats/sent-mail/trash folders on the server Mail checking in all folders Automatic configuration of the POP3/IMAP/SMTP security features Automatic encoding selection for outgoing mails. DIGEST-MD5 authentication Identity based sent-mail and drafts folders Expiry of old messages Hotkey to temporary switch to fixed width fonts UTF-7 support Enhanced status reports for encrypted/signed messages KRegExpEditor making the interface complete to avoid BIC problems in the future fixing parser to make it recognize regexps from the listbox KDvi Copy and paste text from a DVI file Full text search Export DVI files to plain text Forward search with Emacs and XEmacs Inverse search with a variety of editors DCOP Interface Improved command-line options KDE PIM Replace libkab by new addressbook API (libkabc) and port the applications using the address book (KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer, Kandy, KNode, klprfax, kmailcvt), Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> KPilot: Re-work conduits as plugins Support for USB Visors Extensive addition of tooltips Move to .ui files as much as possible KOrganizer: Plugin interface Group scheduling Split alarm daemon in a low-level and a GUI part pinning contacts to appointments and TODO's <[email protected]> KDE Edu Inclusion of the 'kdeedu' module, Chris Howells <[email protected]> KBabel Catalog Manager as a standalone application Find/Replace in all files KControl Reorganize module locations in CVS - Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]> Unify and improve behaviour of suid-root modules - Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]> Reorganize module tree structure where required - Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]>, Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> Tighter integration of Qt designer for creation of KControl modules - Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]> Misc Add TearOffHandles to menus where they are appropriate <[email protected]>