Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the 4.2 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.1 Feature Plan
• Schedules/KDE4/Goals

Legend:

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

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	System Settings	add Administrator mode button	? <?>
IN PROGRESS	Eigen	Finish version 2.0 and move it to kdesupport	Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>
TO DO	Eigen	Port all Eigen-using code in KDE and KOffice to Eigen 2.0	Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kross	Extend QtScript integration.	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KDEPrint	Reintroduce KDEPrint in some form, depending on what Qt4.4 delivers.	john Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	Add framework for standard actions for 'Send to...' for e-mail, fax, etc by printing to PDF/PS.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	Migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter, modify to utilise new Qt4.4 features. To be discussed on k-c-d first.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalenderSystem	Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian. (Note, not all may live in kdelibs or be available as a global calendar system)	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLocale	Implement KLocale based methods to return weekend days and day of religious observance. Currently KCalendarSystem provides dayOfPray(), but for Gregorian this is not correct in all locales where it is used. Currently KDatePicker hardcodes Saturday and dayOfPray() as weekend days which may not be correct in all locales. To be discussed first on k-c-d and with kdepim.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	Phonon	add Port class for fine grained control over data flow between Phonon objects	Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	make AbstractMediaStream/StreamInterface threadsafe	Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	"low-level" PCM I/O with at least an ALSA implementation	Matthias Kretz and Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	VideoWidget snapshot function	Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	API review and export KConfigBackend	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	Make KConfigSkeleton KConfigGroup aware	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	Make KConfigDialog work nicer with KConfigSkeleton + manually managed widgets	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Color KCM	Add 'smart setting' of extended colors	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	Color KCM	Add KDE3 scheme import	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	Color KCM	Query kwin for supported colors; add full set of kwin colors	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	reintroduce KDEPrint Print Management tools, e.g. KCM, kprinter, kjobviewer, etc. Depends upon progress of kdelibs side of KDEPrint and Qt4.4 feature set.	john Layt <[email protected]>
KRunner
IN PROGRESS	Krunner	Configuration options for blacklisting, user ranking, runner ranking, learning	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Krunner	SearchMatch configuration	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Simple learning	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Simple GUI for above options	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Runners able to share parsing	Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Noun-Verb support	Ryan P. Bitanga <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Implement Nuno's UI polishings	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Runner configuration	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Krunner	Search set paging	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Welcome plasmoid	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Collapsing Applet convenience class	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	JOLIE Integration	Kevin Ottens <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Notification plasmoid	Dmitry Suzdalev <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Taskbar grouping	Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasmagik packaging (and package classes)	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Networkmanager Plasmoid and DataEngine	Christopher Blauvelt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Small Form Factors	Marijn Kruisselbrink <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasma On Screensaver	Chani Armitage <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Extenders	Rob Scheepmaker <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Wallpaper plugins	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Context menu plugins	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Add New Widgets: Pluggable widget browser	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Activity<->Virtual Desktop Affinity	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Optional Per-Virtual Desktop DesktopView	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Make non-SVG painting in Plasma low-color and non-anim friendly	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Separate Desktop Settings from DesktopContainment	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Panel Autohide	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Plasma Popup Tips	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Keyboard Shortcut Config UI	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Systray++ Spec	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Script Security Framework	Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	physics-based animator	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	New wallpapers	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	New way of handling wallpapers and different sizes (package format, and so on...)	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Top-level windows plasmoids	Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	MSNP15 implementation for MSN	Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	UPnp Support	Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3)	Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Update Kopete to better support Decibel	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	MultiSource-Downloading	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGet	MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Network Manager Applet	Christopher Blauvelt <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Kjots	Import notes from KNotes as KJots pages.	Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kjots	Email KJots pages using default mail client (bug #124509.	Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Power Manager	import either Guidance Power Manager or move kde4powersaver into kdeutils	? <?>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	refactor KByteArrayView	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for memory mapping of files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	parameter dialog for "Copy as..."	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]>

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Smoke	Wrap some more APIs (at least Akanodi for all languages and Plasma for C#)	KDE-bindings developers <[email protected]>
TO DO	krossjava	Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up.	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO	krossjava	Documentation++	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	New highscore management system	Matt Williams <milliams>
DONE	kdiamond	Drag jewels	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdiamond	Optional OpenGL rendering	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	ksirk	Map scrolling arrows	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	ksirk	KHotNewStuff skins	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	ksirk	Jabber based net game finding	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	ksirk	Use only names in skins instead of numeric ids	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	ksirk	Skins editor	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	ktron	Port and remake the KTron game for KDE 4.2	Stas Verberkt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KNetWalk	Support for custom and non-square board sizes	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate	Port and reenable the Snippets plugin.	Jakob Petsovits <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	perldoc KIOSlave	Move perldoc KIOSlave from playground to kdesdk (awaiting feature window opening)	Michael Pyne <michael.pyne@kdemail.net>
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	XLIFF support	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	various Translation Memory enhancements	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO	Lokalize	Kross-based scripting	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO	Lokalize	QA: glossary checklists	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO	KAppTemplate	Add DBUS support in templates	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
DONE	Umbrello	Port code generation wizard to QWizard and replace all q3 widgets	Andi Fischer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant	Andi Fischer <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KLettres	Number support	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Add a Open File action	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Integrate an editor	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Plasmoid	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Visual indicator when letter is wrong	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView.	Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
TO DO	Step	Improve GUI for creating softbody	Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
TO DO	Step	Use common constraints handling code for collisions	Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlgebra	New parser using QLALR	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Parley	Declensions	Frederik Gladhorn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Tool to predict Conjunctions	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	DGML2 Support	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	KDE-Version settings dialog	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Port authors list from the Qt-About dialog to the KDE-About dialog	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Qt-Version settings dialog	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Improved KML support	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	OpenStreetMap support using original OSM tiles	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Real Time Cloud-Cover	David Roberts / Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	Make Dragon indipendent from Xine	Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	File Manager	Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	play media dialog	Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	slider changes	Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	show info while playing audio files	Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
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	Use XCOMPOSITE real transparency when available for the track announcement popup	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Allow disabling crossfade	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KMagnifier	Refactor color menu, re-add invert, break current color blindness code into "daltonize" and "simulate"	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMagnifier	Add color-shift modes to help people with color blindness	Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>