Revision as of 17:15, 20 July 2008

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

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 <jacob@math.jussieu.fr>
TO DO	Eigen	Port all Eigen-using code in KDE and KOffice to Eigen 2.0	Benoît Jacob <jacob@math.jussieu.fr>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kross	Extend QtScript integration.	Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>
IN PROGRESS	KDEPrint	Reintroduce KDEPrint in some form, depending on what Qt4.4 delivers.	john Layt <john@layt.net>
TO DO	KDEPrint	Add framework for standard actions for 'Send to...' for e-mail, fax, etc by printing to PDF/PS.	John Layt <john@layt.net>
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 <john@layt.net>
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 <john@layt.net>
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 <john@layt.net>
TO DO	Phonon	add Port class for fine grained control over data flow between Phonon objects	Matthias Kretz <kretz@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	make AbstractMediaStream/StreamInterface threadsafe	Matthias Kretz <kretz@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	"low-level" PCM I/O with at least an ALSA implementation	Matthias Kretz and Ian Monroe <kretz@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Phonon	VideoWidget snapshot function	Matthias Kretz <kretz@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	API review and export KConfigBackend	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	Make KConfigSkeleton KConfigGroup aware	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	KConfig	Make KConfigDialog work nicer with KConfigSkeleton + manually managed widgets	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Color KCM	Add 'smart setting' of extended colors	Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net>
TO DO	Color KCM	Add KDE3 scheme import	Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net>
TO DO	Color KCM	Query kwin for supported colors; add full set of kwin colors	Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net>
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 <john@layt.net>
KRunner
IN PROGRESS	Krunner	Configuration options for blacklisting, user ranking, runner ranking, learning	Jordi Polo <mumismo@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Krunner	SearchMatch configuration	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Krunner	Simple learning	Jordi Polo <mumismo@gmail.com>
TO DO	Krunner	Simple GUI for above options	Jordi Polo <mumismo@gmail.com>
TO DO	Krunner	Runners able to share parsing	Jordi Polo <mumismo@gmail.com>
TO DO	Krunner	Noun-Verb support	Ryan P. Bitanga <ryan.bitanga@gmail.com>
TO DO	Krunner	Implement Nuno's UI polishings	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Krunner	Runtime syntax documentation	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Krunner	Runner configuration	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Krunner	Search set paging	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
Plasma
DONE	Plasma	Plasma Popup Tips	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Welcome plasmoid	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Collapsing Applet convenience class	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	JOLIE Integration	Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Notification plasmoid	Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuzkde@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Taskbar grouping	Christian Mollekopf <hrigi_1@hotmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasmagik packaging (and package classes)	Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Networkmanager Plasmoid and DataEngine	Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Small Form Factors	Marijn Kruisselbrink <m.kruisselbrink@student.tue.nl>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Plasma On Screensaver	Chani Armitage <chanika@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Extenders	Rob Scheepmaker <r.scheepmaker@student.utwente.nl>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Website update	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Techbase Tutorials	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Wallpaper plugins	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Context menu plugins	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Add New Widgets: Pluggable widget browser	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Activity<->Virtual Desktop Affinity	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Optional Per-Virtual Desktop DesktopView	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Make non-SVG painting in Plasma low-color and non-anim friendly	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Separate Desktop Settings from DesktopContainment	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Runtime DataEngine documentation (sources, usage, etc)	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Panel Autohide	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Keyboard Shortcut Config UI	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Systray++ Spec	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Script Security Framework	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	physics-based animator	Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	New wallpapers	Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Preserve wallpaper choice by copying user paper to home dir	Aaron Seigo <aseigo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	New way of handling wallpapers and different sizes (package format, and so on...)	Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo@kde.org>
TO DO	Plasma	Top-level windows plasmoids	Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo@kde.org>
TO DO	KWin	Make it possible to focus plasma panels	Chani <chanika@gmail.com>

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	MSNP15 implementation for MSN	Matt Rogers <mattr@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	UPnp Support	Matt Rogers <mattr@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3)	Matt Rogers <mattr@kde.org>
TO DO	Kopete	Update Kopete to better support Decibel	Kopete Developers <kopete-devel@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	MultiSource-Downloading	Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans@gmx.de>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms	Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans@gmx.de>
TO DO	KGet	MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey	Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans@gmx.de>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma	Network Manager Applet	Christopher Blauvelt <cblauvelt@gmail.com>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Kjots	Import notes from KNotes as KJots pages.	Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>
TO DO	Kjots	Email KJots pages using default mail client (bug #124509.	Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>

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 <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	refactor KByteArrayView	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for memory mapping of files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	parameter dialog for "Copy as..."	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for jobs like io, printing, string search or filter	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>

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 <kde-bindings@kde.org>
TO DO	krossjava	Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up.	Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>
TO DO	krossjava	Documentation++	Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>

kdegames

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

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate	Port and reenable the Snippets plugin.	Jakob Petsovits <jpetso@gmx.at>
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 <annma@kde.org>
DONE	Umbrello	Port code generation wizard to QWizard and replace all q3 widgets	Andi Fischer <andi.fischer@hispeed.ch>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant	Andi Fischer <andi.fischer@hispeed.ch>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KEduca	Rewrite of the classic test writing/taking application	Matt Williams <matt@milliams.com>
TO DO	KLettres	Number support	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
TO DO	KLettres	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	KHangMan	Add a Open File action	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
TO DO	KHangMan	Integrate an editor	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
TO DO	KHangMan	Plasmoid	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
TO DO	KHangMan	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
TO DO	KLettres	Visual indicator when letter is wrong	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
TO DO	Kalzium	Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView.	Marcus D. Hanwell <marcus@cryos.org>
IN PROGRESS	Kalzium	Plasmoid to access Kalzium database	Carsten Niehaus <cniehaus@kde.org>
TO DO	Step	Improve GUI for creating softbody	Vladimir Kuznetsov <ksvladimir@gmail.com>
TO DO	Step	Use common constraints handling code for collisions	Vladimir Kuznetsov <ksvladimir@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	KAlgebra	New parser using QLALR	Aleix Pol <aleixpol@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Parley	Declensions	Frederik Gladhorn <frederik.gladhorn@kdemail.net>
IN PROGRESS	KStars	Tool to predict Conjunctions	Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha@gmail.com>
TO DO	Marble	Export map to MxN pixel bitmap	Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se>
TO DO	Marble	Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool )	Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se>
TO DO	Marble	Map Contents translation	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Layer Management Class	Torsten Rahn <rahn@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Plugin architecture for map layers	Torsten Rahn <rahn@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	DGML2 Support	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	KDE-Version settings dialog	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Port authors list from the Qt-About dialog to the KDE-About dialog	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Qt-Version settings dialog	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Improved KML support	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	OpenStreetMap support using original OSM tiles	Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Real Time Cloud-Cover	David Roberts / Torsten Rahn <tackat@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Mercator Projection	Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	More generic projection support	Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Usage of Marble in non-widgets	Inge Wallin <inge@lysator.liu.se>
TO DO	Kig	Properties dialog for objects.	Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
TO DO	Kig	Improve construction of bisect lines.	Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
TO DO	Kig	Improve feedback when constructing objects.	Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
TO DO	Kig	More geometric objects.	Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
TO DO	Kig	Script objects as macros (to be reused more than once).	Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
TO DO	Kig	Improve the Cabri import filter.	Pino Toscano <pino@kde.org>
TO DO	KTurtle	Export canvas as image	Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini@kde.org>
TO DO	KTurtle	Optional rulers/grid for canvas units	Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini@kde.org>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add command line	Mauricio Piacentini <piacentini@kde.org>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add a color picker	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmail.com>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	Make Dragon indipendent from Xine	Ian Monroe <ian.monroe@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	File Manager	Ian Monroe <ian.monroe@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	play media dialog	Ian Monroe <ian.monroe@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	slider changes	Ian Monroe <ian.monroe@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Dragon Player	show info while playing audio files	Ian Monroe <ian.monroe@gmail.com>
TO DO	JuK	Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements	Michael Pyne <michael.pyne@kdemail.net>
TO DO	JuK	Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however	Michael Pyne <michael.pyne@kdemail.net>
TO DO	JuK	Use XCOMPOSITE real transparency when available for the track announcement popup	Michael Pyne <michael.pyne@kdemail.net>
TO DO	JuK	Allow disabling crossfade	Michael Pyne <michael.pyne@kdemail.net>

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 <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net>
TO DO	KMagnifier	Add color-shift modes to help people with color blindness	Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KSnapshot	Add support for grabbing a single screen in multihead	Richard Moore <rich@kde.org>

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