Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the 4.4 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.3 Feature Plan

Legend:

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

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Support floating point font sizes	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLocale	Investigate adding Currency Code and currency minor units support based on ISO 4217 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add new astronomical calculation support classes to be used in kdelibs to build new astronomically based calendar systems, and in kdepim to build new version of libkholiday.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, etc.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	If no file printing support in Qt4.5, migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter. To be discussed on k-c-d first.	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]>
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Add mapping support for the vi input mode's normal mode	Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>
DONE	katepart	Enable command line scripting again	Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	Support byte-order mark in unicode files	Joseph Wenninger <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Improve TemplateInterface, i.e. snippet support	Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
TO DO	katepart	Add interface to access highlighting information, port html-export plugin	Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Finish the time chooser widget	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Move event-filter installation out of KApplication and into a new class	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdeui	Implement caps-lock warning for password entry widgets	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Polkit-1 backend for KAuth	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Group policy (Windows) backend for KAuth	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
DONE	System Settings	Improve module appearance for Icons View and provide searching hints	Ben Cooksley <[email protected]>
DONE	System Activity	KAuth integration	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	System Activity	Add scripting support	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
TO DO	System Activity	Show CPU usage etc	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Date/Time KCM	Plasma themed clock	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	Icons KCM	More configurable icon sizes	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	Fonts KCM	More configurable fonts	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Solid	RemoteControl Manager/Interface + Lirc backend	Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
KRunner
DONE	KRunner	Window management runner	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
Plasma - Priority Features
IN PROGRESS	netbook shell	a plasma shell and various containments/applets tailored for netbooks (tech preview status in 4.4)	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
Plasma
DONE	System tray	Plasmoid support in the system tray	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	System tray	config ui to decide between always shown, always hidden and auto hide for each systray item	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	libplasma/kwin	slide animation for popups done by kwin	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	knowledge base plasmoid	new plasmoid: Opendesktop.org knowledgebase client	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop plasmoid	show friends activity	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO	libplasma	better text box look with new svg elements	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
KWin - Core
DONE	KWin	Quick maximize and tiling on screen edge	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Improved multiple desktops kcm	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	New TabBox (alt+tab) implementation	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	SVG based window decoration theme engine (Aurorae)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Merge Oxygen and Nitrogen (from kde-look) window decorations, and make it the default decoration in place of Ozone	Hugo Pereira Da Costa <[email protected]>
KWin - Desktop Effects
DONE	KWin	Mouse action support in Present Windows effect	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Present Windows for all windows of same class (application)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Improved Flip Switch effect	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
KDM

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Kopete	UPnp Support	Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle video support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle ICE support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Add support for urls to Bonjour plugin	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Rich text support for ICQ	Roman Jarosz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Telepathy protocol plugin	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Telepathy Tubes Desktop Sharing plugin	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Krfb	Telepathy Tubes support	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Krfb	Core restructuring	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
DONE	Krdc	Redesigned workflow to create a new connection	Urs Wolfer <[email protected]>
DONE	Krdc	Full Screen Switching	Tony Murray <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Krdc	Telepathy Tubes support	[mailto: Abner Silva <>]
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Account Management KCM	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Mission Control launcher KDED	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Akonadi Logger(modify the history plugin)	Kaushik Saurabh <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Okteta	add editing capability to Decoding table	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	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	copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard	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	add further export formats like s-record and intel 16	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]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Make dialogs for Goto, Search & Replace embedded	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Okular like embedded notifications	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add dialog to set selection range	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]>
DONE	Okteta	Rename libkakao to Kasten and make the Okteta KPart use it	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Make keyserver actions possible to use on multiple keyservers at once	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Add "caff" mode for keysigning	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Allow searching for trust path in keyring	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Add improved key import result window (with useful summary, filtering, reasonable default size etc.)	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files)	Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	[mailto: Jonathon Riddell, John Layt <>]
IN PROGRESS	kdelirc	Communicate to lirc through solid	Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KBreakOut	Improved keyboard support	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
DONE	KBreakOut	Fullscreen support	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakOut	Level Sets	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakOut	Sound	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Intelligent animation pre-caching	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Improve time display	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Refactor Board and Diamond classes	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kolf	Replace with Kolf 2 (help on coding, artwork and level design desired)	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSquares	Re-write computer player, make it act faster and more intelligent	Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSquares	Add more types of boards: hexagonal, triangular	Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gluon	release first gluon lib with one game. [1]	Sacha schutz <[email protected]>

kdeadmin

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	system-config-printer-kde	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	[mailto: Jonathan Riddell, John Layt <>]

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Continue implementing XLIFF spec	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Segmentation [editing] functionality	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO	Lokalize	Remote translation memories	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Add common vim commands like :wq, :new, :split, etc.	Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved MathML Presentation support	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Added 2D parametric function plotting	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved jump detections	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Marble widget for Geolocation tool	Médéric Boquien <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Better printed star charts	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Better rendering of comets/asteroids	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Texture mapping of the skymap???	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
DONE	KStars	Improve Observing List Wizard	Prakash Mohan <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Display Comet Magnitudes whenever possible	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Information links in-place for each technical term	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Tool to suggest star-hopping techniques???	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Extend conjunction tool to have one object unspecified, but have a genre of objects specified instead	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Simulate Lunar Eclipses	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Simulate Satellites and Iridium Flares	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Social and Geographical Integration for KStars	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add F2 context help	Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add SVG export for the canvas	Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add HTML export of the code	Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add printing support for the canvas	Niels Slot <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Allow arbitrary ordering of controls	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Add WhatsThis help on controls (Bug 70042)	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMix	Nicer OSD (icon, mute state)	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMix	Amend Keyboard Shortcuts	Christian Esken <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact