Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.6 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Feature Plan

Legend:

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

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Konsole	Move to KTabWidget	Sascha Peilicke <sasch.pe@gmx.de>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Plasma	Plasma KPart	Ryan Rix <ry@n.rix.si>
DONE	KWin	Focus tracking for the zoom plugin	Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>
DONE	KWin	Extend mouse tracking modes for the zoom plugin	Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	libtaskmanager	support for Windows 7 like launchers	Anton Kreuzkamp <akreuzkamp@web.de>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	kdeui	Generic find bar widget	Sascha Peilicke <sasch.pe@gmx.de>
DONE	katepart	scripted actions	Dominik Haumann <dhaumann@kde.org>
DONE	libplasma	PluginLoader class	Ryan Rix <ry@n.rix.si>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Marble	GPX import of routes	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
TO DO	Marble	Route printing (map and directions, configurabe)	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
TO DO	Marble	Route state saving and restoring	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
DONE	Marble	Convert MarbleRunners to plugins	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
DONE	Marble	worldwide and offline routing	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
DONE	Marble	Extend MarbleRunner interface to handle reverse geocoding and routing requests; Display of alternative routes	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
TO DO	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <jmho@c-xx.com>
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <jmho@c-xx.com>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <jmho@c-xx.com>
DONE	Marble	Tile download along the route for offline usage	Siddharth Srivastavah <akssps011@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Turn-by-turn navigation mode	Siddharth Srivastavah <akssps011@gmail.com>
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <jmho@c-xx.com>
DONE	Marble	Improve GeoData API	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	Convert Gps tracking to GeoDataDocument	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	Provide a treeModel for GeoDataDocuments	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Marble	Draw the geometries of multiple GeoDataDocuments	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Load Pnt vector data files as GeoData	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE	Cantor	Backend for GNU Octave	Miha Čančula <miha.cancula@gmail.com>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	JuK	Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements	Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org>
TO DO	JuK	Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however	Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org>
TO DO	JuK	Add MPRIS support to JuK so that the NowPlaying applet doesn't need to special-case JuK.	Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org>
TO DO	JuK	Update JuK's MusicBrainz support to a modern version of MusicBrainz.	Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.	Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net>
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Fix KNewStuff provider issues	Sascha Peilicke <sasch.pe@gmx.de>
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.	Johannes Loehnert <loehnert.kde@gmx.de>
TO DO	Palapeli	Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog.	Stefan Majewsky <majewsky@gmx.net>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@NOSPAMukr.net>
TO DO	Lokalize	Continue implementing XLIFF spec	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@NOSPAMukr.net>
TO DO	Lokalize	Segmentation [editing] functionality	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@NOSPAMukr.net >
TO DO	Lokalize	Remote translation memories	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@NOSPAMukr.net>
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!)	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@NOSPAMukr.net>
TO DO	Lokalize	loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518)	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff@NOSPAMukr.net>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Ark	Add a "Preview with..." context menu item	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	Harald Hvaal <haraldhv@stud.ntnu.no>
TO DO	Ark	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Get rid of the Observer code in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Make error reporting work as expected in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Make Kerfuffle really thread-safe (and use threads in less places)	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Simplify Kerfuffle's API (jobs, interfaces etc) and try to make it stable	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Ark	Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files)	Harald Hvaal <haraldhv@stud.ntnu.no>
TO DO	Ark	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito@gmail.com>
TO DO	Okteta	Add a general KPart adapter to Kasten, than finish port of Okteta KPart to Okteta Kasten	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Add global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Kate-like combined dialogs to query for actions on files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Okular like embedded notifications	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for import by drop, both url and data	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for memory mapping of files and 64-bit addressing	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>
TO DO	Okteta	Add view profiles, incl. editor/manager	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
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 <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Merge row and column widgets into one	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	[mailto: Jonathon Riddell, John Layt <>]
TO DO	Okteta	Add view profiles	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kontact	Plasma-based Summary Page	Ryan Rix <ry@n.rix.si>