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 (previous minor release)

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 <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Faceted browsing via Nepomuk	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Plasma	Plasma KPart	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Focus tracking for the zoom plugin (uses kaccessible)	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Extend mouse tracking modes for the zoom plugin	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	libtaskmanager	support for Windows 7 like launchers	Anton Kreuzkamp <[email protected]>
KWin
IN PROGRESS	dashboard effect	new effect for Plasma dashboard	Andreas Demmer <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	libnepomuk	Convenience operator overloads for query construction	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
DONE	libnepomuk	New query flags and improved handling of full text matching scores including sorting	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdeui	Generic find bar widget	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	kdeui	Allow getting and setting the size of the pixmap cache in KImageCache	Manuel Mommertz <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	scripted actions	Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	QAccessibleInterface's for document+cursor	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	libplasma	PluginLoader class	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk/KIO	Search excerpts	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk	Standardqueries for convenience	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libnepomuk	GUI elements for resource/file searching including faceted browsing	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add more possible synchronization primitives to KSharedDataCache to expand OS support.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add fallback to QCache<QString,QByteArray> in KSharedDataCache.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add cache-wide timestamp to KSharedDataCache.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Add ability to make KSharedDataCache strictly read-only for laptop support.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Marble	GPX import of routes	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Route printing (map and directions, configurabe)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Route state saving and restoring	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Convert MarbleRunners to plugins	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	worldwide and offline routing	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Extend MarbleRunner interface to handle reverse geocoding and routing requests; Display of alternative routes	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Tile download along the route for offline usage	Siddharth Srivastavah <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Turn-by-turn navigation mode	Siddharth Srivastavah <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
TO DO	Cantor	Merge R improvement branch	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
TO DO	Cantor	Variable management panel	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
DONE	Kalzium	Port Kalzium to use QGV based periodic table widget	Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Implicit functions plot	Percy Aucahuasi <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved execution speed on the calculator	Aleix Pol Gonzalez <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Better integration between the Console and the Plotting facilities	Aleix Pol Gonzalez <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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	Add MPRIS support to JuK so that the NowPlaying applet doesn't need to special-case JuK.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Update JuK's MusicBrainz support to a modern version of MusicBrainz.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Fix KNewStuff provider issues	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.	Johannes Loehnert <[email protected]>
TO DO	Palapeli	Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Docbook: Describe the basic game, until now I supposed the player already knows how to play Mah Jong.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Tiles can be discarded with drag&drop.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Make robot player AI more intelligent.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kajongg	Make games suspendable/resumable.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kajongg	Add more rulesets like other Classical Chinese variants and the international tournament rules.	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Save and restore the current control-mode, keyboard-control option and game-speed settings.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add a keyboard-mode option to start moving when a direction-key is pressed and stop when it is released. Support multiple keys being pressed.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	Klickety	An adaptation of the "clickomania" game.Rewrite the kde3 version.	Ni Hui <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Klickety	Merge KSame into Klickety.	Ni Hui <[email protected]>

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]>
TO DO	Lokalize	loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Nepomukshell	New Nepomukshell development tool allowing to browse and debug Nepomuk data	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Ark	Add a "Preview with..." context menu item	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	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	Get rid of the Observer code in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make error reporting work as expected in Kerfuffle	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make Kerfuffle really thread-safe (and use threads in less places)	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Simplify Kerfuffle's API (jobs, interfaces etc) and try to make it stable	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[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	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add a general KPart adapter to Kasten, than finish port of Okteta KPart to Okteta Kasten	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]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Kate-like combined dialogs to query for actions on files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add Okular like embedded notifications	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	add support for memory mapping of files and 64-bit addressing	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]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add view profiles, incl. editor/manager	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	Improve the titels of the changes to the bytearray to be more descriptive, best using ids to avoid text string	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Merge row and column widgets into one	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kontact	Plasma-based Summary Page	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KAccessible	Added a dbus-service and a QAccessibleBridgePlugin for focus tracking (used in KMagnifier and the KWin zoom plugin).	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	KMagnifier	Follow Focus Mode for Focus Tracking (uses kaccessible).	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
DONE	KAccessible	Added Screenreader (uses speech-dispatcher)	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KDE Asciiquarium	Added a new ASCII sprite (a submarine). Contributed by Ryan Meldrum.	Michael Pyne <[email protected].>