Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.7 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KLocale	Number grouping support	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	KLocale	Narrow date name format support	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	KLocale	Week Numbers support	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	kdecore/io/klockfile	For 4.7.1: Implement locking on non-NFS systems using O_EXCL. Good for VFAT, CFIS and other filesystems, as it makes KConfig work and thus many KDE Applications.	David Faure <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Windows Backend	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	New date/time edit widgets from kdepim	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHelpMenu	Fast action searching	Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KFilePlaces	Activity-specific Places	Jeffery MacEachern <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KCookieJar	Storing cookies in KWallet	José Millán Soto <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHTML	WebIDL usage	Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHTML	Accessibility improvements	Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>
TO DO	Nepomuk	Query term class to query graph meta data	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
TO DO	Plasma	Preconfigurable plasmoids	David Palacio <[email protected]>

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Dolphin	Support Fwd/Back Mouse Buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Polish the default user interface to minimize visual clutter (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html)	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Improve user interface for searching files and metadata	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
TO DO	Settings	Improve proxy configuration dialog	Dawit Alemayehu <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Locale KCM	Support for Number Grouping, Windows Backend, Country Subdivsions	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	nspluginviewer	npruntime support improvements	Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>
TO DO	Dolphin	Popup menu for advanced queries on the metadata display	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio_sftp	async download support	Andreas Schneider <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Locale definition files	Migrate Country and Currency Codes to xml/po formats, re-arrange l10n files including settings and flags, add Subdivision code files.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	kio-upnp-ms	Merge from playground (https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kio-upnp-ms/) into kde-runtime	Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]>
DONE	network:/ kio-slave	port to Cagibi 0.2	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE	Nepomuk Datamanagement Service	Merge it into the master branch	Vishesh Handa & Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
DONE	Port Strigi Service to DMS	The Strigi Service needs to use the DMS API	Vishesh Handa & Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
DONE	Nepomuk	KCM to manage the removable storages to index	Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Allow a shortcut per keyboard layout (bug 224489)	Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Session management for keyboard layouts (bug 52095, 174948)	Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
DONE	klipper	Support qrcode as well as datamatrix for mobile barcodes	Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>
DONE	weather	Support debian weather	Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>
DONE	Oxygen	Various widgets polishing (scrollbars, progressbars, sliders, toolbuttons, menu and menubar selection, etc.)	Hugo Pereira Da Costa <[email protected]>
DONE	Oxygen	Implement kwin's new shadow system for menus, drop-downlists, etc.	Hugo Pereira Da Costa <[email protected]>
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Clock/Calendar	improve usability, settings, akonadi and holiday data. See Plasma wiki.	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	Plasma Desktop	launch krunner when the user starts typing	Vitor Boschi <[email protected]>
KDM
DONE	KDM	GRUB2 support for KDM (see http://ksmanis.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/hello-planet-and-grub2-support-for-kdm/)	Konstantinos Smanis <[email protected]>
KWin
DONE	Compositor	OpenGL 2.x/OpenGL ES 2.0 compositing backend (see http://www.kdenews.org/2011/02/18/kwin-embraces-new-platforms-opengl-es-20-support)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	Compositor	New Shadow System (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/new-kwin-shadows/)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	Effects	Effect to render outlines	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	Decorations	Do not require a decoration	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Core	Export most recently used windows to an X property	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	BoxSwitch Effect	Animated Selection (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/02/is-kwin-rocket-science/)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libkwineffects	API cleanup	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	libkwineffects	JavaScript bindings for writing Effects	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Mouse Emulation	Better accessibility support in mouse emulation	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	kwin	Add multi head support	Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwin	DBusMenu in Windeco	Lionel Chauvin <[email protected]>
DONE	ksplashx	Add multi head support	Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
TO DO	krunner	Add multi head support	Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwinrules kcm	UI cleanup (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101041/)	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwincompositing kcm	Rearm unsafe OpenGL precheck (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101061/)	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	PresentWindows Effect	Better highlight indication & close button handling)	Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	general	Remove jargon from user interface. Remove all instances of Akonadi/Nepomuk related jargon from the desktop, replace with meaningful text where needed.	Will Stephenson <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Bookmark Manager	Dennis Nienhüser, Thibaut Gridel <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	QML Bindings: GPS Tracking	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Offline Address Search	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Support monav version 0.3	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Polish the Map Wizard: simpler UI, comprehensive validation of user input immediately on each page	Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Reduce memory footprint of cached tiles	Bernhard Beschow <[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, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Implement mouse cursor wrapping a la Okular or Gwenview	Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data	Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Integrate the Qalculate backend	Matteo Agostinelli <[email protected]>
DONE	Kalzium	Use KUnitConversion for all the Unit handling	Etienne Rebetez <etienne.rebetez@oberwallisch>
DONE	KTurtle	Add getdirection command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
DONE	Step	Copy-and-Paste of items	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
DONE	Step	Zoom on mouse wheel	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
DONE	Step	Automatic expanding canvas	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Auto - Handling of the Canvas	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Remove the thread for QtConcurrent on he core	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Polish the User Interface	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	New Plugin for Automaticaly Graph Generation	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Bugfixes in the List Plugin	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Speedup in the drawing code	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Kalgebra backend	Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Transform graph edges plugin	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Assign values to edges/nodes plugin	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE	Kalzium	Titration calculator	Luca Tringali <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KStars	SQLite Database of NGC Objects	Victor Carbune <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlarm	Allow reminders after the main alarm	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlarm	Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Add support for Holiday Types and Observance Types	John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE	Akonadi-contacts/kaddressbook	Show 2d barcodes of contact data	Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Adjustable Clock	Plasmoid for displaying date and time in very customizable way	Michał Dutkiewicz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Comic Plasmoid	Support random comic strips	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
DONE	Comic Plasmoid	Support creation of comic Comic Book Archive files	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
DONE	Comic Plasmoid	Highlight comics that have a new comic strip	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO	Events Runner	Support parsing weekdays (e.g. "in next monday"	Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>

kdetoys

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KTeaTime	Port to KStatusNotifierItem	Miha Čančula <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	New svg based status icons	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	Support categories	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Improved command line	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Tea runner	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Port to KConfigXT	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	Remote translation memories	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	QA: translation checks against user-specified regex-based rules	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
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	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]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Properly support strings (various Unicode encodings) in structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add tool to convert between char encodings	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	QDockWidget based interface	Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	KDE4 icon theme and eye candies	Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
TO DO	Umbrello	Replace the current code viewer with katepart	Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
DONE	Umbrello	Add a zoom widget in the statusbar	Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate	Add a new search in files plugin	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Level editor	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Load levelset option + 2 new levelsets	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakout	Port to QGraphicsView	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KPat	Create new saved game format that stores undo/redo history	Parker Coates <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libtagaro	Move first version into the kdegames module	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	libtagaro	Use the new library: at least in Granatier and Kolf (to replace existing static source copies) and KDiamond	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Cleanup interface	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE	Palapeli	Reduce memory consumption for big puzzles	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	all games	Add useful fullscreen mode + option to switch between fullscreen/window	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KGet	Working Mms plugin	Ernesto Rodriguez Ortiz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support for connection limit to servers	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Directory support in Comic Book Generator	David Palacio <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okular	7zip support in Comic Book Generator	David Palacio <[email protected]>
DONE	libksane	Enable gui less operation	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
DONE	libksane	Add a way to get scanner device list	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Compare mode	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Gwenview	Merge "Semantic Information" and "Meta Information" sidebar groups	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>