Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.9 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 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	KGlobalSettings	Make KGlobalSettings reread locale settings before calling settingsChanged().	Lamarque V. Souza <[email protected]>

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	ksmserver	Port shutdown dialog to QML	Lamarque V. Souza <[email protected]>

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	FolderView	Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment	Ignat Semenov <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Worldwide hillshading	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Extended library API (no MarbleWidget dependency for tasks like parsing, routing)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Plasma Active	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Android	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Support for loading geolocated photos (e.g. in a Gallery activity in Marble Touch)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Layer Management (by the user: Toggle layer visibility; maybe move layers from legend and layers in menus to one central place/tab)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Extend graph data structure to support overlay graphs	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Stepped execution of algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	General unit test cleanup and overhauling	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kajongg	tooltips giving playings hints	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	new config option: propose what to do	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	make it possible to replay a game from a screen shot (for better debugging)	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	improve Robot AI	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Add default voices	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Players can chat with each other from within kajongg	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
DONE	Kajongg	Define a central game server, making it easier to play over the internet (no more tweaking of firewalls for the server side)	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kajongg	Add support for other rule variants, starting with Classical Chinese variants	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kajongg	Print rulesets, also more than one in parallel for comparisons	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Major cleanup and rewrite	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGoldrunner	Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games, possibly using Get Hot New Stuff	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Simplify the XML descriptions of puzzle shapes	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Add XML and Desktop files for seven new two-dimensional puzzle shapes	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Add XML and Desktop files for three new three-dimensional puzzle shapes	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Improve the quality and relevance of KSudoku hints	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Make Load and Save work correctly for all puzzle types, including display of small markers/notes and restart of the puzzle clock from a saved value	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Integrate the new generator/solver and the old KSudoku code more closely	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Make puzzle features easier to see and use by improving highlighting, control and settings in both 2-D and 3-D puzzles and adding keyboard input to 3-D puzzles	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	JuK	last.fm scrobbling	Martin Sandsmark <[email protected]>
DONE	JuK	cover-fetching from last.fm	Martin Sandsmark <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kopete	Add option to group all offline users into a "Offline Users" group	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
DONE	Kopete	Show contact's status change in chat window	Igor Poboiko <[email protected]>
DONE	Kopete	Add context option "rename" to contacts and allow changing custom display name inline.	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Akonadi Google Resources	Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime	Dan Vratil <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
DONE	Lokalize	Optimize TM fuzzy searching	[mailto: Nick Shaforostoff <>]
DONE	Lokalize	File search tab	[mailto: Nick Shaforostoff <>]
TO DO	Lokalize	.ts support	[mailto: Nick Shaforostoff <>]
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	diagram auto layout support	Ralf Habacker <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	diagram graphviz dot export	Ralf Habacker <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact