Schedules/KDE4/4.1 Release Goals
The following features will be part of KDE 4.1:
New applications and libraries
- New: Dragon Player multimedia player
- New: Ruby, PyQt4 and Plasmoid templates for developers
- New: printer applet
- New: Okteta Hex Editor
- New games: Kdiamond (a bejeweld clone), Kollision, Kubrick, KsirK, KBreakout
- New: Goya
- New: Akonadi
- New: KSystemLog log viewer
- New: Lokalize (formerly Kaider) computer-aided translation system
- New: Libksane scanning library
- New: A shared emoticon theming system (used in PIM and kopete)
- New: Step physics simulator
Improvements in applications
- Smooth scrolling in Konqueror
- Session management and restore from crash in Konqueror
- Undo closed window in Konqueror
- Annotations in Kate
- Reimplementation of KInfoCenter
- Monitoring process output in KSysGuard
- Color blindness simulation in KMagnifier
- Overhauled: KCron, cron job administration tool
- KGet: web interface, transfer settings, torrent support, nepomuk integration, global speedlimits
- KRDC: ZeroConf support, now detects remote desktops
- KLinkStatus general improvements
- Calculator plasmoid and vector support in KAlgebra
- Molecular editing in Kalzium
- Improved OpenStreetMap support in Marble
- Parley has its main windows redesigned
- Treeview, tabs and tooltips in Dolphin
- ZeroConf support for KBattleShip
- Gwenview: undo system, among others
- Okular: better form support, better presentation mode
- Kopete: AIM offline support, OTR Encryption support, less intrusive notifications
- Too many too mention in KDE-PIM
Improvements in frameworks
- Support for 3rd party icon themes
- Support for QtScript, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby in the Kross scripting framework
- CSS3 Media Query in KHTML
- GStreamer, Quicktime, DirectShow9 Phonon backends
- Subtitle support in Phonon
- Caching and interface improvement in KNewStuff
- DXS support in KNewStuff
- Add support for galago-like desktop notifications spec
- Simpler selection of files in single-click mode
- Font selection dialog has previews now
- Inline editing and text shadows in the fileview
- Richtext editor widget
- Prospective loading of other network resources in KHTML
- Support for Freedesktop.org's desktop-bookmark-spec
Window Manager and Desktop
- New coverswitch and wobbly windows effect in KWin
- Selecting a different window manager in the session module
- Widgets on Canvas
- Webkit support
- OSX Dashboard widget support
- Orientation-dependant layout in Kickoff
- More polished kickoff
- Resizable and relocatable Plasma panel
- New interface and configuration dialog for KRunner
- Desktop Search support in KRunner
- KRoss and Plasma integration in SuperKaramba
- Menu editing via kickoff->rightclick
- Plasma themes via KNewStuff
- Installing icons themes, splash screens, emoticons and Plasma themes via KNewStuff
New platforms
- Windows port (Frameworks and Applications)
- Mac port (Frameworks and Applications)
- Solaris, OpenSolaris port