Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan

From KDE TechBase

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.8 release.

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


kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Kate Part Line modification system Dominik Haumann <dhaumann@kde.org>
DONE Kate Part Modeline Editor Dominik Haumann <dhaumann@kde.org>
DONE Kate Part Reliable code folding Adrian Lungu <adrian.lungu89@gmail.com>
DONE Kate Part Improved vi input mode Svyatoslav Kuzmich <svatoslav1@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS KIO PreviewJob supports URLs Sebastian Kügler <sebas@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS kdeui KSecretsService API addition Valentin Rusu <kde@rusu.info>
IN PROGRESS kdeui/util Connect KWallet class to KSecretsService client API Valentin Rusu <kde@rusu.info>
IN PROGRESS kcookiejar New domain specific cookie policy based on patch provided in bug#54300 Dawit A. <adawit@kde.org>


kde-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS ksecretsserviced KSecretsService daemon implementing the freedesktop.org secrets API. KDE applications will want to use the related kdelibs API (see below) Valentin Rusu <kde@rusu.info>


IN PROGRESS DrKonqi Better duplicate detection Matthias Fuchs <mat69@gmx.net>
IN PROGRESS KIO Thumbnails webthumbnails plugin Sebastian Kügler <sebas@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS DrKonqi Scripting support Matthias Fuchs <mat69@gmx.net>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Plasma QML QtComponents Marco Martin <mart@kde.org>


kde-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KWin Activity switcher Will Stephenson <wstephenson@kde.org>
TO DO Plasma Activity UI improvements Will Stephenson <wstephenson@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS KWin Take over screensaver/locking management from KRunner Alex Merry <alex.merry@kdemail.net>
DONE KCM make mouse cursor size configurable (http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101701/) Lukas Sommer <SommerLuk@gmail.com>
DONE powerdevil Remove Desktop Effects Management Dario Freddi <drf@kde.org>
DONE powerdevil Allow static profiles only Dario Freddi <drf@kde.org>
DONE powerdevil Allow activity interaction Dario Freddi <drf@kde.org>
DONE Plasma Add MPRIS2 support to nowplaying Alex Merry <alex.merry@kdemail.net>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Allow task grouping on the taskbar to work together with kwin window tabbing Anton Kreuzkamp <akreuzkamp@web.de>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Merge the QML version of the device notifier Marco Martin <mart@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Merge the QML version of the battery applet Marco Martin <mart@kde.org>
DONE KWin QML based Window switcher (Tabbox) Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS KWin Texture Rectangle ARB support in Shaders Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS KWin No Compositor restart on screen change Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS KWin Initial Wayland support Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
DONE KWin Support for thumbnails in QML Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
DONE KWin Add AnimationEffect class Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS KWin Option to prefer the mouse position over the focus chain Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking@gmail.com>
DONE KWin More cleanup in the window rules kcm Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS KWin Trade 1 frame lag for deterministic framerate Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS KWin Improved resizing of windows with thin or no borders Fredrik Höglund <fredrik@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS KWin Move Workspace's compositing functionality to own class Compositor Arthur Arlt <a.arlt@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>
IN PROGRESS KWin Introduce class DecorationPaintRedirector for decoration handling when Compositing is active Arthur Arlt <a.arlt@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>
IN PROGRESS Screenlocker New Screenlocker and daemon Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
DONE Plasma Merge IconTask's taskmanager changes Craig Drummond <craig@kde.org>
DONE KCM Allow flag and label in keyboard layout indicator Andriy Rysin <arysin@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS KSplash QML based ksplash Marco Martin/Ivan Čukić <mart@kde.org>


kde-baseapps

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Dolphin Implement new view-engine for Dolphin 2.0 (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html and http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2012/01/dolphin-20-status-update.html) Peter Penz <peter.penz19@gmail.com>
TO DO Dolphin Implement support for back/forward mouse buttons (Postponed to 4.9) Sebastian Dörner <sebasti@n-doerner.de>
DONE Kate Search & Replace in files plugin Kåre Särs <kare.sars@iki.fi>
IN PROGRESS Kate Make GDB target selection behave like the build plugin Kåre Särs <kare.sars@iki.fi>
IN PROGRESS Kate Add convenience options for remote debugging Kåre Särs <kare.sars@iki.fi>
DONE Settings Improve proxy configuration dialog Dawit Alemayehu <adawit@kde.org>


kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KTouch New organisation of keyboard and lecture files according to languages Rüthemann Peter <peter.ruethemann@gmail.com>
IN PROGRESS KTouch New organisation of menu system: Training, Statistic, Settings Rüthemann Peter <peter.ruethemann@gmail.com>
TO DO KTouch End of lecture statistics Rüthemann Peter <peter.ruethemann@gmail.com>
DONE Rocs Alignment Actions to minimize crossing graph edges Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cola@uni-paderborn.de>
TO DO Rocs Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cola@uni-paderborn.de>
DONE Rocs Context menu for graph scene Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cola@uni-paderborn.de>
DONE Rocs Resurrect import-/export-features Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cola@uni-paderborn.de>
DONE Rocs User Interface Cleanup Andreas Cord-Landwehr <cola@uni-paderborn.de>
DONE Cantor Add Qalculate backend Matteo Agostinelli <matteo@agostinelli.me>
DONE Cantor Add Scilab backend Filipe Saraiva <filipe@kde.org>
DONE Marble Marble Runner plugins for Parsing files Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE Marble (GSoC) OSM file rendering Konstantin Oblaukhov <oblaukhov.konstantin@gmail.com>
DONE Marble Marble Graphics Scene (Performance of Vector Drawing) Konstantin Oblaukhov <oblaukhov.konstantin@gmail.com>
DONE Marble Gps Info Plugin Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
DONE Marble Improve LatLonEdit to allow input as Radian and DM Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS Marble Marble Touch (GSoC, Marble on MeeGo/N9) Daniel Marth, Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
DONE Marble Routing API Dennis Nienhüser <earthwings@gentoo.org>
IN PROGRESS Marble Adjustable Map Orientation (Rotation in Screen Plane) Bernhard Beschow <bbeschow@cs.tu-berlin.de>
DONE Marble Speedometer Plugin Bernhard Beschow <bbeschow@cs.tu-berlin.de>
DONE Marble Plasma Runner for geo coords and Marble bookmarks Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
DONE Marble Make bookmark editor support editing the lonlat coordinates Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
DONE Marble Fix GeoDataCoordinates parsing from a QString Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>
DONE Marble OsmNominatim improved display Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedorfr>
TO DO Marble Create New Marble About Dialog Torsten Rahn <rahn@kde.org>
TO DO Marble Add Float Item Management Torsten Rahn <rahn@kde.org>
TO DO Marble New Search Torsten Rahn <rahn@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS Marble Make API more QML-friendly Bernhard Beschow <bbeschow@cs.tu-berlin.de>
DONE KTurtle Add modulo command Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
DONE KGeography Merge stuff from the cherry_field branch Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>


kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Libkdegames Improve graphics performance in all games by standardizing on the use of Qt Raster Graphics. Stefan Majewsky <stefan.majewsky@googlemail.com>
DONE KSudoku Add a new generator and solver to KSudoku, based on published algorithms. This will provide a full range of puzzle difficulties, rather than mainly easy puzzles, and will address bug 217925 and its duplicates 228614 and 237262 (now nearly two years old). Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com>
DONE KSudoku Re-implement the puzzle-symmetry feature. Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com>
DONE KSudoku Re-order the puzzle types on the welcome screen. Use KDE Games Difficulty combo-box instead of a slider. Save user's choices of puzzle between sessions. Do minor tidy-ups of the user interface. Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com>
DONE KGoldrunner Add the championship level "Gold Rush" game, with Traditional rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky. Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com>
DONE KGoldrunner Add the championship level "Jail Break" game, with KGoldrunner rules, contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky. Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com>

|- valign=top style="background-color: #EEFFEE;" | style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color: #ABFFAB; width:10px;" | DONE | style="width:10px; vertical-align:middle;" | KiGo | style="vertical-align:middle; "| Add a new plain theme. |style="width:10px; vertical-align:middle;" | Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn@kde.org> |}

kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Okular Reset Form Action support Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>
DONE Okular Viewer Mode & Interface. Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig@kdemail.net>
DONE Okular Table selection tool improvements Albert Astals Cid <aacid@kde.org>
IN PROGRESS Gwenview Animated image transitions Aurélien Gâteau <agateau@kde.org>


kdemultimedia

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO JuK MPRIS2 support Alex Merry <alex.merry@kdemail.net>


kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KGet Better interaction for torrents if they are seeding and other downloads stopped because of that Matthias Fuchs <mat69@gmx.net>
IN PROGRESS KGet Class that handles deleting files Matthias Fuchs <mat69@gmx.net>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Akonadi History Plugin Kaushik Saurabh <roideuniverse@gmail.com>


kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO attachment:/ kio-slave Implement kio-slave to access (email) attachments in Akonadi Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau@kde.org>


IN PROGRESS KAlarm Port to Akonadi David Jarvie <djarvie@kde.org>


TO DO sieve: implement wizard Implement wizard to help user to create sieve script Montel Laurent <montel@kde.org>


DONE HTML Replies Give messagecomposer (especially for KMail) the ability to compose replies in HTML Torgny Nyblom <nyblom@kde.org>


IN PROGRESS KMail import KMail1 setup import instead of migration Kevin Krammer <krammer@kde.org>


IN PROGRESS Agent control workspace integration Monitoring and control of Akonadi agents through Plasma workspace facilitites Kevin Krammer <krammer@kde.org>



kdeplasma-addons

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Kimpanel Port kimpanel to DataEngine based one Xuetian Weng <wengxt@gmail.com>
DONE IconTasks Import IconTasks Craig Drummond <craig@kde.org>


kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Okteta Add Flags Datatype to structures tool Alex Richardson <alex.richardson@gmx.de>
DONE dolphin-plugins Mercurial plugin for Dolphin Vishesh Yadav <vishesh3y@gmail.com>
DONE KCachegrind Upgrade interface to Callgrind (use callgrind_control instead of writing a command file, for > VG 3.7.x) Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
DONE Umbrello Add code import wizard Andi Fischer <andi.fischer@hispeed.ch>


kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
DONE ark Allow Ark to be used as a KPart again Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org>
IN PROGRESS ksecrets A suite of tools related to the KSecretsService infrastructure Valentin Rusu <kde@rusu.info>