This is a list of planned features for the 4.4 release.

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeadmin

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	system-config-printer-kde	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	[mailto: Jonathan Riddell, John Layt <>]

kdeartwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Konqueror	Improvements in session-management	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
TO DO	Konqueror	Improvements in tab-bar widget	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Konqueror	New Konqueror bookmarks using Akonadi and Nepomuk, awesome bar	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Konqueror	Sidebar cleanups; re-introducing the history module	David Faure <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Version control intergration	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Improved search bar including search configuration	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Refactoring of Information Panel. KMetaDataWidget and KMetaDataConfigurationDialog should be moved to kdelibs.	Peter Penz <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KWallet	Single Sign On using PAM	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO	smb kioslave	add kwallet support	Carlo Segato <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	thumbnail kioslave	Support for comic-book cover previews (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt files)	Harsh J <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO	Icons KCM	More configurable icon sizes	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	Fonts KCM	More configurable fonts	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO	System Activity	Show CPU usage etc	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Date/Time KCM	Plasma themed clock	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	System Activity	Add scripting support	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
DONE	Solid	RemoteControl Manager/Interface + Lirc backend	Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
DONE	System Activity	KAuth integration	John Tapsell <[email protected]>
DONE	System Settings	Improve module appearance for Icons View and provide searching hints	Ben Cooksley <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	System Setitngs	Reorganize modules	Ben Cooksley <[email protected]>
KRunner
DONE	KRunner	Window management runner	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO	KRunner	Single runner mode	Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected]>
Plasma - Priority Features
IN PROGRESS	netbook shell	a plasma shell and various containments/applets tailored for netbooks (tech preview status in 4.4)	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
Plasma
TO DO	libplasma	better text box look with new svg elements	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO	libplasma	Allow display of multiple Holiday Regions in same Calendar widget	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	knowledge base plasmoid	new plasmoid: Opendesktop.org knowledgebase client	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libplasma	Allow user to choose Calendar System to be displayed in Calendar widgets	John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	opendesktop plasmoid	show friends activity	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	libplasma/kwin	slide animation for popups done by kwin	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	System tray	Plasmoid support in the system tray	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE	System tray	config ui to decide between always shown, always hidden and auto hide for each systray item	Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Addon	Wikipedia KRunner	Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Addon	Webslice Plasmoid, qgraphicswidget	Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Addon	Battery popup layout improvements	Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Mouse Plugins UI	Yet Another UI Redesign	Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO	libplasma	Plasmoid Cloning - because having to set things up from scratch repeatedly gets old fast	Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO	taskbar	"other desktops" group - I may not have time for this, feel free to take it	Chani <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Weather Ion	New Weather Ion for the wetter.com data source provider	Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <[email protected]>
KWin - Core
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window tabbing	Jorge Emilio Mata <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window tiling	Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Quick window maximization and tiling by dragging windows to the edge of the screen	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Improved virtual desktop KCM	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Improved window switcher (Alt+Tab)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	SVG based window decoration theme engine (Aurorae)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Merged Ozone and Nitrogen window decorations into Oxygen	Hugo Pereira Da Costa <[email protected]>
KWin - Desktop Effects
DONE	KWin	Mouse action support in Present Windows effect	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	New present windows mode to only display windows from a single application	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Improved flip switch effect	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
KDM

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	pykde4	Python 3 support for PyKDE4	Simon Edwards <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	qyoto	Create a new generator for the C# assemblies	Arno Rehn <[email protected]>
TO DO	qyoto	Replace the current C# cmake macros with more sophisticated ones that also work on windows.	Arno Rehn <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KStars	Display Comet Magnitudes whenever possible	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Information links in-place for each technical term	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Tool to suggest star-hopping techniques???	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Extend conjunction tool to have one object unspecified, but have a genre of objects specified instead	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Simulate Lunar Eclipses	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Simulate Satellites and Iridium Flares	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Social and Geographical Integration for KStars	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Marble widget for Geolocation tool	Médéric Boquien <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Better printed star charts	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Better rendering of comets/asteroids	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO	KStars	Texture mapping of the skymap???	Jason Harris <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Import to kdeedu - currently in kdereview	Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlgebra	Support for lists	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Add "download region" feature	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Parley	Rewritten practice	Daniel Laidig <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved MathML Presentation support	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Added 2D parametric function plotting	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Improved jump detections	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE	KAlgebra	Made lambda expressions more usable	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE	KStars	Improve Observing List Wizard	Prakash Mohan <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add F2 context help	Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add SVG export for the canvas	Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add HTML export of the code	Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE	KTurtle	Add printing support for the canvas	Niels Slot <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KBreakOut	Level Sets	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBreakOut	Sound	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Intelligent animation pre-caching	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDiamond	Refactor Board and Diamond classes	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kolf	Replace with Kolf 2 (help on coding, artwork and level design desired) >>delayed to KDE 4.5<<	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	rewrite AI code or at least correct most problems related in bug #170777. Volunteers wanted!	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	Boost playing over Jabber	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSquares	Re-write computer player, make it act faster and more intelligent	Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSquares	Add more types of boards: hexagonal, triangular	Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gluon	release first gluon lib with one game. [1]	Sacha schutz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	New Bomberman like game for KDE 4	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Granatier	Implement all Bonuses from the default theme	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
DONE	Granatier	Add support for a background	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
TO DO	Granatier	Sidebar with informations regarding the players, like bonuses, handicaps ...	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
TO DO	Granatier	Arena Editor	Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAtomic	Level Sets	Dmitry Suzdalev <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KsirK	Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...)	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	New puzzle game for KDE 4	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE	Bovo	Highlight the last move to be easier to spot	Pelladi Gabor <[email protected]>
DONE	Bovo	Enable undo after the game has ended, to be able to correct a fatal mis-click	Pelladi Gabor <[email protected]>
DONE	KBreakOut	Improved keyboard support	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
DONE	KBreakOut	Fullscreen support	Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
DONE	KDiamond	Improve time display	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE	KGoldrunner	Add Mazes game (37 levels), contributed by Steve Mann.	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KsirK	Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	New Go game for KDE 4	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	Kigo	Fix smaller issues with KNS2	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	Kigo	Beautify the default theme	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Allow arbitrary jumps in the undo/redo history	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Improve final score visuals	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	libkexiv2	Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray. Bug 183171	Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
TO DO	libkdcraw	Make color management options more flexible	Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
DONE	libksane	Add basic twain support on Windows	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
DONE	libksane	External API for specifying preview resolution	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libksane	External API for handling selections	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
TO DO	libksane	Improve auto-selection	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	gwenview	Rework start page	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	gwenview	Implement picture importer	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	gwenview	New save-as behavior (go to saved as document)	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO	gwenview	Show Nepomuk info in image meta info	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO	gwenview	Persistent changes	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO	gwenview	Folder thumbnails	Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	katepart	Add interface to access highlighting information, port html-export plugin	Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add new astronomical calculation support classes to be used in kdelibs to build new astronomically based calendar systems, and in kdepim to build new version of libkholiday.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KCalendarSystem	Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, etc.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdecore	Group policy (Windows) backend for KAuth	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	If no file printing support in Qt4.5, migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter. To be discussed on k-c-d first.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	KDEPrint	Add framework for standard actions for 'Send to...' for e-mail, fax, etc by printing to PDF/PS.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdeui	Implement caps-lock warning for password entry widgets	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLocale	Investigate adding Currency Code and currency minor units support based on ISO 4217 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	Khtml	Improvements in kwallet integration	Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kfile	Move KMetaDataWidget and KMetaDataConfigurationDialog from Dolphin to kfile	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	Add mapping support for the vi input mode's normal mode	Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Improve TemplateInterface, i.e. snippet support	Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Move event-filter installation out of KApplication and into a new class	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Polkit-1 backend for KAuth	Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Support floating point font sizes	Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	Finish the time chooser widget	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kio	Limit number of connections per host (per application), add job priorities	Andreas Hartmetz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kio	Support for automatically renaming conflicting files during copy and move operations	Todd <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	webkit	Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!)	Urs Wolfer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	buildsystem	Modular build of KDE modules	Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	Enable command line scripting again	Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	Support byte-order mark in unicode files	Joseph Wenninger <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	katepart	Improve katepart Vim mode.	Alejandro Castaño <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KMix	Nicer OSD (icon, mute state)	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMix	Amend Keyboard Shortcuts	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Allow arbitrary ordering of controls	Christian Esken <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KMix	Add WhatsThis help on controls (Bug 70042)	Christian Esken <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Kopete	UPnp Support	Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle video support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle ICE support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Add support for urls to Bonjour plugin	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Rich text support for ICQ	Roman Jarosz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support for verifying signed files	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Telepathy protocol plugin	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Telepathy Tubes Desktop Sharing plugin	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Akonadi Logger(modify the history plugin)	Kaushik Saurabh <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Krdc	Telepathy Tubes support	[mailto: Abner Silva <>]
IN PROGRESS	Krfb	Telepathy Tubes support	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Krfb	Core restructuring	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Account Management KCM	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Mission Control launcher KDED	George Goldberg <[email protected]>
DONE	Kopete	Create avatars from a webcam device	Alex Fiestas <[email protected] >
DONE	Krdc	Redesigned workflow to create a new connection	Urs Wolfer <[email protected]>
DONE	Krdc	Full Screen Switching	Tony Murray <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Akregator	Port to use KNotificationItem	Teemu Rytilahti <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Implement Akonadi support	@ kde.org David Jarvie <djarvie @ kde.org>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Provide audio-only alarms	@ kde.org David Jarvie <djarvie @ kde.org>

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact

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]>
DONE	Kate	Add common vim commands like :wq, :new, :bp/bn, etc.	Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Ark	Add an options dialog (maybe)	Harald Hvaal <[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	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	Ark	Make the internal previewer optional	Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Make keyserver actions possible to use on multiple keyservers at once	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Add "caff" mode for keysigning	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Allow searching for trust path in keyring	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Add improved key import result window (with useful summary, filtering, reasonable default size etc.)	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGpg	Make generating a key a KJob so it get's better notification support	Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add editing capability to Decoding table	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add Kate-like search tool	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	copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add support for memory mapping of files	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add further export formats like s-record and intel 16	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 Okular like embedded notifications	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 global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	add QIODevice for AbstractByteArrayModel and make mimetype detection use this instead of only filename	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	[mailto: Jonathon Riddell, John Layt <>]
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Make dialogs for Goto, Search & Replace embedded	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add tool to view decoding of complex structures	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE	kdelirc	Communicate to lirc through solid	Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdelirc	Integrate solid backend into kdelirc frontend	Frank Scheffold <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdelirc	Cycle mode function	Frank Scheffold <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdelirc	Add a try button in configurations	Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
DONE	Okteta	Rename libkakao to Kasten and make the Okteta KPart use it	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE	Okteta	Add embedded dialog to set selection range	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact