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]> |
| DONE | Kate Part | Reworked Color Configuration | Dominik Haumann <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KActivities | Encryption for private activities (not available via UI). | Ivan Čukić <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KActivities | Linking files to activities in Dolphin, Konqueror, Folder View. | Ivan Čukić <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KActivities | Activities KIO. | Ivan Čukić <[email protected]> |
kde-runtime
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | Thumbnail | fix for bookmarks | Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
|
kde-workspace
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | ksmserver | Port shutdown dialog to QML | Lamarque V. Souza <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | ksmserver | Merge the new qml based screen locker | Marco Martin <[email protected]> |
| DONE | plasma | MPRIS2 dataengine | Alex Merry <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | windows that are moved to another desktop should be treated as sticky windows (bug #213847) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Fix fullscreen state handling: NETWM says it's bound to focus and not stacking order, also see bug #224600 (bug #296076) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Lanczos Filter broken after screen size changes (bug #296065) | <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | kwin | GHNS support for KWin Scripts (bug #296774, Review 104877) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | KConf Update Script for KWin 4.9 (bug #296775) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Request category for scripted KWin Effects on kde-(look|app).org (bug #297634) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Request category for KWin Scripts on kde-(look|app).org (bug #297635) | <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | kwin | GHNS support for Window Switching Layouts (bug #297636, Review 104894) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Request category for Window Switcher Layouts on kde-(look|app).org (bug #297637) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Update Documentation for Window Switcher Layouts (bug #297638) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | ThumbnailItem allows upscaling of Windows (bug #297864) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Window Tab support for QML based Aurorae (bug #299138) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Increase ABI version for KDecorations (bug #299140) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Break NETWM to allow inner xinerama struts (bug #299247) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Useraction menu closes when focus passes to another window (bug #81743) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: change focus only when moving mouse (bug #92290) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: kwin fulscreen / un-fullscreen system notifications (bug #124612, Review 104457) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Insufficient stacking order handling for deleted windows (bug #158262, Review 104519) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: Use arrow keys to control cover switch. (bug #178595, Review 104438) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | No reason given why some desktop effects cannot be activated (bug #209213, Review 104847) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Dragging a title bar against a bottom panel twice makes it go under the panel on the second time (bug #210926) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Wobbly windows wobbles strange after quick-maximization (bug #222102) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | "Move" command should allow off-screen window moving same as Alt + click trick (bug #229942) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Bug with shading always inactive windows (bug #242217) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Change title of menu item "Configure window behaviour..." (bug #249486) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Task switcher message when no windows looks ugly with stars (bug #260938) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Placement Policy 'under mouse' (bug #272162) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: Synchronize Show Desktop wording in all tabbox effects (bug #273478, Review 104436) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | closing session crash (bug #282933, Review 104690) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Window Specific Settings dialog has no help function (bug #286783) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Add "Present Windows - Window Class" to "Screen Edges" functions (bug #288960) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | [JJ] Select next window with arrow key in Alt+Tab (bug #291916) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | KWin crashed when I was switching windows (bug #292614) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Kill helper should be out of process (bug #295940) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Synchronize user actions menu with libtaskmanager (bug #296056) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Different binary name for KWin Active (bug #296084) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Window Switcher KCM needs to be reworked (bug #297639, Review 104525) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Document global JavaScript methods in KWin Scripting API documentation (bug #297640) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Elevate windows in addition to highlight (bug #297809) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | KWin crashes when interacting with Plasma (bug #298669, Review 104714) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Add ABI check to KDecorations (bug #299141) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Effects cannot be configured (bug #299163) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Adding proper window thumbnail clipping to the QML tabbox (bug #299198) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Improve VSync strategy (bug #299274) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Screen Edge bindings for KWin Scripting (bug #299275, Review 104904) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Better QML selection list for Window Switcher layout (bug #299278) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Add layout specification to D-Bus call for invoking TabBox (bug #299279, Review 104838) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Default Bindings for Switching between Windows of current Application (bug #299308, Review 104730) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Make desktop focus chains activities aware (bug #299309, Review 104649) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Activity window rules (Review 104972) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | Desktop Zoom should be saved between sessions (bug #189956, Review 104597) | <[email protected]> |
kde-baseapps
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO DO | FolderView | Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment | Ignat Semenov <[email protected]> |
| DONE | FolderView | Show files related to an activity | Ivan Cukic <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Allow to show any kind of metadata like ratings, tags, comments, image-sizes, music-artist, ... beside each item of the view. | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Use KMessageWidget for information- and error-messages (see http://agateau.com/2011/04/21/kde-ux-2011/ for details) | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Optionally remember the column-widths of the details view | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Allow to disable the expandable folders of the details view | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Implement inline renaming for the new view-engine | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Allow to optionally set a maximum number of lines for the icons-view | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Dolphin | Implement files quick preview feature (named Klook) | Evgeniy Auzhin <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Move menubar and tabbar settings out of profile and into "Configure Konsole" | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Add command line options for controlling the visibility of menubar and tabbar | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Allow dragging tab out of current window and into its own window | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Add "Clone Tab" action for opening new tab using the same profile used by current tab | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Add "Change Directory To" action in the popup menu of drag & drop operation | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Allow action in the context menu for searching selected text using KDE WebShortcuts | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Provide the searching ability in konsolepart | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | konsolepart can notify the hosting application(e.g, dolphin) of the changing of current directory | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Allow changing tab title through escape sequence like "\e]30;Tab Title\a" | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Konsole | Allow users to have better control of the copy & paste behavior of mouse within Konsole | Jekyll Wu <[email protected]>
|
kdeedu
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO DO | Marble | Satellite Map NG | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Mars & Venus satellite plugin | Torsten Rahn / Gerhard Holtkamp <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Solar Eclipse Plugin | Torsten Rahn / Gerhard Holtkamp <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Help Menu polishing / Support page inclusion | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Toolbar polishing/refactoring | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Solar Eclipse Plugin | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
| 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]> |
| DONE | 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]> |
| TO DO | Rocs | New Project Wizard - guided creation based on loaded plugins | Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Rocs | Project journal files | Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Rocs | New Add-Node/Add-Link Toolbar for data types and pointer types | Rocs Developers <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Kig | Improve Cancel Construction and Undo actions | David E. Narváez <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Pairs | New memory game | Aleix Pol Gonzalez <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KAlgebra Mobile | Many improvements, including Android and better Active support | Aleix Pol Gonzalez <[email protected]> |
kdegames
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN PROGRESS | libkdegames | Major cleanup and rewrite (done, except for the new highscore classes) Release team: please link to the porting instructions for third-party developers |
Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Granatier | improve config UI for player and arena selection | Mathias Kraus <[email protected]> |
| 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]> |
| DONE | KGoldrunner | Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky | Ian Wadham <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KGoldrunner | Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games | Ian Wadham <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KPatience | Saved game files now include the whole game history | Parker Coates <[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]> |
| DONE | KMahjongg | Make the BoardEditor running again | Christian Krippendorf <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KMahjongg | Implement an option for random layouts | Christian Krippendorf <[email protected]> |
kdegraphics
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | Gwenview | Fullscreen browse | Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Okular | Store annotations with documents bug #151614 | <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Okular | Print document with annotations bug #159005 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Annotations Screen support (embedded movies in PDF) bug #172847 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Aggressive page preloading bug #184196 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Hyphen-aware search bug #190433 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Multiple bookmarks per page bug #157198 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Allow the renaming of bookmark "parent" items | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Allow the page number selector to be added to the toolbar bug #279128 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Double click to select workds bug #187347 | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Make Okular inhibit sleep and screen power management when in Presentation mode | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Behavior for left/right arrow keys (Review 104596) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Remember the mouse mode on exit | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Okular | Make search from the current page the default | <[email protected]> |
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]> |
| DONE | JuK | MPRIS2 support | Alex Merry <[email protected]> |
| DONE | JuK | MPRIS2 support | Eike Hein <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dragon | MPRIS2 support | Eike Hein <[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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | Akonadi Google Resources | Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime | Dan Vratil <[email protected]>
|
| DONE | KTnef | Bring back KTnef from the KDE3 days. KTnef is a standalone TNEF attachment viewer | Allen Winter <[email protected]>
|
| DONE | Akonadi Kolab Resources | Kolab resource using the Kolab libraries to kdepim-runtime | Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
|
| DONE | Extend Akonotes Format | Extend the akonotes format to support features required by zanshin and kolab | Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
|
| DONE | Import pim data | ImportWizard allows to import settings/mails/filters/calendar/addressbook from thunderbird/evolution/etc. when exists. | Laurent Montel <[email protected]>
|
| DONE | Archive Mail Agent | Archive Mail Agent archives your mail folders on a scheduled basis. | Laurent Montel <[email protected]>
|
| DONE | Backup Mail | Backup Mail saves/restores mail config/config (akonadi)/database nepomuk/resources etc. | Laurent Montel <[email protected]>
|
kdeplasma-addons
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | Now Playing | replace with QML version | Alex Merry <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Microblog | replace with QML version | Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | StackFolder | Add applet for quick browse the stack of folders | Ural Mullabaev <[email protected]> |
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 <>] |
| DONE | Umbrello | diagram auto layout support | Ralf Habacker <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Umbrello | diagram graphviz dot export | Ralf Habacker <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Thumbnail | PO thumbnailer | Ni Hui <[email protected]> |
kdeutils
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|