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    Goals for the 4.1 Release:
    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: [http://userbase.kde.org/Lokalize Lokalize] (formerly [[Projects/Summer of Code/2007/Projects/KAider|KAider]] ) computer-aided translation system
    * New: Libksane scanning library and Skanlite scanner application
    * New: A shared emoticon theming system (used in PIM and kopete)
    * New: Step physics simulator
    * New: PHP-Qt
    * Back: KSCD
    ==Improvements in applications==
    * Session management and restore from crash in Konqueror
    * Undo closed window and smooth scrolling in Konqueror
    * Annotations in Kate
    * Reimplementation of KInfoCenter
    * Monitoring process output and Pause/resume applications 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
    * ZeroConf support for KBattleShip
    * Gwenview: undo system, Thumbnail bar, new full-screen UI and rating support
    * Okular: better form support, better presentation mode
    * Kopete: AIM offline support, OTR Encryption support, less intrusive notifications, improved statusmanager and configurationdialogs,
    * Dolphin: innovative single-click selection, Copy to/Move to, tabs, treeview, tooltips and improved tagging support
    * Konsole: drag'n'drop of tabs, send input to other terminals
    * Too many too mention in [[/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan#kdepim|KDE-PIM]]
    * Kross-based scripting in KDevelop
    * KColoreditor: color mixing, many new ways of selecting colors (styles) and managing palettes
    ==Improvements in frameworks==
    * Support for 3rd party icon themes in compliance to the icon naming specification
    * Support for QtScript, Java, PyQt and QtRuby 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
    * Many improvements in Nepomuk, including rating widget and better performance
    ==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-dependent layout in Kickoff
    * More polished kickoff
    * Multiple, resizable and relocatable Plasma panels
    * New interface and configuration dialog for KRunner
    * Desktop Search support in KRunner
    * Kross and Plasma integration in SuperKaramba
    * Menu editing via kickoff->rightclick
    * Installing icons themes, splash screens, emoticons and Plasma themes via KNewStuff
    * Systemsettings module for Nepomuk and Strigi
    * New applets like one for character selection, network management, pastebin, Kalzium molecule info, show folder, timer and more
    ==New platforms (Developer Previews)==
    * [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows|Windows port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
    * [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows|Windows port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
    * [[Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X|Mac port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
    * [[Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X|Mac port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
    * OpenSolaris port
    * [[Projects/KDE_on_Solaris|Solaris, OpenSolaris port]]
    * Plasma with widgets on canvas, makes things like layouting much easier, and generally integrating widgets into Plasmoids
    * Webkit in Plasma
    * GStreamer, Quicktime, DirectShow9 Phonon backends
    * Apple dashboard widgets support in Plasma
    * Decibel VOIP and real-time communication framework
    * <font color="red">Done!</font> Dragon Player multimedia player
    * <font color="red">Done!</font> Lokalize (formerly Kaider) computer-aided translation system
    * More polished Kopete
    * KDevelop and KDevplatform modules
    * KDE-PIM module, with some Akonadi functionality
    * Move Akonadi library into the kdepimlibs module
    * GetHotNewStuff2 / DXS
    * Plasmagik plasma packages and add-on creator
    * Lots of smaller features

    Revision as of 10:01, 30 December 2008

    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 and Skanlite scanner application
    • New: A shared emoticon theming system (used in PIM and kopete)
    • New: Step physics simulator
    • New: PHP-Qt
    • Back: KSCD

    Improvements in applications

    • Session management and restore from crash in Konqueror
    • Undo closed window and smooth scrolling in Konqueror
    • Annotations in Kate
    • Reimplementation of KInfoCenter
    • Monitoring process output and Pause/resume applications 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
    • ZeroConf support for KBattleShip
    • Gwenview: undo system, Thumbnail bar, new full-screen UI and rating support
    • Okular: better form support, better presentation mode
    • Kopete: AIM offline support, OTR Encryption support, less intrusive notifications, improved statusmanager and configurationdialogs,
    • Dolphin: innovative single-click selection, Copy to/Move to, tabs, treeview, tooltips and improved tagging support
    • Konsole: drag'n'drop of tabs, send input to other terminals
    • Too many too mention in KDE-PIM
    • Kross-based scripting in KDevelop
    • KColoreditor: color mixing, many new ways of selecting colors (styles) and managing palettes

    Improvements in frameworks

    • Support for 3rd party icon themes in compliance to the icon naming specification
    • Support for QtScript, Java, PyQt and QtRuby 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
    • Many improvements in Nepomuk, including rating widget and better performance

    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-dependent layout in Kickoff
    • More polished kickoff
    • Multiple, resizable and relocatable Plasma panels
    • New interface and configuration dialog for KRunner
    • Desktop Search support in KRunner
    • Kross and Plasma integration in SuperKaramba
    • Menu editing via kickoff->rightclick
    • Installing icons themes, splash screens, emoticons and Plasma themes via KNewStuff
    • Systemsettings module for Nepomuk and Strigi
    • New applets like one for character selection, network management, pastebin, Kalzium molecule info, show folder, timer and more

    New platforms (Developer Previews)