Difference between revisions of "Schedules/KDE4/4.1 Release Goals"

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)

• Windows port (Frameworks and Applications)
• Mac port (Frameworks and Applications)
• Solaris, OpenSolaris port