Schedules/KDE4/4.1 Release Goals

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    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
    • 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

    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 and more

    New platforms