Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the 4.2 release.

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  • in-progress => started, but not completed yet
  • done => completed

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Status Project Description Contact
TO DO System Settings add Administrator mode button ? <?>
IN PROGRESS Eigen Finish version 2.0 and move it to kdesupport Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>
TO DO Eigen Port all Eigen-using code in KDE and KOffice to Eigen 2.0 Benoît Jacob <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS kross Extend QtScript integration. Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KDEPrint Reintroduce KDEPrint in some form, depending on what Qt4.4 delivers. 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 KDEPrint Migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter, modify to utilise new Qt4.4 features. To be discussed on k-c-d first. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalenderSystem Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian. (Note, not all may live in kdelibs or be available as a global calendar system) John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Implement KLocale based methods to return weekend days and day of religious observance. Currently KCalendarSystem provides dayOfPray(), but for Gregorian this is not correct in all locales where it is used. Currently KDatePicker hardcodes Saturday and dayOfPray() as weekend days which may not be correct in all locales. To be discussed first on k-c-d and with kdepim. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO Phonon add Port class for fine grained control over data flow between Phonon objects Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Phonon make AbstractMediaStream/StreamInterface threadsafe Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Phonon "low-level" PCM I/O with at least an ALSA implementation Matthias Kretz and Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Phonon VideoWidget snapshot function Matthias Kretz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KConfig API review and export KConfigBackend Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KConfig Make KConfigSkeleton KConfigGroup aware Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KConfig Make KConfigDialog work nicer with KConfigSkeleton + manually managed widgets Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Color KCM Add 'smart setting' of extended colors Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO Color KCM Add KDE3 scheme import Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO Color KCM Query kwin for supported colors; add full set of kwin colors Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO KDEPrint reintroduce KDEPrint Print Management tools, e.g. KCM, kprinter, kjobviewer, etc. Depends upon progress of kdelibs side of KDEPrint and Qt4.4 feature set. john Layt <[email protected]>
KRunner
IN PROGRESS Krunner Configuration options for blacklisting, user ranking, runner ranking, learning Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Krunner SearchMatch configuration Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Simple learning Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Simple GUI for above options Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Runners able to share parsing Jordi Polo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Noun-Verb support Ryan P. Bitanga <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Implement Nuno's UI polishings Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Runtime syntax documentation Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Runner configuration Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Krunner Search set paging Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO KRunner runner for the plasma dbus interface Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
Plasma - Priority Features
IN PROGRESS Plasma Welcome plasmoid Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma JOLIE Integration Kevin Ottens <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Notification plasmoid Dmitry Suzdalev <[email protected]>
TO DO KWin Make it possible to focus plasma panels Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma panel->desktop dragging Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Expand cashew to full action bar when zoomed out Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Plasmagik packaging (and package classes) Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Networkmanager Plasmoid and DataEngine Christopher Blauvelt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma New ECMA Script Scriptengines Richard Moore <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Extenders Rob Scheepmaker <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Wallpaper plugins Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Separate Desktop Settings from DesktopContainment Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Script Security Framework Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
Plasma
DONE Plasma Plasma Popup Tips Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
DONE Plasma Collapsing Applet convenience class Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS Plasma Taskbar grouping Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Weather plasmoid Shawn Starr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Small Form Factors Marijn Kruisselbrink <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Plasma On Screensaver Chani Armitage <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Website update Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Grid applet Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Techbase Tutorials Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Context menu plugins Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Add New Widgets: Pluggable widget browser Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Activity<->Virtual Desktop Affinity Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Optional Per-Virtual Desktop DesktopView Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Make non-SVG painting in Plasma low-color and non-anim friendly Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Runtime DataEngine documentation (sources, usage, etc) Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Panel Autohide Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Keyboard Shortcut Config UI Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Systray++ Spec Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Save icon positioning in folderview Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma physics-based animator Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma New wallpapers Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Preserve wallpaper choice by copying user paper to home dir Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma New way of handling wallpapers and different sizes (package format, and so on...) Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Top-level windows plasmoids Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma drop indicator in panel Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma improve usability of appletbrowser delete button Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma adding containments from the appletbrowser (and remove the "add panel" from DefaultDeskrop) Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma Expand cashew to cover the containment when fully zoomed out Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma highlight the applet with active keyboard shortcuts Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma dbus interface Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma make the panel controller a bit more usable Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma nicely draw the desktop toolbox when it's moved because of a panel Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO Plasma theme Plasma::PushButton with svg Marco Martin <[email protected]>

kdepimlibs

Status Project Description Contact

kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Kopete MSNP15 implementation for MSN Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete UPnp Support Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3) Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Update Kopete to better support Decibel Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Contacts plasmoid Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KGet MultiSource-Downloading Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KGet Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO KGet MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Network Manager Applet Christopher Blauvelt <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Kjots Import notes from KNotes as KJots pages. Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
TO DO Kjots Email KJots pages using default mail client (bug #124509. Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Power Manager import either Guidance Power Manager or move kde4powersaver into kdeutils ? <?>
TO DO Okteta add Kate-like search tool Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta refactor KByteArrayView 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 parameter dialog for "Copy as..." 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]>

kdebindings

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Smoke Wrap some more APIs (at least Akanodi for all languages and Plasma for C#) KDE-bindings developers <[email protected]>
TO DO krossjava Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up. Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO krossjava Documentation++ Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS libkdegames New highscore management system Matt Williams <milliams>
DONE kdiamond Drag jewels Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO kdiamond Optional OpenGL rendering Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS ksirk Map scrolling arrows Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO ksirk KHotNewStuff skins Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO ksirk Jabber based net game finding Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO ksirk Use only names in skins instead of numeric ids Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO ksirk Skins editor Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS ktron Port and remake the KTron game for KDE 4.2 Stas Verberkt <[email protected]>
TO DO KNetWalk Support for custom and non-square board sizes Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Kate Port and reenable the Snippets plugin. Jakob Petsovits <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS perldoc KIOSlave Move perldoc KIOSlave from playground to kdesdk (awaiting feature window opening) Michael Pyne <michael.pyne@kdemail.net>
IN PROGRESS Lokalize XLIFF support Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
IN PROGRESS Lokalize various Translation Memory enhancements Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO Lokalize Kross-based scripting Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO Lokalize QA: glossary checklists Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO KAppTemplate Add DBUS support in templates Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
DONE Umbrello Port code generation wizard to QWizard and replace all q3 widgets Andi Fischer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Umbrello Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant Andi Fischer <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KEduca Rewrite of the classic test writing/taking application Matt Williams <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Number support Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Theme manager Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KHangMan Add a Open File action Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KHangMan Integrate an editor Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KHangMan Plasmoid Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KHangMan Theme manager Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO KLettres Visual indicator when letter is wrong Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO Kalzium Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView. Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kalzium Plasmoid to access Kalzium database Carsten Niehaus <[email protected]>
TO DO Step Improve GUI for creating softbody Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
TO DO Step Use common constraints handling code for collisions Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KAlgebra New parser using QLALR Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Parley Declensions Frederik Gladhorn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KStars Display millions of stars Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KStars Tool to predict Conjunctions Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KStars Earth Satellites Jason Harris <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KStars Sky Calendar Tool Jason Harris <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Marble widget for Geolocation tool Jason Harris <[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]>
TO DO Marble Export map to MxN pixel bitmap Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool ) Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Map Contents translation Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Layer Management Class Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Plugin architecture for map layers Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble DGML2 Support Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble KDE-Version settings dialog Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Port authors list from the Qt-About dialog to the KDE-About dialog Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Qt-Version settings dialog Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Improved KML support Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble OpenStreetMap support using original OSM tiles Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Real Time Cloud-Cover David Roberts / Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Mercator Projection Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble More generic projection support Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Usage of Marble in

non-widgets

Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Properties dialog for objects. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve construction of bisect lines. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve feedback when constructing objects. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig More geometric objects. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Script objects as macros (to be reused more than once). Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO Kig Improve the Cabri import filter. Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO KTurtle Export canvas as image Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]>
TO DO KTurtle Optional rulers/grid for canvas units Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]>
TO DO KTurtle Add command line Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]>
TO DO KTurtle Add a color picker Niels Slot <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Dragon Player Make Dragon indipendent from Xine Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dragon Player File Manager Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dragon Player play media dialog Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dragon Player slider changes Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dragon Player show info while playing audio files Ian Monroe <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Use XCOMPOSITE real transparency when available for the track announcement popup Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO JuK Allow disabling crossfade Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KMagnifier Refactor color menu, re-add invert, break current color blindness code into "daltonize" and "simulate" Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>
TO DO KMagnifier Add color-shift modes to help people with color blindness Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KSnapshot Add support for grabbing a single screen in multihead Richard Moore <[email protected]>