Schedules/KDE4/4.4 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the 4.4 release.

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


kdeaccessibility

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kdeadmin

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TO DO system-config-printer-kde Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. [mailto: Jonathan Riddell, John Layt <>]


kdeartwork

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kdebase-apps

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TO DO Konqueror Improvements in session-management Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
TO DO Konqueror Improvements in tab-bar widget Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Konqueror New Konqueror bookmarks using Akonadi and Nepomuk, awesome bar Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Konqueror Sidebar cleanups; re-introducing the history module David Faure <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dolphin

Version control intergration

Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dolphin

Improved search bar including search configuration

Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Dolphin

Refactoring of Information Panel. KMetaDataWidget and KMetaDataConfigurationDialog should be moved to kdelibs.

Peter Penz <[email protected]>

kdebase-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KWallet Single Sign On using PAM Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO smb kioslave add kwallet support Carlo Segato <[email protected]>
DONE thumbnail kioslave Support for comic-book cover previews (.cbr, .cbz, .cbt files) Harsh J <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Nepomuk Integrate Filesystem service to handle mounting/unmounting of removable devices Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Nepomuk Add nepomuk kio slave which handles all stating of Nepomuk resources Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Nepomuk Port Nepomuk to Virtuoso: query service, strigi service Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO Icons KCM More configurable icon sizes Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO Fonts KCM More configurable fonts Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
TO DO System Activity Show CPU usage etc John Tapsell <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Date/Time KCM Plasma themed clock Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS System Activity Add scripting support John Tapsell <[email protected]>
DONE Solid RemoteControl Manager/Interface + Lirc backend Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
DONE System Activity KAuth integration John Tapsell <[email protected]>
DONE System Settings Improve module appearance for Icons View and provide searching hints Ben Cooksley <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS System Setitngs Reorganize modules Ben Cooksley <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Mouse KCM XInput2 support Fredrik Höglund <[email protected]>


KRunner
DONE KRunner Window management runner Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO KRunner Single runner mode Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected]>


Plasma - Priority Features
IN PROGRESS netbook shell a plasma shell and various containments/applets tailored for netbooks (tech preview status in 4.4) Marco Martin <[email protected]>


Plasma
TO DO libplasma better text box look with new svg elements Marco Martin <[email protected]>
TO DO libplasma Allow display of multiple Holiday Regions in same Calendar widget John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS knowledge base plasmoid new plasmoid: Opendesktop.org knowledgebase client Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Quicklaunch Plasmoid new icon size/rows config ui Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS libplasma Allow user to choose Calendar System to be displayed in Calendar widgets John Layt <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS opendesktop plasmoid show friends activity Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE libplasma/kwin slide animation for popups done by kwin Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE System tray Plasmoid support in the system tray Marco Martin <[email protected]>
DONE System tray config ui to decide between always shown, always hidden and auto hide for each systray item Marco Martin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Addon Wikipedia KRunner Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Addon Webslice Plasmoid, qgraphicswidget Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Addon Battery popup layout improvements Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Mouse Plugins UI Yet Another UI Redesign Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO libplasma Plasmoid Cloning - because having to set things up from scratch repeatedly gets old fast Chani <[email protected]>
TO DO taskbar "other desktops" group - I may not have time for this, feel free to take it Chani <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Weather Ion New Weather Ion for the wetter.com data source provider Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Plasma Animator Create new Plasma::Animator API based on Qt 4.6 Kinetic [mailto: Adenilson Cavalcanti, Igor Trindade <>]
TO DO Plasma KineticScrolling Port KineticScrolling to Qt 4.6 Kinetic [mailto: Adenilson Cavalcanti, Igor Trindade <>]
IN PROGRESS Plasma-Netbook Animated Layouts Create Animated Layouts to SAL and NewsPaper [mailto: Adenilson Cavalcanti, Igor Trindade <>]
IN PROGRESS Notification queueing [mailto: Aaron Seigo <>]
IN PROGRESS Trust Levels package signing and verification [mailto: Rob Sheepmaker Aaron Seigo <>]
IN PROGRESS JS plasmoid improvements Animations, KIO and QFile bindings; latter two by security policy [mailto: Aaron Seigo <>]
IN PROGRESS Kiosk improvements [mailto: Aaron Seigo <>]
IN PROGRESS Activity Bar [mailto: Aaron Seigo <>]


KWin - Core
IN PROGRESS KWin Window tabbing Jorge Emilio Mata <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KWin Window tiling Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Quick window maximization and tiling by dragging windows to the edge of the screen Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Improved virtual desktop KCM Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Improved window switcher (Alt+Tab) Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin SVG based window decoration theme engine (Aurorae) Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Merged Ozone and Nitrogen window decorations into Oxygen Hugo Pereira Da Costa <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KWin Support for new EWMH hints Fredrik Höglund <[email protected]>


KWin - Desktop Effects
DONE KWin Mouse action support in Present Windows effect Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin New present windows mode to only display windows from a single application Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE KWin Improved flip switch effect Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>


KDM

kdebindings

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO pykde4 Python 3 support for PyKDE4 Simon Edwards <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS qyoto Create a new generator for the C# assemblies Arno Rehn <[email protected]>
TO DO qyoto Replace the current C# cmake macros with more sophisticated ones that also work on windows. Arno Rehn <[email protected]>


kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KStars Display Comet Magnitudes whenever possible Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Information links in-place for each technical term Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Tool to suggest star-hopping techniques??? Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Extend conjunction tool to have one object unspecified, but have a genre of objects specified instead Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Simulate Lunar Eclipses Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Simulate Satellites and Iridium Flares Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Social and Geographical Integration for KStars Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
TO DO KStars Marble widget for Geolocation tool Médéric Boquien <[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]>
IN PROGRESS Cantor Import to kdeedu - currently in kdereview Alexander Rieder <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KAlgebra Support for lists Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Add "download region" feature Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Parley Rewritten practice Daniel Laidig <[email protected]>
DONE KAlgebra Improved MathML Presentation support Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE KAlgebra Added 2D parametric function plotting Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE KAlgebra Improved jump detections Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE KAlgebra Made lambda expressions more usable Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
DONE KStars Improve Observing List Wizard Prakash Mohan <[email protected]>
DONE KTurtle Add F2 context help Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE KTurtle Add SVG export for the canvas Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE KTurtle Add HTML export of the code Niels Slot <[email protected]>
DONE KTurtle Add printing support for the canvas Niels Slot <[email protected]>


kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KBreakOut Level Sets Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO KBreakOut Sound Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
TO DO KDiamond Intelligent animation pre-caching Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO KDiamond Refactor Board and Diamond classes Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO Kolf Replace with Kolf 2 (help on coding, artwork and level design desired) >>delayed to KDE 4.5<< Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK rewrite AI code or at least correct most problems related in bug #170777. Volunteers wanted! Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KsirK Boost playing over Jabber Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO KSquares Re-write computer player, make it act faster and more intelligent Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
TO DO KSquares Add more types of boards: hexagonal, triangular Eckhart Wörner <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Gluon release first gluon lib with one game. [1] Sacha schutz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Granatier New Bomberman like game for KDE 4 Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Granatier Implement all Bonuses from the default theme Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
DONE Granatier Add support for a background Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
TO DO Granatier Sidebar with informations regarding the players, like bonuses, handicaps ... Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
TO DO Granatier Arena Editor Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
TO DO Granatier Replace Phonon with QtMultimedia for better sound Mathias Kraus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KAtomic Level Sets Dmitry Suzdalev <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KsirK Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...) Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Palapeli New puzzle game for KDE 4 Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE Bovo Highlight the last move to be easier to spot Pelladi Gabor <[email protected]>
DONE Bovo Enable undo after the game has ended, to be able to correct a fatal mis-click Pelladi Gabor <[email protected]>
DONE KBreakOut Improved keyboard support Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
DONE KBreakOut Fullscreen support Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]>
DONE KDiamond Improve time display Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE KGoldrunner Add Mazes game (37 levels), contributed by Steve Mann. Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE KsirK Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774 Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kigo New Go game for KDE 4 Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE Kigo Fix smaller issues with KNS2 Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE Kigo Beautify the default theme Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kigo Allow arbitrary jumps in the undo/redo history Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kigo Improve final score visuals Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>

kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO libkexiv2 Store metadata in libexiv2 containers, do not lossily encode to QByteArray. Bug 183171 Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
TO DO libkdcraw Make color management options more flexible Marcel Wiesweg <[email protected]>
DONE libksane Add basic twain support on Windows Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
DONE libksane External API for specifying preview resolution Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS libksane External API for handling selections Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
TO DO libksane Improve auto-selection Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS gwenview Rework start page Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS gwenview Implement picture importer Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS gwenview New save-as behavior (go to saved as document) Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Show Nepomuk info in image meta info Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Persistent changes Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>
TO DO gwenview Folder thumbnails Aurelien Gateau <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO katepart Add interface to access highlighting information, port html-export plugin Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalendarSystem Add new astronomical calculation support classes to be used in kdelibs to build new astronomically based calendar systems, and in kdepim to build new version of libkholiday. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO KCalendarSystem Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian, etc. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO kdecore Group policy (Windows) backend for KAuth Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
TO DO KDEPrint If no file printing support in Qt4.5, migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter. To be discussed on k-c-d first. 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 kdeui Implement caps-lock warning for password entry widgets Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
TO DO KLocale Investigate adding Currency Code and currency minor units support based on ISO 4217 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217). John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO Khtml Improvements in kwallet integration Eduardo Robles Elvira <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kfile Move KMetaDataWidget and KMetaDataConfigurationDialog from Dolphin to kfile Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE katepart Add mapping support for the vi input mode's normal mode Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>
IN PROGRESS katepart Improve TemplateInterface, i.e. snippet support Milian Wolff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdecore Move event-filter installation out of KApplication and into a new class Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdecore Polkit-1 backend for KAuth Dario Freddi <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdeui Support floating point font sizes Christoph Feck <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdeui Finish the time chooser widget Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kio Limit number of connections per host (per application), add job priorities Andreas Hartmetz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kio Support for automatically renaming conflicting files during copy and move operations Todd <[email protected]>
TO DO kio Better file information in file conflict dialog Todd <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kio Remember downloads via Nepomuk Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS webkit Move KDE integration of QtWebKit into kdelibs (but not KPart!) Urs Wolfer <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS buildsystem Modular build of KDE modules Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>
DONE katepart Enable command line scripting again Dominik Haumann <[email protected]>
DONE katepart Support byte-order mark in unicode files Joseph Wenninger <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS katepart Improve katepart Vim mode. Alejandro Castaño <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO KMix Nicer OSD (icon, mute state) Christian Esken <[email protected]>
TO DO KMix Amend Keyboard Shortcuts Christian Esken <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KMix Allow arbitrary ordering of controls Christian Esken <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KMix Add WhatsThis help on controls (Bug 70042) Christian Esken <[email protected]>


kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Kopete UPnp Support Matt Rogers <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Jabber Jingle video support Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Jabber Jingle ICE support Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Add support for urls to Bonjour plugin Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Kopete Rich text support for ICQ Roman Jarosz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KGet Support for verifying signed files Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KGet Support for custom NewTransferDialog in BTPlugin Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Contacts plasmoid Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Telepathy protocol plugin George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Telepathy Tubes Desktop Sharing plugin George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kopete Akonadi Logger(modify the history plugin) Kaushik Saurabh <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Krdc Telepathy Tubes support [mailto: Abner Silva <>]
IN PROGRESS Krfb Telepathy Tubes support George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Krfb Core restructuring George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Telepathy Account Management KCM George Goldberg <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Telepathy Mission Control launcher KDED George Goldberg <[email protected]>
DONE Kopete Create avatars from a webcam device Alex Fiestas <[email protected] >
DONE Krdc Redesigned workflow to create a new connection Urs Wolfer <[email protected]>
DONE Krdc Full Screen Switching Tony Murray <[email protected]>


kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Akregator Port to use KNotificationItem Teemu Rytilahti <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KAlarm Implement Akonadi support @ kde.org David Jarvie <djarvie @ kde.org>
IN PROGRESS KAlarm Provide audio-only alarms @ kde.org David Jarvie <djarvie @ kde.org>

kdepimlibs

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kdeplasma-addons

Status Project Description Contact
DONE plasmaboard Added a virtual keyboard plasmoid for touchscreen users Björn Ruberg <[email protected]>


kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Lokalize Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Continue implementing XLIFF spec Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Segmentation [editing] functionality Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO Lokalize Remote translation memories Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!) Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
DONE Kate Add common vim commands like :wq, :new, :bp/bn, etc. Erlend Hamberg <ehambergαgmail.com>


kdeutils

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Ark Add an options dialog (maybe) Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files) Harald Hvaal <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO Ark Make the internal previewer optional Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]>
TO DO KGpg Make keyserver actions possible to use on multiple keyservers at once Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO KGpg Add "caff" mode for keysigning Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO KGpg Allow searching for trust path in keyring Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO KGpg Add improved key import result window (with useful summary, filtering, reasonable default size etc.) Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO KGpg Make generating a key a KJob so it get's better notification support Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add editing capability to Decoding table Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add Kate-like search tool 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 copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard 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 add further export formats like s-record and intel 16 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 Okular like embedded notifications 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 global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add QIODevice for AbstractByteArrayModel and make mimetype detection use this instead of only filename Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO printer-applet Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. [mailto: Jonathon Riddell, John Layt <>]
IN PROGRESS Okteta Make dialogs for Goto, Search & Replace embedded Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Okteta Add tool to view decoding of complex structures Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE kdelirc Communicate to lirc through solid Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kdelirc Integrate solid backend into kdelirc frontend Frank Scheffold <[email protected]>
TO DO kdelirc Cycle mode function Frank Scheffold <[email protected]>
TO DO kdelirc Add a try button in configurations Michael Zanetti <[email protected]>
DONE Okteta Rename libkakao to Kasten and make the Okteta KPart use it Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
DONE Okteta Add embedded dialog to set selection range Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>

Other

Status Project Description Contact
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