Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan

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This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.7 release.

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Legend:

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


kdelibs

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KLocale Number grouping support John Layt <[email protected]>


DONE KLocale Narrow date name format support John Layt <[email protected]>


DONE KLocale Week Numbers support John Layt <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KLocale Windows Backend John Layt <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS kdeui New date/time edit widgets from kdepim John Layt <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KHelpMenu Fast action searching Alex Fiestas <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KFilePlaces Activity-specific Places Jeffery MacEachern <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KCookieJar Storing cookies in KWallet José Millán Soto <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KHTML WebIDL usage Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>


TO DO KHTML Accessibility improvements Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>


TO DO Nepomuk Query term class to query graph meta data Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>


TO DO Plasma Preconfigurable plasmoids David Palacio <[email protected]>



kde-baseapps

Status Project Description Contact
TO DO Dolphin Support Fwd/Back Mouse Buttons Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE Dolphin Polish the default user interface to minimize visual clutter (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html) Peter Penz <[email protected]>
DONE Dolphin Improve user interface for searching files and metadata Peter Penz <[email protected]>
TO DO Settings Improve proxy configuration dialog Dawit Alemayehu <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS Locale KCM Support for Number Grouping, Windows Backend, Country Subdivsions John Layt <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS nspluginviewer npruntime support improvements Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>


TO DO Dolphin Popup menu for advanced queries on the metadata display Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>



kde-runtime

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS kio_sftp async download support Andreas Schneider <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Locale definition files Migrate Country and Currency Codes to xml/po formats, re-arrange l10n files including settings and flags, add Subdivision code files. John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO kio-upnp-ms Merge from playground (https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kio-upnp-ms/) into kde-runtime Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]>
DONE network:/ kio-slave port to Cagibi 0.2 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Nepomuk Datamanagement Service Merge it into the master branch Vishesh Handa & Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>
TO DO Port Strigi Service to DMS The Strigi Service needs to use the DMS API Vishesh Handa & Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>


TO DO Nepomuk KCM to manage the removable storages to index Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]>



kde-workspace

Status Project Description Contact
DONE System Settings/keyboard Allow a shortcut per keyboard layout (bug 224489) Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
DONE System Settings/keyboard Session management for keyboard layouts (bug 52095, 174948) Andriy Rysin <[email protected]>
DONE klipper Support qrcode as well as datamatrix for mobile barcodes Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>
DONE weather Support debian weather Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>


Plasma
IN PROGRESS Plasma Clock/Calendar improve usability, settings, akonadi and holiday data. See Plasma wiki. John Layt <[email protected]>
DONE Plasma Desktop launch krunner when the user starts typing Vitor Boschi <[email protected]>
KDM
DONE KDM GRUB2 support for KDM (see http://ksmanis.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/hello-planet-and-grub2-support-for-kdm/) Konstantinos Smanis <[email protected]>
KWin
DONE Compositor OpenGL 2.x/OpenGL ES 2.0 compositing backend (see http://www.kdenews.org/2011/02/18/kwin-embraces-new-platforms-opengl-es-20-support) Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE Compositor New Shadow System (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/new-kwin-shadows/) Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE Effects Effect to render outlines Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE Decorations Do not require a decoration Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Core Export most recently used windows to an X property Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS BoxSwitch Effect Animated Selection (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/02/is-kwin-rocket-science/) Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS libkwineffects API cleanup Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
TO DO libkwineffects JavaScript bindings for writing Effects Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Mouse Emulation Better accessibility support in mouse emulation Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE kwin Add multi head support Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kwin DBusMenu in Windeco Lionel Chauvin <[email protected]>
DONE ksplashx Add multi head support Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
TO DO krunner Add multi head support Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kwinrules kcm UI cleanup (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101041/) Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS kwincompositing kcm Rearm unsafe OpenGL precheck (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101061/) Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS PresentWindows Effect Better highlight indication & close button handling) Thomas Lübking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS general Remove jargon from user interface. Remove all instances of Akonadi/Nepomuk related jargon from the desktop, replace with meaningful text where needed. Will Stephenson <[email protected]>


kdeedu

Status Project Description Contact
DONE Marble Bookmark Manager Dennis Nienhüser, Thibaut Gridel <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Extended QML Bindings Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Routing API Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Offline Address Search Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE Marble Support monav version 0.3 Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE Marble Polish the Map Wizard: simpler UI, comprehensive validation of user input immediately on each page Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Reduce memory footprint of cached tiles Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing Jens-Michael Hoffmann, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Multi threaded texture mapping Jens-Michael Hoffmann, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO Marble Implement mouse cursor wrapping a la Okular or Gwenview Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Marble Manipulate Gps track data Thibaut Gridel <tgridel@freedotfr>
IN PROGRESS Cantor Integrate the Qalculate backend Matteo Agostinelli <[email protected]>
TO DO Kalzium Use KUnitConversion for all the Unit handling Etienne Rebetez <etienne.rebetez@oberwallisch>
TO DO KTurtle Add getdirection command Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
TO DO KTurtle Add modulo command Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
DONE Step Copy-and-Paste of items Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Step Zoom on mouse wheel Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
DONE Step Automatic expanding canvas Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Auto - Handling of the Canvas Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
DONE Rocs Remove the thread for QtConcurrent on he core Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Polish the User Interface Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
DONE Rocs New Plugin for Automaticaly Graph Generation Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Bugfixes in the List Plugin Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Speedup in the drawing code Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Rocs Kalgebra backend Tomaz Canabrava <[email protected]>
DONE Rocs Transform graph edges plugin Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE Rocs Assign values to edges/nodes plugin Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
DONE Kalzium Titration calculator Luca Tringali <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KStars SQLite Database of NGC Objects Victor Carbune <[email protected]>


kdepim

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KAlarm Port to Akonadi David Jarvie <[email protected]>
DONE KAlarm Allow reminders after the main alarm David Jarvie <[email protected]>
DONE KAlarm Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms David Jarvie <[email protected]>


IN PROGRESS KHolidays Add support for Holiday Types and Observance Types John Layt <[email protected]>


DONE Akonadi-contacts/kaddressbook Show 2d barcodes of contact data Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>


TO DO attachment:/ kio-slave Implement kio-slave to access (email) attachments in Akonadi Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>



kdeplasma-addons

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Adjustable Clock Plasmoid for displaying date and time in very customizable way Michał Dutkiewicz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Comic Plasmoid Support random comic strips Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
DONE Comic Plasmoid Support creation of comic Comic Book Archive files Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Comic Plasmoid Highlight comics that have a new comic strip Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO Events Runner Support parsing weekdays (e.g. "in next monday" Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>


kdetoys

Status Project Description Contact
DONE KTeaTime Port to KStatusNotifierItem Miha Čančula <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KTeaTime New svg based status icons Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KTeaTime Support categories Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO KTeaTime Improved command line Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO KTeaTime Tea runner Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO KTeaTime Port to KConfigXT Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>



kdesdk

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Lokalize Remote translation memories Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Lokalize QA: translation checks against user-specified regex-based rules Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
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 Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!) Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO Lokalize loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518) Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Okteta Properly support strings (various Unicode encodings) in structures tool Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Add custom datatypes to structures tool Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Add a general KPart adapter to Kasten, than finish port of Okteta KPart to Okteta Kasten 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 Kate-like combined dialogs to query for actions on files Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta add Kate-like search tool Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Add Okular like embedded notifications 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 add support for memory mapping of files and 64-bit addressing 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 view profiles, incl. editor/manager 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 Improve the titels of the changes to the bytearray to be more descriptive, best using ids to avoid text string Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Merge row and column widgets into one Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Store bookmarks Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO Okteta Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Umbrello QDockWidget based interface Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Umbrello KDE4 icon theme and eye candies Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
TO DO Umbrello Replace the current code viewer with katepart Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
DONE Umbrello Add a zoom widget in the statusbar Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Kate Add a new search in files plugin Kåre Särs <[email protected]>


kdegames

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KBreakout Level editor Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KBreakout Load levelset option + 2 new levelsets Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
TO DO KBreakout Port to QGraphicsView Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KPat Create new saved game format that stores undo/redo history Parker Coates <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS libtagaro Move first version into the kdegames module Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
TO DO libtagaro Use the new library: at least in Granatier and Kolf (to replace existing static source copies) and KDiamond Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Palapeli Cleanup interface Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
DONE Palapeli Reduce memory consumption for big puzzles Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS all games Add useful fullscreen mode + option to switch between fullscreen/window Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>


kdenetwork

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS KGet Working Mms plugin Ernesto Rodriguez Ortiz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS KGet Support for connection limit to servers Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>


kdegraphics

Status Project Description Contact
IN PROGRESS Okular Directory support in Comic Book Generator David Palacio <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Okular 7zip support in Comic Book Generator David Palacio <[email protected]>
TO DO libksane Enable gui less operation Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
TO DO libksane Add a way to get scanner device list Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS Gwenview Compare mode Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
TO DO Gwenview Merge "Semantic Information" and "Meta Information" sidebar groups Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>