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Goals for the 4.1 Release:
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: [http://userbase.kde.org/Lokalize Lokalize] (formerly [[Projects/Summer of Code/2007/Projects/KAider|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 [[/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan#kdepim|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)==
* [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows|Windows port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
* [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows|Windows port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
* [[Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X|Mac port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
* [[Projects/KDE_on_Mac_OS_X|Mac port]] (Frameworks and Applications)
* OpenSolaris port
* [[Projects/KDE_on_Solaris|Solaris, OpenSolaris port]]
* <font color="red">(Done!)</font> Plasma with widgets on canvas, makes things like layouting much easier, and generally integrating widgets into Plasmoids
* <font color="red">(Done!)</font> Webkit in Plasma
* GStreamer, Quicktime, DirectShow9 Phonon backends
* Apple dashboard widgets support in Plasma
* Decibel VOIP and real-time communication framework
* <font color="red">(Done!)</font> Dragon Player multimedia player
* <font color="red">(Done!)</font> [[Projects/Summer of Code/2007/Projects/KAider|Lokalize]] (formerly Kaider) computer-aided translation system
* <font color="red">(Reschedule for 4.2)</font> More polished Kopete
* <font color="red">(Reschedule for 4.2)</font> KDevelop and KDevplatform modules
* KDE-PIM module, with some Akonadi functionality
* <font color="red">(Reschedule for 4.2)</font> [http://kblogger.pwsp.net KBlogger] for KDE-PIM
* <font color="red">(Done!)</font> Move Akonadi library into the kdepimlibs module
* GetHotNewStuff2 / DXS
* Plasmagik plasma packages and add-on creator
* Lots of smaller features

Latest 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)

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