Plasma/Active/Development/Tasks

Contributing

If you would like to support and become part of the Plasma Active team, you can use the following list of open tasks as inspiration. Please pick one of these tasks, for questions, you can always get in touch with us.

Packaging & Deployment

openSUSE

• profile and optimize boot process (bootchart)
• 2.6.38 by default
• change default font to Droid Sans 12, small to 9, monospace to 10
• clean up startup / login process
• remove unneeded autostart application
• create clean setup to start reviewing applications to offer
• create separate artwork package (kdebase4-workspace-branding-plasmaactive)
• rename plasma-mobile to plasma-active
• install plasma-declarative-widgets by default
• Make TabletBrowser.desktop the default webbrowser
• Active RSS Reader App, install, make visible
• add scripts to kdeprefix/env/ that are sourced on login by startkde to set environment variables to set the desktop shell type
• export env vars from news-tablet.desktop in declarative widgets package to global session
• package Calligra Mobile
• Marble to go

Completed Tasks

• consolidate packages into KDE:Active OBS project
• package Kontact Touch

Meego Packaging

• create installer image
• consolidate packages
• fix up defaults

Hacking

Web Integration

• create web activity with bookmarks (use previewengine)
• Nepomuk-driven bookmarks engine
• improve Active Browser (rekonq active?)

Multimedia

• Create multimedia activity
• Good touch volume applet
• Mediaplayer (minitube? bangarang? tomahawk? Plasma Mediacenter components?)
• Webcam (kamoso?)

Social Networks

• touch-friendly configuration for PIM (email, contacts, events.)
• touch-friendly setup of Facebook via Akonadi
• touch-friendly setup of Google via Akonadi
• Akonadi model for QML plasmoids
• Plasma QML widgets for
  • Contacts
  • Messages
  • Events

Infrastructure

• Geolocation
  • Document and complete API
  • Use geolocation in more widgets
  • Cache geolocation
• libplasma2 & QSceneGraph port
• test GLES backend for kwin
• hovering for close doesn't work on touchscreens (in present windows KWin effect)
• a Plasma::PackageStructure to be used to retrieve the QML UI of complex, C++ applications
• DBusmenu implementation in QML
• KToolBar replacement in QML (using a KActionCollection)
• KXmlGui actions access in QML
• KConfig integration with ownCloud
• Finish porting all KDE applications to the mobile profile (mostly removing deprecated calls)
• Connman backend for network management stack needed (either kded module or Plasma::DataEngine)

Workspace

• For testing: allow dynamic switching of Plasma workspace types, eg from the display manager
• Virtual Keyboard
  • Solution to squash workarea, when virtual keyboard is displayed, while remaining usable.
  • Integrate virtual keyboard with non-Qt apps and Qt apps using nonstandard widgets that do not support usual input method signals (konsole), or find standard alternatives for these
  • Add a way (systray widget?) to manually show/hide virtual keyboard when IM toggling fails
• Port C++ plasmoids to QML
• Touch friendly login screen for eg touchscreen all-in-one PCs to use
  • PAM integration
• Touch friendly unlock UI for single user tablets

Tools

• Make Plasmate release-ready
  • Improve editor for QML
  • Implement scripting console
  • Fix sizing problems in previewer

Artwork

• Improve Plasma theme
• Plasma Active logo
• Make Contour logo play well with Active logo
• Wallpaper
• Example documents
• Artwork and theming of boot process

Documentation

• Improve QML Plasma docs
• Improve installation docs
• Create user docs (pending UI freeze)

Support and Testing

• Help others with getting Plasma Active runnning on #active and the mailing list
• Test Plasma Active on more hardware, find solutions for problems encountered, document them