Plasma/Workspace Sprint/Kanban

Todo

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Refining

• Make distros ship defaults
  • Distros to look up to: Kubuntu, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, Chakra, Mageia, Fedora
  • Collect defaults, ask why?
  • Proceed to merge to upstream if it's a sensible change. ignore the changes (if it's just branding/wallpapering), or negotiate middle grounds.
• Review default activities
  • Make sure they are useful, gain expertise in them
  • Improve naming
• Location API
• NM redesign
  • Implement new applet following future guidelines (QML port in progress)
  • Redesign current KCM to improve usability
  • Previous work
• Web accounts
• Activities support in apps
  • Konversation, ¿Quassel?. Activity per chat room, global chat rooms?
  • KDevelop. Match Session and activity
  • PIM. Depends on the application, need feedback from PIM developers.
  • Gwenview. Improve welcome page to match the activity
  • Gwenview. Streamline image importer
    • When an SDCard is plugged, recursively show all images. If a harddisk is plugged, let the user browse the folder hierarchy
  • Konqueror, rekonq. Browsing+Activities FTW
  • Firefox, Chrome. Figure out if we can get something done there, maybe extensions?
  • KDE Telepathy
    • Blocking on a usability discussion documented on the KTp mailing lists about Global Presence. Emailing Usability Expert.
  • Yakuake. Different tab sets per activity?
• Consolidate screen edge actions
• Taskbar entries should be merged with KSNI
  • Find a way of making application developers stop using the systray as a taskbar.
  • We must find a way of merge KSNI and taskbar entries.
  • It seems that Canonical developed something called BAMF that apparently does the job. Research BAMF.

• Startup performance
  • Plasma start-up profiling
  • Nepomuk start-up profiling
  • Nepomuk on-demand activation
  • KDED start-up profiling
  • Figure out if some tooling is needed?
  • Test Active start script on Desktop
• Screen Management
  • Mechanisms to start working fast after connecting a monitor
  • Properly react to screen unplugging
  • Make sure it's properly integrated with activities
• Sync Framework
  • Implement a Sync Framework, capable of having multiple backends
  • Implement Owncloud support for sync framework
• iPhone support
  • Sync music
  • Sync Calendar
  • Sync Contacts
  • Arranging app's
• Streamline ui's look&feel of popup applets/panel
  • Document inconsistencies we have right now (Bluetooth, Network, Klipper...)
  • Create guidelines of how applets should look (Bluetooth, Network, Klipper...)
• Visual feedback on window edges
  • Make present windows discoverable
  • Visual feedback on hot corners
  • See: KWin/Screen_Edges
  • Improve visual feedback for hidden panels
• IM needs improvement
  • The Plasma experience of IM is not perfect. The Telepathy team is on it.
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• SLC for the desktop
  • Figure out how we want to use the Share, Like and Connect facilities
• Redesign notifications
  • Activity-based Notifications
• Improve localization support, multi-language environments
  • Make installing language support easy
  • Make sure input in different languages/alphabets is possible
  • Spell-checking of mixed languages in the same document, consider actually using two dictionaries at a time (vishesh commented that it's common to use hindi and english in the same text)
• File support for Clara and Raj
  • Redesign openWith dialog
  • Design a way of installing applications that support X mimetype (for example, offer to install Calligra when the user tries to open a .odt)
• Sound integration
  • Plasmify KMix
  • Write new PA integration that make full use of it
• Find better concept for "Plasma Active Welcome Screen"

Ready

• "Open-with" dialog redesign
  • Only list apps supporting the file mime-type
  • Reduce list as user types
  • Produce good-looking .desktop files when the "Always use" checkbox is checked

In Progress

• Explain how activities and virtual desktops relate
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Done

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