Revision as of 16:34, 4 March 2009

This is a list of planned features for the 4.3 release.

Other

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Akonadi	Various Akonadi related items can be found here http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Scheduled_for_KDE_4.3_.2F_Akonadi_1.2	Akonadi Developers <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KPackageKit	Pushing in KPackageKit (dependant on PolicyKit integration)

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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]>
IN PROGRESS	kdecore	Thread safety in ksycoca (KService, KMimeType etc.)
IN PROGRESS	Sonnet	Implement language detection
IN PROGRESS	Sonnet	Integrate language detection with spellchecking
IN PROGRESS	Sonnet	Integrate language detection with strigi
IN PROGRESS	Sonnet	Grammar checking (at least for English)
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	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	entries to help menu and aboutdata pointing to UserBase entry and forum.kde.org	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	kdesu	Classes to help kde-apps open ports in the local firewall (via IPTables/IPFW, etc...)	Tejas Dinkar <[email protected]>

kdebase-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
Non-Plasma, Non-KWin
TO DO	Kxkb	Support for languages in keyboard layout descriptions	Andriy Rysin <rysin:AT:kde.org>
TO DO	PolicyKit integration	Import PolicyKit-KDE from extragear	Dario Freddi <[email protected]> bgcolor="#ABFFAB" \| DONE
DONE	KSysguard	Added GetHotNewStuff support
IN PROGRESS	KActiveEdges	Split active screen edges from KWin
KRunner
Plasma - Priority Features
Plasma
TO DO	Now Playing data engine	Support for MPD	Alex Merry <kde:AT:randomguy3.me.uk>
DONE	Classic Menu Launcher	Optional recently used applications and System Settings menu
IN PROGRESS	Reusable video widget	A widget in libplasma that can play video and audio
IN PROGRESS	Message box	A message box shown as an overlay over plasmoids
IN PROGRESS	Systemtray protocol	New systemtray protocol beginnings: daemon and systemtray widget part
IN PROGRESS	Default theme	Air: new default Plasma theme
KWin - Core
TO DO	KWin	Redesign KWin system settings GUI	Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
TO DO	KWin	ARGB support for decorations	Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Window docking/quick tiling
TO DO	KWin	Internal desktop layout/pager support	Lucas Murray <[email protected]>
KWin - Desktop Effects
TO DO	KWin	Expand present windows into other effects (E.g. Desktop Grid)	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
DONE	KWin	Fade desktop effect (Desktop switcher)
DONE	KWin	Highlight window effect

kdepimlibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Buildsystem	Require OpenLDAP (coordinate with the Windows team)	Allen Winter <[email protected]>
TO DO	Buildsystem	Require Cyrus-SASL (coordinate with the Windows team)	Allen Winter <[email protected]>
TO DO	libkleopatraclient	New interface library for kleopatra uiserver clients	Marc Mutz <[email protected]>

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	UPnp Support
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3)
TO DO	Kopete	Update Kopete to better support Decibel	Kopete Developers <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle video support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kopete	Jabber Jingle ICE support	Detlev Casanova <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kopete	Contacts plasmoid
IN PROGRESS	KGet	MultiSource-Downloading
TO DO	KGet	Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGet	MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
TO DO	KGet	Advanced Details	Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KRDC	NX support
TO DO	KRDC	Minimal-clutter mode to optimize screen real estate usage	Guillaume Pothier <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Telepathy	Telepathy-specification compliant Account Manager using KWallet to store account data

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Akonadi	Migration of contacts and calendar data from KResource to Akonadi (Details)
IN PROGRESS	Akregator	Support for syncing the feed list with Google Reader
DONE	KAlarm	Add export of alarms to a new calendar file
DONE	KAlarm	Allow configuration of default deferral time interval
DONE	KAlarm	Accept drag-and-drop of Todo entries to create a new alarm
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Show command execution error indication in alarm list
TO DO	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi	David Jarvie <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBlogger	KBlogger, a blogging application	Christian Weilbach <[email protected]>
TO DO	KBlogger	Port to use KRichTextEdit (Or KMEditor)	Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KContactManager	A new Akonadi-based address book to replace KAddressbook
IN PROGRESS	Kjots	Create and port to akonadi model.
TO DO	Kjots	Add support for nepomuk including tagging, possibly storage, and linking. Also a nepomuk tag proxy model for representing the structure as tagged.	Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kjots	Create plasmoid capable of showing the entire tree, or a single book.
TO DO	Kjots	Email KJots pages using default mail client (Bug #124509.	Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Kleopatra	OpenPGP support
DONE	KMail	Add support for HTML images
TO DO	KMail	Use asynchronous Kleo	Marc Mutz <[email protected]>
TO DO	KMail	Save metadata about attachments to Nepomuk when saving them	Ismail Onur Filiz <[email protected]>
TO DO	KNode	Port to use KRichTextEdit (Or KMEditor)	Stephen Kelly <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kontact	Support for Kontact wide profiles	Kolab Konsortium <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kontact	Tip-of-the-Day summary	Daniel Molkentin <[email protected]>
TO DO	KOrganizer	Support for extended free-busy lists	Kolab Konsortium <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KPilot	Port old conduits to new base conduit architecture and KDE4/Qt4
IN PROGRESS	KPilot	Finish Keyring conduit, base conduit code and test cases, category syncing

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	printer-applet	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	John Layt <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okteta	make 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	kwalletmanager	Move kwalletmanager to the Model/View architecture and redesign the UI.	Michael Leupold <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kdelirc	Bring back kdelirc

kdebindings

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	krossjava	Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up.	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO	krossjava	Documentation++	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>
TO DO	krossfalcon	Documentation++	Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Killbots	Add "sonic screwdriver" functionality.
TO DO	Killbots	Add a tutorial for beginners.	Parker Coates <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kolf	Replace with Kolf 2 (please help!)	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	Previous/Next in start new game as described in bug #170774	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	Polish the skin editor (doc, contextual help, ...)	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KsirK	Boost playing over Jabber	Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]>
TO DO	KSpaceDuel	rewrite AI code	Dirk Rathlev <[email protected]>
DONE	ktron	Port and remake the KTron game for KDE 4.3

kdeadmin

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KGrubEditor	Integrate KGrubEditor into KDE Admin http://sourceforge.net/projects/kgrubeditor. Approved by Nicolas Ternisien <[email protected]>	Konstantinos Smanis <artemis_dot_fowl_dot_2007@gmail_dot_com>
TO DO	Guidance	Port Guidance to KDE 4, and move it to KDE Admin http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/.	Nicolas Ternisien <[email protected]>
TO DO	system-config-printer-kde	Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible.	john Layt <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	XLIFF support
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	various Translation Memory enhancements
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	Kross-based scripting
TO DO	Lokalize	QA: glossary checklists	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net>
TO DO	KAppTemplate	Add DBUS support in templates	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	Merge in SoC qgraphicsview port branch

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KAlgebra	Export to MathML Presentation Markup	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
TO DO	KAlgebra	Some integration with the new KFormula widget	Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlgebra	Add ability to draw 3D plots in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
TO DO	Kalzium	Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView.	Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Remove the libavogadro snapshot, depend on libavogadro directly.	Benoit Jacob <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kalzium	Plasmoid to access Kalzium database	Carsten Niehaus <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KEduca	Rewrite of the classic test writing/taking application
TO DO	KHangMan	Integrate an editor	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Plasmoid	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KHangMan	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Properties dialog for objects.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve construction of bisect lines.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve feedback when constructing objects.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	More geometric objects.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Script objects as macros (to be reused more than once).	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve the Cabri import filter.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kig	Improve the new/edit script wizard.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Visual Indicator when letter is wrong	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Number support	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]>
TO DO	KLettres	Theme manager	Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[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	Sync KStars time from device	Jasem Mutlaq <[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]>
TO DO	KStars	Improve Observing List Wizard	Akarsh Simha <[email protected]>
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	KTurtle	Optional rulers/grid for canvas units	Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Export map to MxN pixel bitmap	Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Bookmarks	Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool )	Inge Wallin <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Map Contents translation	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Editing GeoDataFeatures	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Layer Management Class
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Plugin architecture for map layers
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Extending GeoPainter
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Marble Runners
IN PROGRESS	Marble	GeoClue Integration
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing
IN PROGRESS	Marble	More map providers (WMS?)
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Winkel Triple projection / equivalent
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Marble WorldClock Plasmoid
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Qt-Version settings dialog
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Panoramio Support
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Twitter Plugin
IN PROGRESS	Marble	TimeZone Support
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Support for other planets and the moon
IN PROGRESS	Marble	DGML2 Support
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Support for imperial units
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Graticule plugin
IN PROGRESS	Marble	MeasureTool plugin
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Port authors list from the Qt-About dialog to the KDE-About dialog
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Basic KML support
IN PROGRESS	Marble	GeoData Model/View Visualization
IN PROGRESS	Marble	More generic projection support
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Network plugins
IN PROGRESS	Parley	Declensions
TO DO	Step	Improve GUI for creating softbody	Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
TO DO	Step	Use common constraints handling code for collisions	Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]>

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	JuK	Remove Qt/KDE3 support lib requirements	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Allow setting covers directly from URLs supported by KIO - drag/drop already allows this however	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
DONE	JuK	Use XCOMPOSITE real transparency when available for the track announcement popup
TO DO	JuK	Allow disabling crossfade	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdeaccessibility

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Okular	Generator for Mobipocket format
DONE	strigi	Thumbnailer and analyzer for Mobipocket format
DONE	strigi	Analyzer for epub format
TO DO	Okular	Sound annotations.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Link annotations.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Caret annotations.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Support .snp and .emf file formats	Brad Hards <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Synctex support.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	Okular	Rich-text for annotations text.	Pino Toscano <[email protected]>
TO DO	kruler	More ruler shapes.	Mathias Soeken <msoeken_at_tzi_dot_de>
DONE	kruler	Configurable shortcuts.
TO DO	kruler	DBUS Interface.	Mathias Soeken <msoeken_at_tzi_dot_de>
DONE	kruler	Transparent background and opaque drawing of the lines and numbers (Qt 4.5).

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	konq_thumbnails	Basic thumbnail support for KHTMLPart views(almost finished, now cleanup code)
TO DO	konq_thumbnails	thumbnail support for all KonqFrame	Siyuan Cao <[email protected]>
TO DO	konq_thumbnails	more thumbnail page styles and customization	Siyuan Cao <[email protected]>
TO DO	konqueror	"Places" sidebar to replace KDE3's "media:/"	Simon St James <kdedevel_at_etotheipiplusone_dot_com>
TO DO	konqueror	Move Dolphin's Treeview to libkonq so that it can be used in Konqueror	Simon St James <kdedevel_at_etotheipiplusone_dot_com>
TO DO	konqueror	Move Dolphin's Information panel to libkonq so that it can be used in Konqueror	Simon St James <kdedevel_at_etotheipiplusone_dot_com>
IN PROGRESS	dolphin	Matthias's Audio/ Video preview in Information panel
TO DO	dolphin	Allow to configure and download service menus	Peter Penz <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	dolphin	Nepomuk search integration
IN PROGRESS	dolphin	Use Nepomuk to receive the meta data for the Information panel

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Video Plasmoid	a media player widget complete with a basic dbus interface

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