Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.8 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KWin	Take over screensaver/locking management from KRunner
IN PROGRESS	KCM	make mouse cursor size configurable (http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101701/)
DONE	powerdevil	Remove Desktop Effects Management
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Allow static profiles only
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Allow activity interaction

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kate Part	Line modification system
DONE	Kate Part	Modeline Editor
DONE	Kate Part	Search & Replace in files plugin
DONE	Kate Part	Reliable code folding
DONE	Kate Part	Improved vi input mode

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Dolphin	Implement new view-engine for Dolphin 2.0 (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-dolphin-20.html)

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KTouch	New organisation of keyboard and lecture files according to languages
IN PROGRESS	KTouch	New organisation of menu system: Training, Statistic, Settings
TO DO	KTouch	End of lecture statistics	Rüthemann Peter <[email protected]>
DONE	Rocs	Alignment Actions to minimize crossing graph edges
TO DO	Rocs	Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Stepped Execution of Algorithms	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	User Interface Cleanup
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Add Qalculate backend
DONE	Marble	Marble Runner plugins for Parsing files
DONE	Marble	(GSoC) OSM file rendering
DONE	Marble	Marble Graphics Scene (Performance of Vector Drawing)
DONE	Marble	Gps Info Plugin
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	attachment:/ kio-slave	Implement kio-slave to access (email) attachments in Akonadi	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
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]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KSudoku	Description	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>