Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.9 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KGlobalSettings	Make KGlobalSettings reread locale settings before calling settingsChanged().

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	ksmserver	Port shutdown dialog to QML

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	FolderView	Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment	Ignat Semenov <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Worldwide hillshading
TO DO	Marble	Extended library API (no MarbleWidget dependency for tasks like parsing, routing)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Plasma Active	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Android	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Support for loading geolocated photos (e.g. in a Gallery activity in Marble Touch)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Layer Management (by the user: Toggle layer visibility; maybe move layers from legend and layers in menus to one central place/tab)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms
DONE	Rocs	Extend graph data structure to support overlay graphs
DONE	Rocs	Stepped execution of algorithms
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	General unit test cleanup and overhauling

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kajongg	tooltips giving playings hints
DONE	Kajongg	new config option: propose what to do
DONE	Kajongg	make it possible to replay a game from a screen shot (for better debugging)
DONE	Kajongg	improve Robot AI
DONE	Kajongg	Add default voices
DONE	Kajongg	Players can chat with each other from within kajongg
DONE	Kajongg	Define a central game server, making it easier to play over the internet (no more tweaking of firewalls for the server side)
TO DO	Kajongg	Add support for other rule variants, starting with Classical Chinese variants	Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Major cleanup and rewrite
IN PROGRESS	KGoldrunner	Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky
TO DO	KGoldrunner	Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games, possibly using Get Hot New Stuff	Ian Wadham <[email protected]>
DONE	KSudoku	Simplify the XML descriptions of puzzle shapes
DONE	KSudoku	Add XML and Desktop files for seven new two-dimensional puzzle shapes
DONE	KSudoku	Add XML and Desktop files for three new three-dimensional puzzle shapes
DONE	KSudoku	Improve the quality and relevance of KSudoku hints
DONE	KSudoku	Make Load and Save work correctly for all puzzle types, including display of small markers/notes and restart of the puzzle clock from a saved value
DONE	KSudoku	Integrate the new generator/solver and the old KSudoku code more closely
DONE	KSudoku	Make puzzle features easier to see and use by improving highlighting, control and settings in both 2-D and 3-D puzzles and adding keyboard input to 3-D puzzles

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	JuK	last.fm scrobbling
DONE	JuK	cover-fetching from last.fm

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Kopete	Add option to group all offline users into a "Offline Users" group
DONE	Kopete	Show contact's status change in chat window
DONE	Kopete	Add context option "rename" to contacts and allow changing custom display name inline.

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Akonadi Google Resources	Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime	Dan Vratil <[email protected]>

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact

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]>
TO DO	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
DONE	Lokalize	Optimize TM fuzzy searching
DONE	Lokalize	File search tab
TO DO	Lokalize	.ts support
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	diagram auto layout support
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	diagram graphviz dot export

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact