Schedules/KDE 3.1 Feature Plan

You can find out about the schedule for 3.1 in the KDE 3.1 release plan.

If you cannot finish a feature in time, please consider moving it to the KDE 3.2 Planned Features.

TODO	General All outstanding critical bugs in the bugs database, if any
In Progress (works mostly)	KDE libs SSL certificate policies based on host name <[email protected]> A detailed list view for KFileMetaInfo, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> KHTML Page info and frame info dialog, working but could be enhanced. George Staikos KDE Print LPRng plugin rewrite Konqueror A konqsiderbar plugin for KFileMetaInfo, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> A detailed list view for KFileMetaInfo, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> Integrating searching for metadata and multimedia files (using KFileMetaInfo and GIFT / kmrml) in the "Find" dialog, Carsten Pfeiffer <[email protected]> KDesktop Ability to merge custom menu with desktop menu, Waldo Bastian "[DesktopIcons] GridXSpacing" in kdeglobals controls LineUp horizontal spacing. "[Mouse Buttons] WheelSwitchesWorkspace=true" in kdesktoprc activates mouse wheel switching. KFile Plugins gif: Able to set gif comments, and display gif metadata. Bryce Nesbitt (bryce2 at obviously.com). desktop: Get information about desktop entry files, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> vCard: Displays name and email address, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> KDE Admin kcmlinuz <[email protected]> Make it a standalone application to waste less screen space Add capability to search for configuration options Multimedia Create video framework Port applications to use new framework Consistent i18n everywhere aRts Add caching vorbis playobject to base distribution so we can distribute KDE sounds in a much smaller format Kicker Make it possible to replace K-Menu with custom menu, Waldo Bastian KView KImageViewer interface KView Plugins Plugin for slideshows Printing proper support for the mousewheel Automatic resizing KControl A KCM for changing X11 resolution and gamma correction, emma85x at yahoo.com KDevelop Implementation of kvim part (Eray Ozkural <[email protected]>, KVim development mailing list <[email protected]>)
Finished	Misc Create framework to effectivly "disable" certain features. Think kiosk-mode, think "don't allow user to select custom wallpapers in public places", Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> Kicker New hiding mode: into background. Unhide can be triggered by moving to mouse to a corner. Reorganize hiding options in control module. Support for multiple clocks, set to different time zones, Rik Hemsley <[email protected]> Group tasks only when taskbar full (Simon MacMullen) Konsole button converted to menuext with bookmark support. (Berend De Schouwer) Support for mouse-over animation like konqueror and kdesktop, Allan Sandfeld <[email protected]> KIO A modified thumbnail kioslave to use a thumbnail extracted from the file if possible, rather than scanning the entire file., Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> and Frank Pieczynski <pieczy at knuut dot de> Inclusion of kio_fish, a KIO-slave to access a remote filesystem via SSH/SCP kio_smtp clean up for efficiency and correctness Konqueror Tabbed browsing support (Doug Hanley) Folder icons reflect contents (Simon MacMullen) Enable / disable all previews at once (Simon MacMullen) Digital camera jpeg previews obey orientation information Add multiple selection to bookmark editor, Alexander Kellett <[email protected]> Show 256x256 previews in the iconview tooltip - Simon MacMullen Offer to re-post form data when reloading the result of a formular - David Faure Support all the common Microsoft symbols (TM, Bullet, Stupid Quotes, etc.) that infect webpages today. Auto-scroll for web pages controlled by Shift+arrow keys. KAppfinder Allow user to select in a nice treeview which entries he wants to be added. KDELibs Kate: make the XML plugin completion popup automatically (Daniel Naber) Kate: add an XML checker (frontend to xmllint) (Daniel Naber) Improved task information, Richard Moore <[email protected]> (see http://xmelegance.org/devel/ for code and docs): KPassivePopup - A popup widget displayed adjacent to the taskbar icon of window. KWindowInfo - A utility class that allows messages to be displayed in the window title and icon. These classes are now in kdelibs. Activate rtsp:// handler, George Staikos A new kioslave/job for asynchronous reading KFileMetaInfo of a KFileItemList, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> Added "Open File", "Open Destination" and "Keep this window open" to download progress dialog. KDatePicker gained week number (ISO 8601) display and selection. Fix khtml printing (Waldo Bastian) Extended the DCOP command-line client to (i) enable non-GUI applicatons (such as shell scripts, cron jobs, and system processes) to use DCOP; and (ii) send DCOP messages to multiple users and/or sessions concurrently. This would enable, for example, the system shutdown command to pop up a dialog to all system users informing them of a pending shutdown. (Martijn Klingens <[email protected]>) new class KNotifyDialog allows the user to configure the app's notifications. (Carsten Pfeiffer) Allow automatic synchronizing of the otherwise separate X11 Clipboard and Selection. (Carsten Pfeiffer) New method in KLocale to retrieve/set first day of a week (needed for some Asian countries where the week doesn't start on Monday or Sunday) (Lukas Tinkl) The date picker widget now fully respects the first day of a week (Lukas Tinkl) Support for multimedia keys (XF86_XKBack etc.). (Lubos Lunak) Delayed on-demand icon loading improving startup performance. (Lubos Lunak) KFile Plugins jpeg: From the GUI or the command line, able to display & set jpeg comments, and show digital camera exif (extended information) data. Who knows, one day it may even play audio files embedded inside images. Frank Pieczynski <pieczy at knuut dot de> and Bryce (bryce2 at obviously.com). diff: Display some basic info about a diff file, such as number of lines changed, added, removed, format of the diff, etc. Otto Bruggeman <bruggie at bruggie dot dnsalias dot org> c++: Get some stats like lines of code and comment and the number of included files, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> rpm: Information like package name and version, Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson at warwick dot ac dot uk> deb: Information like package name and version, Laurence Anderson <l.d.anderson at warwick dot ac dot uk> ico: Display # of icons, resolution and # colors of 1st icon, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> targa: Display resolution, bit depth, and compression method, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> xbm: Display resolution, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> bmp: Display type, resolution, bit depth, and compression method, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> au: Display length, sample rate, encoding, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> html: Read title, doctype and metatags, and whether the file contains javascript, Rolf Magnus <ramagnus at kde dot org> tiff: Read the usual image information like resolution as well as the comments that are available, Nadeem Hasan <nhasan at nadmm dot com> txt: Create output similar to the wc command, showing things like number of words and lines, Nadeem Hasan <nhasan at nadmm dot com> folder: Displays number of files contained and space used (Simon MacMullen) avi: Displays resolution, length, fps and codecs used, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> message/rfc822: Displays From, To, Subject and Content-Type lines, Shane Wright <me at shanewright.co.uk> Konsole Added "cutToBeginningOfLine" option. Made timeout for "Monitor for Silence" configurable. kfile-bookmarks menu integration ("Add Bookmark" on non-Linux only with "\[\e]31;\w\a\]" prompt). Start new shell at given bookmark (supports ssh://user@host and telnet://host like bookmarks). konsolepart uses BrowserExtension::openURLRequest() (only with "\[\e]31;\w\a\]" prompt). Session management saves initial or current (non-Linux only if set with "\[\e]31;\w\a\]" prompt) directory. Extended drag and drop popupmenu with "cp", "ln" and "mv" entries. Session views are temporarily detachable from main window. Improved "Find in History...": Regular expressions support, "Find Next", "Find Previous". Shortcuts are now configurable via graphical interface. Added shortcuts for session switch menu, switching to first 12 sessions and font size variation. Made Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q flow control (Ctrl-S freezes shell) an option with default off. Parameters for keyboard and schema selection. "Clear Terminal" and "Reset and Clear Terminal" commands. Optionally prevent programs from changing the window size. Support for Unix98 tty devices. "Copy" menu entries and don't write to clipboard automatically. Addition of "random" background colours, and the "BlackOnLightColour" schema, Alexander Kellett <[email protected] Allow to save current sessions as profile and start them with --profile parameter. Added "--noclose" parameter to not close Konsole when command exits. Kate/KWrite Add "Dynamic Word Wrap" (soft wrapping of the textlines at the window border) Add "Code Folding" (now you can collapse/expand for example functions on C++) Improved printing, which means: print line number, print with syntaxhighlighting, ... Fix XIM input, enhance Unicode support (sorry, bidi support still missing) Updated Plugin-Interface, to make sure to be BC with 3.2 from 3.1 Static word wrap fixed (at least all known bugs solved) Optional new GUI mode: "Modern Style" KDesktop Look up .desktop file when executing commands from minicli, Rob Kaper <[email protected]> Add group sizes "konqueror (5)" to taskbar, Alexander Kellett <[email protected]> KNotify Add support for KPassivePopup and KWindowInfo (partially working, see kdelibs entry below). Richard Moore <[email protected]>, Till Krech, Carsten Pfeiffer KWin Added a GUI for the "Desktops navigation wraps around" feature that was added in 3.0. Made minor key accelerators fixes. Keyboard navigation of the operations menu corrected. Fixed order of cascading for windows present on a desktop Fixed the problem with kicker systray applets vanishing after a kicker crash Desktop name popups on desktop switch, Alexander Kellett <[email protected]> Added titlebar buttons layout configurability to the KStep decoration style, Keunwoo Lee <[email protected]> KHelpCenter Integrated table of contents of application manuals into documentation tree view. Improved integration for documentation of KControl modules, Kicker applets, KInfoCenter modules and Konqueror plugins. Cleaned up interface for plugging in third-party documentation. KDE PIM libkabc Plugin interface for resources and formats. Control module for configuring multiple resources. Optional directory resource which stores each entry as own file. LDAP resource. Optional binary storage format for better performance with large addressbooks. Completed support for vCard entities: sound, geo, key and some more. vCard 2.1 import. LDAP aware mail address input field. KAddressbook New card and icon views. Multiple configurable views. "kab-style" details view for selected entry. Customizable view filters. Customizable categories for addressbook entries. Support for transparently accessing multiple addressbooks. Redesigned entry editor widget. Printing option supporting two different styles. Optional embedded entry and ditribution list editor. "Jump bar" for quick alphabetical access of entries. Fetch addresses from LDAP servers, including support for multiple servers. Importing of vCard 2.1 files. Improved CSV import (including template for import from Outlook 2000). vCard export. KAlarm Add option for alarms to execute a command Implement daily, weekly, monthly and annual recurrences Provide option to play audio file when alarm triggers KPilot Time conduit VCal conduits (Todo and Calendar) finally work AvantGo conduit Port addressbook conduit to libkabc KOrganizer General User-definable templates for events and todos. Alarms for todos. Automatic HTML export on save of calendar file. Time table print view. New "location" attribute for events. Experimental "Get Hot New Stuff" button for downloading and uploading calendar files of common interest. Views New "Next 3 days" view. Selection of time span for a new event in day and week views. Direct manipulation of priority, completion status and categories of todos by context menus. Deletion of individual instances of recurring events. Rewritten month view. Coloring of events in month view based on categories. Coloring of due and overdue todos. Improved "What's Next" view. Configurable cell height in week and day views Group scheduling iMIP group scheduling functions for todos. Publishing of Free/Busy information by iMIP conformant email. Improved automatisation of group scheduling. Interoperability and integration Support for "webcal" URLs in Konqueror (known from Apple iCal). Support for iCalendar based drag&drop. KOrganizer now shares the dialogs for categories with KAddressBook. Improved iCalendar conformance. Improved right-to-left languages support. Bug fixes for non-latin1 encodings. Plugins New plugin for importing birthdays from the KDE address book. New plugin for accessing calendar data on an Exchange 2000 server. KNotes Fixed printing, Michael Brade <[email protected]> KDE Games Move Atlantik from kdenonbeta to kdegames, Rob Kaper <[email protected]> Move Atlantik Designer from kdenonbeta to kdeaddons, Jason Katz-Brown <[email protected]> Move Megami from kdenonbeta to kdegames, Neil Stevens <[email protected]> Move Kolf (web page) from kdenonbeta to kdegames, Jason Katz-Brown <[email protected]> Add Klickety to kdegames (which uses heavily KSirtet libraries), Nicolas Hadacek <[email protected]> Solver/adviser and game logs (replay/save/load) for KMines, Nicolas Hadacek <[email protected]> Export, statistics and histogram for highscores (KMines, KSirtet, KFouleggs and Klickety), Nicolas Hadacek <[email protected]> Added different difficulty levels to KLines, Waldo Bastian <[email protected]> KDE Network KMail: The 'Delete' Action now irrevocably deletes messages. Use 'Move to Trash' to put messages into the trashcan. (Martin Koller) Optional columns for the number of unread messages and the total number of messages in the folder list (Carsten Burghardt) Custom folder icons (Zack Rusin) Improved OpenPGP support (Ingo Klöcker): Allow multiple encryption keys per email address, e.g. for distribution lists Allow rereading of keys in the key selection dialog, e.g. after the user has imported a key. Allow rechecking of keys in the key selection dialog, e.g. after the user has signed a key. PGP/MIME (encryption/signing of attachments, RFC 3156) for GnuPG users and S/MIME support via plugins (collective effort of Ägypten <[email protected]> and KMail <[email protected]> developers) Redesign of the identity configuration dialog (Marc Mutz) Default identity can now be renamed (Marc Mutz) Identity-dependant default Bcc (Ingo Klöcker) Optional MIME tree viewer, allowing direct access to all body parts (attachments) (Karl-Heinz Zimmer) Custom date format (Zack Rusin) Improved IMAP support (Carsten Burghardt) Reorganized menu bar looks more like other KDE applications (Martin Koller, Marc Mutz) Support for decoding uuencoded attachments (Marc Mutz) Custom hostname to send to the SMTP server (Aaron Seigo) Improved 'Reply to Mailing-List' (Marc Mutz) Separate the 'New Message' action and the 'Post to Mailing-List' action. This means with 'New Message' the To: field of the new message will no longer be filled automatically with the mailing list's posting address if the currently selected folder is associated with a mailing list. (Ingo Klöcker) Improved support for RTL languages esp. Hebrew (Diego Iastrubni, Meni Livne) Allow the user to enable HTML rendering temporarily for HTML only messages (Ingo Klöcker) Optionally show the encryption/signature status of messages in the message list (Kalle Dalheimer) Optional popup after dragging a message onto a folder (Zack Rusin) Five fixed layouts for the main window (Karl-Heinz Zimmer) Send separately encrypted messages to Bcc recipients because else all recipients could deduce the Bcc recipients from the keys that were used for encryption (Steffen Hansen) Configurable default domain for sending (Ingo Klöcker) Don't check spelling of quoted text, urls or email addresses (Dave Corrie) New 'Add to Addressbook' action which doesn't open the addressbook when you add an email address to it. Use 'Open in Addressbook' if you want to add more information to a new address. (Cornelius Schumacher) IMAP accounts are now top level elements in the folder list (Carsten Burghardt) Configurable timeout for when the selected message will be marked as read (Tobias Koenig) Tips of the Day (Marc Mutz) Show progress dialog on exit so that the user sees that KMail is still doing something although all windows have already been closed (Waldo Bastian, Carsten Pfeiffer) Use KNotify to play an arbitrary sound on new mail arrival (Till Krech) Configurable alternative background color for the message list (Waldo Bastian) Display folder path in window caption (Carsten Burghardt) KNode: Added "Find in Article..." command. Added "Mark Last as Unread..." command. Korn Now supports APOP accounts Desktop Sharing (KRfb) NEW IN KDE: VNC-compatible server to share KDE desktops Remote Desktop Connection (KRdc): NEW IN KDE: VNC-compatible client Multimedia NEW IN KDE: KAudioCreator, a CD ripper and audio encoder frontend. NEW IN KDE: KRec, a recording frontend using aRts. KMediaPlayer interface in kdelibs gives apps the ability to reuse Kaboodle. Noatun: Added "Clear playlist when starting with a file" option. Lyrics plugin NEW IN KDEADDONS: A Noatun plugin to search for lyrics to the current song Ismael Orenstein (<[email protected]>) Write video thumbnail creator using xine-arts. (Simon MacMullen) Add mute control to kmix sound mixer. (Nadeem Hasan <[email protected]>) KDE Usability Project Context menu, applet menu, wording and panel feature consistency/clarity improved in Kicker Kicker KCM rewrite KCalc Improvements (Aaron, and KDE Usability Team) KSnapshot Improvements (Aaron, and KDE Usability Team) KsCD Improvements to user interface (primarily configuration and informational dialogs) and to overall robustness (Aaron, and KDE Usability Team) KBugBuster Adapted KBugBuster to new KDE bug tracking system based on Bugzilla. Implemented bookmarking of bug reports. Inserts link to original bug reports for details. Changing view settings doesn't require reload, toolbar buttons. KBabel Automatic update of Project-Id-Version Possibility to specify localized translator name Validation & highlighting of XML Save special (the settings can be changed for the particular save) KDE specifics added to rough translation (e.g. only add a new translator in TRANSLATOR S_...) Load/Save markings in Catalog Manager Navigation bar in Catalog Manager Mail PO-file Tag structure tool Rough translation in catalog manager Automatic update of PO header comment Show source code Spellchecking in multiple files KControl Fonts (kcmfonts) - Add extra Anti-Alias settings: exclude range, and sub-pixel type (moved from kcmfontinst). Craig Drummond <[email protected]> Font Installer (kcmfontinst) - Make more consistent with KControl, remove install-from list, save changes on "Apply", allow fonts to be disabled on a per-font basis, font thumbnail creator. Craig Drummond <[email protected]> KPager KPager should show up when hidden instance is running. (#39028) KEdit Added soft wrapping. kdegraphics kviewshell: added statusbar kviewshell: usability improvements KuickShow: Digital camera jpeg images obey orientaion information KuickShow: General UI improvements, now features a menubar KuickShow: Ability to browse image collections on remote servers KuickShow: Digital camera jpeg images obey orientaion information KPovModeler: Implement support for the missing PovRAY 3.1 primitives, zehender at kde org. KFax: Rewrite all the UI code to be KDE standards compliant, cleanups. (Nadeem Hasan <[email protected]>) libkscan: support for halftoning scan mode where available kooka: thumbnail view of scanned images added kooka: ported to KDockWidgets to provide a customizable GUI kooka: inline image renaming and drag and drop KDE Edu Kiten: NEW IN KDE: Japanese Reference Tool (web page) FlashKard: NEW IN KDE: Vocabulary tool. Uses libkedeedu to read KVTML files produced by KVocTrain libkdeedu: NEW IN KDE: The first parts of a library to allow interoperability between KDE Edu applications Cervisia Made hard-coded colors configurable. Quanta Plus NEW IN KDE: Quanta Plus - A web development environment (homepage) extended network transparency remote projects remote files in projects remote toolbars automatic update of Files and Templates tree views more DTD's installed by default: HTML 4.01 Frameset HTML 4.01 Strict WML-1-2 possibility to send DTD definition files in e-mail added possibility to convert the document to a new DTD added "project views" support added more project default settings added various speedups (smoother editing or large files even with autocompletion turned on), some redesigned dialogs and lots of bugfixes Kommander: NEW IN KDE: dialog builder/executor tool (Marc Britton) Misc Add support to kio_sftp for public key authentication and newest versions of OpenSSH, [email protected] More laptop support for ACPI (not all there yet more goodies to come) - [email protected]