Schedules/KDE4/4.11 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.11 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.11 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.10 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact

NO NEW FEATURES ALLOWED

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio-mtp	KIO-Slave for MTP
IN PROGRESS	nepomuk filemetadatawidget	Nepomuk Metadata Widget
IN PROGRESS	nepomukcontroller-qml	QML version of the current Nepomuk controller.

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	kwin	windows that are moved to another desktop should be treated as sticky windows (Bug #213847)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Fix fullscreen state handling: NETWM says it's bound to focus and not stacking order, also see bug #224600 (Bug #296076)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Medium focus stealing prevention should also prevent focus stealing when the timestamp on the active window is uncertain (Bug #304746)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Usability issue: "Attach as tab to" menu can be empty (Bug #306451)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Import Scripted Effect from All Effets Tab (Bug #296772)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Window Tab support for QML based Aurorae (Bug #299138)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Get rid of "Display borders on maximized windows" setting (Bug #299245)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Break NETWM to allow inner xinerama struts (Bug #299247)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Cube animation on border approach should not be used unless the electric borders are actually in use and the config should be disabled, align or hint the electric border configuration (Bug #299901)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Make ShaderManager act as a real stack (Bug #300349)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	clientPopup: "'More actions' and "Attach as tab to" lack mnemonics (Bug #302833)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Make KWin compile with C++11 (Bug #303313)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Copy all useful Client properties to Deleted (Bug #303916)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Display content of resizing/moving windows: KDE-Help shows obsolete instructions (Bug #305297)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Mouse action support for sending window to different activity (Bug #305758)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Windows list icon does not show up in "Walk Through Desktop List" (Bug #306187)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Game mode (Bug #306448)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Common animation settings for effects of same type (Bug #308991)	<[email protected]>
TO DO	kwin	Use Resize Area in Aurorae (Bug #308992)	<[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwin	Configurable quick tile area config GUI (Bug #308993)
IN PROGRESS	kwin	Remove legacy window decorations (Bug #299144, Review 104281)
IN PROGRESS	plasma workspace	Port Task Manager applets to QML
IN PROGRESS	plasma workspace	refresh Air Plasma theme
IN PROGRESS	plasma workspace	Port Kickoff to qml
TO DO	systemsettings	Replace krandr KCM by libkscreen-based one	Dan Vrátil <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	plasma workspace	Port rssnow to qml
IN PROGRESS	various	KActivities/SLC support for most our applications
IN PROGRESS	plasma workspace	first desktop SLC applet release
TO DO	plasma workspace	Top-rated documents for Task Manager	Ivan Čukić <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	window manager	Rework and optimize vertex specification
IN PROGRESS	window manager	Dynamic shader generation
IN PROGRESS	window manager	Partial port to xcb
IN PROGRESS	window manager	New launch feedback effect
IN PROGRESS	activities	Encrypted activities
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Improve profile error handling (DPMS)
TO DO	plasma workspace	Social Feed	Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>
DONE	kmenuedit	Ability to sort entries in the sub-menus (Bug #108419)
DONE	kmenuedit	Add move up/down buttons (Bug #61537)
DONE	plasma notifications	Add button to notifications that allow configuring them
DONE	plasma batterymonitor	Improve situtation with multiple batteries (show battery names, dont just sum up _all_ the percentages etc)
IN PROGRESS	powerdevil	Implement notifications for non-internal batteries (aka "Your mouse is running low")

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	FolderView	Split into PopupApplet and Containment	Ignat Semenov <[email protected]>
TO DO	FolderView	Port to QML	Ignat Semenov <[email protected]>
TO DO	Dolphin	Implement files quick preview feature (named Klook)	Evgeniy Auzhin <[email protected]>
TO DO	Dolphin	Clean up Places panel context menus	Kai Uwe Broulik <[email protected]>
TO DO	Kate	Search-plugin: Add "Current file mode"	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
DONE	Kate	Search-plugin: As-you-type search in current file
DONE	Kate	Search-plugin: Multi line search & replace
DONE	Kate	Search-plugin: Replace "\<number>" with corresponding regexp-captures in the replace string
DONE	Kate	gdb-plugin: Unify the stack trace and local variables to one ToolView
DONE	Kate	gdb-plugin: Do not update stack/locals view if not visible
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Vim Mode Macro support
DONE	Kate	Pâté plugin now supports Python2 or Python3 as a build-time option
DONE	Kate	Pâté GID plugin now supports autocompletion based on the contents of the ID file
DONE	Kate	Many generic functions and generic classes, likely the more outstanding are the autocompletations. Now you can create a code completion model with very few lines from Python
DONE	Kate	Pâté python utils plugin. Utils to Python: Checker Parse, Checker Pep8, Checker Pyflakes, Snippets
DONE	Kate	Pâté javascript utils plugin. Utils to JavaScript: Autocomplete, Autocomplete jQuery, Checker JSLint, Pretty JSON, Snippets
DONE	Kate	Pâté XML pretty plugin. A simple XML pretty printer. XML formatter which a good indents
DONE	Kate	Pâté Django utils plugin. Utils to Django: Snippets, and template utils
DONE	Kate	Pâté Python autocomplete plugin.
DONE	Kate	Integration of the python_autocomplete and python_console_ipython plugins with the project plugin .
TO DO	Konsole	Improve the search filter bar	Francesco Cecconi <[email protected]>
TO DO	Konsole	Add the --separate cmdline option for running in new process	Jekyll Wu <[email protected]>
TO DO	Konsole	Make the d&d popup menu optional	Jekyll Wu <[email protected]>
TO DO	Konqueror	Settings for WebKit Part	Allan Sandfeld <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Marble	Have support for "repeatX" in the projection classes	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Satellite Map NG	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Mars & Venus satellite plugin	Torsten Rahn / Gerhard Holtkamp <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Solar Eclipse Plugin	Torsten Rahn / Gerhard Holtkamp <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Help Menu polishing / Support page inclusion	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Toolbar polishing/refactoring	Torsten Rahn <[email protected]>
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]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Foursquare plugin
TO DO	Marble	Marble Touch on Android (including SOK branch merge)	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]>
DONE	Marble	OSM vector rendering (GSOC branch merge)
DONE	Marble	Dock Widgets
DONE	Marble	Stars Constellations
IN PROGRESS	Marble	KML I/O Improvements
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Basic KML Editor
DONE	Marble	WebKit Powered Info Dialog
DONE	Marble	License Information Info Box
DONE	Marble	Navigation Tool Redesign
TO DO	Marble	Zoom to content of geo file after loading (at least on start-up)	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Geo files thumbnailer	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Geo files metadata extractor	Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Data Structure Backend wise iconsets and preconfigurations for types	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Printing and image export of graphs.	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Data Structure Snapshot and Recovery.	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Visual Graph Editor Handling: copy&paste, data structure focus, property display	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	In-Program documentation for scripting API
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Scripting API cleanup
TO DO	Rocs	Statistics module: scripts may add statistics data during algorithm executions	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Text-only interface for Rocs aka Cantor backend	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
TO DO	Rocs	Worksheet Integration	Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Python backend
IN PROGRESS	Kig	Geogebra Support
IN PROGRESS	Kig	CAS Backend
IN PROGRESS	KAlgebra	Matrix support

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Make computer think-times shorter and responses faster
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Provide five skill levels (previously three)
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Provide board size up to 15x15 (previously 10x10)
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Add multi-move undo and redo (previously one move only)
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Improve the algorithm for computer opponent Newton
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Make computer think-times shorter and responses faster
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Make a new toolbar layout with a general-purpose stop-start button
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Add optional pauses after computer moves or animation steps, to help new players understand how the game works
IN PROGRESS	KJumpingCube	Major internal restructure and rewrite: involving separation of model, view, control and AI classes, new classes for Game and AI_Box and executing AI code on a separate thread

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkipi	Porting libkipi to KDE-XML GUI
DONE	kolourpaint	WebP image format plugin

kdemultimedia

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Juk	Port Juk away from kde3support
IN PROGRESS	Juk	Support excluding directories from a recursive search Review Request 110273
DONE	Juk	Add support for Ogg Opus audio editing/playback (requires TagLib and Phonon also support)

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Metalink/HTTP Support

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Facebook resource	Include it in default install	Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>
TO DO	KABC Contact groups	use uid's for references	Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Akregator2	Merge in kdepim
IN PROGRESS	Knode	Merge in KMail
IN PROGRESS	BackupMail	Extend backup to all kdepim apps
IN PROGRESS	Sieve	Rewrite dialogbox
IN PROGRESS	libs	Move folderview to kdepimlibs/akonadi
IN PROGRESS	SendLaterAgent	Agent for allow to send later mails
IN PROGRESS	PimActivity	Create a library to support activity in pim apps
DONE	kolab-resource	Make Kolab 3.0 option available
DONE	headerthemeeditor	Program to edit kmail header theme based on Grantlee
DONE	Sieve	Add support for autogenerate sieve script
DONE	Blogilo	Use new widget component based on qtwebkit for html editor
DONE	ImportWizard	Allow to import settings/data for trojita and improve all others importer

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Microblog	replace with QML version
TO DO	StackFolder	Add applet for quick browse the stack of folders	Ural Mullabaev <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Eyes	replace with QML version
IN PROGRESS	FifteenPuzzle	replace with QML version
IN PROGRESS	Luna	replace with QML version
IN PROGRESS	Timer	replace with QML version

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	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]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add tagged unions to structures tool
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Add array indices to structures tool
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	widget resize and diagram auto resize feature
TO DO	Umbrello	add spline based association lines to avoid autolayout widget/line overlapping (needs volunteers)	Ralf Habacker <[email protected]>

kdeutils

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KWallet	UI Refactoring

kdetoys

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	KTeaTime	Bring back the system tray progress indicator known from KTeaTime 4.6.5 and earlier (Bug #279222)	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>