Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.6 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Feature Plan

Legend:

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

kdebase-apps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Konsole	Move to KTabWidget

kdebase-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Plasma	Plasma KPart	Ryan Rix <[email protected]>

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	kdeui	Generic find bar widget	Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]>
DONE	katepart	scripted actions
DONE	libplasma	PluginLoader class

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Marble	GPX import of routes	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Route printing (map and directions, configurabe)	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Route state saving and restoring	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
DONE	Marble	Convert MarbleRunners to plugins
DONE	Marble	worldwide and offline routing
DONE	Marble	Extend MarbleRunner interface to handle reverse geocoding and routing requests; Display of alternative routes
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Tile download along the route for offline usage
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Turn-by-turn navigation mode
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Backend for GNU Octave

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]>
TO DO	JuK	Add MPRIS support to JuK so that the NowPlaying applet doesn't need to special-case JuK.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>
TO DO	JuK	Update JuK's MusicBrainz support to a modern version of MusicBrainz.	Michael Pyne <[email protected]>

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	libkdegames	Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure.
IN PROGRESS	Kigo	Fix KNewStuff provider issues
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin.
TO DO	Palapeli	Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog.	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate snowball stemmer for glossary	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Continue implementing XLIFF spec	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Segmentation [editing] functionality	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected] >
TO DO	Lokalize	Remote translation memories	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	Integrate with nepomuk (fast stats retrieval, tag cloud - incl sharing!)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>
TO DO	Lokalize	loading compressed files and then saving them back in the original compression format (bug 65518)	Nick Shaforostoff <[email protected]>

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Kontact	Plasma-based Summary Page