Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan

This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.7 release.

See also:

• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Schedule
• Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Release Goals
• Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan (previous major release)

Legend:

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

kdelibs

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Number grouping support
DONE	KLocale	Narrow date name format support
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Week Numbers support
IN PROGRESS	KLocale	Windows Backend
IN PROGRESS	kdeui	New date/time edit widgets from kdepim
IN PROGRESS	KHelpMenu	Fast action searching
IN PROGRESS	KFilePlaces	Activity-specific Places
IN PROGRESS	KCookieJar	Storing cookies in KWallet

kde-baseapps

Status	Project	Description	Contact
TO DO	Dolphin	Support Fwd/Back Mouse Buttons	Sebastian Dörner <[email protected]>
DONE	Dolphin	Polish the default user interface to minimize visual clutter (see http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html)
DONE	Dolphin	Improve user interface for searching files and metadata
TO DO	Settings	Improve proxy configuration dialog	Dawit Alemayehu <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Locale KCM	Support for Number Grouping, Windows Backend, Country Subdivsions

kde-runtime

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	kio_sftp	async download support
IN PROGRESS	Locale definition files	Migrate Country and Currency Codes to xml/po formats, re-arrange l10n files including settings and flags, add Subdivision code files.
TO DO	kio-upnp-ms	Merge from playground (https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kio-upnp-ms/) into kde-runtime	Nikhil Marathe <[email protected]>

kde-workspace

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Allow a shortcut per keyboard layout (bug 224489)
DONE	System Settings/keyboard	Session management for keyboard layouts (bug 52095, 174948)
Plasma
IN PROGRESS	Plasma Clock/Calendar	improve usability, settings, akonadi and holiday data. See Plasma wiki.
DONE	Plasma Desktop	launch krunner when the user starts typing
KDM
DONE	KDM	GRUB2 support for KDM (see http://ksmanis.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/hello-planet-and-grub2-support-for-kdm/)
KWin
DONE	Compositor	OpenGL 2.x/OpenGL ES 2.0 compositing backend (see http://www.kdenews.org/2011/02/18/kwin-embraces-new-platforms-opengl-es-20-support)
IN PROGRESS	Compositor	New Shadow System (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/new-kwin-shadows/)
IN PROGRESS	BoxSwitch Effect	Animated Selection (see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/02/is-kwin-rocket-science/)
IN PROGRESS	libkwineffects	API cleanup
TO DO	libkwineffects	JavaScript bindings for writing Effects	Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Mouse Emulation	Better accessibility support in mouse emulation
IN PROGRESS	kwin	Add multi head support
IN PROGRESS	kwin	DBusMenu in Windeco
IN PROGRESS	ksplashx	Add multi head support
TO DO	krunner	Add multi head support	Alberto Mattea <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	kwinrules kcm	UI cleanup (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101041/)
IN PROGRESS	kwincompositing kcm	Rearm unsafe OpenGL precheck (see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101061/)
IN PROGRESS	PresentWindows Effect	Better highlight indication & close button handling)
IN PROGRESS	general	Remove jargon from user interface. Remove all instances of Akonadi/Nepomuk related jargon from the desktop, replace with meaningful text where needed.
DONE	klipper	Support qrcode as well as datamatrix for mobile barcodes
TO DO	weather	Support debian weather	Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>

kdeedu

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	Marble	Bookmark Manager
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Extended QML Bindings
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Routing API
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Offline Address Search
TO DO	Marble	Support monav version 0.3	Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Reduce memory footprint of cached tiles
TO DO	Marble	Separate thread for tile loading and texture blending (not texture mapping at the moment) for more smooth browsing	Jens-Michael Hoffmann, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Tile loading "read ahead" when idle, prerequisite: threaded tile loading	Jens-Michael Hoffmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	Marble	Multi threaded texture mapping	Jens-Michael Hoffmann, Bernhard Beschow <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Marble	Manipulate Gps track data
IN PROGRESS	Cantor	Integrate the Qalculate backend
TO DO	Kalzium	Use KUnitConversion for all the Unit handling	Etienne Rebetez <etienne.rebetez@oberwallisch>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add getdirection command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
TO DO	KTurtle	Add modulo command	Niels Slot <nielsslot@gmaildotcom>
IN PROGRESS	Step	Copy-and-Paste of items
TO DO	Step	Zoom on mouse wheel	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
TO DO	Step	Automatic expanding canvas	Sebastian Vöcking <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Auto - Handling of the Canvas
DONE	Rocs	Remove the thread for QtConcurrent on he core
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Polish the User Interface
DONE	Rocs	New Plugin for Automaticaly Graph Generation
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Bugfixes in the List Plugin
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Speedup in the drawing code
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Kalgebra backend
DONE	Rocs	Transform graph edges plugin
IN PROGRESS	Rocs	Assign values to edges/nodes plugin
IN PROGRESS	Kalzium	Titration calculator

kdepim

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Port to Akonadi
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Allow reminders after the main alarm
IN PROGRESS	KAlarm	Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms
IN PROGRESS	KHolidays	Add support for Holiday Types and Observance Types
IN PROGRESS	Akonadi-contacts/kaddressbook	Show 2d barcodes of contact data

kdeplasma-addons

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Adjustable Clock	Plasmoid for displaying date and time in very customizable way
IN PROGRESS	Comic Plasmoid	Support random comic strips
IN PROGRESS	Comic Plasmoid	Support creation of comic Comic Book Archive files
TO DO	Comic Plasmoid	Highlight comics that have a new comic strip	Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]>
TO DO	Events Runner	Support parsing weekdays (e.g. "in next monday"	Alexey Noskov <[email protected]>

kdetoys

Status	Project	Description	Contact
DONE	KTeaTime	Port to KStatusNotifierItem
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	New svg based status icons
IN PROGRESS	KTeaTime	Support categories
TO DO	KTeaTime	Improved command line	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Tea runner	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>
TO DO	KTeaTime	Port to KConfigXT	Stefan Böhmann <[email protected]>

kdesdk

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	Remote translation memories
IN PROGRESS	Lokalize	QA: translation checks against user-specified regex-based rules
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	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]>
IN PROGRESS	Okteta	Properly support strings (various Unicode encodings) in structures tool
TO DO	Okteta	Add custom datatypes to structures tool	Alex Richardson <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	QDockWidget based interface
IN PROGRESS	Umbrello	KDE4 icon theme and eye candies
TO DO	Umbrello	Replace the current code viewer with katepart	Emmanuel Lepage Vallee <[email protected]>
DONE	Umbrello	Add a zoom widget in the statusbar
IN PROGRESS	Kate	Add a new search in files plugin

kdegames

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Level editor
IN PROGRESS	KBreakout	Load levelset option + 2 new levelsets
TO DO	KBreakout	Port to QGraphicsView	Julian Helfferich <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	libtagaro	Move first version into the kdegames module
TO DO	libtagaro	Use the new library: at least in Granatier and Kolf (to replace existing static source copies) and KDiamond	Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Palapeli	Cleanup interface
DONE	Palapeli	Reduce memory consumption for big puzzles

kdenetwork

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Working Mms plugin
IN PROGRESS	KGet	Support for connection limit to servers

kdegraphics

Status	Project	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Okular	Directory support in Comic Book Generator
IN PROGRESS	Okular	7zip support in Comic Book Generator
TO DO	libksane	Enable gui less operation	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
TO DO	libksane	Add a way to get scanner device list	Kåre Särs <[email protected]>
IN PROGRESS	Gwenview	Compare mode
TO DO	Gwenview	Merge "Semantic Information" and "Meta Information" sidebar groups	Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>