Contributing

If you would like to support and become part of the Plasma Active team, you can use the following list of open tasks as inspiration. Please pick one of these tasks, for questions, you can always get in touch with us.

Packaging & Deployment

openSUSE

profile and optimize boot process (bootchart)
clean up startup / login process
create clean setup to start reviewing applications to offer
create separate artwork package (kdebase4-workspace-branding-plasmaactive)

variables to set the desktop shell type

export env vars from news-tablet.desktop in declarative widgets package to global session
Marble to go

Meego Packaging

create installer image
consolidate packages
fix up defaults

Hacking

Activity Configuration

Add an applications category to the Add dialog (adding an application is unintuitive: go to launcher, long press) (means public bindings for the applications and krunner models)

Activity Switcher

Show a loading animation when switching between activities (currently no feedback given)

Add Widgets

Don't re-arrange items when details shown (perhaps by making space for it from the start?)
Close keyboard if opened due to focussing in on filter bar

Contour Pages

~~Autoresizing of boxes needs nearest fit, not maximum fit (currently overshooting just a bit causes it to choose the next largest size)~~
Custom titles for widgets
~~Access to widget configuration~~

Default Configuration

Nepomuk Backup Sync -> die die die
KWallet configuation -> passwordless and no questions for access
Disable KWin effects that don't matter
Boot and Contour start QML Splash screen (and no wait on boot?)
Screensaver -> must be above all items and no password request
set active-browser as default web browser
set BorderlessMaximizedWindows=true in kwinrc by default
set WindowDragEnabled=false in [Style] group in oxygenrc
set "power button pressed" to trigger "suspend to ram" in all power profiles
increase drag and drop threshold ("Manhattan length"?) to prevent accidental dragging on touch

General UI

~~Page dots (which appear at bottom of multipage flickables) should be hidden when there is only one page~~

Panel

hardcoded positions of slc and clock (systray)
hardcoded positions of containments (panel containment)
~~layouting of plasmoids seems incorrect~~
drag the panel from everywhere w/o conflicting with icons
~~flickers on closing~~
autohiding of entries that go into passive mode
~~notifications plasmoid "squashed" into an oval instead of a circle~~

On Screen Keyboard

Rewrite in QML
Proper default layout, including application-triggered switching (numbers when only numbers needed etc.)
KWin virtual keyboard effect
Layout switching
Ensure that line edit does not get obscurred by keyboard
Sticky mode for entering multiple numbers/symbols in a row
Copy/paste of text?
Arrow keys?

Nepomuk Recommendation

score the recom engines
pause the film while lights are up
bus station (gps)
create activity if the user is doing something new
change activity based on context (track location when switching activities)

Notifications

kill the notifications from network connecting
kill the notifications from nepomuk
~~allow notifications to be closed / autoexpire old ones~~
~~manual close of notification~~
~~jobs in the notification applet~~

Launcher

Fix selecting / filtering in tag cloud (doesn't work unless you put in a search and then clear)
Tag cloud: scrolling higher is not obvious; icon (near search?) to scroll higher
Sort applications by alpha
Splitter divider betweeen app rows
When filter is cleared, reset the view
Show most used / favorites as first line on first page?

SLC

Enabled state is not obvious enough: find better visuals
Better artwork: connect icon is very odd
Not matter what is touched, Connect is always shown: probable touch screen bug: the touch event arrives always in the same coordinates unless a connected usb mouse is moved
Bigger target invoking popup, and implement dragable
Show title of URI to be operated on in the context menu

Window Management

OpenGL ES on MeeGO
Focus to docks
Screen edge handling

Application workflow

Not obvious where apps are
Visual feedback between time when activity is selected and when the activity appears (so we know something is actually happening)
~~Keep handle visible for activity switcher~~

Window Strip

Remove close button on home screen
Filter windows that are set to not show in taskbar
- look at gitorious qt-components/meego/*view* grep for swipe
Window sorting
- find solution to get at methods Martin added to kdelibs/*/kworkspace MRU
- Put new windows after the current window
- Check out how Harmatan Keyboard works
Show windows from current activity only
Sticky windows and moving windows across activities (SLC?)

Recommendations Panel

Active Browser

containment for web favorites
bookmarks and history from nepomuk
search in page
save-as menus (e.g. for images)
show loading progress even if url bar off top of screen (or scroll up to url bar when loading always? probably too disruptive to user..)
"open in new window" support
"back" repositions page to last viewed position
plugin support
password saving
cookie management
display ssl status
accepting non-verifiable SSL certs

Multimedia

Create multimedia activity
Good touch volume applet
Mediaplayer (minitube? bangarang? tomahawk? Plasma Mediacenter components?)
Webcam (kamoso?)

Social Networks

touch-friendly configuration for PIM (email, contacts, events.)
touch-friendly setup of Facebook via Akonadi
touch-friendly setup of Google via Akonadi
Akonadi model for QML plasmoids
Plasma QML widgets for
- Contacts
- Messages
- Events

Infrastructure

Geolocation
- Document and complete API
- Use geolocation in more widgets
- Cache geolocation
libplasma2 & QSceneGraph port
test GLES backend for kwin
hovering for close doesn't work on touchscreens (in present windows KWin effect)
a Plasma::PackageStructure to be used to retrieve the QML UI of complex, C++ applications
DBusmenu implementation in QML
KToolBar replacement in QML (using a KActionCollection)
KXmlGui actions access in QML
KConfig integration with ownCloud
Finish porting all KDE applications to the mobile profile (mostly removing deprecated calls)
Connman backend for network management stack needed (either kded module or Plasma::DataEngine)

Workspace

Dynamic switching of Plasma workspace types, eg from the display manager, or due to hardware events such as docking?

KDM

Touch friendly login screen for eg touchscreen all-in-one PCs to use (low priority; we have auto-login)

Unlock screen

Passwordless unlock screen
Should be a top-level window (inside kwin process?) that shows some draggable item to unlock (a proof-of-concept exists already on start up, but that needs to move out of the shell)

Tools

Make Plasmate release-ready
- Improve editor for QML
- Implement scripting console
- Fix sizing problems in previewer

Artwork

Improve Plasma theme
Plasma Active logo
Make Contour logo play well with Active logo
Wallpaper
Example documents
Artwork and theming of boot process

Documentation

Improve QML Plasma docs
Improve installation docs
Create user docs (pending UI freeze)

Support and Testing

Help others with getting Plasma Active runnning on #active and the mailing list
Test Plasma Active on more hardware, find solutions for problems encountered, document them