Schedules/KDE4/4.2 Feature Plan
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This is a list of planned features for the 4.2 release.
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- done => completed
Other
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | System Settings | add Administrator mode button | ? <?> |
IN PROGRESS | Eigen | Finish version 2.0 and move it to kdesupport | |
TO DO | Eigen | Port all Eigen-using code in KDE and KOffice to Eigen 2.0 | Benoît Jacob <[email protected]> |
kdelibs
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | kross | Extend QtScript integration. | |
IN PROGRESS | KDEPrint | Reintroduce KDEPrint in some form, depending on what Qt4.4 delivers. | |
TO DO | KDEPrint | Add framework for standard actions for 'Send to...' for e-mail, fax, etc by printing to PDF/PS. | John Layt <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KDEPrint | Migrate FilePrinter class from Okular to enable file printing for all apps via QPrinter, modify to utilise new Qt4.4 features. To be discussed on k-c-d first. | John Layt <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KCalenderSystem | Add new calendar systems: Indian Civil (Saka), Ethiopean, Chinese, Pure Julian, Pure Gregorian. (Note, not all may live in kdelibs or be available as a global calendar system) | John Layt <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KLocale | Implement KLocale based methods to return weekend days and day of religious observance. Currently KCalendarSystem provides dayOfPray(), but for Gregorian this is not correct in all locales where it is used. Currently KDatePicker hardcodes Saturday and dayOfPray() as weekend days which may not be correct in all locales. To be discussed first on k-c-d and with kdepim. | John Layt <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Phonon | add Port class for fine grained control over data flow between Phonon objects | Matthias Kretz <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Phonon | make AbstractMediaStream/StreamInterface threadsafe | |
IN PROGRESS | Phonon | "low-level" PCM I/O with at least an ALSA implementation | |
IN PROGRESS | Phonon | VideoWidget snapshot function | |
IN PROGRESS | KConfig | API review and export KConfigBackend | |
IN PROGRESS | KConfig | Make KConfigSkeleton KConfigGroup aware | |
IN PROGRESS | KConfig | Make KConfigDialog work nicer with KConfigSkeleton + manually managed widgets |
kdebase-workspace
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | Color KCM | Add 'smart setting' of extended colors | Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Color KCM | Add KDE3 scheme import | Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Color KCM | Query kwin for supported colors; add full set of kwin colors | Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KDEPrint | reintroduce KDEPrint Print Management tools, e.g. KCM, kprinter, kjobviewer, etc. Depends upon progress of kdelibs side of KDEPrint and Qt4.4 feature set. | john Layt <[email protected]> |
KRunner | |||
IN PROGRESS | Krunner | Configuration options for blacklisting, user ranking, runner ranking, learning | |
IN PROGRESS | Krunner | SearchMatch configuration | |
TO DO | Krunner | Simple learning | Jordi Polo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Simple GUI for above options | Jordi Polo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Runners able to share parsing | Jordi Polo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Noun-Verb support | Ryan P. Bitanga <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Implement Nuno's UI polishings | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Runtime syntax documentation | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Runner configuration | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Krunner | Search set paging | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KRunner | runner for the plasma dbus interface | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
Plasma - Priority Features | |||
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Welcome plasmoid | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | JOLIE Integration | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Notification plasmoid | |
TO DO | KWin | Make it possible to focus plasma panels | Chani <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | panel->desktop dragging | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Expand cashew to full action bar when zoomed out | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Plasmagik packaging (and package classes) | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Networkmanager Plasmoid and DataEngine | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | New ECMA Script Scriptengines | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Extenders | |
TO DO | Plasma | Wallpaper plugins | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Separate Desktop Settings from DesktopContainment | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Script Security Framework | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
Plasma | |||
DONE | Plasma | Plasma Popup Tips | |
DONE | Plasma | Collapsing Applet convenience class
| |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Taskbar grouping | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Weather plasmoid | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Small Form Factors | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Plasma On Screensaver | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Website update | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Grid applet | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Techbase Tutorials | |
TO DO | Plasma | Context menu plugins | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Add New Widgets: Pluggable widget browser | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Activity<->Virtual Desktop Affinity | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Optional Per-Virtual Desktop DesktopView | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Make non-SVG painting in Plasma low-color and non-anim friendly | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Runtime DataEngine documentation (sources, usage, etc) | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Panel Autohide | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Keyboard Shortcut Config UI | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Systray++ Spec | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Save icon positioning in folderview | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | physics-based animator | Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | New wallpapers | Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Preserve wallpaper choice by copying user paper to home dir | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | New way of handling wallpapers and different sizes (package format, and so on...) | Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Top-level windows plasmoids | Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | drop indicator in panel | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | improve usability of appletbrowser delete button | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | adding containments from the appletbrowser (and remove the "add panel" from DefaultDeskrop) | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | Expand cashew to cover the containment when fully zoomed out | Aaron Seigo <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | highlight the applet with active keyboard shortcuts | Chani <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | dbus interface | Chani <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | make the panel controller a bit more usable | Marco Martin <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | nicely draw the desktop toolbox when it's moved because of a panel | Marco Martin <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Plasma | theme Plasma::PushButton with svg | Marco Martin <[email protected]> |
kdepimlibs
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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kdenetwork
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Kopete | MSNP15 implementation for MSN | |
IN PROGRESS | Kopete | UPnp Support | |
IN PROGRESS | Kopete | Updated contact list interface (uses Qt 4 rather than Qt 3) | |
TO DO | Kopete | Update Kopete to better support Decibel | Kopete Developers <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Kopete | Contacts plasmoid | |
IN PROGRESS | KGet | MultiSource-Downloading | |
IN PROGRESS | KGet | Support mms://-protocol, see https://launchpad.net/libmms | |
TO DO | KGet | MLDonkey-Plugin based on libkmldonkey | Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Network Manager Applet |
kdepim
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | Kjots | Import notes from KNotes as KJots pages. | Stephen Kelly <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kjots | Email KJots pages using default mail client (Bug #124509. | Stephen Kelly <[email protected]> |
kdeutils
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | Power Manager | import either Guidance Power Manager or move kde4powersaver into kdeutils | ? <?> |
TO DO | Okteta | add Kate-like search tool | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | refactor KByteArrayView | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | add support for memory mapping of files | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Okteta | parameter dialog for "Copy as..." | 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]> |
kdebindings
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Smoke | Wrap some more APIs (at least Akanodi for all languages and Plasma for C#) | |
TO DO | krossjava | Integrate into e.g. SuperKaramba and fix issues that show up. | Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]> |
TO DO | krossjava | Documentation++ | Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]> |
kdegames
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | libkdegames | New highscore management system | |
DONE | kdiamond | Drag jewels | |
TO DO | kdiamond | Optional OpenGL rendering | Stefan Majewsky <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | ksirk | Map scrolling arrows | |
TO DO | ksirk | KHotNewStuff skins | Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]> |
TO DO | ksirk | Jabber based net game finding | Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]> |
TO DO | ksirk | Use only names in skins instead of numeric ids | Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]> |
TO DO | ksirk | Skins editor | Gaël de Chalendar <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | ktron | Port and remake the KTron game for KDE 4.2 | |
TO DO | KNetWalk | Support for custom and non-square board sizes | Fela Winkelmolen <[email protected]> |
kdesdk
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Kate | Port and reenable the Snippets plugin. | |
IN PROGRESS | perldoc KIOSlave | Move perldoc KIOSlave from playground to kdesdk (awaiting feature window opening) | |
IN PROGRESS | Lokalize | XLIFF support | |
IN PROGRESS | Lokalize | various Translation Memory enhancements | |
TO DO | Lokalize | Kross-based scripting | Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net> |
TO DO | Lokalize | QA: glossary checklists | Nick Shaforostoff <shafff-at-ukr.net> |
TO DO | KAppTemplate | Add DBUS support in templates | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
DONE | Umbrello | Port code generation wizard to QWizard and replace all q3 widgets | |
IN PROGRESS | Umbrello | Replace all q3 widgets in the refactoring assistant |
kdeedu
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | KEduca | Rewrite of the classic test writing/taking application | |
TO DO | KLettres | Number support | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KLettres | Theme manager | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | KHangMan | Add a Open File action | |
TO DO | KHangMan | Integrate an editor | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KHangMan | Plasmoid | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KHangMan | Theme manager | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KLettres | Visual indicator when letter is wrong | Anne-Marie Mahfouf <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kalzium | Port Kalzium's periodic table to use new QGraphicsView. | Marcus D. Hanwell <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Kalzium | Plasmoid to access Kalzium database | |
TO DO | Step | Improve GUI for creating softbody | Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Step | Use common constraints handling code for collisions | Vladimir Kuznetsov <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | KAlgebra | New parser using QLALR | |
IN PROGRESS | Parley | Declensions | |
IN PROGRESS | KStars | Tool to predict Conjunctions | |
TO DO | Marble | Export map to MxN pixel bitmap | Inge Wallin <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Support for MarbleWidget::setEnabled( bool ) | Inge Wallin <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Marble | Map Contents translation | Torsten Rahn <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Layer Management Class | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Plugin architecture for map layers | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | DGML2 Support | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | KDE-Version settings dialog | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Port authors list from the Qt-About dialog to the KDE-About dialog | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Qt-Version settings dialog | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Improved KML support | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | OpenStreetMap support using original OSM tiles | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Real Time Cloud-Cover | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Mercator Projection | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | More generic projection support | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Usage of Marble in
non-widgets | |
TO DO | Kig | Properties dialog for objects. | Pino Toscano <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kig | Improve construction of bisect lines. | Pino Toscano <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kig | Improve feedback when constructing objects. | Pino Toscano <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kig | More geometric objects. | Pino Toscano <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kig | Script objects as macros (to be reused more than once). | Pino Toscano <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Kig | Improve the Cabri import filter. | Pino Toscano <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KTurtle | Export canvas as image | Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KTurtle | Optional rulers/grid for canvas units | Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KTurtle | Add command line | Mauricio Piacentini <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KTurtle | Add a color picker | Niels Slot <[email protected]> |
kdemultimedia
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Dragon Player | Make Dragon indipendent from Xine | |
IN PROGRESS | Dragon Player | File Manager | |
IN PROGRESS | Dragon Player | play media dialog | |
IN PROGRESS | Dragon Player | slider changes | |
IN PROGRESS | Dragon Player | show info while playing audio files | |
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 | Use XCOMPOSITE real transparency when available for the track announcement popup | Michael Pyne <[email protected]> |
TO DO | JuK | Allow disabling crossfade | Michael Pyne <[email protected]> |
kdeaccessibility
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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TO DO | KMagnifier | Refactor color menu, re-add invert, break current color blindness code into "daltonize" and "simulate" | Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KMagnifier | Add color-shift modes to help people with color blindness | Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> |
kdegraphics
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | KSnapshot | Add support for grabbing a single screen in multihead |