Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Feature Plan
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This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.6 release.
See also:
- Schedules/KDE4/4.5 Feature Plan (previous major release)
- Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Schedule
- Schedules/KDE4/4.6 Release Goals
- Schedules/KDE4/4.7 Feature Plan (next major release)
Legend:
- todo => not started yet
- in-progress => started, but not completed yet
- done => completed
kdebase-apps
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Konsole | Move to KTabWidget | |
DONE | Dolphin | Faceted browsing via Nepomuk | |
DONE | Dolphin | Searching support for non-indexed files | |
DONE | Dolphin | Git-plugin (implemented by Sebastian Dörner and Johannes Steffen) | |
DONE | Dolphin | Resizeable columns in the column-view | |
DONE | Dolphin | Allow leading zeros when renaming multiple files (implemented by Matthias Fuchs) | |
IN PROGRESS | nspluginviewer | Full npruntime support | |
TO DO | Dolphin | Smooth scrolling | Fredrikh Höglund <[email protected]> |
kdebase-runtime
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Plasma | Plasma KPart | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Declarative AppletScript to write QML plasmoids | |
IN PROGRESS | Plasma | Optimize the Newspaper containment for the use with touchscreens and the Plasma KPart | |
DONE | KWin | Focus tracking for the zoom plugin (uses kaccessible) | |
DONE | KWin | Extend mouse tracking modes for the zoom plugin | |
DONE | Nepomuk Backup & Sync | Provide Backup and Sync capabilities to Nepomuk | |
TO DO | Web Metadata extractor | Provide a framework to get additional data about resources | Vishesh Handa <[email protected]> |
DONE | Activities manager service | Merge the kded and nepomuk modules for activities into one service | |
IN PROGRESS | Activities manager service | Register desktop events instead directly linking the activities to resources | |
IN PROGRESS | KNotify | Add support for relative present actions in contexts | |
DONE | KNotify | Add Plugin Loading Support (No UI Support For Now) | |
IN PROGRESS | Locale KCM | Complete re-write to improve usability, support for new localization features | |
IN PROGRESS | Phonon KCM | Add video input device configuration support | |
IN PROGRESS | ksecretserviced | Make it replace KWallet |
kdebase-workspace
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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Plasma | |||
DONE | libtaskmanager / tasks-applet | support for Windows 7 like launchers | |
IN PROGRESS | notifications | rework notification applet appearance | |
IN PROGRESS | notifications | make various dataengines use Plasma::Storage | |
DONE | plasma-desktop | UI for editing activity name and icon | |
TO DO | plasma-desktop | add some default activities | Mario Fux <[email protected]> |
DONE | plasma | finish support for activity templates | |
IN PROGRESS | plasma-devicenotifier | Improve notification support | |
TO DO | plasma-devicenotifier | Signal to the user which apps are blocking a device | Jacopo De Simoi <[email protected] > |
DONE | quicklaunch | populate new applets with user's default browser, file manager, ... instead of hardcoded ones | |
DONE | quicklaunch | allow editing of existing launchers (including ones that do not point to a .desktop file) | |
DONE | libplasma | Plasma calendar supports multiple Holiday Regions. | |
IN PROGRESS | libplasma | Make Calendar DataEngine a Service. | |
DONE | plasma-desktop | integrate activity-sessions | |
IN PROGRESS | plasma-desktop | activity dataengine | |
KWin | |||
IN PROGRESS | windowgeometry effect | compositor powered move/resize windowgeometry display | |
DONE | dashboard effect | new effect for Plasma dashboard | |
DONE | kwin/ksmserver | activity sessions | |
DONE | libtaskmanager/kwin? | some activity integration in taskbar/pager | |
TO DO | libtaskmanager/kwin] | Expose Window Tabs to taskmanager | Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> |
TO DO | kwin | ARB Shader support | Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Aurorae | Tooltips on window tabs | |
DONE | Present Windows | Close window GUI control | |
DONE | Startup Feedback | Effect to replace the Startup Feedback notification | |
DONE | Screenshot Effect | KSanpshot can use KWin for screenshots | |
TO DO | KCM Compositing | Allow compositing even if GL is buggy/X crashes | Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KWin Killer | Use notification instead of dialog | Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Compositing | Improved platform detection
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KDE Power Management system | |||
DONE | core | PowerDevil v2 core | |
DONE | actions | Basic actions for feature parity with PowerDevil v1 | |
IN PROGRESS | actions | More actions for advanced users | |
DONE | policy-handler | Create a new policy handler for handling inhibition properly, and have kdelibs' Solid API use it | |
System Settings | |||
DONE | keyboard | Support for "spare layouts" | |
DONE | keyboard | Support for > 4 layouts | |
IN PROGRESS | driconf | New module for configuring DRI drivers | |
Blue Devil | |||
IN PROGRESS | Review | Get into kdebase | |
IN PROGRESS | kio_obexftp | Better error handling | |
TO DO | usability | Review all the components improving hig/elegance | Alex Fiestas <[email protected]> |
TO DO | share folders | Be able to share folders via obexftp | Alex Fiestas <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Devices KCM | Add further information about devices, like address... | Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Devices KCM | Allow to connect to devices services | Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | libbluedevil | Review DBus handling | |
TO DO | libbluedevil | Add support for services | Rafael Fernández López <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Monolithic | Fix listing problems under certain conditions |
kdelibs
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | libnepomuk | Convenience operator overloads for query construction | |
DONE | libnepomuk | New query flags and improved handling of full text matching scores including sorting | |
TO DO | kdeui | Generic find bar widget | Sascha Peilicke <[email protected]> |
DONE | kdeui | Allow getting and setting the size of the pixmap cache in KImageCache | |
DONE | katepart | scripted actions | |
DONE | katepart | QAccessibleInterface's for document+cursor | |
DONE | libplasma | PluginLoader class | |
DONE | libplasma | Allow SVGs to use systemcolors before rendering | |
IN PROGRESS | libplasma | DeclarativeWidget to load QML scenes in Plasma | |
IN PROGRESS | libplasma | finish up the gsoc project about Plasma::Storage service | |
DONE | libplasma | let Plasma::SVG find the best matching size hinted element if there is no exact match | |
DONE | libnepomuk/KIO | Search excerpts | |
IN PROGRESS | libnepomuk | Standardqueries for convenience | |
DONE | libnepomuk | GUI elements for resource/file searching including faceted browsing | |
IN PROGRESS | libnepomuksync | Sync library to be used in BackupSync, Strigi, Akonadi, WebExtractor and Removable Media | |
IN PROGRESS | kdecore | Add more possible synchronization primitives to KSharedDataCache to expand OS support. POSIX Semaphores Contributed by Alberto Villa of the FreeBSD project. Windows support may still occur as well. | |
TO DO | kdecore | Add fallback to QCache<QString,QByteArray> in KSharedDataCache. | Michael Pyne <[email protected]> |
DONE | kdecore | Add cache-wide timestamp to KSharedDataCache. | |
TO DO | kdecore | Add ability to make KSharedDataCache strictly read-only for laptop support. | Michael Pyne <[email protected]> |
DONE | kdeui | Social About Dialog | |
DONE | kdeui | Allow to hide icons in menus | |
DONE | KLocale | Auto-detect new users Country from their system country. | |
DONE | KLocale | New configuration option for AM/PM symbols, . | |
DONE | KLocale | Seperate backends available for each supported platform/desktop, use of platform localization in place of KDE locale planned for 4.7. | |
DONE | KLocalizedDate | New convenience class to make date localization easy. | |
DONE | KCalendarSystem | Add api for first/last day of year/month. | |
DONE | KCalendarSystem | Add configuration option for Short Year Window. | |
DONE | KCalendarSystem | Separated date / time parsing code into new private KDateTimeParser and KDateTimeFormatter classes to share with KLocale and KDateTime. | |
IN PROGRESS | KHTML | HTML5 postMessage. | |
TO DO | kcookiejar | New domain specific cookie policy based on patch provided in bug#54300 | Dawit A. <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | kcookiejar | Implement storing cookies in KWallet | |
IN PROGRESS | ksecretservice | Make KWallet::Wallet use the secrets-service API | |
IN PROGRESS | anywhere | Allow to build without deprecated symbols | |
IN PROGRESS | KIO | Use `net usershare` in KSambaShare |
kdeedu
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | Marble | Loading of routes in .kml format (Maemo) | |
DONE | Marble | Route printing (map and directions, configurabe) | |
DONE | Marble | Route state saving and restoring | |
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 | |
DONE | Marble | "Go To" dialog for Maemo | |
DONE | Marble | Tile download along the route for offline usage | |
DONE | Marble | Turn-by-turn navigation mode | |
DONE | Marble | QtDeclarative plugin and QML examples (experimental) | |
IN PROGRESS | Marble | Implement sun locator blendings as derived classes of Marble::Blending | |
DONE | Marble | Improve GeoData API | |
DONE | Marble | Convert Gps tracking to GeoDataDocument | |
DONE | Marble | Provide a treeModel for GeoDataDocuments | |
DONE | Marble | Draw the geometries of multiple GeoDataDocuments | |
DONE | Marble | Load Pnt vector data files as GeoData | |
DONE | Marble | Bookmark Support | |
DONE | Cantor | Backend for GNU Octave | |
DONE | Cantor | Merge R improvement branch | |
DONE | Cantor | Variable management panel | |
TO DO | Cantor | Formulas inside Text Entries | Alexander Rieder <[email protected]> |
DONE | Kalzium | Port Kalzium to use QGV based periodic table widget | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Implicit functions plot | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Improved execution speed on the calculator | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Better integration between the Console and the Plotting facilities | |
DONE | KAlgebra | Lighter version aimed to mobile users | |
IN PROGRESS | KStars | OpenGL rendering support for KStars | |
IN PROGRESS | KStars | Better designed object database | |
IN PROGRESS | KStars | Star Hop Generator | |
DONE | Kig | LaTeX/TikZ exporter |
kdemultimedia
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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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]> |
IN PROGRESS | kmix | Improved volume OSD |
kdegames
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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DONE | libkdegames | Import KGameRenderer framework and port games to this unified rendering infrastructure. | |
IN PROGRESS | Kigo | Fix KNewStuff provider issues | |
DONE | Palapeli | Import Goldberg slicer as the new default slicer plugin. | |
DONE | Palapeli | Bevel effect creates three-dimensional appearance for puzzle pieces. | |
DONE | Palapeli | Update libpala API. Improve usability of "Create new puzzle" dialog. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Docbook: Describe the basic game, until now I supposed the player already knows how to play Mah Jong. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Tiles can be discarded with drag&drop. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Make robot player AI more intelligent. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Make tiles in the hand larger and the wall tiles smaller for better playability on small screens. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Make games suspendable/resumable. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Animate moving tiles. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Demo mode. | |
DONE | Kajongg | Introduce an option to only offer possible actions. | |
TO DO | Kajongg | Add more rulesets like other Classical Chinese variants and the international tournament rules. | Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]> |
DONE | KGoldrunner | Save and restore the current control-mode, keyboard-control option and game-speed settings. | |
DONE | KGoldrunner | Add a keyboard-mode option to start moving when a direction-key is pressed and stop when it is released. Support multiple keys being pressed. | |
DONE | Klickety | An adaptation of the "clickomania" game.Rewrite the kde3 version. | |
DONE | Klickety | Merge KSame into Klickety. | |
DONE | Kolf | Port to KGameRenderer, cleanup all QGraphicsView- and physics-related code (and physics engine), incorporate ideas from Kolf-NG. | |
DONE | Granatier | Port to KGameRenderer. | |
DONE | Granatier | Use TagaroAudio for sound. | |
DONE | Knights | New game: Chess board for KDE4 |
kdegraphics
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
---|---|---|---|
DONE | gwenview | Simplify photo sharing | |
DONE | gwenview | Improve resize dialog |
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]> |
TO DO | Nepomukshell | New Nepomukshell development tool allowing to browse and debug Nepomuk data | Sebastian Trueg <[email protected]> |
DONE | Dolphin | Git plugin | |
DONE | Kate | GDB plugin |
kdeutils
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
---|---|---|---|
TO DO | Ark | Add a "Preview with..." context menu item | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Add an options dialog (maybe) | Harald Hvaal <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Add feedback for the latest operation in the status bar | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Get rid of the Observer code in Kerfuffle | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Make error reporting work as expected in Kerfuffle | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Make Kerfuffle really thread-safe (and use threads in less places) | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Make the internal previewer optional | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Simplify Kerfuffle's API (jobs, interfaces etc) and try to make it stable | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Support for custom options from the compression interface (eg. a slider for selecting compression level for rar files) | Harald Hvaal <[email protected]> |
TO DO | Ark | Try multiple plugins for each archive type before failing | Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> |
TO DO | KGpg | Better workflow to edit encrypted files | Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> |
TO DO | printer-applet | Restore feature parity with KDEPrint3 where possible. |
kdepim
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
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IN PROGRESS | Kontact | Plasma-based Summary Page | |
IN PROGRESS | KHolidays | Add support for holiday types and day-off types. | |
IN PROGRESS | KHolidays | Holiday Region selection widget. | |
DONE | KHolidays | Holiday duration api. | |
DONE | KHolidays | Default Holiday Region api. | |
IN PROGRESS | KAlarm | Port to Akonadi | |
DONE | KAlarm | Option to not notify execution errors for pre-alarm actions | |
IN PROGRESS | KAlarm | Allow reminders after the main alarm | |
IN PROGRESS | KAlarm | Provide wake-from-suspend option for alarms |
kdeaccessibility
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
---|---|---|---|
DONE | KAccessible | Added a dbus-service and a QAccessibleBridgePlugin for focus tracking (used in KMagnifier and the KWin zoom plugin). | |
DONE | KMagnifier | Follow Focus Mode for Focus Tracking (uses kaccessible). | |
DONE | KAccessible | Added Screenreader (uses speech-dispatcher) |
kdeartwork
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
---|---|---|---|
DONE | KDE Asciiquarium | Added a new ASCII sprite (a submarine). Contributed by Ryan Meldrum. |
kdeplasma-addons
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
---|---|---|---|
DONE | Shelf | Automatic sizing of the popup | |
DONE | Shelf | Setting a custom popup icon | |
TO DO | Shelf | Cascading popup menus for folders | Ivan Čukić <[email protected]> |
DONE | Shelf | Keyboard navigation | |
DONE | Shelf | Search completion | |
IN PROGRESS | libLancelot-datamodels | Akonadi integration | |
TO DO | libLancelot-datamodels | Folder contents sorting | Ivan Čukić <[email protected]> |
IN PROGRESS | Lancelot | Theme improvements, animations | |
DONE | Events Runner | Event search | |
DONE | Comic plasmoid | Per comic max cache limit | |
DONE | Comic plasmoid | Change behaviour when comic can't be found | |
DONE | GroupingDesktop | Added two desktop containments and a panel containment with applet grouping support |
kdenetwork
Status | Project | Description | Contact |
---|---|---|---|
DONE | krfb | Refactor Core to make it more maintainable/extensible | |
DONE | krfb | Telepathy Tubes support | |
DONE | krfb | UI Improvements to support new features/deal with some existing bug reports | |
TO DO | kget | Log for transfers | Lukas Appelhans <[email protected]> |