Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Feature Plan
This is a list of planned features for the SC 4.9 release.
See also:
- Schedules/KDE4/4.9 Release Schedule
- Schedules/KDE4/4.8 Feature Plan (previous major release)
Legend:
- todo => not started yet
- in-progress => started, but not completed yet
- done => completed
kdelibs
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | KGlobalSettings | Make KGlobalSettings reread locale settings before calling settingsChanged(). |
kde-runtime
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|
kde-workspace
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | ksmserver | Port shutdown dialog to QML | |
| IN PROGRESS | plasma | MPRIS2 dataengine | |
| TO DO | kwin | "Move" command should allow off-screen window moving same as Alt + click trick (Bug 229942) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Quick Tile shortcuts should be toggle buttons (Bug 263755) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Display application menu and title bar side by side for maximized windows (Bug 102607) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Insufficient stacking order handling for deleted windows (Bug 158262) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | No reason given why some desktop effects cannot be activated (Bug 209213) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Add support for appmenu-qt (Bug 266596) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Placement Policy 'under mouse' (Bug 272162) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Kill helper should be out of process (Bug 295940) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Decoration KCM should show comment for decoration (Bug 296041) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Lanczos Filter broken after screen size changes (Bug 296065) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | DesktopThumbnailItem for QML (Bug 296067) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Packages for Desktop Switching Layouts (Bug 296068) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Walk Through Desktop layout rendering desktop previews (Bug 296069) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Move ThumbnailBar from BoxSwitch to CoverSwitch (Bug 296070) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Drop BoxSwitch effect (Bug 296071) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Different binary name for KWin Active (Bug 296084) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Import Scripted Effect from All Effets Tab (Bug 296772) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | GHNS support for Scripted Effects (Bug 296773) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | GHNS support for KWin Scripts (Bug 296774) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | KConf Update Script for KWin 4.9 (Bug 296775) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Long caption in Thumbnail layout overlaps box for only one item (Bug 297028) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Request category for scripted KWin Effects on kde-(look|app).org (Bug 297634) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Request category for KWin Scripts on kde-(look|app).org (Bug 297635) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | GHNS support for Window Switching Layouts (Bug 297636) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Request category for Window Switcher Layouts on kde-(look|app).org (Bug 297637) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Update Documentation for Window Switcher Layouts (Bug 297638) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Window Switcher KCM needs to be reworked (Bug 297639) | <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | kwin | Document global JavaScript methods in KWin Scripting API documentation (Bug 297640) | <[email protected]> |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: kwin fulscreen / un-fullscreen system notifications (Bug 124612) | |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: Use arrow keys to control cover switch. (Bug 178595) | |
| DONE | kwin | Change title of menu item "Configure window behaviour..." (Bug 249486) | |
| DONE | kwin | Task switcher message when no windows looks ugly with stars (Bug 260938) | |
| DONE | kwin | JJ: Synchronize Show Desktop wording in all tabbox effects (Bug 273478) | |
| DONE | kwin | Window Specific Settings dialog has no help function (Bug 286783) | |
| DONE | kwin | Add "Present Windows - Window Class" to "Screen Edges" functions (Bug 288960) | |
| DONE | kwin | [JJ] Select next window with arrow key in Alt+Tab (Bug 291916) | |
| DONE | kwin | Synchronize user actions menu with libtaskmanager (Bug 296056) |
kde-baseapps
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO DO | FolderView | Refactor into PopupApplet and Containment | Ignat Semenov <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Dolphin | Allow to show any kind of metadata like ratings, tags, comments, image-sizes, music-artist, ... beside each item of the view. | |
| IN PROGRESS | Dolphin | Use KMessageWidget for information- and error-messages (see http://agateau.com/2011/04/21/kde-ux-2011/ for details) | |
| DONE | Dolphin | Optionally remember the column-widths of the details view | |
| DONE | Dolphin | Allow to disable the expandable folders of the details view | |
| TO DO | Dolphin | Implement inline renaming for the new view-engine | Peter Penz <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Dolphin | Allow to optionally set a maximum number of lines for the icons-view
|
kdeedu
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN PROGRESS | Marble | Worldwide hillshading | |
| TO DO | Marble | Extended library API (no MarbleWidget dependency for tasks like parsing, routing) | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Marble Touch on Plasma Active | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Marble Touch on Android | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Support for loading geolocated photos (e.g. in a Gallery activity in Marble Touch) | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Marble | Layer Management (by the user: Toggle layer visibility; maybe move layers from legend and layers in menus to one central place/tab) | Dennis Nienhüser <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Rocs | Project Files to combine graphs and algorithms | |
| DONE | Rocs | Extend graph data structure to support overlay graphs | |
| DONE | Rocs | Stepped execution of algorithms | |
| IN PROGRESS | Rocs | General unit test cleanup and overhauling | |
| TO DO | Rocs | New Project Wizard - guided creation based on loaded plugins | Andreas Cord-Landwehr <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | Rocs | Project journal files | |
| IN PROGRESS | Rocs | New Add-Node/Add-Link Toolbar for data types and pointer types | |
| TO DO | Kig | Improve Cancel Construction and Undo actions | David E. Narváez <[email protected]> |
kdegames
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN PROGRESS | libkdegames | Major cleanup and rewrite (done, except for the new highscore classes) | |
| DONE | Kajongg | tooltips giving playings hints | |
| DONE | Kajongg | new config option: propose what to do | |
| DONE | Kajongg | make it possible to replay a game from a screen shot (for better debugging) | |
| DONE | Kajongg | improve Robot AI | |
| DONE | Kajongg | Add default voices | |
| DONE | Kajongg | Players can chat with each other from within kajongg | |
| DONE | Kajongg | Define a central game server, making it easier to play over the internet (no more tweaking of firewalls for the server side) | |
| IN PROGRESS | Kajongg | Add support for other rule variants, starting with Classical Chinese variants | |
| TO DO | Kajongg | Print rulesets, also more than one in parallel for comparisons | Wolfgang Rohdewald <[email protected]> |
| IN PROGRESS | KGoldrunner | Add the Gold Rush II championship game (20 levels), contributed by Gabriel Miltschitzky | |
| TO DO | KGoldrunner | Add solution files to some KGoldrunner games, possibly using Get Hot New Stuff | Ian Wadham <[email protected]> |
| DONE | KSudoku | Simplify the XML descriptions of puzzle shapes | |
| DONE | KSudoku | Add XML and Desktop files for seven new two-dimensional puzzle shapes | |
| DONE | KSudoku | Add XML and Desktop files for three new three-dimensional puzzle shapes | |
| DONE | KSudoku | Improve the quality and relevance of KSudoku hints | |
| DONE | KSudoku | Make Load and Save work correctly for all puzzle types, including display of small markers/notes and restart of the puzzle clock from a saved value | |
| DONE | KSudoku | Integrate the new generator/solver and the old KSudoku code more closely | |
| DONE | KSudoku | Make puzzle features easier to see and use by improving highlighting, control and settings in both 2-D and 3-D puzzles and adding keyboard input to 3-D puzzles |
kdegraphics
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO DO | Gwenview | Fullscreen browse | Aurélien Gâteau <[email protected]>
|
kdemultimedia
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | JuK | last.fm scrobbling | |
| DONE | JuK | cover-fetching from last.fm | |
| IN PROGRESS | JuK | MPRIS2 support |
kdenetwork
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | Kopete | Add option to group all offline users into a "Offline Users" group | |
| DONE | Kopete | Show contact's status change in chat window | |
| DONE | Kopete | Add context option "rename" to contacts and allow changing custom display name inline. |
kdepim
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONE | Akonadi Google Resources | Move contacts and calendars resources from Akonadi Google project to kdepim-runtime
| |
| DONE | KTnef | Bring back KTnef from the KDE3 days. KTnef is a standalone TNEF attachment viewer
| |
| TO DO | Akonadi Kolab Resources | Kolab resource using the Kolab libraries to kdepim-runtime | Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
|
| TO DO | Extend Akonotes Format | Extend the akonotes format to support features required by zanshin and kolab | Christian Mollekopf <[email protected]>
|
kdeplasma-addons
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN PROGRESS | Now Playing | replace with QML version
|
kdesdk
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| TO DO | Okteta | Add a general KPart adapter to Kasten, than finish port of Okteta KPart to Okteta Kasten | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Add global toggle option for the offset display, hex or decimal | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Add Kate-like combined dialogs to query for actions on files | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | add Kate-like search tool | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Add Okular like embedded notifications | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | add support for import by drop, both url and data | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | add support for memory mapping of files and 64-bit addressing | 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]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Add view profiles, incl. editor/manager | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | copy again puts also a value or char variant of the data to clipboard | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Improve the titels of the changes to the bytearray to be more descriptive, best using ids to avoid text string | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Make all user interaction in the KastenCore managers plugin-based | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Merge row and column widgets into one | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Store bookmarks | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Store bookmarks and other view settings for next load | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <[email protected]> |
| TO DO | Okteta | Add custom datatypes to structures tool | Alex Richardson <[email protected]> |
| DONE | Lokalize | Optimize TM fuzzy searching | |
| DONE | Lokalize | File search tab | |
| TO DO | Lokalize | .ts support | |
| IN PROGRESS | Umbrello | diagram auto layout support | |
| IN PROGRESS | Umbrello | diagram graphviz dot export |
kdeutils
| Status | Project | Description | Contact |
|---|