KDE Science/Kst/roadmap
Below is a tentative roadmap, based on a review of all kst bugs referenced in KDE's bugzilla.
2.0 Series: early adopters and new users
2.0.1: Intermediate bug fix release
finalize menu/toolbar reorganization (249799)finalize move plots between tabs (248885)fix crash when moving view items (253165)- proper escaping of special characters (250014)
- finish plot dialog revamp (252289) - basically:
- connect the "Edit" button in the Contents page
ensure right order of elements in the left pane (right now the first two are not the most relevant ones)- make sure the left pane is always large enough (in width)
- possibly connect the pages to the way the dialog is opened (see bugzilla discussion)
2.0.2: Polishing
- Bugfixes
- update fixes (plugin -> equation -> etc, dependencies not always updated)
- PDF export vs PDFCreator (219845)
- y-local zoom with shared axis box (236678)
update pb in the data manager (248888)- special characters escaping (250014)
- labels generated by fits are broken
- empty labels not taken into account in plot dialog (needs one space)
- apply button greyed out in some dialogs
- distribution of points sometimes very uneven if show points density < all
- dimensions tab for line/arrow: x,y instead of length, angle
- with many plots in a window and large axis numbers, the labels overlap
- legends should be wrapped to always fit inside their plot
- edit multiple for vectors: the UI offers it but nothing is active. Either remove the edit multiple button for vectors, or activate the fields
- UI changes
- Various checks
- check change data file tool
- check change multiple...
- check remember last settings in various dialogs (data wizard, etc)
- default names (plugins, etc...) + automatic labels (top-label) sometimes disturbing
- undo/redo
- tab order
- tooltips + What's this
- check less often-used plot types
- features that need to be available from the command line (shared axis box?)
- Small features
- layout mode span tabs
- tied zoom span tabs (221673)
- SVG export (142986) - do we still need EPS?
- File->Recent files... (252079)
- datawizard jumping back to the top of the list
- double click on axes opens plot dialog in the right place
- view vectors display format (eg long ints)
- new curve placement widget missing tab selection
- feedback during loading of large documents (92868+92870)
- change scalar value directly in the scalar selection combobox
- proper support or warning for files with non-unique field names (130195) Fixed?
- scientific notation for extreme axis numbers
- other formats for view vectors (e.g. for large ints)
- data source should text box should handle ~/ as shortcut to $HOME
- Misc
- begin web site revamp + promotion work
- documentation
2.0.3: more new features
- ASCII configs (216744)
- ASCII units (216730)
- ASCII read time in HH:MM:SS.sss format (243684+243445)
- ASCII could have an "auto format" mode which uses heuristics to detect the format
- text box resizing (221823)
- filter items in data manager a la kst 1.x
- jump to next marker
- more metadata (netcdf) - watch out for update problems + show in UI (View->strings)
- cut/copy/paste
- as-you-type search in comboboxes (vector selection)
- in-line changing of axis ranges, if easy (118774)
2.1 Series: kst 1.x users can transition
2.1.0: Feature parity
- scripting (QtScript + dbus?)
- plugins (including easy "basic plugins" a la kst 1.x and plugin manager)
- command line switches + full batch operation
- save vectors to file (or embedded) (238923+...)
- read kst 1.x files, at least load the data and create data objects, layout may not be pixel-perfect
2.1.1: KDE integration (248184)
- icons
- file dialog
- cmake
- toolbar customization
- GHNS (scripts, sample data, ...)
- etc...
2.2 Series: Further improvements
- mask data points for plugin operation (need to review 112549+110734+96249+86915)
- quick curve creation RMB menu (136780)
- multi-file data wizard if the above is not sufficient (124942)
- multiple y axes (126743)
- custom strings in general settings (142641)
- sticky "color per file" (124558)
- flow-around objects (115136+109430+157791), mostly for metadata/custom strings in the borders - for advanced layouting maybe but SVG export may be a nice way to get around it
- once custom strings and flow-around exist, add support for templates (109472)
- multiple -Fx switches on command line (115662, comment #8)
- "buddyVector" feature for automatic detection of X-axis vector (mail on the list, point 2)
- data sinks to save data back to disk
- plot manager (124090)
- proper approach for the update of file metadata used in labels when using change data file ("Metadata updates" mail to be sent by NB)
- thread kst2
- edit multiple for view objects, or "style paste" option à la Word or inkscape
- new datasource: general-purpose configurable binary reader
- new datasource: general-purpose configurable XML reader
- new datasource: Matlab .mat file reader (Matlab pretty much sucks at plotting, that'd be a pretty interesting move and there's a spec at http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/pdf_doc/matlab/matfile_format.pdf)
- end-to-end Arinc429 support?
- 3D features? (or suggest paraview instead?)
Long term (GSoC ?)
- turn kst into a real cool signal processing tool (filter design, etc...)
- ...