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+Here are the top things that need to be or are being worked on in Kicker.
+They are rated as to expected difficulty, from one to five stars.
+They are also rated as to desirability, from one to five plusses.
+
+Issues Of Import
+----------------
+Layout management
+ autoexpending panels on the same side of the screen need to stop expanding
+ at the point they run into each other.
+ make autohiding panels respect layout geometry too? e.g. don't overlap
+ autounhiding panels should not obscure other panels
+ContainerArea completness
+ doesn't autoscroll when moving a container
+ doesn't add items near the mouse even position
+Bring some standardization to how the various plugins are handled
+Allow menubar == mainpanel
+Move more of the buttons/ classes into menuext/
+Move appropriate applets into menuext/
+revisit libtaskbar and libtaskmanager
+ coordinate with kasbar authors
+ add support for composite
+revisit DCOP interface
+ remove old/nonsensical calls
+ extend with calls to:
+ retrieve a panel dcop ref
+ hide/unhide
+ ... ?
+libkicker
+ document functions
+ namespace it all (KickerLib?)
+ prep for binary compat
+ move
+ Panner -> core/
+ does taskbar really need to use Panner?
+ rename
+ global.h/cpp -> util.h/cpp
+ add:
+ ServiceMenu?
+ PanelDrag?
+ KPanelExtension
+ KPanelApplet
+ allow usage of KickerTip
+ ExtensionSettings
+ ExtensionButton
+ poor name =/
+ shouldn't be so menu-centric either
+Optimize!
+ hiding: it seems there are more geometry calls made than really needed
+ get rid of movies (which nobody really uses) in PanelButton
+Code clean ups
+ remove pseudo transparency in favour of composite
+ means handling composite properly, e.g. just the background and not
+ the actual icons, text, etc.
+ flatten the PanelExtension -> ContainerArea -> ContainerAreaLayout
+ hierarchy. perhaps merge PanelExtension and ContainerArea?
+ get rid of the insane number of classes in ui/?
+A _good_ theming system
+
+Being Worked On
+---------------
+
+Applets
+-------
+Clock
+ Use styleclock.nextVersion()
+Get rid of swallow applet
+Make trash an extension button
+
+Unnasigned
+-----------------------
++++++ Keyboard accessability
+****
+ We will follow the lead of the GNOME panel accessability work:
+ http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keynav/panelnav.html
+
+ To summarise:
+
+ - Ctrl-Alt-Tab cycles focus between panels [Shift to reverse]
+ - Tab cycles focus between objects on the focused panel [Shift to
+ reverse]
+ - Arrow keys move focus within a focused applet
+ - Space activates focused control (on panel or within an applet)
+
++++++ Settings dialog fix up
+*** Now that we have KConfigXT, use it in the settings dialogs
+ Convert the "Arrangement" and "Hiding" modules. "Menus" and
+ "Appearance" are done as far as possible.
+
+++++ Floating panels
+**** When a panel is set to "floating" the following entries are added
+ to the [General] config group:
+ FloatingPosition <-- geometry.topLeft();
+ FloatingOrientation <-- horizontal or vertical
+
+++++ Drag and drop enhancements
+*** Drag and drop behaviour is broken in various ways in kicker.
+ A popup menu should appear on drop like in Konqueror and KMail.
+ Dropping on buttons like QuickBrowsers, the Home icon, etc should
+ behave consistently and like dropping to a file manager window.
+ There are many DnD reports on bugs.kde.org which can provide
+ further inspiration.
+
+++++ Systray icon layout
+**** The systray applet does a very basic homebrew layout of the icons
+ that currently has several flawed assumptions that break when used
+ with certain applications. These assumptions include that all icons
+ in a given row will be approximately the same width and that things
+ are always LTR (left to right). It should use a QGridLayout and
+ do some semi-intelligent packing of the icons.
+
+++ Dialog for adding elements to the panel
+*** Context menus are primarily used by advanced users, and yet this is
+ the only way to manage the items on the panel. There used to be a
+ control panel that allowed turning on or off applets on the main panel
+ but this is obviously too restrictive and I'd prefer not to see yet
+ another tab in the kicker control panels. A dialog that shows previews
+ of the specials buttons and applets and allows one to either drag and
+ drop or with a button add items to a given panel would make kicker that
+ much more accessable to more of our users.