Granular 2

= Introduction = Unlike all the previous releases which were based on PCLinuxOS, Granular 2.0 will be based on Unity Linux. Moreover, Granular is intended to represent the official KDE branch of Unity. But this complete base shift would not be too unfamiliar to the existing Granular users as there are quite some similarities between Unity and PCLOS, including package management (RPM) and Mandriva tools.

= Planned release date = No planned release date yet. It will be out when it's ready. But it will be team's foremost priority to make the further release process faster.

= Artwork = A separate forum has been setup by the artwork team members for the purpose of developing art for the next release. The access to it is private-only for now and none of its contents is available publicly. If you wish to contribute to artwork, please contact us using this simple form.

-- Icons --
 * Faenza-Cupertino Icon Theme
 * Flurry Icon for Applications

= Ideas =
 * [Paul] Have a XBMC like menu navigation system.
 * [Anurag] Include as many packages as possible required by certain modules of Granular Control Center to manage stuff, like "comgt,ppp" for creating/managing 3G/EDGE/Modem based internet connections, "samba-server" for managing shared drives on Windows network, etc.
 * [Anurag] Include the package granular-welcome-data to give a welcome screen to the user.

= What should it include? = All the team members are encouraged to add/remove anything they feel appropriate to this list. The final iteration of this list will be the software package the end user could expect to see in the final release. The list shall change even after development releases are done, but not after the final release has been made.

Note: Items separated with semi-colons indicate that only one of them will be eligible for inclusion.

Accessibility
This is one of those areas that is missed by most of the distros. It would give Granular an edge over the others if we are able to include these as they come handy in certain situations.
 * On-sreen keyboard (gtkeyboard; KDE Onscreen Keyboard Plasma widget)
 * Magnifier (KMag; KWin's inbuilt Zoom/Magnifier)
 * Text-to-speech (ktts)
 * (maybe) Complete kdeaccessibility package

Games / Fun
As 3D effects are an integral part of KDE4 now, including Compiz Fusion would be redundant.
 * KDE game suite
 * Knight - A good chess game

Internet

 * Web browser (Firefox)
 * Email client (KMail; Thunderbird)
 * Feed reader / news aggregator (Liferea; Akregator; KNode)
 * Download client (MultiGet; KGet; JDownloader)
 * Bittorrent client (KTorrent; qBittorrent)
 * File transfer client (gFTP; FileZilla; KFTPGrabber)
 * Instant messenger (Kopete; Pidgin)
 * IRC Client (Konversation; XChat IRC)
 * (Perhaps) Choqok KDE Micro-blogging Client
 * (Perhaps) Commonly used firefox extensions such as AdBlock, FlashBlock

--Note added by Yatin-- rekonq, which currently is the best and most actively developed KDE+WebKit Browser and is said to use all of KDE features, like KWallet for password saving, etc (which Arora doesn't). it could be considered for the lightweight browser in place of Arora.

Multimedia
It is suggested that the audio/video backend should be xine.

Audio

 * Music player (Amarok; Clementine; Banshee)
 * Sound recorder
 * Audio converter
 * Volume mixer (KMix)

[Optional]
 * KAudio Creator - CD Ripper
 * KsCD - Audio CD Player

Images
[Optional]
 * Photo management/organizer (digiKam; F-Spot [if GTK+ already present])
 * Image manipulation (GIMP; Krita)
 * Image viewers (Gwenview; KuickShow)
 * PDF Viewer (Okular)
 * Vector (Scalable) Graphics (Karbon14; Inkscape)
 * DTP (Scribus)
 * Kamoso - To capture images through web cam, it uses libvlc now

Video
[Other]
 * Video player [Xine backend] (Kaffeine; Dragon Player)
 * TV tuner card software (TVTime)
 * Media Center (Moovida; XBMC)
 * VLC Media Player
 * Mplayer Backend (SMPlayer; KPlayer)
 * (Perhaps) Miro

Office
OpenOffice.org would be the best choice as we received a lot of requests to replace KOffice with OOo. KOffice 2.0 was released recently. So in our testing, if KOffice offers almost the same functionality as OOo suite, we could provide that to save space.
 * Word processor
 * Spreadsheets app
 * Presentation app

--Note added by Yatin-- We could also look at LibreOffice Suite (currently version 3.3). But since its based on GTK+ which might hamper the end productivity. I have used it on Gnome and it is a competent suit. My own opinion would be to have KOffice with Kivio and Karbon14, and if space allows Krita.

System Utilities and Tools

 * Wine (with winetricks)
 * NVIDIA and ATI drivers (nouveau and radeon)
 * ISO mounter
 * Advanced file manager (Krusader; Midnight Commander)
 * Python
 * JRE (openjdk)
 * Flash player
 * xine browser plugins (or vlc-mozilla-plugin)
 * Printing suport (CUPS, hplip [optional])
 * Ubuntu's notification system (or the standard "libnotify") [libnotify will be better on KDE]
 * Wireless stuff (ndiswrapper [with ndisconfig], madwifi, KwLan)
 * Advanced Bluetooth support [Bluedevil] (maybe, including Blueman)
 * sysinfo
 * Hindi (and some other Indian language) support - fonts + kde-l10n
 * Update manager and RPM installer (KPackageKit)
 * NetworkManager (we need to also check it vs Control Center's Network Center)
 * (Perhaps) A couple of Aurorae themes
 * (Perhaps) Chakra Linux's KDE config backup tool
 * (Perhaps) Set the default system font to either of Liberations Sans or the Ubuntu font.