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Due to the extensive capabilities of QT user interfaces
maybe it could be possible to create for the KDE environment a reference management application similar in terms of ease of use and features to the famous "papers"for the mac (see http://mekentosj.com/papers/)

This would make a very useful and free application for college students and academics

Plus this application could be linked to Okular to read and edit / annotate PDFs making the all ensemble really well integrated

A crucial element would be to have a good engine to search through different reference databases and be able to display the search and sort results on whatever parameters the user would prefer among for instance author, year, journal etc.

I work in academia and I had to dump linux / KDE for my work since I did not find other reference management applications like Jabref or Zotero that could fully satisfy me.

The first has a really unsatisfactory interface to search on web databases and the second has an unchangeable layout.

Another thing that would make the application really cool and user-friendly would be to adopt in its layout the Amarok approach that allows users to reposition all of the elements of the UI at will

To have a word processor plugin would not be essential as long as the references could be exported in a format understandable by another application that can then insert in a document (e.g. export in bibtext to zotero and then use that to insert references into openoffice / ms office scientific papers)

Tellico already has pretty extensive reference management capability. There is already an idea to add PDF indexing capability to it as well as zotero-like web browser integration. There is also an idea for a zotero plugin for KDE