Friday, 10 July 2015
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.12.0.
KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
New in this version
Extra CMake Modules
- Improve error reporting of query_qmake macro
BluezQt
- Remove all devices from adapter before removing the adapter (bug 349363)
- Update links in README.md
KActivities
- Adding the option not to track the user when in specific activities (similar to the 'private browsing' mode in a web browser)
KArchive
- Preserve executable permissions from files in copyTo()
- Clarify ~KArchive by removing dead code.
KAuth
- Make it possible to use kauth-policy-gen from different sources
KBookmarks
- Don't add a bookmark with url is empty and text is empty
- Encode KBookmark URL to fix compatibility with KDE4 applications
KCodecs
- Remove x-euc-tw prober
KConfig
- Install kconfig_compiler into libexec
- New code generation option TranslationDomain=, for use with TranslationSystem=kde; normally needed in libraries.
- Make it possible to use kconfig_compiler from different sources
KCoreAddons
- KDirWatch: Only establish a connection to FAM if requested
- Allow filtering plugins and applications by formfactor
- Make it possible to use desktoptojson from different sources
KDBusAddons
- Clarify exit value for Unique instances
KDeclarative
- Add QQC clone of KColorButton
- Assign a QmlObject for each kdeclarative instance when possible
- Make Qt.quit() from QML code work
- Merge branch 'mart/singleQmlEngineExperiment'
- Implement sizeHint based on implicitWidth/height
- Subclass of QmlObject with static engine
KDELibs 4 Support
- Fix KMimeType::Ptr::isNull implementation.
- Reenable support for KDateTime streaming to kDebug/qDebug, for more SC
- Load correct translation catalog for kdebugdialog
- Don't skip documenting deprecated methods, so that people can read the porting hints
KDESU
- Fix CMakeLists.txt to pass KDESU_USE_SUDO_DEFAULT to the compilation so it is used by suprocess.cpp
KDocTools
- Update K5 docbook templates
KGlobalAccel
- private runtime API gets installed to allow KWin to provide plugin for Wayland.
- Fallback for componentFriendlyForAction name resolving
KIconThemes
- Don't try to paint the icon if the size is invalid
KItemModels
- New proxy model: KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel. It supports reordering and hiding columns from the source model.
KNotification
- Fix pixmap types in org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.xml
- [ksni] Add method to retrieve action by its name (bug 349513)
KPeople
- Implement PersonsModel filtering facilities
KPlotting
- KPlotWidget: add setAutoDeletePlotObjects, fix memory leak in replacePlotObject
- Fix missing tickmarks when x0 > 0.
- KPlotWidget: no need to setMinimumSize or resize.
KTextEditor
- debianchangelog.xml: add Debian/Stretch, Debian/Buster, Ubuntu-Wily
- Fix for UTF-16 surrogate pair backspace/delete behavior.
- Let QScrollBar handle the WheelEvents (bug 340936)
- Apply patch from KWrite devel top update pure basic HL, "Alexander Clay" <tuireann@EpicBasic.org>
KTextWidgets
- Fix enable/disable ok button
KWallet Framework
- Imported and improved the kwallet-query command-line tool.
- Support to overwrite maps entries.
KXMLGUI
- Don't show "KDE Frameworks version" in the About KDE dialog
Plasma Framework
- Make the dark theme completely dark, also the complementary group
- Cache naturalsize separately by scalefactor
- ContainmentView: Do not crash on an invalid corona metadata
- AppletQuickItem: Do not access KPluginInfo if not valid
- Fix occasional empty applet config pages (bug 349250)
- Improve hidpi support in the Calendar grid component
- Verify KService has valid plugin info before using it
- [calendar] Ensure the grid is repainted on theme changes
- [calendar] Always start counting weeks from Monday (bug 349044)
- [calendar] Repaint the grid when show week numbers setting changes
- An opaque theme is now used when only the blur effect is available (bug 348154)
- Whitelist applets/versions for separate engine
- Introduce a new class ContainmentView
Sonnet
- Allow to use highlight spellchecking in a QPainTextEdit
You can discuss and share ideas on this release in the comments section of the dot article.
Installing binary packages
On Linux, using packages for your favorite distribution is the recommended way to get access to KDE Frameworks. Get KDE Software on Your Linux Distro wiki page
Compiling from sources
The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 Info Page.
Building from source is possible using the basic cmake .; make; make install commands. For a single Tier 1 framework, this is often the easiest solution. People interested in contributing to frameworks or tracking progress in development of the entire set are encouraged to use kdesrc-build. Frameworks 5.12.0 requires Qt
A detailed listing of all Frameworks with API documentation is on api.kde.org.
Get Involved
Those interested in following and contributing to the development of Frameworks can check out the git repositories and follow the discussions on the KDE Frameworks Development mailing list. Policies and the current state of the project and plans are available at the Frameworks wiki. Real-time discussions take place on the #kde-devel IRC channel on Libera Chat.
Supporting KDE
KDE is a Free Software community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page for further information or become a KDE e.V. supporting member through our Join the Game initiative.