KDE Frameworks 5.21.0

Saturday, 9 April 2016

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.21.0.

KDE Frameworks are 70 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

New framework: KActivitiesStats, a library for accessing the usage statistics data collected by the KDE activity manager.

All frameworks

Qt >= 5.4 is now required, i.e. Qt 5.3 is no longer supported.

Attica

• Add const variant to getter method

Baloo

• Centralize batch size in config
• Remove code blocking indexing of text/plain files without .txt extension (bug 358098)
• Check both, filename and filecontent to determine mimetype (bug 353512)

BluezQt

• ObexManager: Split error messages for missing objects

Breeze Icons

• add breeze lokalize icons
• sync app icons between breeze and breeze dark
• update theme icons and remove application-system icon fix kicker groups
• add xpi support for firefox addons (bug 359913)
• update okular icon with the right one
• add ktnef app icon support
• add kmenueditor, kmouse and knotes icon
• change audio volume muted icon to use - for mute instead of only red color (bug 360953)
• add djvu mimetype support (bug 360136)
• add link instead of double entry
• add ms-shortcut icon for gnucash (bug 360776)
• change wallpaper background to generic one
• update icons to use an generic wallpaper
• add the icon for konqueror (bug 360304)
• add process-working icon for progress animation in KDE (bug 360304)
• add software install icon and update update icon with the right color
• add add and remove emblem icons for dolphin select, add mount icon
• Remove stylesheet from analogclock and kickerdash applet icons
• sync breeze and breeze dark (bug 360294)

Extra CMake Modules

• Fix _ecm_update_iconcache to only update the install location
• Revert "ECMQtDeclareLoggingCategory: Include <QDebug> with the generated file"

Framework Integration

• Fallback to QCommonStyle implementation of standardIcon
• Set a default menu close timeout

KActivities

• Removed compiler checks now that all frameworks require c++11
• Removed QML ResourceModel as it is superseeded by KAStats::ResultModel
• Inserting into empty QFlatSet returned an invalid iterator

KCodecs

• Simplify code (qCount -> std::count, homegrown isprint -> QChar::isPrint)
• encoding detection: fix crash in wrong usage of isprint (bug 357341)
• Fix crash due to uninitialized variable (bug 357341)

KCompletion

• KCompletionBox: force frameless window and don't set focus
• KCompletionBox should not be a tooltip

KConfig

• Add support for get QStandardPaths locations inside desktop files

KCoreAddons

• Fix kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json() on windows
• src/lib/CMakeLists.txt - fix linking to a Threads library
• Add stubs to allow compilation on Android

KDBusAddons

• Avoid introspecting a DBus interface when we don't use it

KDeclarative

• uniform use of std::numeric_limits
• [DeclarativeDragArea] Don't override "text" of mime data

KDELibs 4 Support

• Fix obsolete link in kdebugdialog5 docbook
• Don't leak Qt5::Network as required lib for the rest of the ConfigureChecks

KDESU

• Set feature macros to enable building on musl libc

KEmoticons

• KEmoticons: fix crash when loadProvider fails for some reason

KGlobalAccel

• Make kglobalaccel5 properly killable, fixing super slow shutdown

KI18n

• Use qt system locale langs as fallback on non UNIX

KInit

• Clean up and refactor the xcb port of klauncher

KIO

• FavIconsCache: sync after write, so other apps see it, and to avoid crash on destruction
• Fix many threading issues in KUrlCompletion
• Fix crash in rename dialog (bug 360488)
• KOpenWithDialog: improve window title and description text (bug 359233)
• Allow for better cross-platform deployment of io slaves by bundling protocol info in plugin meta data

KItemModels

• KSelectionProxyModel: Simplify row removal handling, simplify deselection logic
• KSelectionProxyModel: Recreate mapping on removal only if needed (bug 352369)
• KSelectionProxyModel: Only clear firstChild mappings for top-level
• KSelectionProxyModel: Ensure proper signalling when removing last selected
• Make DynamicTreeModel searchable by display role

KNewStuff

• Do not crash if .desktop files are missing or broken

KNotification

• Handle left-button clicking on legacy systray icons (bug 358589)
• Only use X11BypassWindowManagerHint flag on platform X11

Package Framework

• After installing a package, load it
• if the package exists and up to date don't fail
• Add Package::cryptographicHash(QCryptographicHash::Algorithm)

KPeople

• Set the contact uri as person uri in PersonData when no person exists
• Set a name for the database connection

KRunner

• Import runner template from KAppTemplate

KService

• Fix new kbuildsycoca warning, when a mimetype inherits from an alias
• Fix handling of x-scheme-handler/* in mimeapps.list
• Fix handling of x-scheme-handler/* in mimeapps.list parsing (bug 358159)

KTextEditor

• Revert "Open/Save config page: Use term "Folder" instead of "Directory""
• enforce UTF-8
• Open/Save config page: Use term "Folder" instead of "Directory"
• kateschemaconfig.cpp: use correct filters with open/save dialogs (bug 343327)
• c.xml: use default style for control flow keywords
• isocpp.xml: use default style "dsControlFlow" for control flow keywords
• c/isocpp: add more C standard types
• KateRenderer::lineHeight() returns an int
• printing: use font size from selected printing schema (bug 356110)
• cmake.xml speedup: Use WordDetect instead of RegExpr
• Change tab width to 4 instead of 8
• Fix changing the current line number color
• Fix selecting completion item with the mouse (bug 307052)
• Add syntax highlighting for gcode
• Fix the MiniMap selection background painting
• Fix encoding for gap.xml (use UTF-8)
• Fix nested comment blocks (bug 358692)

KWidgetsAddons

• Take content margins into account when calculating size hints

KXMLGUI

• Fix editing toolbars loses plugged actions

NetworkManagerQt

• ConnectionSettings: Initialize gateway ping timeout
• New TunSetting and Tun connection type
• Create devices for all known types

Oxygen Icons

• Install index.theme to same directory it always was in
• Install into oxygen/base/ so icons move from apps don't clash with version installed by those apps
• Replicate symlinks from breeze-icons
• Add new emblem-added and emblem-remove icons for sync with breeze

Plasma Framework

• [calendar] Fix calendar applet not clearing selection when hiding (bug 360683)
• update audio icon to use stylesheet
• update audio mute icon (bug 360953)
• Fixing the force-creation of applets when plasma is immutable
• [Fading Node] Don't mix opacity separately (bug 355894)
• [Svg] Don't reparse configuration in response to Theme::applicationPaletteChanged
• Dialog: Set SkipTaskbar/Pager states before showing window (bug 332024)
• Reintroduce busy property in Applet
• Make sure PlasmaQuick export file is properly found
• Don't import an nonexistent layout
• Make it possible for an applet to offer a test object
• Replace QMenu::exec with QMenu::popup
• FrameSvg: Fix dangling pointers in sharedFrames when theme changes
• IconItem: Schedule pixmap update when window changes
• IconItem: Animate active and enabled change even with animations disabled
• DaysModel: Make update a slot
• [Icon Item] Don't animate from previous pixmap when it has been invisible
• [Icon Item] Don't call loadPixmap in setColorGroup
• [Applet] Don't overwrite "Persistent" flag of Undo notification
• Allowing to override plasma mutability setting on containment creation
• Add icon/titleChanged
• Remove QtScript dependency
• Header of plasmaquick_export.h is in plasmaquick folder
• Install some plasmaquick headers

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 5.21.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.21.0 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 5.21.0 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.

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