Release of KDE Frameworks 5.26.0

Saturday, 10 September 2016

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.26.0.

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

Attica

Add Qt5Network as a public dependency

BluezQt

Fix include dir in pri file

Breeze Icons

Add missing namespace prefix definitions
Check SVG icons for wellformedness
Fix all edit-clear-location-ltr icons (bug 366519)
add kwin effect icon support
rename caps-on in input-caps-on
add caps icons for text input
add some gnome specific icons from Sadi58
add app icons from gnastyle
Dolphin, Konsole and Umbrello icons optimized for 16px, 22px, 32px
Updated VLC icon for 22px, 32px and 48px
Added app icon for Subtitle Composer
Fix Kleopatra new icon
Added app icon for Kleopatra
Added icons for Wine and Wine-qt
fix presentation word bug thanks Sadi58 (bug 358495)
add system-log-out icon in 32px
add 32px system- icons, remove colored system- icons
add pidgin, banshee icon support
remove vlc app icon due to license issue, add new VLC icon (bug 366490)
Add gthumb icon support
use HighlightedText for folder icons
places folder icons are now use stylesheet (highleight color)

Extra CMake Modules

ecm_process_po_files_as_qm: Skip fuzzy translations
The default level for logging categories should be Info rather than Warning
Document ARGS variable in the create-apk-* targets
Create a test that validates projects' appstream information

KDE Doxygen Tools

Add condition if group's platforms are not defined
Template: Sort platforms alphabetically

KCodecs

Bring from kdelibs the file used to generate kentities.c

KConfig

Add Donate entry to KStandardShortcut

KConfigWidgets

Add Donate standard action

KDeclarative

[kpackagelauncherqml] Assume desktop file name is same as pluginId
Load QtQuick rendering settings from a config file and set default
icondialog.cpp - proper compile fix that doesn't shadow m_dialog
Fix crash when no QApplication is available
expose translation domain

KDELibs 4 Support

Fix Windows compilation error in kstyle.h

KDocTools

add paths for config, cache + data to general.entities
Made up-to-date with the English version
Add Space and Meta key entities to src/customization/en/user.entities

KFileMetaData

Only require Xattr if the operating system is Linux
Restore Windows build

KIdleTime

[xsync] XFlush in simulateUserActivity

KIO

KPropertiesDialog: remove warning note from docu, the bug is gone
[test program] resolve relative paths using QUrl::fromUserInput
KUrlRequester: fix error box when selecting a file and reopening the file dialog
Provide a fallback if slaves don't list the . entry (bug 366795)
Fix creating symlink over "desktop" protocol
KNewFileMenu: when creating symlinks use KIO::linkAs instead of KIO::link
KFileWidget: fix double '/' in path
KUrlRequester: use static connect() syntax, was inconsistent
KUrlRequester: pass window() as parent for the QFileDialog
avoid calling connect(null, .....) from KUrlComboRequester

KNewStuff

uncompress archives in subfolders
No longer allow installing to generic data folder because of potential security hole

KNotification

Get StatusNotifierWatcher property ProtocolVersion in async way

Package Framework

silence contentHash deprecation warnings

Kross

Revert "Remove unused KF5 dependencies"

KTextEditor

remove accel clash (bug 363738)
fix email address highlighting in doxygen (bug 363186)
detect some more json files, like our own projects ;)
improve mime-type detection (bug 357902)
Bug 363280 - highlighting: c++: #if 1 #endif #if defined (A) aaa #elif defined (B) bbb #endif (bug 363280)
Bug 363280 - highlighting: c++: #if 1 #endif #if defined (A) aaa #elif defined (B) bbb #endif
Bug 351496 - Python folding is not working during initial typing (bug 351496)
Bug 365171 - Python syntax highlighting: not working correctly for escape sequences (bug 365171)
Bug 344276 - php nowdoc not folded correctly (bug 344276)
Bug 359613 - Some CSS3 properties are not supported in syntax highlight (bug 359613)
Bug 367821 - wineHQ syntax: The section in a reg file isn't highlighted correctly (bug 367821)
Improve swap file handling if swap directory specified
Fix crash when reloading documents with auto-wrapped line due to line length limit (bug 366493)
Fix constant crashes related to the vi command bar (bug 367786)
Fix: Line numbers in printed documents now starts at 1 (bug 366579)
Backup Remote Files: Treat mounted files also as remote files
cleanup logic for searchbar creation
add highlighting for Magma
Allows only one level of recursion
Fix broken swap-file on windows
Patch: add bitbake support for syntax highlighting engine
autobrace: look at spellcheck attribute where the character was entered (bug 367539)
Highlight QMAKE_CFLAGS
Don't pop out of the main context
Add some executable names that are commonly used

KUnitConversion

Add British "stone" unit of mass

KWallet Framework

Move kwallet-query docbook to correct subdir
Fix wording an -> one

KWayland

Make linux/input.h compile time optional

KWidgetsAddons

Fix background of non-BMP characters
Add C octal escaped UTF-8 search
Make the default KMessageBoxDontAskAgainMemoryStorage save to QSettings

KXMLGUI

Port to Donate standard action
Port away from deprecated authorizeKAction

Plasma Framework

fix device icon 22px icon didn't work in the old file
WindowThumbnail: Do GL calls in the correct thread (bug 368066)
Make plasma_install_package work with KDE_INSTALL_DIRS_NO_DEPRECATED
add margin and padding to the start.svgz icon
fix stylesheet stuff in computer icon
add computer and laptop icon for kicker (bug 367816)
Fix cannot assign undefined to double warning in DayDelegate
fix stylesheed svgz files are not in love with me
rename the 22px icons to 22-22-x and the 32px icons to x for kicker
[PlasmaComponents TextField] Don't bother loading icons for unused buttons
Extra guard in Containment::corona in the special system tray case
When marking a containment as deleted, also mark all sub-applets as deleted - fixes system tray container configs not being deleted
Fix Device Notifier icon
add system-search to system in 32 and 22px size
add monochrome icons for kicker
Set colour scheme on system-search icon
Move system-search into system.svgz
Fix wrong or missing "X-KDE-ParentApp" in desktop file definitions
Fix API dox of Plasma::PluginLoader: mixup of applets/dataengine/services/..
add system-search icon for the sddm theme
add nepomuk 32px icon
update touchpad icon for the system tray
Remove code that can never be executed
[ContainmentView] Show panels when UI becomes ready
Don't redeclare property implicitHeight
use QQuickViewSharedEngine::setTranslationDomain (bug 361513)
add 22px and 32px plasma breeze icon support
remove colored system icons and add 32px monochrome ones
Add an optional reveal password button to TextField
The standard tooltips are now mirrored when in a right-to-left language
Performance when changing months in the calendar has been greatly improved

Sonnet

Don't lowercase the language names in trigram parsing
Fix immediate crash on startup due to null plugin pointer
Handle dictionaries without correct names
Replace hand-curated list of script-language mappings, use proper names for languages
Add tool to generate trigrams
Unbreak language detection a bit
Use selected language as suggestion for detection
Use cached spellers in language detection, improve performance a bit
Improve language detection
Filter list of suggestions against available dictionaries, remove dupes
Remember to add the last trigram match
Check if any of the trigrams actually matched
Handle multiple languages with same score in trigram matcher
Don't check for minimum size twice
Prune list of languages against available languages
Use same minimum length everywhere in langdet
Sanity check that the loaded model has the correct amount of trigrams for each language

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 5.26.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 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 5.26.0 requires Qt .

A detailed listing of all Frameworks with API documentation is on api.kde.org.

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