Tuesday, 7 October 2014
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.3.0.
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
KActivities
- Added DBus interface to load plugins at runtime
KArchive
- Add convenience method KArchive::file()
- Compilation fixes for MSVC
KBookmarks
- Fix encoding issue in KIO places dialog (bug 337642)
KCMUtils
- Fix initial size of KCMultiDialog (bugs 337494, 325897)
KCompletion
- Fixed size hint and positioning of clear button in highDpi mode
KConfig
- KConfigLoader: fix sharing of KSharedConfig objects
KConfigWidgets
- Now provides the kf5_entry.desktop files it needs for KLanguageButton
KCoreAddons
- Kdelibs4Migration: allow distributions to set KDE4_DEFAULT_HOME_POSTFIX so that the kde4 home is found properly.
- Compilation fixes for MSVC and gcc 4.5
- Turn KFormat into a Q_GADGET so we can expose its properties to QML indirectly
KEmoticons
- Add unicode characters to Glass emoticon theme
KGuiAddons
- Make KFontUtils::adaptFontSize be a bit more exact
KI18n
- Remove leftover Perl dependency
KIO
- Now includes kio_trash
- Add new KIO job, KIO::fileSystemFreeSpace, that allows you to get a filesystem's total and available space.
- kshorturifilter: Remove redundant forward slashes from the beginning of an URI
- Add searchprovider definitions for the qwant search engine
- File dialog: fix relative paths being turned into HTTP URLs
- Fix thumbnails for mimetype groups.
KJS
- Implement Math.Clz32
- U+0000 through U+001F is not allowed as char, but as escaped unicode sequence (bug 338970)
KNotifications
- Avoid infinite recursion in KStatusNotifierItem / QSystemTray.
KService
- Many many fixes to KPluginInfo
- Add functions to convert between lists KPluginMetaData and KPluginInfo
KTextEditor
- Multiple memory leaks fixed
- Avoid auto-completion to interfere with search/replace text (bug 339130), and more autocompletion fixes
- Many fixes to the VIM mode
KWidgetAddons
- KPageListView: fixes for high-dpi mode
- KPageWidget: margin fixes
KWindowSystem
- NETWinInfo now provides convenient wrapper for WM_PROTOCOLS.
- NETWinInfo now provides convenient wrapper for input and urgency hints of WM_HINTS property.
Solid
- New freedesktop backend, not yet default but due to replace the upower/udev/systemd backends
Extra-cmake-modules
- New module ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile, for frameworks to install a pkgconfig file.
- New option ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS, to enable clang sanitizers. Example: ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS='address;undefined'
- New option BUILD_COVERAGE, to enable code coverage.
Frameworkintegration
- Fixed for compilation with Qt 5.4
- Fixed a few standard shortcuts
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 5.3.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.3.0 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 5.3.0 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.