Saturday, 14 October 2017
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.39.0.
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
Baloo
- Only match real MIME types, not e.g. "raw CD image" (bug 364884)
- Remove pf.path() from container before the reference got screwed up by it.remove()
- Fix tags KIO-slave protocol description
- Consider markdown files to be Documents
Breeze Icons
- add overflow-menu icon (bug 385171)
Extra CMake Modules
- Fix python bindings compilation after 7af93dd23873d0b9cdbac192949e7e5114940aa6
Framework Integration
- Make KStandardGuiItem::discard match QDialogButtonBox::Discard
KActivitiesStats
- Changed the default query limit to zero
- Added the option to enable model tester
KCMUtils
- Make KCMultiDialog scrollable (bug 354227)
KConfig
- Deprecate KStandardShortcut::SaveOptions
KConfigWidgets
- Deprecate KStandardAction::PasteText and KPasteTextAction
KCoreAddons
- desktoptojson: Improve legacy service type detection heuristic (bug 384037)
KDeclarative
- Relicense to LGPL2.1+
- Added openService() method to KRunProxy
KFileMetaData
- fix crash when more than one instances of ExtractorCollection are destructed
KGlobalAccel
- Revert "KGlobalAccel: port to KKeyServer's new method symXModXToKeyQt, to fix numpad keys" (bug 384597)
KIconThemes
- add a method to reset the custom palette
- use qApp->palette() when no custom one is set
- allocate the proper buffer size
- allow to set a custom palette instead of colorSets
- expose the colorset for the stylesheet
KInit
- Windows: Fix 'klauncher uses absolute compile time install path for finding kioslave.exe'
KIO
- kioexec: Watch the file when it has finished copying (bug 384500)
- KFileItemDelegate: Always reserve space for icons (bug 372207)
Kirigami
- don't instantiate Theme file in BasicTheme
- add a new Forward button
- less contrast to the sheet scrollbar background
- more reliable insert and remove from overflow menu
- better context icon rendering
- more careful to center the action button
- use iconsizes for action buttons
- pixel perfect icon sizes on desktop
- selected effect to fake handle icon
- fix color of handles
- better color for the main action button
- fix context menu for desktop style
- better "more" menu for the toolbar
- a proper menu for the intermediate pages context menu
- add a text field which should bring up a keypad
- don't crash when launched with non existent styles
- ColorSet concept in Theme
- simplify wheel management (bug 384704)
- new example app with desktop/mobile main qml files
- ensure currentIndex is valid
- Generate the appstream metadata of the gallery app
- Look for QtGraphicalEffects, so packagers don't forget it
- Don't include the control over the bottom decoration (bug 384913)
- lighter coloring when listview has no activeFocus
- some support for RTL layouts
- Disable shortcuts when an action is disabled
- create the whole plugin structure in the build directory
- fix accessibility for the gallery main page
- If plasma isn't available, KF5Plasma isn't either. Should fix the CI error
KNewStuff
- Require Kirigami 2.1 instead of 1.0 for KNewStuffQuick
- Properly create KPixmapSequence
- Don't complain the knsregistry file is not present before it's useful
KPackage Framework
- kpackage: bundle a copy of servicetypes/kpackage-generic.desktop
- kpackagetool: bundle a copy of servicetypes/kpackage-generic.desktop
KParts
- KPartsApp template: fix install location of kpart desktop file
KTextEditor
- Ignore default mark in icon border for single selectable mark
- Use QActionGroup for input mode selection
- Fix missing spell check bar (bug 359682)
- Fix the fall-back "blackness" value for unicode > 255 characters (bug 385336)
- Fix trailing space visualization for RTL lines
KWayland
- Only send OutputConfig sendApplied / sendFailed to the right resource
- Don't crash if a client (legally) uses deleted global contrast manager
- Support XDG v6
KWidgetsAddons
- KAcceleratorManager: set icon text on actions to remove CJK markers (bug 377859)
- KSqueezedTextLabel: Squeeze text when changing indent or margin
- Use edit-delete icon for destructive discard action (bug 385158)
- Fix Bug 306944 - Using the mousewheel to increment/decrement the dates (bug 306944)
- KMessageBox: Use question mark icon for question dialogs
- KSqueezedTextLabel: Respect indent, margin and frame width
KXMLGUI
- Fix KToolBar repaint loop (bug 377859)
Plasma Framework
- Fix org.kde.plasma.calendar with Qt 5.10
- [FrameSvgItem] Iterate child nodes properly
- [Containment Interface] Don't add containment actions to applet actions on desktop
- Add new component for the greyed out labels in Item Delegates
- Fix FrameSVGItem with the software renderer
- Don't animate IconItem in software mode
- [FrameSvg] Use new-style connect
- possibility to set an attached colorscope to not inherit
- Add extra visual indicator for Checkbox/Radio keyboard focus
- don't recreate a null pixmap
- Pass item to rootObject() since it's now a singleton (bug 384776)
- Don't list tab names twice
- don't accept active focus on tab
- register revision 1 for QQuickItem
- [Plasma Components 3] Fix RTL in some widgets
- Fix invalid id in viewitem
- update mail notification icon for better contrast (bug 365297)
qqc2-desktop-style
New module: QtQuickControls 2 style that uses QWidget's QStyle for painting This makes it possible to achieve an higher degree of consistency between QWidget-based and QML-based apps.
Solid
- [solid/fstab] Add support for x-gvfs style options in fstab
- [solid/fstab] Swap vendor and product properties, allow i18n of description
Syntax Highlighting
- Fix invalid itemData references of 57 highlighting files
- Add support for custom search paths for application-specific syntax and theme definitions
- AppArmor: fix DBus rules
- Highlighting indexer: factor out checks for smaller while loop
- ContextChecker: support '!' context switching and fallthroughContext
- Highlighting indexer: check existence of referenced context names
- Relicense qmake highlighting to MIT license
- Let qmake highlighting win over Prolog for .pro files (bug 383349)
- Support clojure's "@" macro with brackets
- Add syntax highlighting for AppArmor Profiles
- Highlighting indexer: Catch invalid a-Z/A-z ranges in regexps
- Fixing incorrectly capitalized ranges in regexps
- add missing reference files for tests, looks ok, I think
- Added Intel HEX file support for the Syntax highlighting database
- Disable spell checking for strings in Sieve scripts
ThreadWeaver
- Fix memory leak
Security information
The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key: pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure <faure@kde.org> Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB
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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 5.39.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.39.0 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 5.39.0 requires Qt
A detailed listing of all Frameworks with API documentation is on api.kde.org.
Get Involved
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