Thursday, 6 November 2014
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.4.0.
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
Attica
- Fix build with Qt 5.4
KArchive
- Add support for rcc files
KAuth
- Fix install dir when using KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS
KCMUtils
- Fix KPluginSelector not adding non .desktop file plugins
KConfigWidgets
- Fix URL in KHelpClient::invokeHelp
KCoreAddons
- Various build fixes (QNX, Ubuntu 14.04)
KDeclarative
- Optimize IconItem in QIconItem in memory and speed
KIO
- New job KIO::mkpath()
- New job KIO::PasteJob, handles pasting+dropping URLs and data; KIO::paste replaces KIO::pasteClipboard
- New function KIO::pasteActionText, to handle the paste action
- When clicking on a script or desktop file in a file manager, let the user choose between executing and vieweing as text
- KUrlRequester: fixing handling of start directory
- Offer also overwrite option when copying multiple files and there is a conflict (regression compared to kdelibs4)
- KDirLister: do not kill+restart running update jobs.
- KDirLister: don't emit refreshItems for items that haven't changed.
- Prevent incorrect disk full error messages on mounts where we cannot determine the amount of free space.
- Fix running the file type editor
KNewStuff
- Many small fixes and cleanups
KNotifications
- Add support for custom icons (convenience method KNotification::Event with icon name)
KTextEditor
- Implement "go to last editing position" action
- Guard against a possibly broken code folding state on disk
KWallet
- Emit 'walletListDirty' signal when the 'kwalletd' directory is deleted
KWidgetsAddons
- New function KMimeTypeEditor::editMimeType(), to launch keditfiletype5
KXmlGui
- Now supports finding ui files in resources (default location: :/kxmlgui5/<componentname>)
Plasma frameworks
- Fixes in the Dialog QML component size and position
- fixes in the Slider and ProgressBar QML components
- new icons
Solid
- [not communicated]
Buildsystem changes
- New modules FindWaylandScanner and FindQtWaylandScanner, including macros ecm_add_qtwayland_client_protocol and ecm_add_qtwayland_server_protocol
Frameworkintegration
- implement support for setting custom labels in file dialogs
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 5.4.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.4.0 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 5.4.0 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.