KDE Frameworks 5.41.0

Sunday, 10 December 2017

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.41.0.

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

• Strip down and re-write the baloo tags KIO slave (bug 340099)

BluezQt

• Do not leak rfkill file descriptors (bug 386886)

Breeze Icons

• Add missing icon sizes (bug 384473)
• add install and uninstall icons for discover

Extra CMake Modules

• Add the description tag to the generated pkgconfig files
• ecm_add_test: Use proper path sep on Windows
• Add FindSasl2.cmake to ECM
• Only pass the ARGS thing when doing Makefiles
• Add FindGLIB2.cmake and FindPulseAudio.cmake
• ECMAddTests: set QT_PLUGIN_PATH so locally built plugins can be found
• KDECMakeSettings: more docu about the layout of the build dir

Framework Integration

• Support downloading the 2nd or 3rd download link from a KNS product (bug 385429)

KActivitiesStats

• Start fixing libKActivitiesStats.pc: (bug 386933)

KActivities

• Fix race that starts kactivitymanagerd multiple times

KAuth

• Allow to only build the kauth-policy-gen code generator
• Add a note about calling the helper from multithreaded applications

KBookmarks

• Do not show edit bookmarks action if keditbookmarks is not installed
• Port from deprecated KAuthorized::authorizeKAction to authorizeAction

KCMUtils

• keyboard navigation in and out QML kcms

KCompletion

• Do not crash when setting new line edit on an editable combo box
• KComboBox: Return early when setting editable to previous value
• KComboBox: Reuse the existing completion object on new line edit

KConfig

• Don't look for /etc/kderc every single time

KConfigWidgets

• Update default colors to match new colors in D7424

KCoreAddons

• Input validation of SubJobs
• Warn about errors when parsing json files
• Install mimetype definitions for kcfg/kcfgc/ui.rc/knotify & qrc files
• Add a new function to measure the length by text
• Fix KAutoSave bug on file with white space in it

KDeclarative

• Make it compile on windows
• make it compile with QT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII/QT_NO_CAST_FROM_BYTEARRAY
• [MouseEventListener] Allow accepting mouse event
• use a single QML engine

KDED

• kded: remove dbus calls to ksplash

KDocTools

• Update Brasilian Portuguese translation
• Update Russian translation
• Update Russian translation
• Update customization/xsl/ru.xml (nav-home was missing)

KEmoticons

• KEmoticons: port plugins to JSON and add support for loading with KPluginMetaData
• Do not leak symbols of pimpl classes, protect with Q_DECL_HIDDEN

KFileMetaData

• The usermetadatawritertest requires Taglib
• If the property value is null, remove the user.xdg.tag attribute (bug 376117)
• Open files in TagLib extractor readonly

KGlobalAccel

• Group some blocking dbus calls
• kglobalacceld: Avoid loading an icon loader for no reason
• generate correct shortcut strings

KIO

• KUriFilter: filter out duplicate plugins
• KUriFilter: simplify data structures, fix memory leak
• [CopyJob] Don't start all over after having removed a file
• Fix creating a directory via KNewFileMenu+KIO::mkpath on Qt 5.9.3+ (bug 387073)
• Created an auxiliary function 'KFilePlacesModel::movePlace'
• Expose KFilePlacesModel 'iconName' role
• KFilePlacesModel: Avoid unnecessary 'dataChanged' signal
• Return a valid bookmark object for any entry in KFilePlacesModel
• Create a 'KFilePlacesModel::refresh' function
• Create 'KFilePlacesModel::convertedUrl' static function
• KFilePlaces: Created 'remote' section
• KFilePlaces: Add a section for removable devices
• Added baloo urls into places model
• Fix KIO::mkpath with qtbase 5.10 beta 4
• [KDirModel] Emit change for HasJobRole when jobs change
• Change label "Advanced options" > "Terminal options"

Kirigami

• Offset the scrollbar by the header size (bug 387098)
• bottom margin based on actionbutton presence
• don't assume applicationWidnow() to be available
• Don't notify about value changes if we are still in the constructor
• Replace the library name in the source
• support colors in more places
• color icons in toolbars if needed
• consider icon colors in the main action buttons
• start for an "icon" grouped property

KNewStuff

• Revert "Detach before setting the d pointer" (bug 386156)
• do not install development tool to aggregate desktop files
• [knewstuff] Do not leak ImageLoader on error

KPackage Framework

• Properly do strings in the kpackage framework
• Don't try to generate metadata.json if there's no metadata.desktop
• fix kpluginindex caching
• Improve error output

KTextEditor

• Fix VI-Mode buffer commands
• prevent accidental zooming

KUnitConversion

• Port from QDom to QXmlStreamReader
• Use https for downloading currency exchange rates

KWayland

• Expose wl_display_set_global_filter as a virtual method
• Fix kwayland-testXdgShellV6
• Add support for zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1 (bug 385956)
• [server] Support inhibiting the IdleInterface

KWidgetsAddons

• Avoid inconsistent passworddialog
• Set enable_blur_behind hint on demand
• KPageListView: Update width on font change

KWindowSystem

• [KWindowEffectsPrivateX11] Add reserve() call

KXMLGUI

• Fix translation of toolbar name when it has i18n context

Plasma Framework

• The #warning directive is not universal and in particular is NOT supported by MSVC
• [IconItem] Use ItemSceneHasChanged rather than connect on windowChanged
• [Icon Item] Explicitly emit overlaysChanged in the setter rather than connecting to it
• [Dialog] Use KWindowSystem::isPlatformX11()
• Reduce the amount of spurious property changes on ColorScope
• [Icon Item] Emit validChanged only if it actually changed
• Suppress unnecessary scroll indicators if the flickable is a ListView with known orientation
• [AppletInterface] Emit change signals for configurationRequired and -Reason
• Use setSize() instead of setProperty width and height
• Fixed an issue where PlasmaComponents Menu would appear with broken corners (bug 381799)
• Fixed an issue where context menus would appear with broken corners (bug 381799)
• API docs: add deprecation notice found in the git log
• Synchronize the component with the one in Kirigami
• Search all KF5 components as such instead as separate frameworks
• Reduce spurious signal emissions (bug 382233)
• Add signals indicating if a screen was added or removed
• install Switch stuff
• Don't rely in includes of includes
• Optimize SortFilterModel role names
• Remove DataModel::roleNameToId

Prison

• Add Aztec code generator

QQC2StyleBridge

• determine QQC2 version at build time (bug 386289)
• by default, keep the background invisible
• add a background in ScrollView

Solid

• Faster UDevManager::devicesFromQuery

Sonnet

• Make it possible to crosscompile sonnet

Syntax Highlighting

• Add PKGUILD to bash syntax
• JavaScript: include standard mime types
• debchangelog: add Bionic Beaver
• Update SQL (Oracle) syntax file (bug 386221)
• SQL: move detecting comments before operators
• crk.xml: added <?xml> header line

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 5.41.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.41.0 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 5.41.0 requires Qt .

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

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