KDE Frameworks 5.54.0

Saturday, 12 January 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.54.0.

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

• Notify if a default provider failed to download

Baloo

• Move typesForMimeType helper from BasicIndexingJob to anonymous namespace
• Add "image/svg" as Type::Image to the BasicIndexingJob
• Use Compact json formatting for storing document metadata

Breeze Icons

• Change preferences-system-network to symlink
• Use a Kolf icon with nice background and shadows
• Copy some changed icons from Breeze to Breeze Dark
• Add YaST and new preference icons
• Add a proper python-bytecode icon, use consistent color in python icons (bug 381051)
• Delete python bytecode symlinks in preparation for them becoming their own icons
• Make the python mimetype icon the base, and the python bytecode icon a link to it
• Add device icons for RJ11 and RJ45 ports
• Add missing directory separator (bug 401836)
• Use correct icon for Python 3 scripts (bug 402367)
• Change network/web color icons to consistent style
• Add new name for sqlite files, so the icons actually show up (bug 402095)
• Add drive-* icons for YaST Partitioner
• Add view-private icon (bug 401646)
• Add flashlight action icons
• Improve symbolism for off and muted status icon (bug 398975)

Extra CMake Modules

• Add find module for Google's libphonenumber

KActivities

• Fix the version in the pkgconfig file

KDE Doxygen Tools

• Fix doxygen markdown rendering

KConfig

• Escape bytes that are larger than or equal to 127 in config files

KCoreAddons

• cmake macros: Port away from deprecated ECM var in kcoreaddons_add_plugin (bug 401888)
• make units and prefixes of formatValue translatable

KDeclarative

• don't show separators on mobile
• root.contentItem instead of just contentItem
• Add the missing api for multilevel KCMs to control the columns

KFileMetaData

• Fail writing test if mime type is not supported by the extractor
• Fix ape disc number extraction
• Implement cover extraction for asf files
• Extend list of supported mimetypes for embedded image extractor
• Refactor embedded image extractor for greater extensibility
• Add missing wav mimetype
• Extract more tags from exif metadata (bug 341162)
• fix extraction of GPS altitude for exif data

KGlobalAccel

• Fix KGlobalAccel build with Qt 5.13 prerelease

KHolidays

• README.md - add basic instructions for testing holiday files
• various calendars - fix syntax errors

KIconThemes

• ksvg2icns : use Qt 5.9+ QTemporaryDir API

KIdleTime

• [xscreensaverpoller] Flush after reset screensaver

KInit

• Use soft rlimit for number of open handles. This fixes very slow Plasma startup with latest systemd.

KIO

• Revert "Hide file preview when icon is too small"
• Display error instead of silently failing when asked to create folder that already exists (bug 400423)
• Change the path for every item of the subdirectories in a directory rename (bug 401552)
• Extend getExtensionFromPatternList reg exp filtering
• [KRun] when asked to open link in external browser, fall back to mimeapps.list if nothing is set in kdeglobals (bug 100016)
• Make the open url in tab feature a bit more discoverable (bug 402073)
• [kfilewidget] Return editable URL navigator to breadcrumb mode if it has focus and everything is selected and when Ctrl+L is pressed
• [KFileItem] Fix isLocal check in checkDesktopFile (bug 401947)
• SlaveInterface: Stop speed_timer after a job is killed
• Warn user before copy/move job if the file size exceeds the maximum possible file size in FAT32 filesystem(4 GB) (bug 198772)
• Avoid constantly increasing Qt event queue in KIO slaves
• Support for TLS 1.3 (part of Qt 5.12)
• [KUrlNavigator] Fix firstChildUrl when going back from archive

Kirigami

• Make sure we don't override QIcon::themeName when we should not
• Introduce a DelegateRecycler attached object
• fix gridview margins considering scrollbars
• Make AbstractCard.background react to AbstractCard.highlighted
• Simplify code in MnemonicAttached
• SwipeListItem: always show the icons if !supportsMouseEvents
• Consider whether needToUpdateWidth according to widthFromItem, not height
• Take the scrollbar into account for the ScrollablePage margin (bug 401972)
• Don't try to reposition the ScrollView when we get a faulty height (bug 401960)

KNewStuff

• Change default sort order in the download dialog to "Most downloads" (bug 399163)
• Notify about the provider not being loaded

KNotification

• [Android] Fail more gracefully when building with API < 23
• Add Android notification backend
• Build without Phonon and D-Bus on Android

KService

• applications.menu: remove unused category X-KDE-Edu-Teaching
• applications.menu: remove <KDELegacyDirs/>

KTextEditor

• Fix scripting for Qt 5.12
• Fix emmet script by using HEX instead of OCT numbers in strings (bug 386151)
• Fix broken Emmet (bug 386151)
• ViewConfig: Add 'Dynamic Wrap At Static Marker' option
• fix folding region end, add ending token to the range
• avoid ugly overpainting with alpha
• Don't re-mark words added/ignored to the dictionary as misspelled (bug 387729)
• KTextEditor: Add action for static word wrap (bug 141946)
• Don't hide 'Clear Dictionary Ranges' action
• Don't ask for confirmation when reloading (bug 401376)
• class Message: Use inclass member initialization
• Expose KTextEditor::ViewPrivate:setInputMode(InputMode) to KTextEditor::View
• Improve performance of small editing actions, e.g. fixing large replace all actions (bug 333517)
• Only call updateView() in visibleRange() when endPos() is invalid

KWayland

• Add clarifying about using both KDE's ServerDecoration and XdgDecoration
• Xdg Decoration Support
• Fix XDGForeign Client header installs
• [server] Touch drag support
• [server] Allow multiple touch interfaces per client

KWidgetsAddons

• [KMessageBox] Fix minimum dialog size when details are requested (bug 401466)

NetworkManagerQt

• Added DCB, macsrc, match, tc, ovs-patch and ovs-port settings

Plasma Framework

• [Calendar] Expose firstDayOfWeek in MonthView (bug 390330)
• Add preferences-system-bluetooth-battery to preferences.svgz

Purpose

• Add plugin type for sharing URLs

QQC2StyleBridge

• Fix menu item width when the delegate is overridden (bug 401792)
• Rotate busy indicator clockwise
• Force checkboxes/radios to be square

Solid

• [UDisks2] Use MediaRemovable to determine if media can be ejected
• Support Bluetooth batteries

Sonnet

• Add method to BackgroundChecker to add word to session
• DictionaryComboBox: Keep user preferred dictionaries on top (bug 302689)

Syntax Highlighting

• Update php syntax support
• WML: fix embedded Lua code & use new default styles
• Highlight CUDA .cu and .cuh files as C++
• TypeScript & TS/JS React: improve types detection, fix float-points & other improvements/fixes
• Haskell: Highlight empty comments after 'import'
• WML: fix infinite loop in contexts switch & only highlight tags with valid names (bug 402720)
• BrightScript: Add workaround for QtCreator 'endsub' highlighting, add function/sub folding
• support more variants of C number literals (bug 402002)

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

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 5.54.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.54.0 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 5.54.0 requires Qt .

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

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