KDE Frameworks 5.57.0

Saturday, 13 April 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.57.0.

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

• Accept any HTTP status between 100 and 199 as benign

Baloo

• [DocumentIdDB] Silence non-error debug message, warn on errors
• [baloosearch] Allow specifying a time when using e.g. mtime
• [indexcleaner] Avoid removing included folders below excluded ones
• [MTimeDB] Fix lookup for the LessEqual range
• [MTimeDB] Fix lookup when time range should return empty set
• Correct asserts/error handling in MTimeDB
• Protect against invalid parents in the IdTreeDB
• Remove document from MTimeDB/DocumentTimeDB even when timestamp is 0
• Be more precise with mimetype detection (bug 403902)
• [timeline] Canonicalize Url
• [timeline] Fix missing/misplaced SlaveBase::finished() calls
• [balooshow] Several extensions basic file information output
• [timeline] Fix warning, add missing UDS entry for "."
• [balooctl] Reduce nesting level for addOption arguments, cleanup
• React to config updates inside indexer (bug 373430)
• Fix regression when opening DB in read-write mode (bug 405317)
• [balooctl] Cleanup trailing whitespace
• [engine] Unbreak code, revert renaming of Transaction::abort()
• Harmonize handling of underscore in query parser
• Baloo engine: treat every non-success code as a failure (bug 403720)

BluezQt

• Move Media interface into Adapter
• Manager: Don't require Media1 interface for initialization (bug 405478)
• Device: Check object path in interfaces removed slot (bug 403289)

Breeze Icons

• Add "notifications" and "notifications-disabled" icons (bug 406121)
• make start-here-kde also available start-here-kde-plasma
• Sublime Merge Icon
• Give applications-games and input-gaming more contrast with Breeze Dark
• Make 24px go-up actually 24px
• Add preferences-desktop-theme-applications and preferences-desktop-theme-windowdecorations icons
• Add symlinks from "preferences-desktop-theme" to "preferences-desktop-theme-applications"
• Remove preferences-desktop-theme in preparation to making it a symlink
• Add collapse/expand-all, window-shade/unshade (bug 404344)
• Improve consistency of window-* and add more
• Make go-bottom/first/last/top look more like media-skip*
• Change go-up/down-search symlinks target to go-up/down
• Improve pixel grid alignment of go-up/down/next/previous/jump
• Change media-skip* and media-seek* style
• Enforce new muted icon style in all action icons

Extra CMake Modules

• Re-enable the setting of QT_PLUGIN_PATH
• ecm_add_wayland_client_protocol: Improve error messages
• ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile: make all vars dependent on ${prefix}
• Add UDev find module
• ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile: add variables used by pkg_check_modules
• Restore FindFontconfig backward compatibility for plasma-desktop
• Add Fontconfig find module

Framework Integration

• use more appropriate plasma-specific icon for plasma category
• use plasma icon as icon for plasma notification category

KDE Doxygen Tools

• Update URLs to use https

KArchive

• Fix crash in KArchive::findOrCreate with broken files
• Fix uninitialized memory read in KZip
• Add Q_OBJECT to KFilterDev

KCMUtils

• [KCModuleLoader] Pass args to created KQuickAddons::ConfigModule
• Pass focus to child searchbar when KPluginSelector is focused (bug 399516)
• Improve the KCM error message
• Add runtime guard that pages are KCMs in KCMultiDialog (bug 405440)

KCompletion

• Don't set a null completer on a non-editable combobox

KConfig

• Add Notify capability to revertToDefault
• point readme to the wiki page
• kconfig_compiler: new kcfgc args HeaderExtension & SourceExtension
• [kconf_update] move from custom logging tech to qCDebug
• Remove reference from const KConfigIniBackend::BufferFragment &
• KCONFIG_ADD_KCFG_FILES macro: ensure a change of File= in kcfg is picked up

KCoreAddons

• Fix "* foo *" we don't want to bold this string
• Fix Bug 401996 - clicking contact web url => uncomplete url is selected (bug 401996)
• Print strerror when inotify fails (typical reason: "too many open files")

KDBusAddons

• Convert two old-style connects to new-style

KDeclarative

• [GridViewKCM] Fix implicit width calculation
• move the gridview in a separate file
• Avoid fractionals in GridDelegate sizes and alignments

KDELibs 4 Support

• Remove find modules provided by ECM

KDocTools

• Update Ukrainian translation
• Catalan updates
• it entities: update URLs to use https
• Update URLs to use https
• Use Indonesian translation
• Update design to look more similar to kde.org
• Add necessary files to use native Indonesian language for all Indonesian docs

KFileMetaData

• Implement support for writing rating information for taglib writer
• Implement more tags for taglib writer
• Rewrite taglib writer to use property interface
• Test ffmpeg extractor using mime type helper (bug 399650)
• Propose Stefan Bruns as KFileMetaData maintainer
• Declare PropertyInfo as QMetaType
• Safeguard against invalid files
• [TagLibExtractor] Use the correct mimetype in case of inheritance
• Add a helper to determine actual supported parent mime type
• [taglibextractor] Test extraction of properties with multiple values
• Generate header for new MimeUtils
• Use Qt function for string list formatting
• Fix number localization for properties
• Verify mimetypes for all existing sample files, add some more
• Add helper function to determine mime type based on content and extension (bug 403902)
• Add support for extracting data from ogg and ts files (bug 399650)
• [ffmpegextractor] Add Matroska Video test case (bug 403902)
• Rewrite the taglib extractor to use the generic PropertyMap interface (bug 403902)
• [ExtractorCollection] Load extractor plugins lazily
• Fix extraction of aspect ratio property
• Increase precision of frame rate property

KHolidays

• Sort the polish holidays categories

KI18n

• Report human-readable error if Qt5Widgets is required but is not found

KIconThemes

• Fix padding icon that doesn't exactly match the requested size (bug 396990)

KImageFormats

• ora:kra: qstrcmp -> memcmp
• Fix RGBHandler::canRead
• xcf: Don't crash with files with unsupported layer modes

KIO

• Replace currentDateTimeUtc().toTime_t() with currentSecsSinceEpoch()
• Replace QDateTime::to_Time_t/from_Time_t with to/fromSecsSinceEpoch
• Improve executable dialog buttons' icons (bug 406090)
• [KDirOperator] Show Detailed Tree View by default
• KFileItem: call stat() on demand, add SkipMimeTypeDetermination option
• KIOExec: fix error when the remote URL has no filename
• KFileWidget In saving single file mode an enter/return press on the KDirOperator triggers slotOk (bug 385189)
• [KDynamicJobTracker] Use generated DBus interface
• [KFileWidget] When saving, highlight filename after clicking existing file also when using double-click
• Don't create thumbnails for encrypted Vaults (bug 404750)
• Fix WebDAV directory renaming if KeepAlive is off
• Show list of tags in PlacesView (bug 182367)
• Delete/Trash confirmation dialogue: Fix misleading title
• Display the correct file/path in "too bit for fat32" error message (bug 405360)
• Phrase error message with GiB, not GB (bug 405445)
• openwithdialog: use recursive flag in proxy filter
• Remove URLs being fetched when listing job is completed (bug 383534)
• [CopyJob] Treat URL as dirty when renaming file as conflict resolution
• Pass local file path to KFileSystemType::fileSystemType()
• Fix upper/lower case rename on case insensitive fs
• Fix "Invalid URL: QUrl("some.txt")" warnings in Save dialog (bug 373119)
• Fix crash while moving files
• Fix NTFS hidden check for symlinks to NTFS mountpoints (bug 402738)
• Make file overwrite a bit safer (bug 125102)

Kirigami

• fix listItems implicitWidth
• shannon entropy to guess monochrome icon
• Prevent context drawer from disappearing
• remove actionmenuitembase
• don't try to get the version on static builds
• [Mnemonic Handling] Replace only first occurrence
• sync when any model property updates
• use icon.name in back/forward
• fix toolbars for layers
• Fix errors in kirigami example files
• Add a SearchField and PasswordField component
• fix handle icons (bug 404714)
• [InlineMessage] Do not draw shadows around the message
• immediately layout on order changed
• fix breadcrumb layout
• never show toolbar when the current item asks not to
• manage back/forward in the filter as well
• support back/forward mouse buttons
• Add lazy instantiation for submenus
• fix toolbars for layers
• kirigami_package_breeze_icons: Search among size 16 icons as well
• Fix Qmake based build
• get the attached property of the proper item
• fix logic when to show the toolbar
• possible to disable toolbar for layer's pages
• always show global toolbar on global modes
• signal Page.contextualActionsAboutToShow
• a bit of space to the right of the title
• relayout when visibility changes
• ActionTextField: Properly place actions
• topPadding and BottomPadding
• text on images always need to be white (bug 394960)
• clip overlaysheet (bug 402280)
• avoid parenting OverlaySheet to ColumnView
• use a qpointer for the theme instance (bug 404505)
• hide breadcrumb on pages that don't want a toolbar (bug 404481)
• don't try to override the enabled property (bug 404114)
• Possibility for custom header and footer in ContextDrawer (bug 404978)

KJobWidgets

• [KUiServerJobTracker] Update destUrl before finishing the job

KNewStuff

• Switch URLs to https
• Update link to fsearch project
• Handle unsupported OCS commands, and don't over-vote (bug 391111)
• New location for KNSRC files
• [knewstuff] Remove qt5.13 deprecated method

KNotification

• [KStatusNotifierItem] Send desktop-entry hint
• Allow to set custom hints for notifications

KNotifyConfig

• Allow selecting only supported audio files (bug 405470)

KPackage Framework

• Fix finding the host tools targets file in the Android docker environment
• Add cross-compilation support for kpackagetool5

KService

• Add X-GNOME-UsesNotifications as recognized key
• Add bison minimum version of 2.4.1 due to %code

KTextEditor

• Fix: apply correctly the text colors of the chosen scheme (bug 398758)
• DocumentPrivate: Add option "Auto Reload Document" to View menu (bug 384384)
• DocumentPrivate: Support to set dictionary on block selection
• Fix Words & Chars String on katestatusbar
• Fix Minimap with QtCurve style
• KateStatusBar: Show lock icon on modified label when in read-only mode
• DocumentPrivate: Skip auto quotes when these looks already balanced (bug 382960)
• Add Variable interface to KTextEditor::Editor
• relax code to only assert in debug build, work in release build
• ensure compatibility with old configs
• more use of generic config interface
• simplify QString KateDocumentConfig::eolString()
• transfer sonnet setting to KTextEditor setting
• ensure now gaps in config keys
• convert more things to generic config interface
• more use of the generic config interface
• generic config interface
• Don't crash on malformed syntax highlighting files
• IconBorder: Accept drag&drop events (bug 405280)
• ViewPrivate: Make deselection by arrow keys more handy (bug 296500)
• Fix for showing argument hint tree on non-primary screen
• Port some deprecated method
• Restore the search wrapped message to its former type and position (bug 398731)
• ViewPrivate: Make 'Apply Word Wrap' more comfortable (bug 381985)
• ModeBase::goToPos: Ensure jump target is valid (bug 377200)
• ViInputMode: Remove unsupported text attributes from the status bar
• KateStatusBar: Add dictionary button
• add example for line height issue

KWidgetsAddons

• Make KFontRequester consistent
• Update kcharselect-data to Unicode 12.0

KWindowSystem

• Send blur/background contrast in device pixels (bug 404923)

NetworkManagerQt

• WireGuard: make marshalling/demarshalling of secrets from map to work
• Add missing support for WireGuard into base setting class
• Wireguard: handle private key as secrets
• Wireguard: peers property should be NMVariantMapList
• Add Wireguard connection type support
• ActiveConnecton: add stateChangedReason signal where we can see the reason of state change

Plasma Framework

• [AppletInterface] Check for corona before accessing it
• [Dialog] Don't forward hover event when there is nowhere to forward it to
• [Menu] Fix triggered signal
• Reduce the importance of some debug information so actual warnings can be seen
• [PlasmaComponents3 ComboBox] Fix textColor
• FrameSvgItem: catch margin changes of FrameSvg also outside own methods
• Add Theme::blurBehindEnabled()
• FrameSvgItem: fix textureRect for tiled subitems to not shrink to 0
• Fix breeze dialog background with Qt 5.12.2 (bug 405548)
• Remove crash in plasmashell
• [Icon Item] Also clear image icon when using Plasma Svg (bug 405298)
• textfield height based only on clear text (bug 399155)
• bind alternateBackgroundColor

Purpose

• Add KDE Connect SMS plugin

QQC2StyleBridge

• the plasma desktop style supports icon coloring
• [SpinBox] Improve mouse wheel behavior
• add a bit of padding in ToolBars
• fix RoundButton icons
• scrollbar based padding on all delegates
• look for a scrollview to take its scrollbar for margins

Solid

• Allow building without UDev on Linux
• Only get clearTextPath when used

Syntax Highlighting

• Add syntax definition for Elm language to syntax-highlighting
• AppArmor & SELinux: remove one indentation in XML files
• Doxygen: don't use black color in tags
• Allow line end context switches in empty lines (bug 405903)
• Fix endRegion folding in rules with beginRegion+endRegion (use length=0) (bug 405585)
• Add extensions to groovy highlighting (bug 403072)
• Add Smali syntax highlighting file
• Add "." as weakDeliminator in Octave syntax file
• Logcat: fix dsError color with underline="0"
• fix highlighter crash for broken hl file
• guard target link libraries for older CMake version (bug 404835)

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 5.57.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.57.0 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 5.57.0 requires Qt .

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

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