KDE Frameworks 5.60.0

Saturday, 13 July 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.60.0.

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

General

• Qt >= 5.11 is now required, now that Qt 5.13 has been released.

Baloo

• [QueryTest] Test if independent phrases are really independent
• [TermGenerator] Insert an empty position between independent terms
• [QueryTest] Restructure tests to allow easier extension
• [TermGenerator] Leave single term phrases out of the PositionDB
• [TermGenerator] Do Term truncation prior to UTF-8 conversion
• [PostingIterator] Move positions() method to VectorPositionInfoIterator
• [TermGenerator] Use UTF-8 ByteArray for termList
• [WriteTransactionTest] Clear mixup of QString and QByteArray
• [experimental/BalooDB] Fix trivial 0 / nullptr warning
• [PositionDbTest] Fix trivial memleak in test
• [PendingFileQueueTest] Verify create + delete do not emit extra events
• [PendingFileQueueTest] Verify delete + create actually works
• [PendingFileQueue] Avoid delete + create / create + delete race
• [PendingFileQueueTest] Use synthetic timer events to speedup test
• [XAttrIndexer] Update DocumentTime when XAttrs are updated
• [PendingFileQueueTest] Shorten timeouts, verify tracking time
• [PendingFileQueue] Use more accurate calculation of remaining time
• [ModifiedFileIndexer] Use correct mimetype for folders, delay until needed
• [NewFileIndexer] Omit symlinks from the index
• [ModifiedFileIndexer] Avoid shadowing XAttr changes by content changes
• [NewFileIndexer] Use correct mimetype for folders, check excludeFolders
• [UnindexedFileIndexer] Pick up comment, tags and rating changes
• [UnindexedFileIndexer] Skip filetime checks for new files
• [DocumentUrlDB] Avoid manipulation of the whole tree on trivial rename
• [DocumentUrlDB] Catch invalid URLs early
• [DocumentUrlDB] Remove unused 'rename' method
• [balooctl] Streamline indexer control commands
• [Transaction] Replace template for functor with std::function
• [FirstRunIndexer] Use correct mimetype for folders
• Move invariant IndexingLevel out of the loop
• [BasicIndexingJob] Skip lookup of baloo document type for directories
• [FileIndexScheduler] Ensure indexer is not run in suspended state
• [PowerStateMonitor] Be conservative when determining power state
• [FileIndexScheduler] Stop the indexer when quit() is called via DBus
• Avoid container detach in a few places
• Do not try to append to QLatin1String
• Disable valgrind detection when compiling with MSVC
• [FilteredDirIterator] Combine all suffixes into one large RegExp
• [FilteredDirIterator] Avoid RegExp overhead for exact matches
• [UnindexedFileIterator] Delay mimetype determination until it is needed
• [UnindexedFileIndexer] Do not try to add nonexistent file to index
• Detect valgrind, avoid database removal when using valgrind
• [UnindexedFileIndexer] Loop optimizations (avoid detach, invariants)
• Delay running UnindexedFileIndexer and IndexCleaner
• [FileIndexScheduler] Add new state for Idle on battery
• [FileIndexScheduler] Postpone housekeeping tasks while on battery
• [FileIndexScheduler] Avoid emitting state changes multiple times
• [balooctl] Clarify and extend status output

BluezQt

• Add MediaTransport API
• Add LE Advertising and GATT APIs

Breeze Icons

• Add id="current-color-scheme" to collapse-all icons (bug 409546)
• Add disk-quota icons (bug 389311)
• Symlink install to edit-download
• Change joystick settings icon to game controller (bug 406679)
• Add edit-select-text, make 16px draw-text like 22px
• Update KBruch icon
• Add help-donate-[currency] icons
• Make Breeze Dark use same Kolourpaint icon as Breeze
• Add 22px notifications icons

KActivitiesStats

• Fix a crash in KactivityTestApp when Result has strings with non-ASCII

KArchive

• Do not crash if the inner file wants to be bigger than QByteArray max size

KCoreAddons

• KPluginMetaData: use Q_DECLARE_METATYPE

KDeclarative

• [GridDelegate] Fix gaps in corners of thumbnailArea highlight
• get rid of blockSignals
• [KCM GridDelegate] Silence warning
• [KCM GridDelegate] Take into account implicitCellHeight for inner delegate height
• Fix GridDelegate icon
• Fix fragile comparison to i18n("None") and describe behavior in docs (bug 407999)

KDE WebKit

• Downgrade KDEWebKit from Tier 3 to Porting Aids

KDocTools

• Update pt-BR user.entities

KFileMetaData

• Fix extracting of some properties to match what was written (bug 408532)
• Use debugging category in taglib extractor/writer
• Format photo exposure bias value (bug 343273)
• fix property name
• Remove photo prefix from every exif property name (bug 343273)
• Rename ImageMake and ImageModel properties (bug 343273)
• [UserMetaData] Add method to query which attributes are set
• Format focal length as millimeter
• Format photo exposure time as rational when applicable (bug 343273)
• Enable usermetadatawritertest for all UNIXes, not only Linux
• Format the aperture values as F numbers (bug 343273)

KDE GUI Addons

• KModifierKeyInfo: we are sharing the internal implementation
• Remove double look-ups
• Move to runtime the decision to use x11 or not

KHolidays

• Update UK Early May bank holiday for 2020 (bug 409189)
• Fix ISO code for Hesse / Germany

KImageFormats

• QImage::byteCount -> QImage::sizeInByes

KIO

• Fix KFileItemTest::testIconNameForUrl test to reflect different icon name
• Fix i18n number-of-arguments error in knewfilemenu warning message
• [ftp] Fix wrong access time in Ftp::ftpCopyGet() (bug 374420)
• [CopyJob] Batch reporting processed amount
• [CopyJob] Report results after finishing copy (bug 407656)
• Move redundant logic in KIO::iconNameForUrl() into KFileItem::iconName() (bug 356045)
• Install KFileCustomDialog
• [Places panel] Don't show Root by default
• Downgrade "Could not change permissions" dialog box to a qWarning
• O_PATH is only available on linux. To prevent the compiler from throwing an error
• Show feedback inline when creating new files or folders
• Auth Support: Drop privileges if target is not owned by root
• [copyjob] Only set modification time if the kio-slave provided it (bug 374420)
• Cancel privilege operation for read-only target with the current user as owner
• Add KProtocolInfo::defaultMimetype
• Always save view settings when switching from one view mode to another
• Restore exclusive group for sorting menu items
• Dolphin-style view modes in the file dialog (bug 86838)
• kio_ftp: improve error handling when copying to FTP fails
• kioexec: change the scary debug messages for delayed deletion

Kirigami

• [ActionTextField] Make action glow on press
• support text mode and position
• mouseover effect for breadcrumb on desktop
• enforce a minimum height of 2 gridunits
• Set SwipeListItem implicitHeight to be the maximum of content and actions
• Hide tooltip when PrivateActionToolButton is pressed
• Remove accidentally slipped back traces of cmake code for Plasma style
• ColumnView::itemAt
• force breeze-internal if no theme is specified
• correct navigation on left pinned page
• keep track of the space covered by pinned pages
• show a separator when in left sidebar mode
• in single column mode, pin has no effect
• first semi working prototype of pinning

KJobWidgets

• [KUiServerJobTracker] Handle ownership change

KNewStuff

• [kmoretools] Add icons to download and install actions

KNotification

• Don't search for phonon on Android

KParts

• Add profile support interface for TerminalInterface

KRunner

• Don't delay emission of matchesChanged indefinitely

KService

• Add X-Flatpak-RenamedFrom as recognized key

KTextEditor

• fix goto line centering (bug 408418)
• Fix bookmark icon display on icon border with low dpi
• Fix action "Show Icon Border" to toggle border again
• Fix empty pages in print preview and lines printed twice (bug 348598)
• remove no longer used header
• fix autoscrolling down speed (bug 408874)
• Add default variables for variables interface
• Make automatic spellcheck work after reloading a document (bug 408291)
• raise default line length limit to 10000
• WIP:Disable highlighting after 512 characters on a line
• KateModeMenuList: move to QListView

KWayland

• Include a description
• Proof of concept of a wayland protocol to allow the keystate dataengine to work

KWidgetsAddons

• KPasswordLineEdit now correctly inherits its QLineEdit's focusPolicy (bug 398275)
• Replace "Details" button with KCollapsibleGroupBox

Plasma Framework

• [Svg] Fix porting error from QRegExp::exactMatch
• ContainmentAction: Fix loading from KPlugin
• [TabBar] Remove exterior margins
• Applet, DataEngine and containment listing methods inPlasma::PluginLoader no longer filters the plugins with X-KDE-ParentAppprovided when empty string is passed
• Make pinch in calendar work again
• Add disk-quota icons (bug 403506)
• Make Plasma::Svg::elementRect a bit leaner
• Automatically set version of desktopthemes packages to KF5_VERSION
• Don't notify about changing to the same state it was at
• Fix the alignment of the label of the toolbutton
• [PlasmaComponents3] Vertically center button text as well

Purpose

• Change initial size of the config dialog
• Improve Job Dialog buttons' icons and text
• Fix translation of actiondisplay
• Don't show error message if sharing is cancelled by the user
• Fix warning when reading plugin metadata
• Redesign config pages
• ECMPackageConfigHelpers -> CMakePackageConfigHelpers
• phabricator: Fix fallthrough in switch

QQC2StyleBridge

• Show shortcut in menu item when specified (bug 405541)
• Add MenuSeparator
• Fix ToolButton remaining in a pressed state after press
• [ToolButton] Pass custom icon size to StyleItem
• honor visibility policy (bug 407014)

Solid

• [Fstab] Select appropriate icon for home or root directory
• [Fstab] Show mounted "overlay" filesystems
• [UDev Backend] Narrow device queried for

Syntax Highlighting

• Fortran: relicense to MIT
• Improve the Fortran fixed format syntax highlighting
• Fortran: implement free & fixed formats
• Fix CMake COMMAND nested paren highlighting
• Add more keywords and also support rr in gdb highlighter
• Detect comment lines early in GDB highlighter
• AppArmor: update syntax
• Julia: update syntax and add constants keywords (bug 403901)
• CMake: Highlight the standard CMake environment variables
• Add syntax definition for ninja build
• CMake: Support for 3.15 features
• Jam: various improvements and fixes
• Lua: update for Lua54 and end of function as Keyword rather than Control
• C++: update for C++20
• debchangelog: add Eoan Ermine

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 5.60.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.60.0 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 5.60.0 requires Qt .

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

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