KDE Frameworks 5.61.0

Saturday, 10 August 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.61.0.

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

• Link against KIOCore instead of KIOWidgets in kioslaves
• [IndexCleaner] ignore non-existent entries inside config

BluezQt

• Fix crash due to the q pointer never being initialized
• Don't include bluezqt_dbustypes.h from installed headers

Breeze Icons

• Add "user-others" icon (bug 407782)
• Make "edit-none" a symlink to "dialog-cancel"
• Delete redundant and monochrome versions of applications-internet
• Add view-pages-* icons, as needed in Okular for page layout selection (bug 409082)
• Use clockwise arrows for refresh and update-* icons (bug 409914)

Extra CMake Modules

• android: Allow overriding ANDROID_ARCH and ANDROID_ARCH_ABI as envvars
• Notify users when not using KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS about prefix.sh
• Provide a more sensible CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX default
• Make the default build type "Debug" when compiling a git checkout

KActivitiesStats

• Add Date term to KActivities Stats to filter on resource event date

KActivities

• Simplify previous-/nextActivity code in kactivities-cli

KDE Doxygen Tools

• Fix checking dirs for metainfo.yaml with non-ascii chars with Python 2.7
• Log bad pathnames (via repr()) instead of crashing entirely
• generate list of data files on the fly

KArchive

• KTar::openArchive: Don't assert if file has two root dirs
• KZip::openArchive: Don't assert when opening broken files

KCMUtils

• adapt to UI changes in KPageView

KConfig

• Security: remove support for $(...) in config keys with [$e] marker
• Include definition for class used in header

KCoreAddons

• Add KFileUtils::suggestName function to suggest a unique filename

KDeclarative

• Scrollview - Don't fill the parent with the view (bug 407643)
• introduce FallbackTapHandler
• KRun QML proxy: fix path/URL confusion
• Calendar events: allow plugins to show event details

KDED

• kded5 desktop file: use valid type (Service) to suppress warning from kservice

KDELibs 4 Support

• Designer plugin: use consistently "KF5" in group names & texts
• Don't advertise using KPassivePopup

KDesignerPlugin

• expose new KBusyIndicatorWidget
• Remove designer plugin generation for KF5WebKit

KDE WebKit

• Use preview of ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin instead of KF5DesignerPlugin
• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KFileMetaData

• Get mobipocket extractor up-to-date, but keep disabled

KHolidays

• Add public holidays' substitute days in Russia, for 2019-2020
• Update holidays in Russia

KIconThemes

• Restore "Check if group < LastGroup, as KIconEffect doesn't handle UserGroup anyway"

KIO

• Deprecate suggestName in favour of the one in KCoreAddons
• Fix can't enter directory error on some FTP servers with Turkish locale (bug 409740)

Kirigami

• Revamp Kirigami.AboutPage
• Consistently use Units.toolTipDelay instead of hardcoded values
• properly size the card contents when the card size is constrained
• hide ripple when we don't want items clickable
• make handle follow arbitrary height of the drawer
• [SwipeListItem] Take into account scrollbar visibility and form factor for handle and inline actions
• Remove scaling of iconsize unit for isMobile
• always show back button on layers>1
• hide actions with submenus from more menu
• default ActionToolBar position to Header
• big z to not appear under dialogs
• use opacity to hide buttons that don't fit
• add the spacer only when it fills the width
• fully retrocompatible with showNavigationButtons as bool
• more granularity to globalToolBar.showNavigationButtons

KItemModels

• David Faure is now the maintainer for KItemModels
• KConcatenateRowsProxyModel: add note that Qt 5.13 provides QConcatenateTablesProxyModel

KPackage Framework

• Offer metadata.json when requesting the package metadata
• PackageLoader: Use the right scope for the KCompressionDevice

KPeople

• declarative: refresh actions list when person changes
• declarative: don't crash when the API is misused
• personsmodel: Add phoneNumber

KService

• Expose X-KDE-Wayland-Interfaces
• Fix KService build on Android
• KService: remove broken concept of global sycoca database
• Remove very dangerous deletion code with kbuildsycoca5 --global
• Fix infinite recursion and asserts when the sycoca DB is unreadable by user (e.g. root owned)
• Deprecate KDBusServiceStarter. All usage in kdepim is now gone, DBus activation is a better solution
• Allow KAutostart to be constructed using an absolute path

KTextEditor

• Save and load page margins
• Don't persist authentication
• Re-map default "Switch input mode" shortcut to not conflict with konsolepart (bug 409978)
• Make keyword completion model return HideListIfAutomaticInvocation by default
• Minimap: Do not grab the left-mouse-button-click on up/down buttons
• allow up to 1024 hl ranges instead of not highlighting the line at all if that limit is reached
• fix folding of lines with end position at column 0 of a line (bug 405197)
• Add option to treat some chars also as "auto bracket" only when we have a selection
• Add an action to insert a non-indented newline (bug 314395)
• Add setting to enable/disable text drag-and-drop (on by default)

KUnitConversion

• Add Binary Data units (bits, kilobytes, kibibytes ... yottabytes)

KWallet Framework

• Move kwalletd initialization earlier (bug 410020)
• Remove kde4 migration agent completely (bug 400462)

KWayland

• Use wayland-protocols

KWidgetsAddons

• introduce concept of header and footer for kpageview
• [Busy Indicator] Match duration of QQC2-desktop-style version
• Add a warning dialog with a collapsible details section
• new class KBusyIndicatorWidget similar to QtQuick's BusyIndicator

KWindowSystem

• [platforms/xcb] Use XRES extension to get real window PID (bug 384837)
• Port KXMessages away from QWidget

KXMLGUI

• Add expanding spacers as a customization option for toolbars
• Use monochrome action icons for KAboutData buttons
• Remove visibilityChanged connection in favor of existing eventFilter

ModemManagerQt

• Allow updating default DBus timeout on every interface

NetworkManagerQt

• device: include reapplyConnection() in the interface

Plasma Framework

• [ToolButtonStyle] Use same color group for hovered state
• Handle colors file in fake plasma theme installer
• Install plasma theme into local XDG_DATA_DIR for icon test
• Apply busy indicator duration change of D22646 to the QQC2 style
• Compile package structure plugins into expected subdirectory
• Change Highlight to ButtonFocus
• Fix running the dialognativetest without installing
• Search for the plugin of the other plasmoid
• [Busy Indicator] Match duration of QQC2-desktop-style version
• Add missing components in org.kde.plasma.components 3.0
• Update refresh and restart icons to reflect new breeze-icons versions (bug 409914)
• itemMouse isn't defined in plasma.components 3.0
• use clearItems when an applet gets deleted
• Fix crash if switchSize is adjusted during initial setup
• Improve plugin caching

Purpose

• Phabricator: open a new diff automatically in the browser
• Fix extraction. Patch by Victor Ryzhykh

QQC2StyleBridge

• Fix broken guard that prevents styling sliders with negative values
• Slow down the busy indicator's rotation speed
• Fix "Type error" when creating a TextField with focus: true
• [ComboBox] Set close policy to close on click outside instead of only outside parent (bug 408950)
• [SpinBox] Set renderType (bug 409888)

Solid

• Make sure solid backends are reentrant

Syntax Highlighting

• TypeScript: fix keywords in conditional expressions
• Fix generator and test paths of CMake
• Add support for additional QML keywords not part of JavaScript
• Update cmake highlighting

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 5.61.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.61.0 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 5.61.0 requires Qt .

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

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