KDE Frameworks 5.62.0

Saturday, 14 September 2019

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.62.0.

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

• Fix the attica pkgconfig file

Baloo

• Fixes a crash in Peruse triggered by baloo

Breeze Icons

• Add new activities and virtual desktops icons
• Make small recent documents icons look like documents and improve clock emblems
• Create new "Recent folders" icon (bug 411635)
• Add "preferences-desktop-navigation" icon (bug 402910)
• Add 22px dialog-scripts, change script actions/places icons to match it
• Improve "user-trash" icon
• Use empty/filled style for monochrome empty/full trash
• Make notification icons use outline style
• Make user-trash icons look like trashcans (bug 399613)
• Add breeze icons for ROOT cern files
• Remove applets/22/computer (bug 410854)
• Add view-barcode-qr icons
• Krita has split from Calligra and now uses Krita name instead of calligrakrita (bug 411163)
• Add battery-ups icons (bug 411051)
• Make "monitor" a link to "computer" icon
• Add FictionBook 2 icons
• Add icon for kuiviewer, needs updating -> bug 407527
• Symlink "port" to "anchor", which displays more appropriate iconography
• Change radio to device icon, add more sizes
• Make pin icon point to an icon that looks like a pin, not something unrelated
• Fix missing digit and pixel-perfect alignment of depth action icons (bug 406502)
• Make 16px folder-activities look more like larger sizes
• add latte-dock icon from latte dock repo for kde.org/applications
• icon for kdesrc-build used by kde.org/applications to be redrawn
• Rename media-show-active-track-amarok to media-track-show-active

Extra CMake Modules

• ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin: pass code sample indirectly via variable name arg
• Keep 'lib' as default LIBDIR on Arch Linux based systems
• Enable autorcc by default
• Define install location for JAR/AAR files for Android
• Add ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin

KActivitiesStats

• Add Term::Type::files() and Term::Type::directories() to filter only directories or excluding them
• Add @since 5.62 for newly added setters
• Add proper logging using ECMQtDeclareLoggingCategory
• Add setter to Type, Activity, Agent and UrlFilter query fields
• Use special values constants in terms.cpp
• Allow date range filtering of resource events using Date Term

KActivities

• [kactivities] Use new activities icon

KArchive

• Fix creating archives on Android content: URLs

KCompletion

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KConfig

• Fix memory leak in KConfigWatcher
• Disable KCONFIG_USE_DBUS on Android

KConfigWidgets

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)
• [KColorSchemeManager] Optimize preview generation

KCoreAddons

• KProcessInfo::name() now returns only the name of the executable. For the full command line use KProcessInfo::command()

KCrash

• Avoid enabling kcrash if it's only included via a plugin (bug 401637)
• Disable kcrash when running under rr

KDBusAddons

• Fix race on kcrash auto-restarts

KDeclarative

• Warn if KPackage is invalid
• [GridDelegate] Don't select unselected item when clicking on any of its action buttons (bug 404536)
• [ColorButton] Forward accepted signal from ColorDialog
• use zero-based coordinate system on the plot

KDesignerPlugin

• Deprecate kgendesignerplugin, drop bundle plugim for all KF5 widgets

KDE WebKit

• Use ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin instead of private copy

KDocTools

• KF5DocToolsMacros.cmake: Use non-deprecated KDEInstallDirs variables (bug 410998)

KFileMetaData

• Implement writing of images

KHolidays

• Display filename where we return an error

KI18n

• Localize long number strings (bug 409077)
• Support passing target to ki18n_wrap_ui macro

KIconThemes

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KIO

• Undoing trashing files on the desktop has been fixed (bug 391606)
• kio_trash: split up copyOrMove, for a better error than "should never happen"
• FileUndoManager: clearer assert when forgetting to record
• Fix exit and crash in kio_file when put() fails in readData
• [CopyJob] Fix crash when copying an already existing dir and pressing "Skip" (bug 408350)
• [KUrlNavigator] Add MIME types supported by krarc to isCompressedPath (bug 386448)
• Added dialog to set execute permission for executable file when trying to run it
• [KPropertiesDialog] Always check mount point being null (bug 411517)
• [KRun] Check mime type for isExecutableFile first
• Add an icon for the trash root and a proper label (bug 392882)
• Add support for handling QNAM SSL errors to KSslErrorUiData
• Making FileJob behave consistently
• [KFilePlacesView] Use asynchronous KIO::FileSystemFreeSpaceJob
• rename internal 'kioslave' helper executable to 'kioslave5' (bug 386859)
• [KDirOperator] Middle-elide labels that are too long to fit (bug 404955)
• [KDirOperator] Add follow new directories options
• KDirOperator: Only enable "Create New" menu if the selected item is a directory
• KIO FTP: Fix file copy hanging when copying to existing file (bug 409954)
• KIO: port to non-deprecated KWindowSystem::setMainWindow
• Make file bookmark names consistent
• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)
• [KDirOperator] Use more human-readable sort order descriptions
• [Permissions editor] Port icons to use QIcon::fromTheme() (bug 407662)

Kirigami

• Replace the custom overflow button with PrivateActionToolButton in ActionToolBar
• If a submenu action has an icon set, make sure to also display it
• [Separator] Match Breeze borders' color
• Add Kirigami ListSectionHeader component
• Fix context menu button for pages not showing up
• Fix PrivateActionToolButton with menu not clearing checked state properly
• allow to set custom icon for the left drawer handle
• Rework the visibleActions logic in SwipeListItem
• Allow usage of QQC2 actions on Kirigami components and now make K.Action based on QQC2.Action
• Kirigami.Icon: Fix loading bigger images when source is a URL (bug 400312)
• Add icon used by Kirigami.AboutPage

KItemModels

• Add Q_PROPERTIES interface to KDescendantsProxyModel
• Port away from deprecated methods in Qt

KItemViews

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KNotification

• Avoid duplicate notifications from showing up on Windows and remove whitespaces
• Have 1024x1024 app icon as fallback icon in Snore
• Add -pid parameter to Snore backend calls
• Add snoretoast backend for KNotifications on Windows

KPeople

• Make it possible to delete contacts from backends
• Make it possible to modify contacts

KPlotting

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KRunner

• Make sure we're checking whether tearing down is due after finishing a job
• Add a done signal to FindMatchesJob instead of using QObjectDecorator wrongly

KTextEditor

• Allow to customize attributes for KSyntaxHighligting themes
• Fix for all themes: allow turn off attributes in XML highlighting files
• simplify isAcceptableInput + allow all stuff for input methods
• simplify typeChars, no need for return code without filtering
• Mimic QInputControl::isAcceptableInput() when filtering typed characters (bug 389796)
• try to sanitize line endings on paste (bug 410951)
• Fix: allow turn off attributes in XML highlighting files
• improve word completion to use highlighting to detect word boundaries (bug 360340)
• More porting from QRegExp to QRegularExpression
• properly check if diff command can be started for swap file diffing (bug 389639)
• KTextEditor: Fix left border flicker when switching between documents
• Migrate some more QRegExps to QRegularExpression
• Allow 0 in line ranges in vim mode
• Use CMake find_dependency instead of find_package in CMake config file template

KTextWidgets

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KUnitConversion

• Add decibel power units (dBW and multiples)

KWallet Framework

• KWallet: fix starting kwalletmanager, the desktop file name has a '5' in it

KWayland

• [server] Wrap proxyRemoveSurface in smart pointer
• [server] Use cached current mode more and assert validness
• [server] Cache current mode
• Implement zwp_linux_dmabuf_v1

KWidgetsAddons

• [KMessageWidget] Pass widget to standardIcon()
• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

KWindowSystem

• KWindowSystem: add cmake option KWINDOWSYSTEM_NO_WIDGETS
• Deprecate slideWindow(QWidget *widget)
• Add KWindowSystem::setMainWindow(QWindow *) overload
• KWindowSystem: add setNewStartupId(QWindow *...) overload

KXMLGUI

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

NetworkManagerQt

• Rename WirelessDevice::lastRequestScanTime to WirelessDevice::lastRequestScan
• Add property lastScanTime and lastRequestTime to WirelessDevice

Plasma Framework

• Make notification icons use outline style
• make the sizing of the toolbuttons more coherent
• Allow applets/containments/wallpaper to defer UIReadyConstraint
• Make notification icons look like bells (bug 384015)
• Fix incorrect initial tabs position for vertical tab bars (bug 395390)

Purpose

• Fixed Telegram Desktop plugin on Fedora

QQC2StyleBridge

• Prevent dragging QQC2 ComboBox contents outside menu

Solid

• Make battery serial property constant
• Expose technology property in battery interface

Sonnet

• Add option to build Qt Designer plugin (BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN, default ON)

Syntax Highlighting

• C & ISO C++: add digraphs (folding & preprocessor) (bug 411508)
• Markdown, TypeScript & Logcat: some fixes
• Format class: add functions to know if XML files set style attributes
• combine test.m stuff into existing highlight.m
• Support for native Matlab strings
• Gettext: Add "Translated String" style and spellChecking attribute (bug 392612)
• Set the OpenSCAD indentor to C-style instead of none
• Possibility to change Definition data after loading
• Highlighting indexer: check kateversion
• Markdown: multiple improvements and fixes (bug 390309)
• JSP: support of <script> and <style> ; use IncludeRule ##Java (bug 345003)
• LESS: import CSS keywords, new highlighting and some improvements
• JavaScript: remove unnecessary "Conditional Expression" context
• New syntax: SASS. Some fixes for CSS and SCSS (bug 149313)
• Use CMake find_dependency in CMake config file instead of find_package
• SCSS: fix interpolation (#{...}) and add the Interpolation color
• fix additionalDeliminator attribute (bug 399348)
• C++: contracts are not in C++20
• Gettext: fix "previous untranslated string" and other improvements/fixes
• Jam: Fix local with variable without initialisation and highlight SubRule
• implicit fallthrough if there is fallthroughContext
• Add common GLSL file extensions (.vs, .gs, .fs)
• Latex: several fixes (math mode, nested verbatim, ...) (bug 410477)
• Lua: fix color of end with several levels of condition and function nesting
• Highlighting indexer: all warnings are fatal

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 5.62.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.62.0 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 5.62.0 requires Qt .

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

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