KDE Frameworks 5.68.0

Saturday, 7 March 2020

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.68.0.

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

• [ModifiedFileIndexer] Correct time checks for new files
• [ModifiedFileIndexer] Omit BasicIndexingJob run when not required
• Sync IndexerConfig on exit (bug 417127)
• [FileIndexScheduler] Force evaluation of indexerState after suspend/resume

BluezQt

• Fix errors in the QRegularExpression porting commit

Breeze Icons

• Add network-wireless-hotspot icon
• Move telegram panel icons to status category
• [breeze-icons] Add telegram-desktop tray icons (bug 417583)
• [breeze-icons] New 48px telegram icon
• Add rss icons in action
• Remove 48px telegram icons
• Hotfix to make sure validation is not done in parallel to generation
• New yakuake logo/icon
• Fix inconsistencies and duplicates in network-wired/wireless icons
• Fix old text color values for osd-* icons
• only install generated icons if they were generated
• escape all paths to ensure the CI system works
• set -e on the generator script so it properly errors out on errors
• build: fix the build where install prefix is not user-writable
• hotfix new 24px generator to use bash instead of sh
• Also auto-generate 24@2x compatibility symlinks
• Auto-generate 24px monochrome icons
• Add icons that were only in actions/24 to actions/22
• Set document scale to 1.0 for all actions/22 icons
• Add new smiley-add icons
• Make shapes and shape-choose icons consistent with other -shape icons
• Make smiley-shape consistent with other -shape icons
• Make flower-shape and hexagon-shape icons consistent with other -shape icons
• Replace <use/> with <path/> in muondiscover.svg
• Add status icons: data-error, data-warning, data-information
• Add icon for org.kde.Ikona
• add vvave icon
• add puremaps icon
• Unify the look of all icons containing 🚫 (no sign)
• New icon for KTimeTracker (bug 410708)
• Optimize KTrip and KDE Itinerary icons
• update travel-family icons

Extra CMake Modules

• Support NDK r20 and Qt 5.14
• Load QM files from assets: URLs on Android
• Add ecm_qt_install_logging_categories & ecm_qt_export_logging_category
• ECMGeneratePriFile: unbreak for usages with LIB_NAME not a target name
• ECMGeneratePriFile: Fix static configurations

Framework Integration

• [KStyle] Set the color of KMessageWidgets to the correct one from the current color scheme

KActivities

• Fix issue finding the Boost include directories
• Use exposed DBus methods to switch activities in CLI

KAuth

• [KAuth] Add support for action details in Polkit1 backend
• [policy-gen] Fix the code to actually use the correct capture group
• Drop Policykit backend
• [polkit-1] Simplify Polkit1Backend action exists lookup
• [polkit-1] Return an error status in actionStatus if there is an error
• Calculate KAuthAction::isValid on demand

KBookmarks

• Rename actions to be consistent

KCalendarCore

• Update visibility cache when notebook visibility is changed

KCMUtils

• Check activeModule before using it (bug 417396)

KConfig

• [KConfigGui] Clear styleName font property for Regular font styles (bug 378523)
• Fix code generation for entries with min/max (bug 418146)
• KConfigSkeletonItem : allow to set a KconfigGroup to read and write items in nested groups
• Fix is<PropertyName>Immutable generated property
• Add setNotifyFunction to KPropertySkeletonItem
• Add an is<PropertyName>Immutable to know if a property is immutable

KConfigWidgets

• Change "Redisplay" to "Refresh"

KCoreAddons

• add hint that QIcon can be used as a program logo

KDBusAddons

• Deprecate KDBusConnectionPool

KDeclarative

• Expose capture signal on KeySequenceItem
• Fix size of the header in GridViewKCM (bug 417347)
• Allow ManagedConfigModule derived class to register explicitly KCoreConfigSkeleton
• Allow to use KPropertySkeletonItem in ManagedConfigModule

KDED

• Add a --replace option to kded5

KDE GUI Addons

• [UrlHandler] Handle opening the online docs for KCM modules
• [KColorUtils] Change getHcy() hue range to [0.0, 1.0)

KHolidays

• Update Japanese holidays
• holiday_jp_ja - fix spelling for National Foundation Day (bug 417498)

KI18n

• Support Qt 5.14 on Android

KInit

• Make kwrapper/kshell spawn klauncher5 if needed

KIO

• [KFileFilterCombo] Don't add invalid QMimeType to mimes filter (bug 417355)
• [src/kcms/*] Replace foreach (deprecated) with range/index-based for
• KIO::iconNameForUrl(): handle the case of a file/folder under trash:/
• [krun] Share implementation of runService and runApplication
• [krun] Drop KToolInvocation support from KRun::runService
• Improve KDirModel to avoid showing '+' if there are no subdirs
• Fix running konsole on Wayland (bug 408497)
• KIO::iconNameForUrl: fix searching for kde protocol icons (bug 417069)
• Correct capitalization for "basic link" item
• Change "AutoSkip" to "Skip All" (bug 416964)
• Fix memory leak in KUrlNavigatorPlacesSelector::updateMenu
• file ioslave: stop copying as soon as the ioslave is killed
• [KOpenWithDialog] Automatically select the result if the model filter has only one match (bug 400725)

Kirigami

• Show tooltip with full URL for URL button with overridden text
• Have pullback toolbars on scrollable pages also for footers
• Fix PrivateActionToolButton behaviour with showText vs IconOnly
• Fix ActionToolBar/PrivateActionToolButton in combination with QQC2 Action
• Move checked menu item always into range
• Watch for language change events, and forward those to the QML engine
• Support Qt 5.14 on Android
• don't have overlaysheets under page header
• use fallback when icon failed to load
• Missing links to pagepool source files
• Icon: fix rendering of image: urls on High DPI (bug 417647)
• Do not crash when icon's width or height is 0 (bug 417844)
• fix margins in OverlaySheet
• [examples/simplechatapp] Always set isMenu to true
• [RFC] Reduce size of Level 1 headings and increase left padding on page titles
• properly sync size hints with state machine (bug 417351)
• Add support for static platformtheme plugins
• make headerParent correctly aligned when there is a scrollbar
• Fix tabbar width computation
• Add PagePoolAction to QRC file
• allow toolbar style on mobile
• Make the api docs reflect that Kirigami is not only a mobile toolkit

KItemModels

• KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel: temporarily disable assert due to QTreeView bug
• KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel: reset in setSourceColumns()
• Move Plasma's SortFilterProxyModel into KItemModel's QML plugin

KJS

• Expose the evaluation timeout management functions in public API

KNewStuff

• Fix clicking thumb-only delegate (bug 418368)
• Fix scrolling on the EntryDetails page (bug 418191)
• Don't double delete CommentsModel (bug 417802)
• Cover also the qtquick plugin in the installed categories file
• Use the right translation catalog to show translations
• Fix the KNSQuick Dialog's close title and basic layout (bug 414682)

KNotification

• Make kstatusnotifieritem available without dbus
• Adapt action numbering in Android to work like in KNotifications
• Write down Kai-Uwe as the knotifications maintainer
• Always strip html if server does not support it
• [android] Emit defaultActivated when tapping the notification

KPeople

• fix pri file generation

KQuickCharts

• Do not print errors about invalid roles when roleName is not set
• Use offscreen platform for tests on Windows
• Remove glsl validator download from validation script
• Fix validation error in line chart shader
• Update linechart core profile shader to match compat
• Add comment about bounds checking
• LineChart: Add support for min/max y bounds checking
• Add sdf_rectangle function to sdf library
• [linechart] Guard against divide by 0
• Line charts: Reduce the number of points per segment
• Don't lose points at the end of a line chart

Kross

• Qt5::UiTools is not optional in this module

KService

• New query mechanism for applications: KApplicationTrader

KTextEditor

• Add an option to dynamic-break inside words
• KateModeMenuList: don't overlap the scroll bar

KWayland

• Add application menu dbus paths to org_kde_plasma_window interface
• Registry: don't destroy the callback on globalsync
• [surface] Fix buffer offset when attaching buffers to surfaces

KWidgetsAddons

• [KMessageWidget] Allow the style to change our palette
• [KMessageWidget] Draw it with QPainter instead of using stylesheet
• Slightly reduce level 1 heading size

ModemManagerQt

• Drop qmake pri file generation & installation, currently broken

NetworkManagerQt

• Support SAE in securityTypeFromConnectionSetting
• Drop qmake pri file generation & installation, currently broken

Oxygen Icons

• Support data-error/warning/information also in 32,46,64,128 sizes
• Add "plugins" action item, to match Breeze icons
• Add status icons: data-error, data-warning, data-information

Plasma Framework

• Buttons: allow to scale up icons
• Try to apply the colorscheme of the current theme to QIcons (bug 417780)
• Dialog: disconnect from QWindow signals in destructor
• Fix memory leak in ConfigView and Dialog
• fix layout size hints for button labels
• make sure the size hints are integer and even
• support icon.width/height (bug 417514)
• Remove hardcoded colors (bug 417511)
• Construct NullEngine with KPluginMetaData() (bug 417548)
• Slightly reduce level 1 heading size
• Vertically center tooltip icon/image
• support display property for Buttons
• Don't warn for invalid plugin metadata (bug 412464)
• tooltips always have normal colorgroup
• [Tests] Make radiobutton3.qml use PC3
• Optimize code when dropping files into the desktop (bug 415917)

Prison

• Fix pri file to not fail with CamelCase includes
• Fix pri file to have qmake name of QtGui as dependency

Purpose

• Rewrite nextcloud plugin
• Kill twitter support

QQC2StyleBridge

• ScrollView: Use scrollbar height as bottom padding, not width

Solid

• Fix inverted logic in IOKitStorage::isRemovable

Sonnet

• Fix segfault at exit

Syntax Highlighting

• Fix out-of-memory due to too large context stacks
• General update for CartoCSS syntax highlighting
• Add syntax highlighting for Java Properties
• TypeScript: add private fields and type-only imports/exports, and some fixes
• Add FreeCAD FCMacro extension to the python highlighting definition
• Updates for CMake 3.17
• C++: constinit keyword and std::format syntax for strings. Improvement printf format
• RPM spec: various improvements
• Makefile highlight: fix variable names in "else" conditionals (bug 417379)
• Add syntax highlighting for Solidity
• Small improvements in some XML files
• Makefile highlight: add substitutions (bug 416685)

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 5.68.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.68.0 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 5.68.0 requires Qt .

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

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