KDE Frameworks 5.78.0

Saturday, 9 January 2021

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.78.0.

KDE Frameworks are 83 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

• Honour the job being aborted immediately (bug 429939)

Baloo

• [ExtractorProcess] Move DBus signal from helper to main process
• [timeline] Consolidate code for root folder stat and list
• Make toplevel ioslave UDS entries readonly
• Avoid errors for application startup if no baloo index was ever created
• [BasicIndexingJob] Strip trailing slash from folders (bug 430273)

Breeze Icons

• New compass action icon
• Add image-missing icon to theme
• Add icon for WIM images

Extra CMake Modules

• Tell MSVC that our source files are UTF-8 encoded
• Add Findepoxy.cmake
• Consider local fastlane image assets
• Reproducible tarballs with GNU tar only
• Preserve the rich-text subset supported by F-Droid
• Bump required cmake version for Android.cmake (bug 424392)
• Automatically detect plugin lib deps on Android
• Check if file exists before removing the fastlane archive
• Clean image folder and archive file before downloading/generating those
• Retain screenshot order from the appstream file
• Windows: fix QT_PLUGIN_PATH for tests
• Don't fail if we haven't found any categories
• Make KDEPackageAppTemplates to create reproducible tarball

KActivitiesStats

• Remove broken lastQuery feature, fixes krunner crashes for me

KCalendarCore

• CMakeLists.txt - increase minimum libical version to 3.0

KCMUtils

• KPluginSelector implement default highlight indicator
• kcmoduleqml: don't bind column width to view width (bug 428727)

KCompletion

• [KComboBox] fix crash when calling setEditable(false) with open context menu

KConfig

• Fix windows being inappropriately maximized on launch (bug 426813)
• Correct format of window maximized string
• Fix window sizing and positioning on Windows (bug 429943)

KConfigWidgets

• KCodecAction: add non-overload signals codecTriggered & encodingProberTriggered

KCoreAddons

• Port KJobTrackerInterface to Qt5 connect syntax
• KTextToHtml: fix assert due to out of bounds at() call
• Use flat hierarchy for plugin paths on Android
• desktop to JSON conversion: ignore "Actions=" entry
• Deprecate KProcess::pid()
• ktexttohtml: fix KTextToHTMLHelper usage

KCrash

• Use std::unique_ptr<char[]> to prevent memory leaks

KDeclarative

• Switch to Findepoxy provided by ECM
• KCMShell: Add support for passing arguments
• Workaround crash with GL detection and kwin_wayland
• [KQuickAddons] QtQuickSettings::checkBackend() for fallback to software backend (bug 346519)
• [abstractkcm] Fix import version in code example
• Avoid setting QSG_RENDER_LOOP if set already
• ConfigPropertyMap : load property's default value in the map

KDocTools

• Add an entity for MathML acronym
• Change 'Naval Battle' to 'KNavalBattle' to meet legal matters

KGlobalAccel

• Avoid autostarting kglobalaccel when shutting down (bug 429415)

KHolidays

• Update Japanese holidays

KIconThemes

• Skip warning for some Adwaita icons for backward compatibility
• QSvgRenderer::setAspectRatioMode() was introduced in Qt 5.15

KImageFormats

• Add AVIF to the list of supported formats
• Add plugin for AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

KIO

• [KFileItemDelegate] do not waste space for non-existing icons in columns other than first
• KFilePlacesView, KDirOperator: port to async askUserDelete()
• Rework the way CopyJob finds the JobUiDelegate extensions
• Introduce AskUserActionInterface, an async API for Rename/Skip dialogs
• RenameDialog: only call compareFiles() on files
• kcm/webshortcuts: Fix Reset button
• KUrlNavigatorMenu: fix middle-click handling
• Remove knetattach item from the remote:// ioslave's view (bug 430211)
• CopyJob: port to AskUserActionInterface
• Jobs: add non-overloaded signal "mimeTypeFound" to deprecate "mimetype"
• RenameDialog: Add missing nullptr initialization (bug 430374)
• KShortUriFilter: don't filter "../" and co. strings
• Do not assert if KIO::rawErrorDetail() is given a URL with no scheme (bug 393496)
• KFileItemActions: fix condition, we want to exclude only remote dirs (bug 430293)
• KUrlNavigator: remove kurisearchfilter usage
• KUrlNavigator: make completions of relative paths work (bug 319700)
• KUrlNavigator: resolve relative dir paths (bug 319700)
• Silence warnings due to samba config issues when not using samba explicitly
• KFileWidget: allow files that begin with a ':' to be selected (bug 322837)
• [KFileWidget] fixed bookmark button position in toolbar
• KDirOperator: deprecate mkdir(const QString &, bool)
• KFilePlacesView: allow setting a static icon size (bug 182089)
• KFileItemActions: add new method to insert openwith actions (bug 423765)

Kirigami

• [controls/SwipeListItem]: Always show actions on desktop by default
• [overlaysheet] Use more conditional positioning for close button (bug 430581)
• [controls/avatar]: Open up internal AvatarPrivate as public NameUtils API
• [controls/avatar]: expose generated colour
• Add Hero component
• [controls/Card]: Remove hover animation
• [controls/ListItem]: Remove hover animation
• Move ListItems to use veryShortDuration for hover instead of longDuration
• [controls/Units]: Add veryShortDuration
• ActionButton icon coloring
• use icon pixmaps only as big as needed
• [controls/avatar]: better default appearance
• [controls/avatar]: Fix visual bugs
• Create CheckableListItem component
• [controls/avatar]: scale border according to avatar size
• Revert "[Avatar] Change background gradient"
• Revert "[Avatar] Change border width to 1px to match other bother widths"
• [controls/avatar]: Make Avatar accessibility-friendly
• [controls/avatar]: Increase padding of icon fallback
• [controls/avatar]: Make image mode set sourceSize
• [controls/avatar]: Adjust sizing of text
• [controls/avatar]: Adjust techniques used for circular shape
• [controls/avatar]: Add primary/secondary action to Avatar
• Hardcode OverlaySheet header item padding
• qmake build: add missing sizegroup source/header
• Color icons, not buttons (bug 429972)
• Fix header back and forward buttons having no width
• [BannerImage]: fix not vertically centred header title with non-plasma themes

KItemModels

• Add count property, allows rowCount binding in QML

KItemViews

• KWidgetItemDelegate allow to trigger a resetModel from KPluginSelector

KNewStuff

• Deprecate standardAction and standardActionUpload methods
• Fix QtQuick model if there is only a payload, but no download links
• Add a dptr to Cache, and move the throttle timer there to fix crash (bug 429442)
• Refactor KNS3::Button to use new dialog internally
• Create wrapper class for QML dialog
• Check if version is empty before concatenating version

KNotification

• Improve KNotification API docs

KParts

• Deprecate BrowserHostExtension

KQuickCharts

• Use a custom macro for deprecation messages in QML
• Use ECMGenerateExportHeader for deprecation macros and use them
• Changing interval does not need to clear history
• Change continuous line chart to history proxy source example
• Deprecate Model/ValueHistorySource
• Introduce HistoryProxySource as a replacement for Model/ValueHistorySource
• Add logging categories for charts and use them for existing warnings

KRunner

• [DBus Runner] Add support for custom pixmap icons for results
• Add key to check if the config was migrated
• Separate config and data files
• New API to run matches and for history
• Do not build RunnerContextTest on windows

KService

• KSycoca: avoid database rebuild if XDG_CONFIG_DIRS contains duplicates
• KSycoca: ensure extrafiles are ordered for comparison (bug 429593)

KTextEditor

• Rename "Variable:" to "Document:Variable:"
• Variable Expansion: Fix finding prefix matches with multiple colons
• Move painting from KateTextPreview into KateRenderer
• Make sure only lines in view are used to paint the pixmap
• Use KateTextPreview to render the pixmap
• Variable expansion: Add support for %{Document:Variable:}
• Show the dragged text when dragging (bug 398719)
• Fix detach in TextRange::fixLookup()
• Don't paint currentLine bg if there is an overlapping selection
• KateRegExpSearch: fix logic when adding '\n' between range lines
• rename action to 'Swap with clipboard contents'
• add an action to trigger copy & paste as one action
• feat: add text-wrap action icon for Dynamic Word Wrap
• Undo indent in one step (bug 373009)

KWidgetsAddons

• KSelectAction: add non-overload signals indexTriggered & textTriggered
• KFontChooserDialog: handle dialog being deleted by parent during exec()
• KMessageDialog: call setFocus() on the default button
• Port from QLocale::Norwegian to QLocale::NorwegianBokmal
• Port KToolBarPopupActionTest to QToolButton::ToolButtonPopupMode

KXMLGUI

• KXmlGui: when upgrading a local .rc file, keep new app toolbars
• Fix key recording by setWindow before capture starts (bug 430388)
• Remove unused KWindowSystem dependency
• Clear KXMLGUIClient in memory xml doc after saving shortcuts to disk

Oxygen Icons

• Add upindicator

Plasma Framework

• Expose error information to error plasmoid in a more structured manner
• [components] Hook up Mnemonics
• [svg] Always start SvgRectsCache timer from the correct thread
• [PC3 ProgressBar] Set binding for width (bug 430544)
• fix Windows build + inversion of variables
• [PlasmaComponents/TabGroup] Fix check if item inherits from Page
• Port various components to veryShortDuration on hover
• Move ListItems to use veryShortDuration for hover instead of longDuration
• Add veryShortDuration
• Don't allow negative calendar years (bug 430320)
• Fix broken background (bug 430390)
• Replace QString cache IDs with a struct-based version
• [TabGroup] Reverse animations in RTL mode
• Only remove shortcuts on applet removal not destruction
• Hide disabled contextual actions from ExpandableListItem

Purpose

• KFileItemActions: add menu windowflag
• Share fileitemplugin: use parent Widget as menu parent (bug 425997)

QQC2StyleBridge

• Update org.kde.desktop/Dialog.qml
• Draw ScrollView using Frame instead of Edit (bug 429601)

Sonnet

• Improve performance of createOrderedModel using QVector
• Avoid runtime warning if no guess result exists

Syntax Highlighting

• C++ Highlighting: QOverload and co
• Fix labels beginning with period not being highlighted in GAS
• C++ highlighting: add qGuiApp macro
• Improve dracula theme
• fix #5: Bash, Zsh: ! with if, while, until ; Bash: pattern style for ${var,patt} and ${var^patt}
• fix #5: Bash, Zsh: comments within array
• Cucumber feature syntax
• Zsh: increment syntax version
• Zsh: fix brace expansion in a command
• add weakDeliminator and additionalDeliminator with keyword, WordDetect, Int, Float, HlCOct and HlCHex
• Indexer: reset currentKeywords and currentContext when opening a new definition
• Zsh: many fixes and improvements
• Bash: fix comments in case, sequence expression and ) after ]
• Handle import color in base correctly and specialize for c/c++
• Update Monokai theme
• Verify the correctness/presence of custom-styles in themes
• Add GitHub Dark/Light themes
• increment version, don't change kate version, until I understand why it is needed
• Add licenses
• Add Atom One dark/light themes
• missed to increment version on change
• Fix monokai attribute & operator color
• Add Monokai theme
• CMake: Add missed 3.19 variables and some new added in 3.19.2
• Kotlin: fix some issues and other improvements
• Groovy: fix some issues and other improvements
• Scala: fix some issues and other improvements
• Java: fix some issues and other improvements
• fix && and || in a subcontext and fix function name pattern
• add QRegularExpression::DontCaptureOption when there is no dynamic rule
• Bash: add (...), ||, && in [[ ... ]] ; add backquote in [ ... ] and [[ ... ]]

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 5.78.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.78.0 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 5.78.0 requires Qt 5.14.

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

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