KDE Frameworks 5.89.0

Saturday, 11 December 2021

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.89.0.

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

BluezQt

• Add functions that allow setting the discovery filter based on Bluez Adapter APIs

Breeze Icons

• Install dark icons via execute_process to use copy command (bug 445489)
• Link application-menu -> open-menu-symbolic
• Add icon for Virtual Box disk images
• fix keyboard-caps-locked icon use now correct color
• BUG 110673 media-write icon fix
• BUG 412029 add preferences-desktop-feedback icon
• BUG 423937 add edit-copy-path icon for dolphin and konsole
• Add RTL half rating star
• BUG: 414215 add tabs colorful icon (bug 414215 add tabs colorful icon)
• BUG: 414213 add preferences-scroll icon (bug 414213 add preferences-scroll icon)
• BUG: 437999 add veracrypt app icon (bug 437999 add veracrypt app icon)
• Add preferences-git and preferences-document icons for kate
• BUG: 407048 add online account icon for the KCM (bug 407048 add online account icon for the KCM)
• Fix view-history icons
• Use application-certificate icons for Kleopatra's certificate groups
• Add "Invalid = -1" element to the KIconLoaderDummy::Context enum
• BUG: 409022 update disk-quota icons (bug 409022 update disk-quota icons)
• BUG: 372461 update rar mimetype icon (bug 372461 update rar mimetype icon)
• BUG: 405654 Update input-keyboard-virtual-off (bug 405654 Update input-keyboard-virtual-off)
• BUG 110673 add media-write-dvd icon
• BUG 396124 add Crow Translate app icons
• BUG 392534 add missing kmail breeze icons
• Bug 348446 update document-open icons
• Dolphin preferences dialog use colorfull icons only
• Okular sidebar use now colorful icons
• Bug: 444548 Add Gnome todo symbolic icons
• BUG 429737 update view-media-playlist icon and other playlist icons
• BUG 418864 add gajim app icon. status icons can't be used from breeze
• BUG 394023 add gpodder application icon

Extra CMake Modules

• Include QtVersionOption before all Qt5 find_package calls
• ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile: Add an URL parameter
• KDEInstallDirs5: set up KSERVICESDIR alias for KSERVICES5DIR
• KDEInstallDirs6: comment out call to query_qmake, not defined
• KDEInstallDirs6: don't set deprecated variable names anymore
• PLUGINDIR is based upon QTPLUGINDIR, so only define it after QTPLUGINDIR
• Split KDEInstallDirs into a 5 and a 6 variant
• AddAppIcon: clarify ksvg2icns role for @2x icons
• Add support for specifying private dependencies for pkg-config files
• FindEGL add 'lib' prefix for windows

KActivitiesStats

• Fixed the singleton access mutex locking

KArchive

• K7Zip: use functions instead of macros

KBookmarks

• Add source file back

KCalendarCore

• Compare the objects managed by a QSharedPointer
• Avoid update calls if nothing changed
• Consistency and range checking for GEO data
• Check validity of priority value

KCMUtils

• Set initial page using initialPage property, rather than pushing (bug 417636)
• Do not reset KPluginModel if there are no plugins
• Implement KPluginSelector replacement not based around KPluginInfo
• Do not try to unload static plugins
• Support static plugins for X-KDE-ConfigModule property

KConfig

• KDesktopFile: deprecate resource()
• Use innerVarStr instead of varStr for choices
• Add a proper test for the enumms within groups
• Unbreak kconfig with enums, mutators and properties
• Demonstrate build failure with kconfig generated code
• Copy ConfigPropertyMap from KDeclarative to new KConfig QML module

KConfigWidgets

• Add color scheme saving and loading
• Fix hamburger menu opening as a window on Wayland (bug 442375)
• [KCommandBar] Add placeholder text for empty view
• [KCommandBar] Fix rendering of chord shortcuts
• [KCommandBar] Dynamic column widths + shortcuts alignment

KContacts

• Fix address formatting for country-only addresses
• Deprecate countryToISO/ISOToCountry in favor of KCountry
• Use local country names when formatting addresses

KCoreAddons

• KF5CoreAddonsMacros: Replace "-" with "_" for KPLUGINFACTORY_PLUGIN_CLASS_INTERNAL_NAME compile definition
• Compile against Qt6
• Allow reading enabled state from KPluginMetaData using templated method
• KF5CoreAddonsMacros: Build static plugins as static libs
• Store KDE specific static plugin in seperate map
• Make KPluginMetaData::isStaticPlugin public
• kcoreaddons_add_plugin: Set property for file name
• Add assertion to make sure we have a d-ptr in KPluginMetaData::getStaticPlugin
• Create kcoreaddons_target_static_plugins cmake function
• Allow KPluginMetaData::findPlugins to return static plugins
• kcoreaddons_add_plugin: Allow creation of static plugins
• Allow KPluginMetaData to represent static plugins
• Create KPluginFactory::create method for loading KPart without keyword
• Deprecate KPluginFactory::create overload taking plugin keyword
• Deprecate KPluginFactory::registerPlugin(QString, CreateInstance*) methods
• Deprecate KPluginFactory::registerPlugin overloads taking keyword
• KPluginFactory: Use overload instead of default arg for registerPlugin keyword parameter
• Deprecate KPluginMetaData::serviceTypes

KDBusAddons

• Link against X11Extras when building statically

KDeclarative

• KeySequenceItem: Make sure we record on the correct window (bug 445277)
• Deprecate KRun KIO plugin
• Allow KCM kpackages to use metadata of C++ plugin
• Add takeLast() slot to ConfigModule
• Fix overflowing text properly

KDELibs 4 Support

• Move Esperanto flag icon to kdelibs (bug 445077)

KFileMetaData

• KFileMetaData::Property: Deprecate toVariantMap and toPropertyMap methods
• Port deprecated QMap methods to QMultiMap
• Put code of public header depending on deprecated Qt API in deprecation wrapper
• [PopplerExtractor] extract pageCount

KGlobalAccel

• Make XCB XTEST optional requirement

KDE GUI Addons

• Add KSystemClipboard to use wlr-data-control transparently in Wayland

KI18n

• Document how KLazyLocalizedString is tied to a translation domain
• Consider TRANSLATION_DOMAIN when converting to a KLocalizedString
• KLazyLocalizedString: add KLocalizedString forward API for convenience
• KLazyLocalizedString: allow implicit default constructor
• Add KLazyLocalizedString::isEmpty() const
• Fix MSVC warning about inconsistent export macro in forward declaration
• Port Kuit keymap away from I18N_NOOP macro usage
• Deprecate the I18N_NOOP macros in favor of KLazyLocalizedString
• Add KLazyLocalizedString as a replacement for the I18N_NOOP macros
• Fix loading a KCatalog with a different language on Windows

KIconThemes

• KIconLoader: prefer icons from current theme before falling back to other themes (bug 445804)
• [KIconDialog] Add Ctrl+F shortcut for focussing search line
• [KIconButton] Pre-select current icon when opening dialog
• [KIconDialog] Add API for pre-selecting an icon

KImageFormats

• avif: limit scope of variables
• Add JXL to the list of supported formats
• Add plugin for JPEG XL (JXL)

KIO

• Add new signals and logic to handle open directories in new windows or tabs
• Fix KRun::runApplication when xdg activation is involved (bug 446272)
• Explicitly remove the event filters in classes managed by a unique_ptr
• [KACLEditWidget] Load list of users/groups on demand
• [KPropertiesDialog] Reuse existing KUser instance
• Do not create thumbnails when it requires to copy the file to /tmp (bug 368104)
• Fix directory thumbnailer loading
• [CopyJob] Emit moving while renaming
• [KPropertiesDialog] Improve presentation of file type configuration
• [KPropertiesDialog] Add extra fields value in correct column
• Allow loading of Thumbnailers using embedded json metadata
• KDirOperator: get the icon sizes from user settings
• [KACLEditWidget] Remove redundancy and add icons to buttons
• [KPropertiesDialog] Use Filelight icon and name from desktop file
• [KPropertiesDialog] Hide time labels in multiple mode
• [KPropertiesDialog] Also hide label_left for timestamps
• Fix copying between different filesystems on Linux < 5.3
• [KDynamicJobTracker] Support KUiServerV2JobTracker

Kirigami

• PageRowGlobalToolBarUI: use open-menu-symbolic
• Heading: Deprecate headerPointSize(int level) method
• Let escape key close pushed dialog layers
• AboutItem: fix the view for narrow dialogs
• AboutItem: Report its implicit size so it can scroll
• Increase passive notification opacity (bug 440390)
• Bold labels for narrow FormLayout
• Add Dialog Components
• add columns on empty width
• DefaultCardBackground improvements
• Expose internal icon source in the Avatar component
• Preconfigure kconfig and kaboutdata on template

KJS

• Don't call functions on pointers that may not point to objects

KNewStuff

• Improve presentation of multi-file download sheet
• Use RTL half-star rating icon when in RTL mode (bug 440650)

KNotification

• [Tester] Support urgency for inline reply notification

KPackage Framework

• Utilize type-safe KPluginMetaData API methods
• Utilize KPluginMetaData::value overloads

KParts

• Remove calls to KIO::Scheduler::publishSlaveOnHold

KRunner

• Port to KPluginMetaData::isEnabled instead of custom string magic

KService

• KPluginInfo: Fix mimetypes that are wildcards not appearing in MimeTypes json value
• Deprecate KToolInvokation::kdeinitExecWait
• Deprecate E-Mail and terminal related methods in KToolInvocation

KTextEditor

• Bring back git via QProcess
• When reloading, don't override auto-detected hl mode if not set by user
• If user didn't set them, don't override file type and highlighting modes detection
• Pass KTextEditor::Cursor by value everywhere
• Remove selected text if preedit is not empty
• Disable "tail-available-on-undo" in ViInputMode
• Improve built-in search performance
• Remove duplicated lua.js indent file
• Create a separate path for fetching lineLength
• Use iterators for iterating over blocks
• Completion in two edits feature describing comment
• Re-add "undo removed tail" on completion

KUnitConversion

• [Currency] Don't complain about missing connection if we didn't download

KWallet Framework

• MAC_USE_OSXKEYCHAIN: Link against CoreFoundation

KWidgetsAddons

• KAcceleratorManager: Take into account actions with Alt+X shortcuts

KWindowSystem

• Make KWindowSystem a bit easier to integrate in QML

Plasma Framework

• wallpaperinterface: Don't double delete action (bug 446195)
• Use open-menu-symbolic instead of application-menu
• Make Breeze plasma scrollbar/slider/progressbar color match application theme
• Heading: Deprecate headerPointSize(int level) method
• Don't reload renderers for empty paths
• PageStack: Replace == equality with === strict equality
• Reload shared renderers when a file changed on disk (bug 445516)
• PlasmoidHeading: Turn location into an alias for position property
• Replace variant property type with var and other appropriate types
• org.kde.plasma.extras: Follow Qt style of implicitWidth/implicitHeight declaration
• Title: Replace implementation with Heading {}
• Title: Lower size (again)
• QQuickWindow::event after setupwaylandintegration
• Do updateTheme after QQuickWindow::event (bug 305247)
• Breeze slider.svg: Fix bad SVG code making shadow invisible
• set all roles that can be mapped from dialog types to plasma protocol role
• smaller mask to hide glitches (bug 438644)
• KF5PlasmaMacros: Actually install desktop files if they exist
• make the OSD an actual wayland OSD (bug 428859)

QQC2StyleBridge

• Fix syntax highlighting

Solid

• Allow udisks2 and upower backends to be disabled with environment variables
• Add device description for storage medium without size
• Config.cmake: Lookup LibMount when building statically
• Add support for graphics tablet batteries
• [upower] Consider audio devices and generic bluetooth devices to be batteries (bug 445141)
• [upower] Add new device types

Sonnet

• don't load plugins from current working directory, that is even a security issue
• export all known languages
• massive speedup, avoid loading the same huge dictionaries several times
• only load one instance of a plugin
• core: attempt to load local plugins first, makes development easier

Syntax Highlighting

• markdown.xml: Fix highlighting of headers (include last char) (bug 445918)
• Update orgmode.xml
• use the same way as emacs to highlight priority cookie
• support verbatim since it seems used more often than inline code
• support single line comment, babel call, priority cookie
• Update context.xml version
• Update ConTeXt test references
• Corrected syntax for ConTeXt TABLE commands (bug 445820)
• ConTeXt: Verbatim highlighting allows for nesting (bug 445818)
• Added ConTeXt test references
• Update context.xml version number
• Added highlighting for ConTeXt "\m" command
• Fixed current math command highlighting
• misc: Add Pipfile to create Python venv for generators
• cmake.xml: Updates for CMake 3.22
• fix: Add Loader parameter in call to yaml.load()
• update test for inline code
• support inline code and another type of number list
• support block and number list
• add orgmode.xml
• add racket.xml

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 5.89.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.89.0 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 5.89.0 requires Qt 5.15.2.

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

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