KDE Frameworks 5.96.0

Saturday, 9 July 2022

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.96.0.

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

Breeze Icons

• Create edit-image icon that's a symlink to tool_imageeffects
• Add new okular icon
• Create sidebar-show-symbolic symlink (bug 455247)
• applets/256: Add dark version of analogclock

Extra CMake Modules

• ECMDeprecationSettings: enable warnings by default
• ECMAddQch: let doxygen update the config file instead of "outdated" warnings
• Fix SHOW_DEPRECATIONS option not getting respected when function is called
• Change -Wundef warning to an error

KCalendarCore

• Don't drop custom properties with non-text value types
• Add calendar loading state property
• Fix UTC offset timezone loading with latest Qt 5.15.x
• Change the xCalFormat classes to use a hierarchical dptr

KConfigWidgets

• Add edit-clear-list icon to the Clear List action

KCoreAddons

• xdg drag and drop portal support
• Install KMemoryInfo headers

KDeclarative

• kquickcontrols: give main button a description
• kquickcontrols: give Clear button a tooltip
• qmlcontrols: make isPlatformX11 and isPlatformWayland constant
• qmlcontrols: add isPlatformX11 and isPlatformWayland in KWindowSystemProxy
• qmlcontrols: add Pad fill mode in QImageItem (bug 389623)
• [KeySequenceItem] Replace attached object ToolTip with an instance

KDED

• Shorten KSycoca update delay

KDocTools

• catalog: Avoid needlessly copying a list to be returned
• Allow build with nix package manager

KGlobalAccel

• Launch app in terminal when Terminal=true (bug 455117)
• Fix D-Bus de/marshalling KGlobalAccel::MatchType (bug 454704)

KHolidays

• Fix reporting invalid sun event times
• Update Indonesian holidays

KI18n

• Accept null strings from QML

KImageFormats

• PSD header checks according to specifications
• Improved detection of alpha channel on CMYK images
• Fix Alpha + testcase images
• Basic support to CMYK 8/16 bits (not fully tested)
• jxl: support both old 0.6.1 and new 0.7.0 libjxl API
• avif: read performance improvements

KIO

• Rename ioslave_defaults to ioworker_defaults
• Don't treat KJob::UserDefinedError as unknown error (bug 456055)
• move global enum to worker nomenclature
• [webrunner] Add debian as new keyword for webrunner
• [knewfilemenu] Don't forcibly change file extension (bug 456091)
• [knewfilemenu] Write Name when creating Link files
• [knewfilemenu] Always add .desktop suffix when creating link file
• Pass JobUiDelegate's window to created dialogs
• Deprecated global file class code in KFileWidget
• KRecentDirs: Deprecate reading/writing to global file
• [kfileplacesmodel] Cache device display name
• PreviewJob: Add note about plugins being cached internally
• KRecentDocuments: Improve indentation in recentlyused.xbel (bug 456046)
• Add template for empty file (bug 297003)
• We need it when we build with strict compile
• Don't leak the slave's worker thread
• filewidgets: update location text after selected files are renamed (bug 455327)
• Add "Get more Apps in Discover" button to kopenwithdialog
• New worker API
• KPropertiesDialog: fix saving changes when editing a .desktop file symlink (bug 450727)

Kirigami

• Fix and improve template for KAppTemplate
• NavigationTabBar: Add recolorIcons property
• Make JavaScript cleaner and stricter
• BannerImage: Fix empty property definition
• PagePoolAction: Fix typeof check
• SwipeListItem: warn users when they try to override the padding (bug 453959)
• template: add method to restore window geometry
• OverlaySheet: Check if isMobile to set footer extra margin
• OverlayDrawer: Make sure the handle is gone when it's hidden (bug 450902)
• Fix checkable labels
• ActionTextField: Fix RTL layout and actions rows
• ActionTextField: Bump QML imports
• PasswordField: Sync code to PlasmaExtras
• Dont't change title color when page is not active
• Fix race: Object (m_item) is operated on before it is assigned
• Use creationContext of the Component as the starting point
• Sync changes from PlasmaExtras PasswordField to disable Ctrl-Z
• Fix link to theme doc

KNewStuff

• KNewStuffWidgets: generate QCH docs

KService

• add aliasfor custom property

KTextEditor

• AppCommands: Do not quit application when last document or all documents are closed (bug 454924)
• Fix leak of KateCompletionWidget::m_argumentHintTree
• Allow to disable KAuth
• KateThemeConfig: when copying a scheme, put the current name in the line-edit
• Utilize ECMDeprecationSettings to manage deprecate Qt API
• avoid that saveAs uses filename as directory (bug 454648)
• allow to disable the autoreload if content is in git
• Fix occurence highlighting not working with custom line height

KUnitConversion

• Don't add empty string keys in the units map

KWayland

• Implement PlasmaWindowModel::itemData to expose all the roles

KWidgetsAddons

• avoid margin if we have no text set

KWindowSystem

• Make enum Q_ENUM
• Implement _GTK_SHOW_WINDOW_MENU (bug 454756)

KXMLGUI

• Fix QWhatsThis links not being clickable
• Allow to load rc file in kf6

Plasma Framework

• FrameItemNode: Remove unnecessary attribute
• Expose the edit mode to the applets
• Units: Fix sizeForLabels double-scaling icons with Plasma scaling (bug 454131)
• Update plugins.qmltypes for org.kde.plasma.core
• Skip test for old style theme metadata format when building without deprecations
• Revert "Use QT_FEATURE_foo to detect opengl* support, and TARGET for glesv2"
• wallpaperinterface: call setSource before setContextProperty
• Add back the WindowsGoBelow panel behavior (bug 455138)
• breeze/widgets: Make analog clock follow colorscheme (bug 377935)

Purpose

• [plugins/email] Port to KEMailClientLauncherJob

QQC2StyleBridge

• iterate only over visible children in menu
• Avoid a crash with kscreenlocker_greet or any other QGuiApplication
• Make StackView obey the global animation speed setting (bug 395324)

Solid

• avoid segfault if qobject_cast fails
• upower: Allow displaying Apple Magic Trackpad charge level
• skip non-FileSystem StorageVolumes in storageAccessFromPath

Syntax Highlighting

• Handle case when heredoc closing identifier is indented with space or tabulation (bug 353162)
• cmake.xml: Updates for CMake 3.24
• Add OrderWithRequires and RemovePathPostfixes keywords to RPM Spec
• Adjust repo's own includes (bug 453759)

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 5.96.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.96.0 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 5.96.0 requires Qt 5.15.2.

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

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