KDE Frameworks 5.98.0

Monday, 12 September 2022

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.98.0.

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

• Update chatroom names in the README

Extra CMake Modules

• ECMGenerateExportHeader: fix & document CUSTOM_CONTENT_FROM_VARIABLE
• Work around exiv2 still using std::auto_ptr
• Add OpenBSD support
• Sync QT_MIN_VERSION with KF's REQUIRED_QT_VERSION
• [FindXCB] Remove special treatment for XINPUT

KArchive

• ktar fix underflow

KAuth

• Fix polkit-qt-1 dependency

KCalendarCore

• Ensure that status values are valid
• Fix nesting of update()/updated() calls

KCMUtils

• Use a CMake option() for the TOOLS_ONLY flag
• KPluginSelector: Remove unnecessary background rect in About sheet (bug 457648)
• Set Type=Application for generated KCM desktop file (bug 457673)
• kcmoduleqml: don't unnecessarily set setContentsMargins twice

KConfig

• Add KServiceAction as a friend of KConfigGroup
• KConfigWatcher: initialize d->m_config in constructor

KConfigWidgets

• Deduplicate color loading code
• [KCommandBar] Add action to clear command history

KCoreAddons

• Remove extra semi colon
• Fix KUrlMimeData::exportUrlsToPortal for mixed files-and-directories URIs

KDeclarative

• KQuickAddons::ConfigModule: Call QmlObject constructor with shared pointer directly
• KDeclarative::setupEngine: Use KQuickIconProvider
• Deprecate KDeclarative::setupEngine
• Do not build kpackagelauncherqml when building without deprecations
• Deprecate KPackage related methods in QmlObject
• fallbacktaphandler remove duplicate parentheses
• Deprecate KDeclarative::setupQmlJsDebugger
• KDeclarative::setupEngine: Wrap code that uses deprecated method in deprecation wrappers
• Deprecate KDeclarative::runtimePlatform and related methods

KDED

• Don't install service type definition when building against Qt6

KGlobalAccel

• GlobalShortcutsRegistry: use std::unique_ptr to manage Components
• Let GlobalShortcutsRegistry manage all components
• Use KFileUtils::findAllUniqueFiles for listing desktop files
• KGlobalAccelD: remove init() function
• GlobalShortcutsRegistry: add two methods providing info about components
• Set QGuiApplication::desktopSettingsAware to false
• Treat key sequence string as PortableText when parsing
• Avoid iterating a container while it's being mutated (bug 437364)
• Don't set NoDisplay when cleaning up service components (bug 454396)
• Don't pass Exec arguments to kstart when launching via desktop entry name (bug 440507)

KDE GUI Addons

• Make QtX11Extras required when building with X11 support (bug 458290)

KHolidays

• Turn HolidaysRegionsModel into a table model

KHTML

• Add CMake option to build WITH_X11

KIconThemes

• Remove unused KItemViews dependency
• Import KIconProvider from KDeclarative
• KIconTheme: fix if condition
• KIconLoader: remove unneeded calls to d->initIconThemes()
• KIconLoader: call methods in Private class constructor
• KIconButton: Add tooltip

KImageFormats

• Protect against too big resize for a QByteArray

KInit

• Add CMake option to build WITH_X11

KIO

• Install WidgetsAskUserActionHandler header
• file_unix: optimize copy (bug 458001)
• KFilePlacesItem: Remove unused enum
• KFilePlacesModel: Don't show error message on UserCanceled
• Add overloads for Utils::concatPaths()
• Use AskUserActionInterface (async) in UserNotificationHandler (bug 451834)
• Ensure iconForStandardPath() returns user-home for QStandardPaths::HomeLocation (bug 447238)
• trash:/ set the UDS_LOCAL_PATH (bug 368104)
• KUrlNavigator: check if typed text matches a relative dir first (bug 353883)
• FileUndoManager: for copyjob only add undo if it copied something (bug 454226)
• Use Functors with QMetaObject::invokeMethod()
• DesktopExecParser: don't kioexec if there is a handler for scheme (bug 442721)
• force admin worker to run in a thread
• install workerfactory header
• introduce RealWorkerFactory
• revise jobuidelegate factorization
• [kfileitemactions] Show desktop file actions more prominently (bug 417012)
• clear state after timeout'd special call
• make loading UDSEntries from streams thread safe
• Remove ServiceType from KDED metadata
• Drop obsolete X11 dependency, introduce WITH_X11 option instead
• Don't install service type definition for properties plugins when building without deprecated things
• Remove service type definition for DnD plugins
• Sync QT_MIN_VERSION with KF's REQUIRED_QT_VERSION

Kirigami

• Make sure we are not showing the pull indicator while idle
• Workaround apps that assume flickable exists before component completition (bug 458099)
• settingscomponents: Ensure page header is drawn for mobile
• Add license info to tst_formlayout
• Fix a potential crash in imagecolors
• FormLayout: Explicitly round up implicit sizes (bug 457675)
• ActionToolBar: Fix undefined children error with QQC2 Action
• do not use uppercase letter
• improve doc wording
• improve doc wording
• Don't leak a QQuickImageResponse in Kirigami::Icon
• Standardize ActionButton comment styling

KJobWidgets

• kuiserverv2jobtracker: Don't terminate a null JobView

KNewStuff

• [qtquickdialogwrapper] Fix finding parent window
• Render GIFs in entry details (bug 458046)
• Fix appstream id for vokoscreenNG (bug 458064)

KQuickCharts

• Use backend-agnostic QSGGeometry attribute types
• PieChart: fix data normalization

KRunner

• Fix renaming of plugin ID when converting DBus runner metadata files (bug 456562)

KTextEditor

• add token description for message
• add showMessage, to show formatted messages
• add addWidget to MainWindow
• Fix autobracket insertion for multicursors
• Improve autocompletion with multicursors
• Use Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V for paste dialog
• Apply title capitalization to all actions
• Improve singleline selection commenting (bug 456819)
• avoid shortcut clash, we can think about this later
• Revert changes to JS API
• Inline quickdialog
• Keep dialog open when clicking into editor field
• Double click to paste
• Enable clipboard history when non read-only
• Add config option: max clipboard history entries
• Remove fuzzy matching
• Add dialog for clipboard history
• Remove KatePasteMenu
• Move QuickDialog class from Kate here
• Implement mouse selection with multicursor
• Fix toggle comment with empty line in selection (bug 458126)
• Vi input: fix find selected
• Fix some inconsistencies in completion config tab (bug 443994)
• Dont enforce word boundary with multicursor occurunce select (bug 457948)
• Optionally allow to show EndOfLine type in statusbar (bug 457885)
• Only update visibility if needed
• Fix Goto line in clipboard
• Make statusbar configurable
• don't promote KService, we want to be used like a proper library
• don't install own service types for KF6
• remove useless include
• use KFontRequester
• allow to configure printing font (bug 457480)
• Fix action texts
• using default constructor for empty string
• Multicursor: Allow skipping selected occurunce
• Update folding ranges on text modification (bug 436480)
• Ignore folding ranges if document has changed (bug 384459)
• KateDocument: always add space after single line comment start marker (bug 456819)
• Use an enum instead of an int to indicate {un,toggle}comment change
• remember last pattern for the "Align On..." action dialog
• rename "Align" to "Format Indentation" in config tooltip
• Making alignOn support block selection mode + fix offset bug
• make view.searchText() return value type consistent, using an invalid range rather than null when it fails to find the text
• Fix cursor position after calling an each-based command, when possible
• Fix vi mode delete behavior (bug 453964)
• document.alignOn defaults to empty pattern
• defaults to foward search
• backward -> backwards, fixing english mistake and using same naming convention as everywhere else in the project
• implements alignOn + rename align to formatIndent (on the surface only)
• making exposed searchText function more general and simplifying JS
• using native textSearch rather than implementing it in JS
• renaming to more efficient command names + adding help text
• fix behavior for shift+arrows after the selection has been made
• Add selection commands (useful for keyboard macros in particular)
• new editing command proposal: align

KWallet Framework

• Don't register dummy org.freedesktop.secrets service when api is disabled (bug 458069)
• Only build kwallet-query's manpage if it's enabled
• Add missing cerrno header
• backendpersisthandler parentheses around assignment used as truth value

KWayland

• Auto cleanup the dangling KWayland::Client::Surface returned from fromWindow

KWidgetsAddons

• Fix KMessageBoxes buttons not having the contents they should the first time
• Improve code quality
• Support dates in ISO format
• Avoid usage of ambiguous two-digit year in date picker
• Share helper returning 4-digit date format with other classes
• only remove ... not &
• Paint frame before contents (bug 454031)
• ensure consistent ... removal in iconText (bug 428372)
• KMessageWidget: Ensure correct tab order of action buttons

KXMLGUI

• Fix crash in addActionToSchemesMoreButton() introduced by merge mistake

Plasma Framework

• Fix dataengine loading in Qt6 code path
• PC3/Slider: Enable hover events (bug 454714)
• PlasmaDialog: Don't constantly reset cursor when resizable edges are ON (bug 454714)
• PC3: Support RTL layouts in controls
• extras/ListItem: Fix undefined reference error to properties from newer controls
• PC3: Improve support for RTL sliders
• extras/Highlight: Fix code style and explicitness
• Port from KDeclarative::runtimePlatform to KRuntimePlatform::runtimePlatform
• BusyIndicator: Fix initialization of the running property
• extras/ExpandableListItem: Remove 'currentIndex' state when unhovering
• PC3/CheckBox: Fix hover animation repeated on press
• TextField: fix height change when password dot appears (bug 410810)
• ExpandableListItem: add expanded property to indicate the view is visible
• Synchronise busy indicator start points
• datamodel.cpp 'then' statement is equivalent to the 'else'
• a11y: toolbuttons are pressable
• a11y: roundbuttons are buttons too

Prison

• Add the mandated 10x quiet zones for Code 39 and Code 93 barcodes

Purpose

• kdeconnect: Fix name role
• Port the remaining QQC1 uses

QQC2StyleBridge

• Explicit binding for visible (bug 458486)
• Make DelayButton look like Spectacle's ProgressButton
• Add FIXME about ToolTip instances with child items that use anchors

Solid

• Add explanation for enum value 'Smb3'
• Improve SMB3 filesystem integration
• Add Samba's SMB3 filesystem to Solid

Syntax Highlighting

• cmake.xml: Add CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY as undocumented
• Use C-style indenting for GLSL
• bash.xml: Reformat for better looking
• VHDL: fix some highlighting and folding errors
• Python: when strings are not closed, mark only the following line as error
• Change singleLineComments to be AfterWhiteSpace for c-like langs (bug 438744 456819)
• Indexer: ignore attribute with lookAhead in suggestRuleMerger() and check attribute only used with lookAhead or IncludeRules
• detect .gcode files as G-Code (bug 457753)
• Asciidoc: fix section block continuation that should not be highlighted
• Asciidoc: optimize rendering time by about 35%
• Asciidoc: fix title highlighting when not starting at level 0
• Bash/Zsh: add -o and -a logical operators with [ ... ]
• G-Code: fix number pattern, Mnnn as M-word or M-word (user), add String and.. (bug 457754)
• Fortran: Interpret percent sign as operator
• RPM Spec: fix #20: support of ${expand:...}, ${lua:...}, lua section and some..
• VHDL: (#21) fix instantiating component in architecture
• CartoCSS: fix the last statement in curly braces when it does not terminate with a semicolon
• C: support of C23 and synchronization with cpp.xml
• C++: Symbol style for LineContinue in String and # in Define
• C++: add assume attribute
• C++: add z/Z number suffix
• C++: add extensions for printf (C23): wN, wfN, H, D, and DD length modifiers, b format
• C++: add elifdef/elifndef ; add Char/String Literal Prefix style ; check extra hexadecimal char in String8
• Optimize AbstractHighlighter
• Resolve regexp rules lazily

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 5.98.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.98.0 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 5.98.0 requires Qt 5.15.2.

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

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