Release of KDE Frameworks 5.4.0
Thu, 06 Nov 2014
Collaboration between Qt and KDE
November 06, 2014. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.4.0.
KDE Frameworks are 60 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 Frameworks 5.0 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
- Fix build with Qt 5.4
KArchive
- Add support for rcc files
KAuth
- Fix install dir when using KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS
KCMUtils
- Fix KPluginSelector not adding non .desktop file plugins
KConfigWidgets
- Fix URL in KHelpClient::invokeHelp
KCoreAddons
- Various build fixes (QNX, Ubuntu 14.04)
KDeclarative
- Optimize IconItem in QIconItem in memory and speed
KIO
- New job KIO::mkpath()
- New job KIO::PasteJob, handles pasting+dropping URLs and data; KIO::paste replaces KIO::pasteClipboard
- New function KIO::pasteActionText, to handle the paste action
- When clicking on a script or desktop file in a file manager, let the user choose between executing and vieweing as text
- KUrlRequester: fixing handling of start directory
- Offer also overwrite option when copying multiple files and there is a conflict (regression compared to kdelibs4)
- KDirLister: do not kill+restart running update jobs.
- KDirLister: don’t emit refreshItems for items that haven’t changed.
- Prevent incorrect disk full error messages on mounts where we cannot determine the amount of free space.
- Fix running the file type editor
KNewStuff
- Many small fixes and cleanups
KNotifications
- Add support for custom icons (convenience method KNotification::Event with icon name)
KTextEditor
- Implement “go to last editing position” action
- Guard against a possibly broken code folding state on disk
KWallet
- Emit ‘walletListDirty’ signal when the ‘kwalletd’ directory is deleted
KWidgetsAddons
- New function KMimeTypeEditor::editMimeType(), to launch keditfiletype5
KXmlGui
- Now supports finding ui files in resources (default location: :/kxmlgui5/<componentname>)
Plasma frameworks
- Fixes in the Dialog QML component size and position
- fixes in the Slider and ProgressBar QML components
- new icons
Solid
- [not communicated]
Buildsystem changes
- New modules FindWaylandScanner and FindQtWaylandScanner, including macros ecm_add_qtwayland_client_protocol and ecm_add_qtwayland_server_protocol
Frameworkintegration
- implement support for setting custom labels in file dialogs
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