Release of KDE Frameworks 5.4.0

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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

Installing binary packages

On Linux, using packages for your favorite distribution is the recommended way to get access to KDE Frameworks. Binary package distro install instructions.



Compiling from sources