Release of KDE Frameworks 5.24.0

Also available in:



English | Català | Eesti | Galician | Italiano | Nederlands | Português | Svenska | Українська





July 09, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.24.0.

KDE Frameworks are 70 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

General changes

The list of supported platforms for each framework is now more explicit. Android has been added to the list of supported platforms in all frameworks where this is the case.

Baloo

DocumentUrlDB::del Only assert when children of dir actually exist

Ignore malformed Queries which have a binary operator without first argument

Breeze Icons

Many new or improved icons

fix bug 364931 user-idle icon was not visible (bug 364931)

Add a program to convert symbolically linked files to qrc aliases

Extra CMake Modules

Integrate relative library paths to APK

Use "/data" for DATAROOTDIR on Windows

KArchive

Ensure extracting an archive does not install files outside the extraction folder, for security reasons. Instead, extract such files to the root of the extraction folder.

KBookmarks

Cleanup KBookmarkManagerList before qApp exits, to avoid deadlocks with the DBus thread

KConfig

Deprecate authorizeKAction() in favor of authorizeAction()

Fix reproducibility in builds by ensuring utf-8 encoding

KConfigWidgets

KStandardAction::showStatusbar: Return the intended action

KDeclarative

Make epoxy optional

KDED

[OS X] make kded5 an agent, and build it as a regular application

KDELibs 4 Support

Remove KDETranslator class, there's no kdeqt.po anymore

Document the replacement for use12Clock()

KDesignerPlugin

Add support for KNewPasswordWidget

KDocTools

Allow KDocTools to always locate at least its own installed stuff

Use CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR to look for docbook instead of share

Update qt5options manpage docbook to qt 5.4

Update kf5options manpage docbook

KEmoticons

Move glass theme to kde-look

KGlobalAccel

Use QGuiApplication instead of QApplication

KHTML

Fix applying inherit value for outline shorthand property

Handle initial and inherit for border radius

Discard property if we caught an invalid length|percent as background-size

cssText must output comma separated values for those properties

Fix parsing background-clip in shorthand

Implement background-size parsing in shorthand

Mark properties as set when repeating patterns

Fix background properties inheritance

Fix applying Initial and Inherit for background-size property

Deploy the khtml kxmlgui file in a Qt resource file

KI18n

Also search catalogs for stripped variants of values in env var LANGUAGE

Fix parsing of env var values WRT modifier and codeset, done in wrong order

KIconThemes

Add support for loading and using an icontheme in a RCC file automatically

Document icon theme deployment on MacOS and Windows, see https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kiconthemes/html/index.html

KInit

Allow timeout in reset_oom_protection while waiting for SIGUSR1

KIO

KIO: add SlaveBase::openPasswordDialogV2 for better error checking, please port your kioslaves to it

Fix KUrlRequester opening file dialog in wrong directory (bug 364719)

Fix unsafe KDirModelDirNode* casts

Add cmake option KIO_FORK_SLAVES to set default value

ShortUri filter: fix filtering of mailto:user@host

Add OpenFileManagerWindowJob to highlight file within a folder

KRun: add runApplication method

Add soundcloud search provider

Fix an alignment issue with the OS X native "macintosh" style

KItemModels

Add KExtraColumnsProxyModel::removeExtraColumn, will be needed by StatisticsProxyModel

KJS

kjs/ConfigureChecks.cmake - set HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H properly

KNewStuff

Make sure we have a size to offer (bug 364896)

Fix "Download dialog fails when all categories missing"

KNotification

Fix notify by taskbar

KNotifyConfig

KNotifyConfigWidget: add disableAllSounds() method (bug 157272)

KParts

Add switch to disable KParts' handling of window titles

Add donate menu item to help menu of our apps

Kross

Fix name of QDialogButtonBox's enumerator "StandardButtons"

Remove the first attempt to load library because we will try libraryPaths anyway

Fix crash when a method exposed to Kross returns QVariant with non-relocatable data

Do not use C-style casts into void* (bug 325055)

KRunner

[QueryMatch] Add iconName

KTextEditor

Show Scrollbar Text Preview after a delay of 250ms

hide preview and stuff on view content scrolling

set parent + toolview, I think this is needed to avoid task switcher entry in Win10

Remove "KDE-Standard" from encoding box

Folding preview on per default

Avoid dashed underline for preview & avoid poisoning of line layout cache

Always enable "Show preview of folded text" option

TextPreview: Adjust the grooveRect-height when scrollPastEnd is enabled

Scrollbar preview: use groove rect if scrollbar does not use full height

Add KTE::MovingRange::numberOfLines() just like KTE::Range has

Code folding preview: set popup height so that all hidden lines fit

Add option to disable preview of folded text

Add modeline 'folding-preview' of type bool

View ConfigInterface: support 'folding-preview' of type bool

Add bool KateViewConfig::foldingPreview() and setFoldingPreview(bool)

Feature: Show text preview when hovering over folded code block

KateTextPreview: add setShowFoldedLines() and showFoldedLines()

Add modelines 'scrollbar-minimap' [bool], and 'scrollbar-preview' [bool]

Enable mini-map scrollbar by default

New feature: Show text preview when hovering over the scrollbar

KateUndoGroup::editEnd(): pass KTE::Range by const ref

Fix vim-mode shortcut handling, after behaviour changes in Qt 5.5 (bug 353332)

Autobrace: don't insert ' character in text

ConfigInterface: add scrollbar-minimap config key to enable/disable scrollbar mini map

Fix KTE::View::cursorToCoordinate() when top message widget is visible

Refactoring of the Emulated Command Bar

Fix drawing artifacts when scrolling while notifications are visible (bug 363220)

KWayland

Add a parent_window event to Plasma Window interface

Properly handle destroying a Pointer/Keyboard/Touch resource

[server] Delete dead code: KeyboardInterface::Private::sendKeymap

[server] Add support for setting the clipboard selection DataDeviceInterface manually

[server] Ensure that Resource::Private::get returns nullptr if passed a nullptr

[server] Add resource check in QtExtendedSurfaceInterface::close

[server] Unset SurfaceInterface pointer in referenced objects when being destroyed

[server] Fix error message in QtSurfaceExtension Interface

[server] Introduce a Resource::unbound signal emitted from unbind handler

[server] Don't assert when destroying a still referenced BufferInterface

Add destructor request to org_kde_kwin_shadow and org_kde_kwin_shadow_manager

KWidgetsAddons

Fix reading Unihan data

Fix minimum size of KNewPasswordDialog (bug 342523)

Fix ambiguous contructor on MSVC 2015

Fix an alignment issue under the OS X native "macintosh" style (bug 296810)

KXMLGUI

KXMLGui: Fix merge indices when removing xmlgui clients with actions in groups (bug 64754)

Don't warn about "file found in compat location" if it wasn't found at all

Add donate menu item to help menu of our apps

NetworkManagerQt

Do not set peap label based on peap version

Make network manager version checks in runtime (to avoid compile vs. run-time (bug 362736)

Plasma Framework

[Calendar] Flip arrow buttons on right-to-left languages

Plasma::Service::operationDescription() should return a QVariantMap

Don't include embedded contrainers in containmentAt(pos) (bug 361777)

fix the color theming for the restart system icon (login screen) (bug 364454)

disable taskbar thumbnails with llvmpipe (bug 363371)

guard against invalid applets (bug 364281)

PluginLoader::loadApplet: restore compatibility for misinstalled applets

correct folder for PLASMA_PLASMOIDS_PLUGINDIR

PluginLoader: improve error message about plugin version compatibility

Fix check to keep QMenu on screen for multiscreen layouts

New containment type for the systray

Solid

Fix check that CPU is valid

Handle reading /proc/cpuinfo for Arm processors

Find CPUs by subsystem rather than driver

Sonnet

Mark helper exe as non-gui app

Allow nsspellcheck to be compiled on mac per default

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

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 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 5.24.0 requires Qt 5.4.

A detailed listing of all Frameworks and other third party Qt libraries is at inqlude.org, the curated archive of Qt libraries. A complete list with API documentation is on api.kde.org.

Contribute

Those interested in following and contributing to the development of Frameworks can check out the git repositories , follow the discussions on the KDE Frameworks Development mailing list and contribute patches through review board . Policies and the current state of the project and plans are available at the Frameworks wiki . Real-time discussions take place on the #kde-devel IRC channel on freenode.net

You can discuss and share ideas on this release in the comments section of the dot article.

Supporting KDE

KDE is a Free Software community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Donations page for further information or become a KDE e.V. supporting member through our new Join the Game initiative.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and macOS.

Trademark Notices. KDE® and the K Desktop Environment® logo are registered trademarks of KDE e.V. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective owners.

Press Contacts

For more information send us an email:

press@kde.org