Release of KDE Frameworks 5.25.0

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August 13, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.25.0.

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

Qt >= 5.5 is now required

Attica

Follow HTTP redirects

Breeze Icons

update mail- 16px icons to recognize the icons better

update mic and audio status icons to have the same layout and size

New System Settings app icon

add symbolic status gnome icons

add gnome 3 symbolic icon support

Added icons for Diaspora and Vector, see phabricator.kde.org/M59

New icons for Dolphin and Gwenview

weather icons are status icons no app icons

add some links to xliff thanks gnastyle

add kig icon

add mimetype icons, krdc icon, other app icons from gnastyle

add certificate mimetype icon (bug 365094)

update gimp icons thanks gnastyle (bug 354370)

globe action icon is now no linked file please use it in digikam

update labplot icons according to mail 13.07. from Alexander Semke

add app icons from gnastyle

add kruler icon from Yuri Fabirovsky

fix broken svg files thanks fuchs (bug 365035)

Extra CMake Modules

Fix inclusion when there's no Qt5

Add a fallback method for query_qmake() when there's no Qt5 installation

Make sure ECMGeneratePriFile.cmake behaves like the rest of ECM

Appstream data changed its preferred location

KActivities

[KActivities-CLI] commands for starting and stopping an activity

[KActivities-CLI] setting and getting activity name, icon and description

Added a CLI application for controlling activities

Adding scripts to switch to previous and next activities

Method for inserting into QFlatSet now returns index along with the iterator (bug 365610)

Adding ZSH functions for stopping and deleting non-current activities

Added isCurrent property to KActivities::Info

Using constant iterators when searching for activity

KDE Doxygen Tools

Many improvements to the output formatting

Mainpage.dox has now higher priority than README.md

KArchive

Handle multiple gzip streams (bug 232843)

Assume a directory is a directory, even if the permission bit is set wrong (bug 364071)

KBookmarks

KBookmarkGroup::moveBookmark: fix return value when item is already at the right position

KConfig

Add DeleteFile and RenameFile standard shortcut

KConfigWidgets

Add DeleteFile and RenameFile standard action

The config page has now scroll bars when needed (bug 362234)

KCoreAddons

Install known licenses and find them at runtime (regression fix) (bug 353939)

KDeclarative

Actually emit valueChanged

KFileMetaData

Check for xattr during config step, otherwise the build might fail (if xattr.h is missing)

KGlobalAccel

Use klauncher dbus instead of KRun (bug 366415)

Launch jumplist actions via KGlobalAccel

KGlobalAccel: Fix deadlock on exit under Windows

KHTML

Support percentage unit in border radius

Removed prefixed version of background and border radius properties

Fixes in 4-values shorthand constructor function

Create string objects only if they will be used

KIconThemes

Greatly improve the performance of makeCacheKey, as it is a critical code path in icon lookup

KIconLoader: reduce number of lookups when doing fallbacks

KIconLoader: massive speed improvement for loading unavailable icons

Do not clear search line when switching category

KIconEngine: Fix QIcon::hasThemeIcon always returning true (bug 365130)

KInit

Adapt KInit to Mac OS X

KIO

Fix KIO::linkAs() to work as advertised, i.e. fail if dest already exists

Fix KIO::put("file:///path") to respect the umask (bug 359581)

Fix KIO::pasteActionText for null dest item and for empty URL

Add support for undoing symlink creation

GUI option to configure global MarkPartial for KIO slaves

Fix MaxCacheSize limited to 99 KiB

Add clipboard buttons to checksums tab

KNewFileMenu: fix copying template file from embedded resource (bug 359581)

KNewFileMenu: Fix creating link to application (bug 363673)

KNewFileMenu: Fix suggestion of new filename when file already exist in desktop

KNewFileMenu: ensure fileCreated() is emitted for app desktop files too

KNewFileMenu: fix creating symlinks with a relative target

KPropertiesDialog: simplify button box usage, fix behavior on Esc

KProtocolInfo: refill cache to find newly installed protocols

KIO::CopyJob: port to qCDebug (with its own area, since this can be quite verbose)

KPropertiesDialog: add Checksums tab

Clean url's path before initializing KUrlNavigator

KItemModels

KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel: fix assert in index(0, 0) on empty model

Fix KDescendantsProxyModel::setSourceModel() not clearing internal caches

KRecursiveFilterProxyModel: fix QSFPM corruption due to filtering out rowsRemoved signal (bug 349789)

KExtraColumnsProxyModel: implement hasChildren()

KNotification

Don't set parent of sublayout manually, silences warning

Package Framework

Infer the ParentApp from the PackageStructure plugin

Let kpackagetool5 generate appstream information for kpackage components

Make it possible to load metadata.json file from kpackagetool5

Kross

Remove unused KF5 dependencies

KService

applications.menu: remove references to unused categories

Always update the Trader parser from yacc/lex sources

KTextEditor

Do not ask for overwriting a file twice with native dialogs

added FASTQ syntax

KWayland

[client] Use a QPointer for the enteredSurface in Pointer

Expose Geometry in PlasmaWindowModel

Add a geometry event to PlasmaWindow

[src/server] Verify that surface has a resource before sending pointer enter

Add support for xdg-shell

[server] Properly send a selection clear prior to keyboard focus enter

[server] Handle no XDG_RUNTIME_DIR situation more gracefully

KWidgetsAddons

[KCharSelect] Fix crash when searching with no present data file (bug 300521)

[KCharSelect] Handle characters outside BMP (bug 142625)

[KCharSelect] Update kcharselect-data to Unicode 9.0.0 (bug 336360)

KCollapsibleGroupBox: Stop animation in destructor if still running

Update to Breeze palette (sync from KColorScheme)

KWindowSystem

[xcb] Ensure the compositingChanged signal is emitted if NETEventFilter is recreated (bug 362531)

Add a convenience API to query the windowing system/platform used by Qt

KXMLGUI

Fix minimum size hint (cut-off text) (bug 312667)

[KToggleToolBarAction] Honor action/options_show_toolbar restriction

NetworkManagerQt

Default to WPA2-PSK and WPA2-EAP when getting security type from connection settings

Oxygen Icons

add application-menu to oxygen (bug 365629)

Plasma Framework

Keep compatiable slot createApplet with Frameworks 5.24

Don't delete gl texture twice in thumbnail (bug 365946)

Add translation domain to wallpaper QML object

Don't manually delete applets

Add a kapptemplate for Plasma Wallpaper

Templates: register templates in own toplevel category "Plasma/"

Templates: Update techbase wiki links in READMEs

Define what Plasma packagestructures extend plasmashell

support a size for adding applets

Define Plasma PackageStructure as regular KPackage PackageStructure plugins

Fix: update wallpaper example Autumn's config.qml to QtQuick.Controls

Use KPackage to install Plasma Packages

If we pass a QIcon as an argument to IconItem::Source, use it

Add overlay support to Plasma IconItem

Add Qt::Dialog to default flags to make QXcbWindow::isTransient() happy (bug 366278)

[Breeze Plasma Theme] Add network-flightmode-on/off icons

Emit contextualActionsAboutToShow before showing the applet's contextualActions menu (bug 366294)

[TextField] Bind to TextField length instead of text

[Button Styles] Horizontally center in icon-only mode (bug 365947)

[Containment] Treat HiddenStatus as low status

Add kruler system tray icon from Yuri Fabirovsky

Fix the infamous 'dialogs show up on the Task Manager' bug once more

fix network wireless available icon with an ? emblem (bug 355490)

IconItem: Use better approach to disable animation when going from invisible to visible

Set Tooltip window type on ToolTipDialog through KWindowSystem API

Solid

Always update the Predicate parser from yacc/lex sources

Sonnet

hunspell: Clean up code for searching for dictionaries, add XDG dirs (bug 361409)

Try to fix language filter usage of language detection a bit

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 5.25.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.25.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.25.0 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 5.25.0 requires Qt 5.5.

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.

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