Release of KDE Frameworks 5.46.0

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May 12, 2018. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.46.0.

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

Baloo

Avoid infinite loops when fetching the URL from DocumentUrlDB (bug 393181)

Add Baloo DBus signals for moved or removed files

Install pri file for qmake support & document it in metainfo.yaml

baloodb: Add clean command

balooshow: Colorize only when attached to terminal

Remove FSUtils::getDirectoryFileSystem

Avoid hardcoding of filesystems supporting CoW

Allow disabling of CoW to fail when not supported by filesystem

databasesanitizer: Use flags for filtering

Fix merging of terms in the AdvancedQueryParser

Use QStorageInfo instead of a homegrown implementation

sanitizer: Improve device listing

Immediately apply termInConstruction when term is complete

Handle adjacent special characters correctly (bug 392620)

Add test case for parsing of double opening '((' (bug 392620)

Use statbuf consistently

Breeze Icons

Add plasma-browser-integration system tray icon

Add Virt-manager icon thanks to ndavis

Add video-card-inactive

overflow-menu as view-more-symbolic, and horizontal

Use the more appropriate "two sliders" icon for "configure"

Extra CMake Modules

Include FeatureSummary before calling set_package_properties

Don't install plugins within lib on android

Make it possible to build several apk out of a project

Check if the application androiddeployqt package has a main() symbol

KCompletion

[KLineEdit] Use Qt's built-in clear button functionality

Fix KCompletionBox on wayland

KCoreAddons

[KUser] Check whether .face.icon is actually readable before returning it

Make KJob signals public so Qt5 connect syntax can work

KDeclarative

Load NV graphics reset based on config

[KUserProxy] Adjust to accounts service (bug 384107)

Plasma mobile optimizations

Make room for footer and header

new resize policy (bug 391910)

support actions visibility

Support nvidia reset notifications in QtQuickViews

KDED

Add platform detection and adjustment to kded (automatic setting of )

KFileMetaData

Add description and purpose to Xattr dep

extractors: Hide warnings from system headers

fix detection of taglib when compiling for Android

Install pri file for qmake support & document it in metainfo.yaml

Make concatenated strings wrappable

ffmpegextractor: Silence deprecation warnings

taglibextractor: Fix empty genre bug

handle more tags in taglibextractor

KHolidays

holidays/plan2/holiday_sk_sk - Teacher's Day fix (bug 393245)

KI18n

[API dox] New UI marker @info:placeholder

[API dox] New UI marker @item:valuesuffix

Don't need to run previous iterations commands again (bug 393141)

KImageFormats

[XCF/GIMP loader] Raise maximimum allowed image size to 32767x32767 on 64 bit platforms (bug 391970)

KIO

Thumbnail smooth scaling in filepicker (bug 345578)

KFileWidget: Perfectly align filename widget with icon view

KFileWidget: Save places panel width also after hiding panel

KFileWidget: Prevent places panel width from growing 1px iteratively

KFileWidget: Disable zoom buttons once reached minimum or maximum

KFileWidget: Set minimum size for zoom slider

Don't select file extension

concatPaths: process empty path1 correctly

Improve grid icon layout in filepicker dialog (bug 334099)

Hide KUrlNavigatorProtocolCombo if there is just one protocol supported

Only show supported schemes in KUrlNavigatorProtocolCombo

Filepicker reads thumbs preview from Dolphin settings (bug 318493)

Add Desktop and Downloads to the default list of Places

KRecentDocument now stores QGuiApplication::desktopFileName instead of applicationName

[KUrlNavigatorButton] Also don't stat MTP

getxattr takes 6 parameters in macOS (bug 393304)

Add a "Reload" menu item to KDirOperator's context menu (bug 199994)

Save the dialog view settings even when canceling (bug 209559)

[KFileWidget] Hardcode example user name

Don't show top "Open With" app for folders; only for files

Detect incorrect parameter in findProtocol

Use text "Other Application..." in "Open With" submenu

Correctly encode URL of thumbnails (bug 393015)

Tweak column widths in tree view of file open/save dialogs (bug 96638)

Kirigami

Don't warn when using Page {} outside of a pageStack

Rework InlineMessages to address a number of issues

fix on Qt 5.11

base on units for toolbutton size

color close icon on hover

show a margin under the footer when needed

fix isMobile

also fade on open/close anim

include the dbus stuff only on unix-non android, non apple

watch the tabletMode from KWin

on desktop mode show actions on hover (bug 364383)

handle in the top toolbar

use a gray close button

less applicationwindow dependency

less warnings without applicationwindow

work correctly without applicationWindow

Don't have a non-integral size on separators

Don't show the actions if they are disabled

checkable FormLayout items

use different icons in the color set example

include icons only on android

make it work with Qt 5.7

KNewStuff

Fix double margins around DownloadDialog

Fix hints in UI files about subclasses of custom widgets

Don't offer qml plugin as a link target

KPackage Framework

use KDE_INSTALL_DATADIR instead of FULL_DATADIR

Add donate urls to test data

KPeople

Fix PersonSortFilterProxyModel filtering

Kross

Also make installation of translated docs optional

KRunner

DBus runner servicename wildcard support

KTextEditor

optimization of KTextEditor::DocumentPrivate::views()

[ktexteditor] much faster positionFromCursor

Implement single click on line number to select line of text

Fix missing bold/italic/... markup with modern Qt versions (>= 5.9)

Plasma Framework

Fix not shown event marker in calendar with air & oxygen themes

Use "Configure %1..." for text of applet configure action

[Button Styles] Fill height and vertical align (bug 393388)

add video-card-inactive icon for system tray

correct look for flat buttons

[Containment Interface] Don't enter edit mode when immutable

make sure largespacing is perfect multiple of small

call addContainment with proper paramenters

Don't show the background if Button.flat

ensure the containment we created has the activity we asked for

add a version containmentForScreen with activity

Don't alter memory management to hide an item (bug 391642)

Purpose

Make sure we give some vertical space to configuration plugins

Port KDEConnect plugin config to QQC2

Port AlternativesView to QQC2

QQC2StyleBridge

export layout paddings from qstyle, start from Control

[ComboBox] Fix mouse wheel handling

make the mousearea not interfere with controls

fix acceptableInput

Solid

Update mount point after mount operations (bug 370975)

Invalidate property cache when an interface is removed

Avoid creating duplicate property entries in the cache

[UDisks] Optimize several property checks

[UDisks] Correct handling of removable file systems (bug 389479)

Sonnet

Fix remove enable/disable button

Fix enable/disable add button

Look into subdirectories for dictionaries

Syntax Highlighting

Update project URL

'Headline' is a comment, so base it on dsComment

Add highlighting for GDB command listings and gdbinit files

Add syntax highlighting for Logcat

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. Binary package distro install instructions.



Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.46.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.46.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.46.0 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 5.46.0 requires Qt 5.8.

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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