Release of KDE Frameworks 5.6.0

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January 08, 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.6.0.

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

Two new frameworks in this release: KPackage and NetworkManagerQt

KActivities

Introducing the ActivityInfo QML object

Linking now supports special values alongside activity ids. Supported values: * - :global - links to all activities * - :current - links to the current activity

KCoreAddons

KDirWatch can now watch /dev/shm as well (bug 314982)

KDELibs4Migration now always returns an absolute path

KCrash

Fix build on FreeBSD

Kdelibs4Support

Add Lithuania to the list of Euro countries

KdeSU

Fix build on OSX and on FreeBSD

KHtml

6 bug fixes forward-ported from kdelibs4.

KIO

Add support for .hidden files, for users to hide some files from views. (feature 246260)

New method KRun::runService, like KRun::run but returns the PID of the newly started process.

kioexec: fixed many porting bugs, to make it work again

KRun::run: fixed porting bug, to make it work again in the case where KProcess is used directly

KRun: make klauncher runtime dependency optional

Fix compilation on MSVC

Performance: decrease memory consumption of UDSEntry

Actions in popupmenus: in case of multiple mimetypes selected, services that support all mimetypes are now added to the menu.

New job: KIO::DropJob KIO::drop(QDropEvent ev, QUrl destUrl). Replaces KonqOperations::doDrop.

Restart directory watcher after a failed delete operation

Fix false warning about X-KDE-Protocols unused in desktop files without that field.

Merge various settings modules (KCMs) related to kio, into the kio framework.

When copying/moving out the trash, make the files writable.

KIO::file_move now does the chmod on the destination file before emitting result.

KNotifications

Remove NotifyBySound. NotifyByAudio implements the "Sound" notification already

Fix crash accessing dangling pointer in NotifyByPopup

KRunner

Do not detect anything with a '.' as a NetworkLocation (porting bug, bug 340140). One can also uses a decimal point in a calculator.

KService

Fix build on MSVC.

KTextEditor

Fix build on MSVC.

vimode bugfixes

add syntax file for Oracle PL/SQL

ppd highlighting: better support for multiline values

KWidgetsAddons

Add runtime style element extension convenience functions for widgets: KStyleExtensions

KWindowSystem

Add OnScreenDisplay window type

Fix build on FreeBSD

Plasma-framework

Let month menu navigate in current year (bug 342327)

Expose new OnScreenDisplay window type in Dialog

Migrate Plasma::Package to KPackage

Fix labels not picking up changes to font settings at runtime

Fix text not properly updating its color when switching themes (especially dark<-->light)

Fix placeholder text in textfields being too strong when using a light theme

Set visibility on mainItem to match Dialog

Load IconItem immediately upon componentComplete()

Use the same text colour for comboboxes as buttons

Performance improvements (less config-file reparsing, use shared config...)

roundToIconSize(0) now returns 0

Give undo notifications a title

Solid

Enable fstab and upower backends on FreeBSD

Power: Add aboutToSuspend signal

Buildsystem changes

ECM's KDEInstallDirs now supports KDE_INSTALL_* variables, which should be used in preference to the CMAKE_INSTALL_* variables or the older KDELibs4-compatible variables. The older forms of the variables are still supported (and kept in sync) unless KDE_INSTALL_DIRS_NO_DEPRECATED or KDE_INSTALL_DIRS_NO_CMAKE_VARIABLES are set to TRUE. See the documentation for more details.

Add COMPATIBILITY argument to ecm_setup_version(). Lots of libraries will want to use SameMajorVersion to make sure searching for version 1 of a library doesn't give you version 2, for example.

Fix ECMQueryQmake when Qt5Core is missing.

Additional buildsystem changes in Extra-Cmake-Modules 1.6.1

Fix building projects that use both GNUInstallDirs and KDEInstallDirs in different subdirectories by not unsetting cache variables in KDEInstallDirs.

Fix KDE_INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS value on OSX.

Frameworkintegration

Fix handling of palette change events (bug 336813)

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 5.6 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.6 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.6 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 5.6.0 requires Qt 5.2.

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

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