Release of KDE Frameworks 5.13.0

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August 12, 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.13.0.

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

New frameworks

KFileMetadata: file metadata and extraction library

Baloo: file indexing and searching framework

Changes affecting all frameworks

The Qt version requirement has been bumped from 5.2 to 5.3

Debug output has been ported to categorized output, for less noise by default

Docbook documentation has been reviewed and updated

Framework Integration

Fix crash in directories-only file dialog

Don't rely on options()->initialDirectory() for Qt < 5.4

KDE Doxygen Tools

Add man pages for kapidox scripts and update maintainer info in setup.py

KBookmarks

KBookmarkManager: use KDirWatch instead of QFileSystemWatcher to detect user-places.xbel being created.

KCompletion

HiDPI fixes for KLineEdit/KComboBox

KLineEdit: Don't let the user delete text when the lineedit is readonly

KConfig

Don't recommend to use deprecated API

Don't generate deprecated code

KCoreAddons

Add Kdelibs4Migration::kdeHome() for cases not covered by resources

Fix tr() warning

Fix KCoreAddons build on Clang+ARM

KDBusAddons

KDBusService: document how to raise the active window, in Activate()

KDeclarative

Fix deprecated KRun::run call

Same behavior of MouseArea to map coords of filtered child events

Detect initial face icon being created

Don't refresh the entire window when we render the plotter (bug 348385)

add the userPaths context property

Don't choke on empty QIconItem

KDELibs 4 Support

kconfig_compiler_kf5 moved to libexec, use kreadconfig5 instead for the findExe test

Document the (suboptimal) replacements for KApplication::disableSessionManagement

KDocTools

change sentence about reporting bugs, ack'ed by dfaure

adapt german user.entities to en/user.entities

Update general.entities: change markup for frameworks + plasma from application to productname

Update en/user.entities

Update book and man page templates

Use CMAKE_MODULE_PATH in cmake_install.cmake

BUG: 350799 (bug 350799)

Update general.entities

Search for required perl modules.

Namespace a helper macro in the installed macros file.

Adapted key name tranlations to standard tranlations provided by Termcat

KEmoticons

Install Breeze theme

Kemoticons: make Breeze emotions standard instead of Glass

Breeze emoticon pack made by Uri Herrera

KHTML

Let KHtml be useable w/o searching for private deps

KIconThemes

Remove temporary string allocations.

Remove Theme tree debug entry

KIdleTime

Private headers for platform plugins get installed.

KIO

Kill unneeded QUrl wrappers

KItemModels

New proxy: KExtraColumnsProxyModel, allows to add columns to an existing model.

KNotification

Fix the starting Y position for fallback popups

Reduce dependencies and move to Tier 2

catch unknown notification entries (nullptr deref) (bug 348414)

Remove pretty much useless warning message

Package Framework

make the subtitles, subtitles ;)

kpackagetool: Fix output of non-latin text to stdout

KPeople

Add AllPhoneNumbersProperty

PersonsSortFilterProxyModel now available for usage in QML

Kross

krosscore: Install CamelCase header "KrossConfig"

Fix Python2 tests to run with PyQt5

KService

Fix kbuildsycoca --global

KToolInvocation::invokeMailer: fix attachment when we have multi attachement

KTextEditor

guard default log level for Qt < 5.4.0, fix log cat name

add hl for Xonotic (bug 342265)

add Groovy HL (bug 329320)

update J highlighting (bug 346386)

Make compile with MSVC2015

less iconloader use, fix more pixelated icons

enable/disable find all button on pattern changes

Improved search & replace bar

remove useless ruler from powermode

more slim search bar

vi: Fix misreading of markType01 flag

Use correct qualification to call base method.

Remove checks, QMetaObject::invokeMethod guards itself against that already.

fix HiDPI issues with color pickers

Cleanup coe: QMetaObject::invokeMethod is nullptr safe.

more comments

change the way the interfaces are null safe

only output warnings and above per default

remove todos from the past

Use QVarLengthArray to save the temporary QVector iteration.

Move the hack to indent group labels to construction time.

Fixup some serious issues with the KateCompletionModel in tree mode.

Fix broken model design, which relied on Qt 4 behavior.

obey umask rules when saving new file (bug 343158)

add meson HL

As Varnish 4.x introduces various syntax changes compared to Varnish 3.x, I wrote additional, separate syntax highlighting files for Varnish 4 (varnish4.xml, varnishtest4.xml).

fix HiDPI issues

vimode: don't crash if the <c-e> command gets executed in the end of a document. (bug 350299)

Support QML multi-line strings.

fix syntax of oors.xml

add CartoCSS hl by Lukas Sommer (bug 340756)

fix floating point HL, use the inbuilt Float like in C (bug 348843)

split directions did got reversed (bug 348845)

Bug 348317 - [PATCH] Katepart syntax highlighting should recognize \u0123 style escapes for JavaScript (bug 348317)

add *.cljs (bug 349844)

Update the GLSL highlighting file.

fixed default colors to be more distinguishable

KTextWidgets

Delete old highlighter

KWallet Framework

Fix Windows build

Print a warning with error code when opening the wallet by PAM fails

Return the backend error code rather than -1 when opening a wallet failed

Make the backend's "unknown cipher" a negative return code

Watch for PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN for KWallet5

Fix crash when MigrationAgent::isEmptyOldWallet() check fails

KWallet can now be unlocked by PAM using kwallet-pam module

KWidgetsAddons

New API taking QIcon parameters to set the icons in the tab bar

KCharSelect: Fix unicode category and use boundingRect for width calculation

KCharSelect: fix cell width to fit contents

KMultiTabBar margins now are ok on HiDPI screens

KRuler: deprecate unimplemented KRuler::setFrameStyle(), clean up comments

KEditListWidget: remove margin, so it aligns better with other widgets

KWindowSystem

Harden NETWM data reading (bug 350173)

guard for older Qt versions like in kio-http

Private headers for platform plugins are installed.

Platform specific parts loaded as plugins.

KXMLGUI

Fix method behavior KShortcutsEditorPrivate::importConfiguration

Plasma Framework

Using a pinch gesture one can now switch between the different zoom levels of the calenda

comment about code duplication in icondialog

Slider groove color was hardcoded, modified to use color scheme

Use QBENCHMARK instead of a hard requirement on the machine's performance

Calendar navigation has been significantly improved, providing a year and decade overview

PlasmaCore.Dialog now has an 'opacity' property

Make some space for the radio button

Don't show the circular background if there's a menu

Add X-Plasma-NotificationAreaCategory definition

Set notifications and osd to show on all desktops

Print useful warning when we can not get valid KPluginInfo

Fix potential endless recursion in PlatformStatus::findLookAndFeelPackage()

Rename software-updates.svgz to software.svgz

Sonnet

Add in CMake bits to enable building of Voikko plugin.

Implement Sonnet::Client factory for Voikko spell chekers.

Implement Voikko based spell checker (Sonnet::SpellerPlugin)

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 5.13.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.13.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.13.0 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 5.13.0 requires Qt 5.3.

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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