KDE Ships Plasma 5.1.2, Bugfix Release for December

Tuesday, 16 December 2014. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.1.2. Plasma 5.1 was released in October with many feature refinements and streamlining the existing codebase of KDE's popular desktop for developers to work on for the years to come.

This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include:

Plasma Desktop

Fix vertical aligment.

Fix test by removing old test install directory

Read/Write ColorScheme to configGroup General instead of KDE

Remove KGlobal check and KComponentData object that overrode applications KAboutData when showing dialogs.

Ignore bottom margin unless view is overflowing.

Highlight first entry when searching

Fix 'Forget App' in Recent Apps not working immediately.

[desktop/views] Set right margin properly

Don't duplicate entries when the Rever button is clicked

Bouncing cursor is the default

Fix installing cursor themes from GHNS

Fix target install dir

Fix crash on Defaults

Fix install target dir

Disable checkbox buddies when unchecked.

Yank duplicate group header.

X-KDE-Keywords separator is ,

Fix regression in event handler causing favorites to launch on right-click release.

Don't put scripts from ~/.config/autostart in autostart kcm list.

Don't parse window titles as rich text.

Oxygen

Fixed color role for accelerator

Added inputWidgetEngine, for abstract item views, line editors, spinboxes and comboboxes it is needed to avoid animation conflicts between lists and buttons (when, e.g. there is a checkbox inside a list)

Removed support for Q3ListView

Manually calculate viewport update rect on header hover change

Remove mnemonic underlines when alt-tabbing

CMake: use the kde4workspace include dir

CMake: fix searching for pkg-config

Fixed member initialization removed unused headers backported from breeze

Breeze

Fix ui files

Fixed color role for accelerator

Added inputWidgetEngine, for abstract item views, line editors, spinboxes and comboboxes it is needed to avoid animation conflicts between lists and buttons (when, e.g. there is a checkbox inside a list)

Removed Q3ListView support

Add LGPL 3 for breeze icons with clairification as in Oxygen

Manually calculate viewport update rect on header hover change BUG: 340343

Fixed KDE4 compilation CCBUG: 341006

Remove mnemonic underlines when alt-tabbing

Removed unused members CCMAIL: staniek@kde.org

Fixed uninitialized member _value CCMAIL: staniek@kde.org

Powerdevil

Fix battery remaining time update with upower >= 0.99

KDE CLI Tools

Use QFile::decodeName for command in KDEsuDialog to fix encoding

port away from Q_WS_X11

System Settings

Restore KStandardGuiItems

KWin

[kcmkwin/screenedges] Drop check whether Compositing is enabled

Cleanup electric border handling in leaveMoveResize

Fixuifiles

Require OpenGL 2.0 in the SceneOpenGL2 constructor

Plasma Workspace

[lookandfeel/osd] Make the OSD timeout shorter

Fix ui files

Fix lockscreen theme fallback

Add the next wallpaper action when necessary

[applets/notifications] Revert i18n changes cherry-picked from master

Only play indeterminate animation when plasmoid is expanded

Refactor JobDelegate

Don't leave a gap when label1 is not visible

Don't emit a Job finished notification if the message would be empty

Finish cleanup and remove unused config.ui remnant

When no percentage is exposed over the dataengine make the progress bar indeterminate

Cleanup Jobs code and remove dead code

Alleviate the annoyance of Job Finished notifications

Escape ampersands in notifications

[dataengines/notifications] Replace

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Fix dialog minimum height (always add the margins afterwards)

Also take the title label into account when calculating the dialog size

Enforce StyledText in notifications

Hide popup when opening configure dialog

Fix notification configure button

Fix binding loops and make popup even more compact

Cleanup Loaders

Cleanup Notifications code

Move duplicated code from NotificationDelegate and NotificationPopup into a new NotificationItem

Make sure lock screen package name does not overlap highlight rectangle

Actually save the kscreensaver config

fix resetting and reverting to default values

Fix qml warnings in splash kcm

Separator for Keywords is ;

Hopefully fix shell resizing in VirtualBox

Take into account the primary screen can be redundant

Delayed primaryOutput processing needs to be delayed

[digital-clock] Also set minHeight in vertical panels

BUG: 337742 REVIEW: 120431. Fix and future-proof security in Dr Konqi.

[freespacenotifier] Fix hiding the SNI when avail space goes up again

[freespacenotifier] Make the SNI just Active when free space raised

Find messages in QML as well

Plasma Addons

Handle onExternalData event in notes applet

Properly wrap to the next hour

KIO Extras

Sanitize path

Package Downloads

Distributions have created, or are in the process of creating, packages listed on our wiki page.

Source Downloads

You can install Plasma 5 directly from source. KDE's community wiki has instructions to compile it. Note that Plasma 5 does not co-install with Plasma 4, you will need to uninstall older versions or install into a separate prefix.

Feedback

You can provide feedback either via the #Plasma IRC channel, Plasma-devel mailing list or report issues via bugzilla. Plasma 5 is also discussed on the KDE Forums. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. If you like what the team is doing, please let them know!

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