Release of KDE Frameworks 5.39.0

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October 14, 2017. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.39.0.

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

Only match real MIME types, not e.g. "raw CD image" (bug 364884)

Remove pf.path() from container before the reference got screwed up by it.remove()

Fix tags KIO-slave protocol description

Consider markdown files to be Documents

Breeze Icons

add overflow-menu icon (bug 385171)

Extra CMake Modules

Fix python bindings compilation after 7af93dd23873d0b9cdbac192949e7e5114940aa6

Framework Integration

Make KStandardGuiItem::discard match QDialogButtonBox::Discard

KActivitiesStats

Changed the default query limit to zero

Added the option to enable model tester

KCMUtils

Make KCMultiDialog scrollable (bug 354227)

KConfig

Deprecate KStandardShortcut::SaveOptions

KConfigWidgets

Deprecate KStandardAction::PasteText and KPasteTextAction

KCoreAddons

desktoptojson: Improve legacy service type detection heuristic (bug 384037)

KDeclarative

Relicense to LGPL2.1+

Added openService() method to KRunProxy

KFileMetaData

fix crash when more than one instances of ExtractorCollection are destructed

KGlobalAccel

Revert "KGlobalAccel: port to KKeyServer's new method symXModXToKeyQt, to fix numpad keys" (bug 384597)

KIconThemes

add a method to reset the custom palette

use qApp->palette() when no custom one is set

allocate the proper buffer size

allow to set a custom palette instead of colorSets

expose the colorset for the stylesheet

KInit

Windows: Fix 'klauncher uses absolute compile time install path for finding kioslave.exe'

KIO

kioexec: Watch the file when it has finished copying (bug 384500)

KFileItemDelegate: Always reserve space for icons (bug 372207)

Kirigami

don't instantiate Theme file in BasicTheme

add a new Forward button

less contrast to the sheet scrollbar background

more reliable insert and remove from overflow menu

better context icon rendering

more careful to center the action button

use iconsizes for action buttons

pixel perfect icon sizes on desktop

selected effect to fake handle icon

fix color of handles

better color for the main action button

fix context menu for desktop style

better "more" menu for the toolbar

a proper menu for the intermediate pages context menu

add a text field which should bring up a keypad

don't crash when launched with non existent styles

ColorSet concept in Theme

simplify wheel management (bug 384704)

new example app with desktop/mobile main qml files

ensure currentIndex is valid

Generate the appstream metadata of the gallery app

Look for QtGraphicalEffects, so packagers don't forget it

Don't include the control over the bottom decoration (bug 384913)

lighter coloring when listview has no activeFocus

some support for RTL layouts

Disable shortcuts when an action is disabled

create the whole plugin structure in the build directory

fix accessibility for the gallery main page

If plasma isn't available, KF5Plasma isn't either. Should fix the CI error

KNewStuff

Require Kirigami 2.1 instead of 1.0 for KNewStuffQuick

Properly create KPixmapSequence

Don't complain the knsregistry file is not present before it's useful

KPackage Framework

kpackage: bundle a copy of servicetypes/kpackage-generic.desktop

kpackagetool: bundle a copy of servicetypes/kpackage-generic.desktop

KParts

KPartsApp template: fix install location of kpart desktop file

KTextEditor

Ignore default mark in icon border for single selectable mark

Use QActionGroup for input mode selection

Fix missing spell check bar (bug 359682)

Fix the fall-back "blackness" value for unicode > 255 characters (bug 385336)

Fix trailing space visualization for RTL lines

KWayland

Only send OutputConfig sendApplied / sendFailed to the right resource

Don't crash if a client (legally) uses deleted global contrast manager

Support XDG v6

KWidgetsAddons

KAcceleratorManager: set icon text on actions to remove CJK markers (bug 377859)

KSqueezedTextLabel: Squeeze text when changing indent or margin

Use edit-delete icon for destructive discard action (bug 385158)

Fix Bug 306944 - Using the mousewheel to increment/decrement the dates (bug 306944)

KMessageBox: Use question mark icon for question dialogs

KSqueezedTextLabel: Respect indent, margin and frame width

KXMLGUI

Fix KToolBar repaint loop (bug 377859)

Plasma Framework

Fix org.kde.plasma.calendar with Qt 5.10

[FrameSvgItem] Iterate child nodes properly

[Containment Interface] Don't add containment actions to applet actions on desktop

Add new component for the greyed out labels in Item Delegates

Fix FrameSVGItem with the software renderer

Don't animate IconItem in software mode

[FrameSvg] Use new-style connect

possibility to set an attached colorscope to not inherit

Add extra visual indicator for Checkbox/Radio keyboard focus

don't recreate a null pixmap

Pass item to rootObject() since it's now a singleton (bug 384776)

Don't list tab names twice

don't accept active focus on tab

register revision 1 for QQuickItem

[Plasma Components 3] Fix RTL in some widgets

Fix invalid id in viewitem

update mail notification icon for better contrast (bug 365297)

qqc2-desktop-style

New module: QtQuickControls 2 style that uses QWidget's QStyle for painting This makes it possible to achieve an higher deree of consistency between QWidget-based and QML-based apps.

Solid

[solid/fstab] Add support for x-gvfs style options in fstab

[solid/fstab] Swap vendor and product properties, allow i18n of description

Syntax Highlighting

Fix invalid itemData references of 57 highlighting files

Add support for custom search paths for application-specific syntax and theme definitions

AppArmor: fix DBus rules

Highlighting indexer: factor out checks for smaller while loop

ContextChecker: support '!' context switching and fallthroughContext

Highlighting indexer: check existence of referenced context names

Relicense qmake highlighting to MIT license

Let qmake highlighting win over Prolog for .pro files (bug 383349)

Support clojure's "@" macro with brackets

Add syntax highlighting for AppArmor Profiles

Highlighting indexer: Catch invalid a-Z/A-z ranges in regexps

Fixing incorrectly capitalized ranges in regexps

add missing reference files for tests, looks ok, I think

Added Intel HEX file support for the Syntax highlighting database

Disable spell checking for strings in Sieve scripts

ThreadWeaver

Fix memory leak

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 5.39.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.39.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.39.0 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 5.39.0 requires Qt 5.7.

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

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