Release of KDE Frameworks 5.22.0

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May 15, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.22.0.

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

Attica

Properly check if a URL is a local file

Baloo

Compilation fixes for Windows

Breeze Icons

Many new action and application icons.

Specify offered extensions as per change in kiconthemes

Extra CMake Modules

Android deployment: support projects without things in share or lib/qml (bug 362578)

Enables KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS if CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX Qt5 prefix

ecm_qt_declare_logging_category: improve error message when using without including

Framework Integration

Remove platformtheme plugin as it's in plasma-integration

KCoreAddons

Provide a way to disable inotify use in KDirWatch

Fix KAboutData::applicationData() to init from current Q*Application metadata

Make clear that KRandom is not recommended for cryptography purposes

KDBusAddons

KDBusService: turn '-' into '_' in object paths

KDeclarative

Don't crash if we have no openGL context

KDELibs 4 Support

Provide a fallback MAXPATHLEN if not defined

Fix KDateTime::isValid() for ClockTime values (bug 336738)

KDocTools

Added entity applications

KFileMetaData

Merge branch 'externalextractors'

Fixed external plugins and tests

Added support for external writer plugins

Added writer plugin support

Add external extractor plugin support

KHTML

Implement toString for Uint8ArrayConstructor and friends

Merge in several Coverity-related fixes

Correctly use QCache::insert

Fix some memory leaks

Sanity check CSS web font parsing, avoid potential mem leak

dom: Add tag priorities for 'comment' tag

KI18n

libgettext: Fix potential use-after-free using non-g++ compilers

KIconThemes

Use appropriate container for internal pointer array

Add opportunity to reduce unneeded disk accesses, introduces KDE-Extensions

Save some disk accesses

KIO

kurlnavigatortoolbutton.cpp - use buttonWidth in paintEvent()

New file menu: filter out duplicates (e.g. between .qrc and system files) (bug 355390)

Fix error message on startup of the cookies KCM

Remove kmailservice5, it can only do harm at this point (bug 354151)

Fix KFileItem::refresh() for symlinks. The wrong size, filetype and permissions were being set

Fix regression in KFileItem: refresh() would lose the file type, so a dir became a file (bug 353195)

Set text on QCheckbox widget rather than using a separate label (bug 245580)

Don't enable acl permissions widget if we don't own the file (bug 245580)

Fix double-slash in KUriFilter results when a name filter is set

KUrlRequester: add signal textEdited (forwarded from QLineEdit)

KItemModels

Fix template syntax for test case generation

Fix linking with Qt 5.4 (wrongly placed #endif)

KParts

Fix the layout of the BrowserOpenOrSaveQuestion dialogue

KPeople

Add a check for PersonData being valid

KRunner

Fix metainfo.yaml: KRunner is neither a porting aid nor deprecated

KService

Remove too-strict maximum string length in KSycoca database

KTextEditor

Use proper char syntax '"' instead of '\"'

doxygen.xml: Use default style dsAnnotation for "Custom Tags" as well (less hard-coded colors)

Add option to show the counter of words

Improved foreground color contrast for search & replace highlightings

Fix crash when closing Kate through dbus while the print dialog is open (bug #356813) (bug 356813)

Cursor::isValid(): add note about isValidTextPosition()

Add API {Cursor, Range}::{toString, static fromString}

KUnitConversion

Inform the client if we don't know the conversion rate

Add ILS (Israeli New Shekel) currency (bug 336016)

KWallet Framework

disable seession restore for kwalletd5

KWidgetsAddons

KNewPasswordWidget: Remove size hint on spacer, which was leading to some always empty space in the layout

KNewPasswordWidget: fix QPalette when widget is disabled

KWindowSystem

Fix generation of path to xcb plugin

Plasma Framework

[QuickTheme] Fix properties

highlight/highlightedText from proper color group

ConfigModel: Don't try to resolve empty source path from package

[calendar] Only show the events mark on days grid, not month or year

declarativeimports/core/windowthumbnail.h - fix -Wreorder warning

reload icon theme properly

Always write the theme name to plasmarc, also if the default theme is chosen

[calendar] Add a mark to days containing an event

add Positive, Neutral, Negative text colors

ScrollArea: Fix warning when contentItem is not Flickable

Add a prop and method for aligning the menu against a corner of its visual parent

Allow setting minimum width on Menu

Maintain order in stored item list

Extend API to allow (re)positioning menu items during procedural insert

bind highlightedText color in Plasma::Theme

Fix unsetting associated application/urls for Plasma::Applets

Don't expose symbols of private class DataEngineManager

add an "event" element in the calendar svg

SortFilterModel: Invalidate filter when changing filter callback

Sonnet

Install parsetrigrams tool for cross compiling

hunspell: Load/Store a personal dictionary

Support hunspell 1.4

configwidget: notify about changed config when ignored words updated

settings: don't immediately save the config when updating ignore list

configwidget: fix saving when ignore words updated

Fix failed to save ignore word issue (bug 355973)

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 5.22.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.22.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.22.0 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 5.22.0 requires Qt 5.4.

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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About KDE

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