Release of KDE Frameworks 5.20.0

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March 13, 2016. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.20.0.

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

Breeze Icons

Many new icons

Add virtualbox mimetype icons and some other missing mimetypes

Add synaptic and octopi icon support

Fix cut icon (bug 354061)

Fix name of audio-headphones.svg (+=d)

Rating icons with smaller margin (1px)

Framework Integration

Remove possible file-name in KDEPlatformFileDialog::setDirectory()

Don't filter by name if we have mime types

KActivities

Remove dependency on Qt5::Widgets

Remove dependency on KDBusAddons

Remove dependency on KI18n

Remove unused includes

Shell scripts output improved

Added the data model (ActivitiesModel) showing the activities to the library

Build only the library by default

Remove the service and workspace components from the build

Move the library into src/lib from src/lib/core

Fix CMake warning

Fix crash in activities context menu (bug 351485)

KAuth

Fix kded5 dead lock when a program using kauth exits

KConfig

KConfigIniBackend: Fix expensive detach in lookup

KCoreAddons

Fix Kdelibs4 config migration for Windows

Add API to get Frameworks runtime version info

KRandom: Don't use up 16K of /dev/urandom to seed rand() (bug 359485)

KDeclarative

Don't call null object pointer (bug 347962)

KDED

Make it possible to compile with -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII

KDELibs 4 Support

Fix session management for KApplication based applications (bug 354724)

KDocTools

Use unicode characters for callouts

KFileMetaData

KFileMetadata can now query and store information about the original email a saved file may have been an attachment of

KHTML

Fix cursor updating in view

Limit string memory use

KHTML java applet viewer: repair broken DBus call to kpasswdserver

KI18n

Use portable import macro for nl_msg_cat_cntr

Skip looking up . and .. to find the translations for an application

Restrict _nl_msg_cat_cntr use to GNU gettext implementations

Add KLocalizedString::languages()

Place Gettext calls only if catalog has been located

KIconThemes

Make sure variable is being initialized

KInit

kdeinit: Prefer loading libraries from RUNPATH

Implement "Qt5 TODO: use QUrl::fromStringList"

KIO

Fix KIO app-slave connection breaking if appName contains a '/' (bug 357499)

Try multiple authentication methods in case of failures

help: fix mimeType() on get()

KOpenWithDialog: show mimetype name and comment in "Remember" checkbox text (bug 110146)

A series of changes to avoid a directory relist after a file rename in more cases (bug 359596)

http: rename m_iError to m_kioError

kio_http: read and discard body after a 404 with errorPage=false

kio_http: fix mimetype determination when URL ends with '/'

FavIconRequestJob: add accessor hostUrl() so that konqueror can find out what the job was for, in the slot

FavIconRequestJob: fix job hanging when aborting due to favicon too big

FavIconRequestJob: fix errorString(), it only had the URL

KIO::RenameDialog: restore preview support, add date and size labels (bug 356278)

KIO::RenameDialog: refactor duplicated code

Fix wrong path-to-QUrl conversions

Use kf5.kio in the category name to match other categories

KItemModels

KLinkItemSelectionModel: Add new default constructor

KLinkItemSelectionModel: Make the linked selection model settable

KLinkItemSelectionModel: Handle changes to the selectionModel model

KLinkItemSelectionModel: Don't store model locally

KSelectionProxyModel: Fix iteration bug

Reset KSelectionProxyModel state when needed

Add a property indicating whether the models form a connected chain

KModelIndexProxyMapper: Simplify logic of connected check

KJS

Limit string memory use

KNewStuff

Show a warning if there's an error in the Engine

Package Framework

Let KDocTools stay optional on KPackage

KPeople

Fix deprecated API usage

Add actionType to the declarative plugin

Reverse the filtering logic in PersonsSortFilterProxyModel

Make the QML example slightly more usable

Add actionType to the PersonActionsModel

KService

Simplify code, reduce pointer dereferences, container-related improvements

Add kmimeassociations_dumper test program, inspired by bug 359850

Fix chromium/wine apps not loading on some distributions (bug 213972)

KTextEditor

Fix highlighting of all occurrences in ReadOnlyPart

Don't iterate over a QString as if it was a QStringList

Properly initialize static QMaps

Prefer toDisplayString(QUrl::PreferLocalFile)

Support surrogate character sending from input method

Do not crash on shutdown when text animation is still running

KWallet Framework

Make sure KDocTools is looked-up

Don't pass a negative number to dbus, it asserts in libdbus

Clean cmake files

KWallet::openWallet(Synchronous): don't time out after 25 seconds

KWindowSystem

support _NET_WM_BYPASS_COMPOSITOR (bug 349910)

KXMLGUI

Use non-native Language name as fallback

Fix session management broken since KF5 / Qt5 (bug 354724)

Shortcut schemes: support globally installed schemes

Use Qt's qHash(QKeySequence) when building against Qt 5.6+

Shortcut schemes: fix bug where two KXMLGUIClients with the same name overwrite each other's scheme file

kxmlguiwindowtest: add shortcuts dialog, for testing the shortcut schemes editor

Shortcut schemes: improve usability by changing texts in GUI

Shortcut schemes: improve scheme list combo (automatic size, don't clear on unknown scheme)

Shortcut schemes: don't prepend the guiclient name to the filename

Shortcut schemes: create dir before trying to save a new shortcut scheme

Shortcut schemes: restore layout margin, it looks very cramped otherwise

Fix memory leak in KXmlGui startup hook

Plasma Framework

IconItem: Don't overwrite source when using QIcon::name()

ContainmentInterface: Fix use of QRect right() and bottom()

Remove effectively duplicate code path for handling QPixmaps

Add API docs for IconItem

Fix stylesheet (bug 359345)

Don't wipe window mask on every geometry change when compositing is active and no mask has been set

Applet: Don't crash on remove panel (bug 345723)

Theme: Discard pixmap cache when changing theme (bug 359924)

IconItemTest: Skip when grabToImage fails

IconItem: Fix changing color of svg icons loaded from icon theme

Fix svg iconPath resolving in IconItem

If path is passed, pick the tail (bug 359902)

Add properties configurationRequired and reason

Move contextualActionsAboutToShow to Applet

ScrollViewStyle: Do not use margins of the flickable item

DataContainer: Fix slot checks before connect/disconnect

ToolTip: Prevent multiple geometry changes while changing contents

SvgItem: Don't use Plasma::Theme from rendering thread

AppletQuickItem: Fix finding own attached layout (bug 358849)

Smaller expander for the taskbar

ToolTip: Stop show timer if hideTooltip is called (bug 358894)

Disable animation of icons in plasma tooltips

Drop animations from tooltips

Default theme follows color scheme

Fix IconItem not loading non-theme icons with name (bug 359388)

Prefer other containments than desktop in containmentAt()

WindowThumbnail: Discard glx pixmap in stopRedirecting() (bug 357895)

Remove the legacy applets filter

ToolButtonStyle: Don't rely on an outside ID

Don't assume we find a corona (bug 359026)

Calendar: Add proper back/forward buttons and a "Today" button (bugs 336124, 348362, 358536)

Sonnet

Don't disable language detection just because a language is set

Disable automatic disabling of automatic spelling by default

Fix TextBreaks

Fix Hunspell dictionary search paths missing '/' (bug 359866)

Add <app dir>/../share/hunspell to dictionary search path

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 5.20.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.20.0 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 5.20.0 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.

Supporting KDE

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