Release of KDE Frameworks 5.12.0

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July 10, 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.12.0.

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

Extra CMake Modules

Improve error reporting of query_qmake macro

BluezQt

Remove all devices from adapter before removing the adapter (bug 349363)

Update links in README.md

KActivities

Adding the option not to track the user when in specific activities (similar to the 'private browsing' mode in a web browser)

KArchive

Preserve executable permissions from files in copyTo()

Clarify ~KArchive by removing dead code.

KAuth

Make it possible to use kauth-policy-gen from different sources

KBookmarks

Don't add a bookmark with url is empty and text is empty

Encode KBookmark URL to fix compatibility with KDE4 applications

KCodecs

Remove x-euc-tw prober

KConfig

Install kconfig_compiler into libexec

New code generation option TranslationDomain=, for use with TranslationSystem=kde; normally needed in libraries.

Make it possible to use kconfig_compiler from different sources

KCoreAddons

KDirWatch: Only establish a connection to FAM if requested

Allow filtering plugins and applications by formfactor

Make it possible to use desktoptojson from different sources

KDBusAddons

Clarify exit value for Unique instances

KDeclarative

Add QQC clone of KColorButton

Assign a QmlObject for each kdeclarative instance when possible

Make Qt.quit() from QML code work

Merge branch 'mart/singleQmlEngineExperiment'

Implement sizeHint based on implicitWidth/height

Subclass of QmlObject with static engine

KDELibs 4 Support

Fix KMimeType::Ptr::isNull implementation.

Reenable support for KDateTime streaming to kDebug/qDebug, for more SC

Load correct translation catalog for kdebugdialog

Don't skip documenting deprecated methods, so that people can read the porting hints

KDESU

Fix CMakeLists.txt to pass KDESU_USE_SUDO_DEFAULT to the compilation so it is used by suprocess.cpp

KDocTools

Update K5 docbook templates

KGlobalAccel

private runtime API gets installed to allow KWin to provide plugin for Wayland.

Fallback for componentFriendlyForAction name resolving

KIconThemes

Don't try to paint the icon if the size is invalid

KItemModels

New proxy model: KRearrangeColumnsProxyModel. It supports reordering and hiding columns from the source model.

KNotification

Fix pixmap types in org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.xml

[ksni] Add method to retrieve action by its name (bug 349513)

KPeople

Implement PersonsModel filtering facilities

KPlotting

KPlotWidget: add setAutoDeletePlotObjects, fix memory leak in replacePlotObject

Fix missing tickmarks when x0 > 0.

KPlotWidget: no need to setMinimumSize or resize.

KTextEditor

debianchangelog.xml: add Debian/Stretch, Debian/Buster, Ubuntu-Wily

Fix for UTF-16 surrogate pair backspace/delete behavior.

Let QScrollBar handle the WheelEvents (bug 340936)

Apply patch from KWrite devel top update pure basic HL, "Alexander Clay" <tuireann@EpicBasic.org>

KTextWidgets

Fix enable/disable ok button

KWallet Framework

Imported and improved the kwallet-query command-line tool.

Support to overwrite maps entries.

KXMLGUI

Don't show "KDE Frameworks version" in the About KDE dialog

Plasma Framework

Make the dark theme completely dark, also the complementary group

Cache naturalsize separately by scalefactor

ContainmentView: Do not crash on an invalid corona metadata

AppletQuickItem: Do not access KPluginInfo if not valid

Fix occasional empty applet config pages (bug 349250)

Improve hidpi support in the Calendar grid component

Verify KService has valid plugin info before using it

[calendar] Ensure the grid is repainted on theme changes

[calendar] Always start counting weeks from Monday (bug 349044)

[calendar] Repaint the grid when show week numbers setting changes

An opaque theme is now used when only the blur effect is available (bug 348154)

Whitelist applets/versions for separate engine

Introduce a new class ContainmentView

Sonnet

Allow to use highlight spellchecking in a QPainTextEdit

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 5.12.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.12.0 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 5.12.0 requires Qt 5.2.

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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