Release of KDE Frameworks 5.30.0

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January 14, 2017. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.30.0.

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

add Haguichi icons from Stephen Brandt (thanks)

finalize calligra icon support

add cups icon thanks colin (bug 373126)

update kalarm icon (bug 362631)

add krfb app icon (bug 373362)

add r mimetype support (bug 371811)

and more

Extra CMake Modules

appstreamtest: handle non-installed programs

Enable colored warnings in ninja's output

Fix missing :: in API docs to trigger code styling

Ignore host libs/includes/cmakeconfig files in Android toolchain

Document usage of gnustl_shared with Android toolchain

Never use -Wl,--no-undefined on Mac (APPLE)

Framework Integration

Improve KPackage KNSHandler

Search for the more precise required version of AppstreamQt

Add KNewStuff support for KPackage

KActivitiesStats

Make compile with -fno-operator-names

Do not fetch more linked resources when one of them goes away

Added model role to retrieve the list of linked activities for a resource

KDE Doxygen Tools

add Android to the list of available platforms

include ObjC++ source files

KConfig

Generate an instance with KSharedConfig::Ptr for singleton and arg

kconfig_compiler: Use nullptr in generated code

KConfigWidgets

Hide the "Show Menu Bar" action if all the menubars are native

KConfigDialogManager: drop kdelibs3 classes

KCoreAddons

Return stringlist/boolean types in KPluginMetaData::value

DesktopFileParser: Honor ServiceTypes field

KDBusAddons

Add python bindings for KDBusAddons

KDeclarative

Introduce org.kde.kconfig QML import with KAuthorized

KDocTools

kdoctools_install: match the full path for the program (bug 374435)

KGlobalAccel

[runtime] Introduce a KGLOBALACCEL_TEST_MODE env variable

KDE GUI Addons

Add Python bindings for KGuiAddons

KHTML

Set plugin data so that the Embeddable Image Viewer works

KIconThemes

Inform QIconLoader also when the desktop icon theme is changed (bug 365363)

KInit

Take X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu property into account when starting app using klauncher

KIO

KIO::iconNameForUrl will now return special icons for xdg locations like the user's Pictures folder

ForwardingSlaveBase: fix passing of Overwrite flag to kio_desktop (bug 360487)

Improve and export KPasswdServerClient class, the client API for kpasswdserver

[KPropertiesDialog] Kill "Place in system tray" option

[KPropertiesDialog] Don't change "Name" of "Link" .desktop files if file name is read-only

[KFileWidget] Use urlFromString instead of QUrl(QString) in setSelection (bug 369216)

Add option to run an app on a discrete graphics card to KPropertiesDialog

terminate DropJob properly after dropping to an executable

Fix logging category usage on Windows

DropJob: emit started copy job after creation

Add support for calling suspend() on a CopyJob before it gets started

Add support for suspending jobs immediately, at least for SimpleJob and FileCopyJob

KItemModels

Update proxies for recently realised class of bugs (layoutChanged handling)

Make it possible for KConcatenateRowsProxyModel to work in QML

KExtraColumnsProxyModel: Persist model indexes after emitting layoutChange, not before

Fix assert (in beginRemoveRows) when deselecting an empty child of a selected child in korganizer

KJobWidgets

Don't focus progress windows (bug 333934)

KNewStuff

[GHNS Button] Hide when KIOSK restriction applies

Fix set up of the ::Engine when created with an absolute config file path

KNotification

Add a manual test for Unity launchers

[KNotificationRestrictions] Let user can specify restriction reason string

KPackage Framework

[PackageLoader] Don't access invalid KPluginMetadata (bug 374541)

fix description for option -t in man page

Improve error message

Fix the help message for --type

Improve installation process of KPackage bundles

Install a kpackage-generic.desktop file

Exclude qmlc files from installation

Don't list separately plasmoids from metadata.desktop and .json

Additional fix for packages with different types but same ids

Fix cmake failure when two packages with different type have same id

KParts

Call the new checkAmbiguousShortcuts() from MainWindow::createShellGUI

KService

KSycoca: don't follow symlink to directories, it creates a risk of recursion

KTextEditor

Fix: Forward dragging text results in wrong selection (bug 374163)

KWallet Framework

Specify minimum required GpgME++ version 1.7.0

Revert "If Gpgmepp is not found, try to use KF5Gpgmepp"

KWidgetsAddons

Add python bindings

Add KToolTipWidget, a tooltip that contains another widget

Fix KDateComboBox checks for valid entered dates

KMessageWidget: use darker red color when type is Error (bug 357210)

KXMLGUI

Warn on startup about ambiguous shortcuts (with an exception for Shift+Delete)

MSWin and Mac have similar autosave windowsize behaviour

Display application version in about dialog header (bug 372367)

Oxygen Icons

sync with breeze icons

Plasma Framework

Fix the renderType properties for various components

[ToolTipDialog] Use KWindowSystem::isPlatformX11() which is cached

[Icon Item] Fix updating implicit size when icon sizes change

[Dialog] Use setPosition / setSize instead of setting everything individually

[Units] Make iconSizes property constant

There is now a global "Units" instance reducing memory consumption and creation time of SVG items

[Icon Item] Support non-square icons (bug 355592)

search/replace old hardcoded types from plasmapkg2 (bug 374463)

Fix X-Plasma-Drop* types (bug 374418)

[Plasma ScrollViewStyle] Show scroll bar background only on hover

Fix #374127 misplacement of popups from dock wins

Deprecate Plasma::Package API in PluginLoader

Recheck which representation we should using in setPreferredRepresentation

[declarativeimports] Use QtRendering on phone devices

consider an empty panel always "applets loaded" (bug 373836)

Emit toolTipMainTextChanged if it changes in response to a title change

[TextField] Allow disabling reveal password button through KIOSK restriction

[AppletQuickItem] Support launch error message

Fix logic for arrow handling in RTL locales (bug 373749)

TextFieldStyle: Fix implicitHeight value so the text cursor is centered

Sonnet

cmake: look for hunspell-1.6 as well

Syntax Highlighting

Fix highlighting of Makefile.inc by adding priority to makefile.xml

Highlight SCXML files as XML

makefile.xml: many improvements, too long to list here

python syntax: added f-literals and improved string handling

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 5.30.0 may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.30.0 are available from the KDE Frameworks 5.30.0 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 5.30.0 requires Qt 5.5.

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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