KDE Frameworks 5.53.0 released

[David Faure]

09th December 2018. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.53.0.

KDE Frameworks are 79 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.


Baloo

  Fix searches for rating 10 (5 stars) (bug 357960)
  Avoid writing unchanged data to terms dbs
  Do not add Type::Document/Presentation/Spreadsheet twice for MS Office docs
  Actually initialize kcrash properly
  Make sure there is only one MTime per document in the MTimeDB
  [Extractor] Use QDataStream serialization in place of cooked one
  [Extractor] Replace homegrown IO handler with QDataStream, catch HUP

Breeze Icons

  Add icons for application-vnd.appimage/x-iso9660-appimage
  Add 22px dialog-warning icon (bug 397983)
  Fix angle and margin of 32px dialog-ok-apply (bug 393608)
  Change primary monochrome icon colors to match new HIG colors
  Change archive-* action icons to represent archives (bug 399253)
  Add help-browser symlink to 16px and 22px directories (bug 400852)
  Add new generic sorting icons; rename existing sorting icons
  Add root version of drive-harddisk (bug 399307)

Extra CMake Modules

  New module: FindLibExiv2.cmake

Framework Integration

  Add option BUILD_KPACKAGE_INSTALL_HANDLERS to skip building install handlers

KDE Doxygen Tools

  Add busy indicator during research and make the research asynchronous (bug 379281)
  Normalize all input paths with the os.path.normpath function (bug 392428)

KCMUtils

  Perfect alignment between QML and QWidget KCM titles
  Add context to kcmodule connection to lambdas (bug 397894)

KCoreAddons

  Make it possible to use KAboutData/License/Person from QML
  Fix crash if XDG_CACHE_HOME directory is too small or out of space (bug 339829)

KDE DNS-SD

  now installs kdnssd_version.h to check the version of the lib
  do not leak resolver in remoteservice
  prevent avahi signal racing
  fix for macOS

KFileMetaData

  Revive 'Description' property for DublinCore metadata
  add a description property to KFileMetaData
  [KFileMetaData] Add extractor for DSC conforming (Encapsulated) Postscript
  [ExtractorCollection] Avoid dependency of kcoreaddons for CI tests
  Add support for speex files to taglibextractor
  add two more internet sources regarding tagging information
  simplify handling of id3 tags
  [XmlExtractor] Use QXmlStreamReader for better performance

KIO

  Fix assert when cleaning up symlinks in PreviewJob
  Add the possibility to have a keyboard shortcut to create a file
  [KUrlNavigator] Re-activate on mouse middle button click (bug 386453)
  Remove dead search providers
  Port more search providers to HTTPS
  Export again KFilePlaceEditDialog (bug 376619)
  Restore sendfile support
  [ioslaves/trash] Handle broken symlinks in deleted subdirectories (bug 400990)
  [RenameDialog] Fix layout when using the NoRename flag
  Add missing @since for KFilePlacesModel::TagsType
  [KDirOperator] Use the new `view-sort` icon for the sort order chooser
  Use HTTPS for all search providers that support it
  Disable unmount option for / or /home (bug 399659)
  [KFilePlaceEditDialog] Fix include guard
  [Places panel] Use new `folder-root` icon for Root item
  [KSambaShare] Make "net usershare info" parser testable
  Give the file dialogs a "Sort by" menu button on the toolbar

Kirigami

  DelegateRecycler: Don't create a new propertiesTracker for every delegate
  Move the about page from Discover to Kirigami
  Hide context drawer when there is a global toolbar
  ensure all items are laid out (bug 400671)
  change index on pressed, not on clicked (bug 400518)
  new text sizes for Headings
  sidebar drawers don't move global headers/footers

KNewStuff

  Add programmaticaly useful error signalling

KNotification

  Rename NotifyByFlatpak to NotifyByPortal
  Notification portal: support pixmaps in notifications

KPackage Framework

  Don't generate appstream data for files that lack a description (bug 400431)
  Capture package metadata before install start

KRunner

  When re-using runners when reloading, reload their configuration (bug 399621)

KTextEditor

  Allow negative syntax definition priorities
  Expose "Toggle Comment" feature through tools menu and default shortcut (bug 387654)
  Fix hidden languages in the mode menu
  SpellCheckBar: Use DictionaryComboBox instead of plain QComboBox
  KTextEditor::ViewPrivate: Avoid warning "Text requested for invalid range"
  Android: No need to define log2 anymore
  disconnect contextmenu from all aboutToXXContextMenu receivers (bug 401069)
  Introduce AbstractAnnotationItemDelegate for more control by consumer

KUnitConversion

  Updated with petroleum industry units (bug 388074)

KWayland

  Autogenerate logging file + fix categories file
  Add VirtualDesktops to PlasmaWindowModel
  Update PlasmaWindowModel test to reflect VirtualDesktop changes
  Cleanup windowInterface in tests before windowManagement is destroyed
  Delete the correct item in removeDesktop
  Cleanup Virtual Desktop Manager list entry in PlasmaVirtualDesktop destructor
  Correct version of newly added PlasmaVirtualDesktop interface
  [server] Text input content hint and purpose per protocol version
  [server] Put text-input (de-)activate, en-/disable callbacks in child classes
  [server] Put set surrounding text callback with uint in v0 class
  [server] Put some text-input v0 exclusive callbacks in v0 class

KWidgetsAddons

  Add level api from Kirigami.Heading

KXMLGUI

  Update the "About KDE" text

NetworkManagerQt

  Fixed a bug(error?) in ipv4 & ipv6 settings
  Add ovs-bridge and ovs-interface setting
  Update Ip-tunnel settings
  Add proxy and user setting
  Add IpTunnel setting
  We can now build tun setting test all the time
  Add missing IPv6 options
  Listen for added DBus interfaces instead of registered services (bug 400359)

Plasma Framework

  feature parity of Menu with the Desktop style
  Qt 5.9 is now the minimum required version
  Add back (accidentally?) deleted line in CMakeLists.txt
  100% consistency with kirigami heading sizing
  more homogeneous look with Kirigami headings
  install the processed version of private imports
  Mobile text selection controls
  Update breeze-light and breeze-dark colorschemes
  Fixed a number of memory leaks (thanks to ASAN)

Purpose

  phabricator plugin: use Arcanist's diff.rev. order (bug 401565)
  Provide a title for JobDialog
  Allow the JobDialog to get a nicer initial size (bug 400873)
  Make it possible for the menudemo to share different urls
  Use QQC2 for the JobDialog (bug 400997)

QQC2StyleBridge

  consistent sizing of item compared to QWidgets
  fix Menu sizing
  make sure flickables are pixelAligned
  Support for QGuiApplication-based apps (bug 396287)
  touchscreen text controls
  Size according to specified icon width and height
  Honor flat property of buttons
  Fix issue where there's only one element on the menu (bug 400517)

Solid

  Fix root disk icon change so that it doesn't erroneously change other icons

Sonnet

  DictionaryComboBoxTest: Add stretch to avoid expanding Dump button

Syntax Highlighting

  BrightScript: Allow sub to be unnamed
  Add highlighting file for Wayland Debug Traces
  Add syntax highlighting for TypeScript & TypeScript React
  Rust & Yacc/Bison: improve comments
  Prolog & Lua: fix shebang
  Fix language load after including keywords from this language in another file
  Add BrightScript syntax
  debchangelog: add Disco Dingo

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5