KDE Frameworks 5.63.0 released

Sat Oct 12 22:17:18 BST 2019

12th October 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.63.0.

KDE Frameworks are 81 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
https://kde.org/products/frameworks/

New modules: kcalendarcore and kcontacts

Breeze Icons

  Improve KFloppy icon (bug 412404)
  Add format-text-underline-squiggle actions icons (bug 408283)
  Add colorful preferences-desktop-filter icon (bug 406900)
  Add app icon for the Kirogi Drone control app
  Added scripts to create a webfont out of all breeze action icons
  Add enablefont and disablefont icon for kfontinst KCM
  Fix large system-reboot icons rotating in an inconsistent direction (bug 411671)

Extra CMake Modules

  new module ECMSourceVersionControl
  Fix FindEGL when using Emscripten
  ECMAddQch: add INCLUDE_DIRS argument

Framework Integration

  ensure winId() not called on non-native widgets (bug 412675)

kcalendarcore

New module, previously known as kcalcore in kdepim

KCMUtils

  Suppress mouse events in KCMs causing window moves
  adjust margins of KCMultiDialog (bug 411161)

KCompletion

  [KComboBox] Properly disable Qt's builtin completer [regression fix]

KConfig

  Fix generating properties that start with an uppercase letter

KConfigWidgets

  Make KColorScheme compatible with QVariant

kcontacts

New module, previously part of KDE PIM

KCoreAddons

  Add KListOpenFilesJob

KDeclarative

  Delete QQmlObjectSharedEngine context in sync with QQmlObject
  [KDeclarative] Port from deprecated QWheelEvent::delta() to angleDelta()

KDELibs 4 Support

  Support NetworkManager 1.20 and do actually compile the NM backend

KIconThemes

  Deprecate the global [Small|Desktop|Bar]Icon() methods

KImageFormats

  Add files for testing bug411327
  xcf: Fix regression when reading files with "unsupported" properties
  xcf: Properly read image resolution
  Port HDR (Radiance RGBE) image loader to Qt5

KIO

  [Places panel] Revamp the Recently Saved section
  [DataProtocol] compile without implicit coversion from ascii
  Consider the usage of WebDAV methods sufficient for assuming WebDAV
  REPORT also supports the Depth header
  Make QSslError::SslError <-> KSslError::Error conversion reusable
  Deprecate the KSslError::Error ctor of KSslError
  [Windows] fix listing the parent dir of C:\foo, that's C:\ and not C:
  Fix crash on exit in kio_file (bug 408797)
  Add == and != operators to KIO::UDSEntry
  Replace KSslError::errorString with QSslError::errorString
  Move/copy job: skip stat'ing sources if the destination dir isn't writable (bug 141564)
  Fixed interaction with DOS/Windows executables in KRun::runUrl
  [KUrlNavigatorPlacesSelector] Properly identify teardown action (bug 403454)
  KCoreDirLister: fix crash when creating new folders from kfilewidget (bug 401916)
  [kpropertiesdialog] add icons for the size section
  Add icons for "Open With" and "Actions" menus
  Avoid initializing an unnecessary variable
  Move more functionality from KRun::runCommand/runApplication to KProcessRunner
  [Advanced Permissions] Fix icon names (bug 411915)
  [KUrlNavigatorButton] Fix QString usage to not use [] out of bounds
  Make KSslError hold a QSslError internally
  Split KSslErrorUiData from KTcpSocket
  Port kpac from QtScript

Kirigami

  always cache just the last item
  more z (bug 411832)
  fix import version in PagePoolAction
  PagePool is Kirigami 2.11
  take into account dragging speed when a flick ends
  Fix copying urls to the clipboard
  check more if we are reparenting an actual Item
  basic support for ListItem actions
  introduce cachePages
  fix compatibility with Qt5.11
  introduce PagePoolAction
  new class: PagePool to manage recycling of pages after they're popped
  make tabbars look better
  some margin on the right (bug 409630)
  Revert "Compensate smaller icon sizes on mobile in the ActionButton"
  don't make list items look inactive (bug 408191)
  Revert "Remove scaling of iconsize unit for isMobile"
  Layout.fillWidth should be done by the client (bug 411188)
  Add template for Kirigami application development
  Add a mode to center actions and omit the title when using a ToolBar style (bug 402948)
  Compensate smaller icon sizes on mobile in the ActionButton
  Fixed some undefined properties runtime errors
  Fix ListSectionHeader background color for some color schemes
  Remove custom content item from ActionMenu separator

KItemViews

  [KItemViews] Port to non-deprecated QWheelEvent API

KJobWidgets

  cleanup dbus related objects early enough to avoid hang on program exit

KJS

  Added startsWith(), endsWith() and includes() JS String functions
  Fixed Date.prototype.toJSON() called on non-Date objects

KNewStuff

  Bring KNewStuffQuick to feature parity with KNewStuff(Widgets)

KPeople

  Claim Android as a supported platform
  Deploy default avatar via qrc
  Bundle plugin files on Android
  Disable DBus pieces on Android
  Fix crash when monitoring a contact that gets removed on PersonData (bug 410746)
  Use fully qualified types on signals

KRunner

  Consider UNC paths as NetworkShare context

KService

  Move Amusement to Games directory instead of Games > Toys (bug 412553)
  [KService] Add copy constructor
  [KService] add workingDirectory(), deprecate path()

KTextEditor

  try to avoid artifacts in text preview
  Variable expansion: Use std::function internally
  QRectF instead of QRect solves clipping issues, (bug 390451)
  next rendering artifact goes away if you adjust the clip rect a bit (bug 390451)
  avoid the font choosing magic and turn of anti aliasing (bug 390451)
  KadeModeMenuList: fix memory leaks and others
  try to scan for usable fonts, works reasonable well if you use no dumb scaling factor like 1.1
  Status bar mode menu: Reuse empty QIcon that is implicitly shared
  Expose KTextEditor::MainWindow::showPluginConfigPage()
  Replace QSignalMapper with lambda
  KateModeMenuList: use QString() for empty strings
  KateModeMenuList: add "Best Search Matches" section and fixes for Windows
  Variable expansion: Support QTextEdits
  Add keyboard shortcut for switching Input modes to edit menu (bug 400486)
  Variable expansion dialog: properly handle selection changes and item activation
  Variable expansion dialog: add filter line edit
  Backup on save: Support time and date string replacements (bug 403583)
  Variable expansion: Prefer return value over return argument
  Initial start of variables dialog
  use new format API

KWallet Framework

  HiDPI support

KWayland

  Sort files alphabetically in cmake list

KWidgetsAddons

  Make OK button configurable in KMessageBox::sorry/detailedSorry
  [KCollapsibleGroupBox] Fix QTimeLine::start warning at runtime
  Improve naming of KTitleWidget icon methods
  Add QIcon setters for the password dialogs
  [KWidgetAddons] port to non-deprecated Qt API

KWindowSystem

  Set XCB to required if building the X backend
  Make less use of deprecated enum alias NET::StaysOnTop

KXMLGUI

  Move "Full Screen Mode" item from Settings menu to View menu (bug 106807)

NetworkManagerQt

  ActiveConnection: connect stateChanged() signal to correct interface

Plasma Framework

  Export Plasma core lib log category, add a category to a qWarning
  [pluginloader] Use categorized logging
  make editMode a corona global property
  Honor global animation speed factor
  properly install whole plasmacomponent3
  [Dialog] Apply window type after changing flags
  Change reveal password button logic
  Fix crash on teardown with Applet's ConfigLoader (bug 411221)

QQC2StyleBridge

  Fix several build system errors
  take margins from qstyle
  [Tab] Fix sizing (bug 409390)

Syntax Highlighting

  Add syntax highlighting for RenPy (.rpy) (bug 381547)
  WordDetect rule: detect delimiters at the inner edge of the string
  Highlight GeoJSON files as if they were plain JSON
  Add syntax highlighting for SubRip Text (SRT) Subtitles
  Fix skipOffset with dynamic RegExpr (bug 399388)
  bitbake: handle embedded shell and python
  Jam: fix identifier in a SubRule
  Add syntax definition for Perl6 (bug 392468)
  support .inl extension for C++, not used by other xml files at the moment (bug 411921)
  support *.rej for diff highlighting (bug 411857)

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key:
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Working on KDE Frameworks 5