KDE Frameworks 5.14.0 released

[David Faure]

12th September 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.14.0.

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.

In many frameworks

  Rename private classes to avoid exporting them accidentally

Baloo

  Add org.kde.baloo interface to root object for backward compatibility
  Install a fake org.kde.baloo.file.indexer.xml to fix compilation of plasma-desktop 5.4
  Re-organize D-Bus interfaces
  Use json metadata in kded plugin and fix plugin name
  Create one Database instance per process (bug 350247)
  Prevent baloo_file_extractor being killed while committing
  Generate xml interface file using qt5_generate_dbus_interface
  Baloo monitor fixes
  Move file url export to main thread
  Make sure cascaded configs are taken into account
  Do not install namelink for private library
  Install translations, spotted by Hrvoje Senjan.

BluezQt

  Don't forward deviceChanged signal after device was removed (bug 351051)
  Respect -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF

Extra CMake Modules

  Add macro to generate logging category declarations for Qt5.
  ecm_generate_headers: Add COMMON_HEADER option and multiple header functionality
  Add -pedantic for KF5 code (when using gcc or clang)
  KDEFrameworkCompilerSettings: only enable strict iterators in debug mode
  Also set the default visibility for C code to hidden.

Framework Integration

  Also propagate window titles for folder-only file dialogs.

KActivities

  Only spawn one action loader (thread) when the actions of the FileItemLinkingPlugin are not initialized (bug 351585)
  Fixing the build problems introduced by renaming the Private classes (11030ffc0)
  Add missing boost include path to build on OS X
  Setting the shortcuts moved to activity settings
  Setting the private activity mode works
  Refactor of the settings UI
  Basic activity methods are functional
  UI for the activity configuration and deletion pop-ups
  Basic UI for the activities creation/deletion/configuration section in KCM
  Increased the chunk size for loading the results
  Added missing include for std::set

KDE Doxygen Tools

  Windows fix: remove existing files before we replace them with os.rename.
  Use native paths when calling python to fix Windows builds

KCompletion

  Fix bad behavior / running OOM on Windows (bug 345860)

KConfig

  Optimize readEntryGui
  Avoid QString::fromLatin1() in generated code
  Minimize calls to expensive QStandardPaths::locateAll()
  Finish the port to QCommandLineParser (it has addPositionalArgument now)

KDELibs 4 Support

  Port solid-networkstatus kded plugin to json metadata
  KPixmapCache: create dir if it doesn't exist

KDocTools

  Sync Catalan user.entities with English (en) version.
  Add entities for sebas and plasma-pa

KEmoticons

  Performance: cache a KEmoticons instance here, not a KEmoticonsTheme.

KFileMetaData

  PlainTextExtractor: enable O_NOATIME branch on GNU libc platforms
  PlainTextExtractor: make the Linux branch work also without O_NOATIME
  PlainTextExtractor: fix error check on open(O_NOATIME) failure

KGlobalAccel

  Only start kglobalaccel5 if needed.

KI18n

  Gracefully handle no newline at end of pmap file

KIconThemes

  KIconLoader: fix reconfigure() forgetting about inherited themes and app dirs
  Adhere better to the icon loading spec

KImageFormats

  eps: fix includes related to Qt Caterogized Logging

KIO

  Use Q_OS_WIN instead of Q_OS_WINDOWS
  Make KDE_FORK_SLAVES work under Windows
  Disable installation of desktop file for ProxyScout kded module
  Provide deterministic sort order for KDirSortFilterProxyModelPrivate::compare
  Show custom folder icons again (bug 350612)
  Move kpasswdserver from kded to kiod
  Fix porting bugs in kpasswdserver
  Remove legacy code for talking very very old versions of kpasswdserver.
  KDirListerTest: use QTRY_COMPARE on both statements, to fix race showed by CI
  KFilePlacesModel: implement old TODO about using trashrc instead of a full-blown KDirLister.

KItemModels

  New proxymodel: KConcatenateRowsProxyModel
  KConcatenateRowsProxyModelPrivate: fix handling of layoutChanged.
  More checking on the selection after sorting.
  KExtraColumnsProxyModel: fix bug in sibling() which broke e.g. selections

Package Framework

  kpackagetool can uninstall a package from a package file
  kpackagetool is now smarter about finding the right servicetype

KService

  KSycoca: check timestamps and run kbuildsycoca if needed. No kded dependency anymore.
  Don't close ksycoca right after opening it.
  KPluginInfo now correctly handles FormFactor metadata

KTextEditor

  Merge allocation of TextLineData and ref count block.
  Change default keyboard shortcut for "go to previous editing line"
  Syntax highlighting Haskell comment fixes
  Speed up code-completion pop-up appearance
  minimap: Attempt to improve the look and feel (bug 309553)
  nested comments in Haskell syntax highlighting
  Fix problem with wrong unindent for python (bug 351190)

KWidgetsAddons

  KPasswordDialog: let the user change the password visibility (bug 224686)

KXMLGUI

  Fix KSwitchLanguageDialog not showing most languages

KXmlRpcClient

  Avoid QLatin1String wherever it allocates heap memory

ModemManagerQt

  Fix metatype conflict with the latest nm-qt change

NetworkManagerQt

  Added new properties from the latest NM snapshot/releases

Plasma Framework

  reparent to flickable if possible
  fix package listing
  plasma: Fix applet actions might be nullptr (bug 351777)
  The onClicked signal of PlasmaComponents.ModelContextMenu now works properly
  PlasmaComponents ModelContextMenu can now create Menu sections
  Port platformstatus kded plugin to json metadata...
  Handle an invalid metadata in PluginLoader
  Let the RowLayout figure out the size of the label
  always show the edit menu when the cursor is visible
  Fix loop on ButtonStyle
  Don't change the flat-iness of a button on pressed
  on touchscreen and mobile scrollbars are transient
  adjust flick velocity&deceleration to dpi
  custom cursor delegate only if mobile
  touch friendly text cursor
  fix parenting and popping up policy
  declare __editMenu
  add missing cursot handles delegates
  rewrite the EditMenu implementation
  use the mobile menu only conditionally
  reparent the menu to root

http://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.14.0.php

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