KDE Frameworks 5.54.0 released

[David Faure]

12th January 2019. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.54.0.

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.

Attica

  Notify if a default provider failed to download

Baloo

  Move typesForMimeType helper from BasicIndexingJob to anonymous namespace
  Add "image/svg" as Type::Image to the BasicIndexingJob
  Use Compact json formatting for storing document metadata

Breeze Icons

  Change preferences-system-network to symlink
  Use a Kolf icon with nice background and shadows
  Copy some changed icons from Breeze to Breeze Dark
  Add YaST and new preference icons
  Add a proper python-bytecode icon, use consistent color in python icons (bug 381051)
  Delete python bytecode symlinks in preparation for them becoming their own icons
  Make the python mimetype icon the base, and the python bytecode icon a link to it
  Add device icons for RJ11 and RJ45 ports
  Add missing directory separator (bug 401836)
  Use correct icon for Python 3 scripts (bug 402367)
  Change network/web color icons to consistent style
  Add new name for sqlite files, so the icons actually show up (bug 402095)
  Add drive-* icons for YaST Partitioner
  Add view-private icon (bug 401646)
  Add flashlight action icons
  Improve symbolism for off and muted status icon (bug 398975)

Extra CMake Modules

  Add find module for Google's libphonenumber

KActivities

  Fix the version in the pkgconfig file

KDE Doxygen Tools

  Fix doxygen markdown rendering

KConfig

  Escape bytes that are larger than or equal to 127 in config files

KCoreAddons

  cmake macros: Port away from deprecated ECM var in kcoreaddons_add_plugin (bug 401888)
  make units and prefixes of formatValue translatable

KDeclarative

  don't show separators on mobile
  root.contentItem instead of just contentItem
  Add the missing api for multilevel KCMs to control the columns

KFileMetaData

  Fail writing test if mime type is not supported by the extractor
  Fix ape disc number extraction
  Implement cover extraction for asf files
  Extend list of supported mimetypes for embedded image extractor
  Refactor embedded image extractor for greater extensibility
  Add missing wav mimetype
  Extract more tags from exif metadata (bug 341162)
  fix extraction of GPS altitude for exif data

KGlobalAccel

  Fix KGlobalAccel build with Qt 5.13 prerelease

KHolidays #

  README.md - add basic instructions for testing holiday files
  various calendars - fix syntax errors

KIconThemes

  ksvg2icns : use Qt 5.9+ QTemporaryDir API

KIdleTime

  [xscreensaverpoller] Flush after reset screensaver

KInit

  Use soft rlimit for number of open handles. This fixes very slow Plasma startup with latest systemd.

KIO

  Revert "Hide file preview when icon is too small"
  Display error instead of silently failing when asked to create folder that already exists (bug 400423)
  Change the path for every item of the subdirectories in a directory rename (bug 401552)
  Extend getExtensionFromPatternList reg exp filtering
  [KRun] when asked to open link in external browser, fall back to mimeapps.list if nothing is set in kdeglobals (bug 100016)
  Make the open url in tab feature a bit more discoverable (bug 402073)
  [kfilewidget] Return editable URL navigator to breadcrumb mode if it has focus and everything is selected and when Ctrl+L is pressed
  [KFileItem] Fix isLocal check in checkDesktopFile (bug 401947)
  SlaveInterface: Stop speed_timer after a job is killed
  Warn user before copy/move job if the file size exceeds the maximum possible file size in FAT32 filesystem(4 GB) (bug 198772)
  Avoid constantly increasing Qt event queue in KIO slaves
  Support for TLS 1.3 (part of Qt 5.12)
  [KUrlNavigator] Fix firstChildUrl when going back from archive

Kirigami

  Make sure we don't override QIcon::themeName when we should not
  Introduce a DelegateRecycler attached object
  fix gridview margins considering scrollbars
  Make AbstractCard.background react to AbstractCard.highlighted
  Simplify code in MnemonicAttached
  SwipeListItem: always show the icons if !supportsMouseEvents
  Consider whether needToUpdateWidth according to widthFromItem, not height
  Take the scrollbar into account for the ScrollablePage margin (bug 401972)
  Don't try to reposition the ScrollView when we get a faulty height (bug 401960)

KNewStuff

  Change default sort order in the download dialog to "Most downloads" (bug 399163)
  Notify about the provider not being loaded

KNotification

  [Android] Fail more gracefully when building with API < 23
  Add Android notification backend
  Build without Phonon and D-Bus on Android

KService

  applications.menu: remove unused category X-KDE-Edu-Teaching
  applications.menu: remove <KDELegacyDirs/>

KTextEditor

  Fix scripting for Qt 5.12
  Fix emmet script by using HEX instead of OCT numbers in strings (bug 386151)
  Fix broken Emmet (bug 386151)
  ViewConfig: Add 'Dynamic Wrap At Static Marker' option
  fix folding region end, add ending token to the range
  avoid ugly overpainting with alpha
  Don't re-mark words added/ignored to the dictionary as misspelled (bug 387729)
  KTextEditor: Add action for static word wrap (bug 141946)
  Don't hide 'Clear Dictionary Ranges' action
  Don't ask for confimation when reloading (bug 401376)
  class Message: Use inclass member initialization
  Expose KTextEditor::ViewPrivate:setInputMode(InputMode) to KTextEditor::View
  Improve performance of small editing actions, e.g. fixing large replace all actions (bug 333517)
  Only cal updateView() in visibleRange() when endPos() is invalid

KWayland

  Add clarifying about using both KDE's ServerDecoration and XdgDecoration
  Xdg Decoration Support
  Fix XDGForeign Client header installs
  [server] Touch drag support
  [server] Allow multiple touch interfaces per client

KWidgetsAddons

  [KMessageBox] Fix minimum dialog size when details are requested (bug 401466)

NetworkManagerQt

  Added DCB, macsrc, match, tc, ovs-patch and ovs-port settings

Plasma Framework

  [Calendar] Expose firstDayOfWeek in MonthView (bug 390330)
  Add preferences-system-bluetooth-battery to preferences.svgz

Purpose

  Add plugin type for sharing URLs

QQC2StyleBridge

  Fix menu item width when the delegate is overriden (bug 401792)
  Rotate busy indicator clockwise
  Force checkboxes/radios to be square

Solid

  [UDisks2] Use MediaRemovable to determine if media can be ejected
  Support Bluetooth batteries

Sonnet

  Add method to BackgroundChecker to add word to session
  DictionaryComboBox: Keep user preferred dictionaries on top (bug 302689)

Syntax Highlighting

  Update php syntax support
  WML: fix embedded Lua code & use new default styles
  Highlight CUDA .cu and .cuh files as C++
  TypeScript & TS/JS React: improve types detection, fix float-points & other improvements/fixes
  Haskell: Highlight empty comments after 'import'
  WML: fix infinite loop in contexts switch & only highlight tags with valid names (bug 402720)
  BrightScript: Add workaround for QtCreator 'endsub' highlighting, add function/sub folding
  support more variants of C number literals (bug 402002)

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Working on KDE Frameworks 5