KDE Frameworks 5.89.0 released

David Faure faure at kde.org
Sun Dec 12 14:49:01 GMT 2021


12th December 2021. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.89.0.

KDE Frameworks are 83 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/


BluezQt

  Add functions that allow setting the discovery filter based on Bluez Adapter APIs

Breeze Icons

  Install dark icons via execute_process to use copy command (bug 445489)
  Link application-menu -> open-menu-symbolic
  Add icon for Virtual Box disk images
  fix keyboard-caps-locked icon use now correct color
  BUG 110673 media-write icon fix
  BUG 412029 add preferences-desktop-feedback icon
  BUG 423937 add edit-copy-path icon for dolphin and konsole
  Add RTL half rating star
  BUG: 414215 add tabs colorful icon (bug 414215 add tabs colorful icon)
  BUG: 414213 add preferences-scroll icon (bug 414213 add preferences-scroll icon)
  BUG: 437999 add veracrypt app icon (bug 437999 add veracrypt app icon)
  Add preferences-git and preferences-document icons for kate
  BUG: 407048 add online account icon for the KCM (bug 407048 add online account icon for the KCM)
  Fix view-history icons
  Use application-certificate icons for Kleopatra's certificate groups
  Add "Invalid = -1" element to the KIconLoaderDummy::Context enum
  BUG: 409022 update disk-quota icons (bug 409022 update disk-quota icons)
  BUG: 372461 update rar mimetype icon (bug 372461 update rar mimetype icon)
  BUG: 405654 Update input-keyboard-virtual-off (bug 405654 Update input-keyboard-virtual-off)
  BUG 110673 add media-write-dvd icon
  BUG 396124 add Crow Translate app icons
  BUG 392534 add missing kmail breeze icons
  Bug 348446 update document-open icons
  Dolphin preferences dialog use colorfull icons only
  Okular sidebar use now colorful icons
  Bug: 444548 Add Gnome todo symbolic icons
  BUG 429737 update view-media-playlist icon and other playlist icons
  BUG 418864 add gajim app icon. status icons can't be used from breeze
  BUG 394023 add gpodder application icon

Extra CMake Modules

  Include QtVersionOption before all Qt5 find_package calls
  ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile: Add an URL parameter
  KDEInstallDirs5: set up KSERVICESDIR alias for KSERVICES5DIR
  KDEInstallDirs6: comment out call to query_qmake, not defined
  KDEInstallDirs6: don't set deprecated variable names anymore
  PLUGINDIR is based upon QTPLUGINDIR, so only define it after QTPLUGINDIR
  Split KDEInstallDirs into a 5 and a 6 variant
  AddAppIcon: clarify ksvg2icns role for @2x icons
  Add support for specifying private dependencies for pkg-config files
  FindEGL add 'lib' prefix for windows

KActivitiesStats

  Fixed the singleton access mutex locking

KArchive

  K7Zip: use functions instead of macros

KBookmarks

  Add source file back

KCalendarCore

  Compare the objects managed by a QSharedPointer
  Avoid update calls if nothing changed
  Consistency and range checking for GEO data
  Check validity of priority value

KCMUtils

  Set initial page using initialPage property, rather than pushing (bug 417636)
  Do not reset KPluginModel if there are no plugins
  Implement KPluginSelector replacement not based around KPluginInfo
  Do not try to unload static plugins
  Support static plugins for X-KDE-ConfigModule property

KConfig

  KDesktopFile: deprecate resource()
  Use innerVarStr instead of varStr for choices
  Add a proper test for the enumms within groups
  Unbreak kconfig with enums, mutators and properties
  Demonstrate build failure with kconfig generated code
  Copy ConfigPropertyMap from KDeclarative to new KConfig QML module

KConfigWidgets

  Add color scheme saving and loading
  Fix hamburger menu opening as a window on Wayland (bug 442375)
  [KCommandBar] Add placeholder text for empty view
  [KCommandBar] Fix rendering of chord shortcuts
  [KCommandBar] Dynamic column widths + shortcuts alignment

KContacts

  Fix address formatting for country-only addresses
  Deprecate countryToISO/ISOToCountry in favor of KCountry
  Use local country names when formatting addresses

KCoreAddons

  KF5CoreAddonsMacros: Replace "-" with "_" for KPLUGINFACTORY_PLUGIN_CLASS_INTERNAL_NAME compile definition
  Compile against Qt6
  Allow reading enabled state from KPluginMetaData using templated method
  KF5CoreAddonsMacros: Build static plugins as static libs
  Store KDE specific static plugin in seperate map
  Make KPluginMetaData::isStaticPlugin public
  kcoreaddons_add_plugin: Set property for file name
  Add assertion to make sure we have a d-ptr in KPluginMetaData::getStaticPlugin
  Create kcoreaddons_target_static_plugins cmake function
  Allow KPluginMetaData::findPlugins to return static plugins
  kcoreaddons_add_plugin: Allow creation of static plugins
  Allow KPluginMetaData to represent static plugins
  Create KPluginFactory::create method for loading KPart without keyword
  Deprecate KPluginFactory::create overload taking plugin keyword
  Deprecate KPluginFactory::registerPlugin(QString, CreateInstance*) methods
  Deprecate KPluginFactory::registerPlugin overloads taking keyword
  KPluginFactory: Use overload instead of default arg for registerPlugin keyword parameter
  Deprecate KPluginMetaData::serviceTypes

KDBusAddons

  Link against X11Extras when building statically

KDeclarative

  KeySequenceItem: Make sure we record on the correct window (bug 445277)
  Deprecate KRun KIO plugin
  Allow KCM kpackages to use metadata of C++ plugin
  Add takeLast() slot to ConfigModule
  Fix overflowing text properly

KDELibs 4 Support

  Move Esperanto flag icon to kdelibs (bug 445077)

KFileMetaData

  KFileMetaData::Property: Deprecate toVariantMap and toPropertyMap methods
  Port deprecated QMap methods to QMultiMap
  Put code of public header depending on deprecated Qt API in deprecation wrapper
  [PopplerExtractor] extract pageCount

KGlobalAccel

  Make XCB XTEST optional requirement

KDE GUI Addons

  Add KSystemClipboard to use wlr-data-control transparently in Wayland

KI18n

  Document how KLazyLocalizedString is tied to a translation domain
  Consider TRANSLATION_DOMAIN when converting to a KLocalizedString
  KLazyLocalizedString: add KLocalizedString forward API for convenience
  KLazyLocalizedString: allow implicit default constructor
  Add KLazyLocalizedString::isEmpty() const
  Fix MSVC warning about inconsistent export macro in forward declaration
  Port Kuit keymap away from I18N_NOOP macro usage
  Deprecate the I18N_NOOP macros in favor of KLazyLocalizedString
  Add KLazyLocalizedString as a replacement for the I18N_NOOP macros
  Fix loading a KCatalog with a different language on Windows

KIconThemes

  KIconLoader: prefer icons from current theme before falling back to other themes (bug 445804)
  [KIconDialog] Add Ctrl+F shortcut for focussing search line
  [KIconButton] Pre-select current icon when opening dialog
  [KIconDialog] Add API for pre-selecting an icon

KImageFormats

  avif: limit scope of variables
  Add JXL to the list of supported formats
  Add plugin for JPEG XL (JXL)

KIO

  Add new signals and logic to handle open directories in new windows or tabs
  Fix KRun::runApplication when xdg activation is involved (bug 446272)
  Explicitly remove the event filters in classes managed by a unique_ptr
  [KACLEditWidget] Load list of users/groups on demand
  [KPropertiesDialog] Reuse existing KUser instance
  Do not create thumbnails when it requires to copy the file to /tmp (bug 368104)
  Fix directory thumbnailer loading
  [CopyJob] Emit moving while renaming
  [KPropertiesDialog] Improve presentation of file type configuration
  [KPropertiesDialog] Add extra fields value in correct column
  Allow loading of Thumbnailers using embedded json metadata
  KDirOperator: get the icon sizes from user settings
  [KACLEditWidget] Remove redundancy and add icons to buttons
  [KPropertiesDialog] Use Filelight icon and name from desktop file
  [KPropertiesDialog] Hide time labels in multiple mode
  [KPropertiesDialog] Also hide label_left for timestamps
  Fix copying between different filesystems on Linux < 5.3
  [KDynamicJobTracker] Support KUiServerV2JobTracker

Kirigami

  PageRowGlobalToolBarUI: use open-menu-symbolic
  Heading: Deprecate headerPointSize(int level) method
  Let escape key close pushed dialog layers
  AboutItem: fix the view for narrow dialogs
  AboutItem: Report its implicit size so it can scroll
  Increase passive notification opacity (bug 440390)
  Bold labels for narrow FormLayout
  Add Dialog Components
  add columns on empty width
  DefaultCardBackground improvements
  Expose internal icon source in the Avatar component
  Preconfigure kconfig and kaboutdata on template

KJS

  Don't call functions on pointers that may not point to objects

KNewStuff

  Improve presentation of multi-file download sheet
  Use RTL half-star rating icon when in RTL mode (bug 440650)

KNotification

  [Tester] Support urgency for inline reply notification

KPackage Framework

  Utilize type-safe KPluginMetaData API methods
  Utilize KPluginMetaData::value overloads

KParts

  Remove calls to KIO::Scheduler::publishSlaveOnHold

KRunner

  Port to KPluginMetaData::isEnabled instead of custom string magic

KService

  KPluginInfo: Fix mimetypes that are wildcards not appearing in MimeTypes json value
  Deprecate KToolInvokation::kdeinitExecWait
  Deprecate E-Mail and terminal related methods in KToolInvocation

KTextEditor

  Bring back git via QProcess
  When reloading, don't override auto-detected hl mode if not set by user
  If user didn't set them, don't override file type and highlighting modes detection
  Pass KTextEditor::Cursor by value everywhere
  Remove selected text if preedit is not empty
  Disable "tail-available-on-undo" in ViInputMode
  Improve built-in search performance
  Remove duplicated lua.js indent file
  Create a separate path for fetching lineLength
  Use iterators for iterating over blocks
  Completion in two edits feature describing comment
  Re-add "undo removed tail" on completion

KUnitConversion

  [Currency] Don't complain about missing connection if we didn't download

KWallet Framework

  MAC_USE_OSXKEYCHAIN: Link against CoreFoundation

KWidgetsAddons

  KAcceleratorManager: Take into account actions with Alt+X shortcuts

KWindowSystem

  Make KWindowSystem a bit easier to integrate in QML

Plasma Framework

  wallpaperinterface: Don't double delete action (bug 446195)
  Use `open-menu-symbolic` instead of `application-menu`
  Make Breeze plasma scrollbar/slider/progressbar color match application theme
  Heading: Deprecate headerPointSize(int level) method
  Don't reload renderers for empty paths
  PageStack: Replace == equality with === strict equality
  Reload shared renderers when a file changed on disk (bug 445516)
  PlasmoidHeading: Turn location into an alias for position property
  Replace variant property type with var and other appropriate types
  org.kde.plasma.extras: Follow Qt style of implicitWidth/implicitHeight declaration
  Title: Replace implementation with Heading {}
  Title: Lower size (again)
  QQuickWindow::event after setupwaylandintegration
  Do updateTheme after QQuickWindow::event (bug 305247)
  Breeze slider.svg: Fix bad SVG code making shadow invisible
  set all roles that can be mapped from dialog types to plasma protocol role
  smaller mask to hide glitches (bug 438644)
  KF5PlasmaMacros: Actually install desktop files if they exist
  make the OSD an actual wayland OSD (bug 428859)

QQC2StyleBridge

  Fix syntax highlighting

Solid

  Allow udisks2 and upower backends to be disabled with environment variables
  Add device description for storage medium without size
  Config.cmake: Lookup LibMount when building statically
  Add support for graphics tablet batteries
  [upower] Consider audio devices and generic bluetooth devices to be batteries (bug 445141)
  [upower] Add new device types

Sonnet

  don't load plugins from current working directory, that is even a security issue
  export all known languages
  massive speedup, avoid loading the same huge dictionaries several times
  only load one instance of a plugin
  core: attempt to load local plugins first, makes development easier

Syntax Highlighting

  markdown.xml: Fix highlighting of headers (include last char) (bug 445918)
  Update orgmode.xml
  use the same way as emacs to highlight priority cookie
  support verbatim since it seems used more often than inline code
  support single line comment, babel call, priority cookie
  Update context.xml version
  Update ConTeXt test references
  Corrected syntax for ConTeXt TABLE commands (bug 445820)
  ConTeXt: Verbatim highlighting allows for nesting (bug 445818)
  Added ConTeXt test references
  Update context.xml version number
  Added highlighting for ConTeXt "\m" command
  Fixed current math command highlighting
  misc: Add `Pipfile` to create Python venv for generators
  cmake.xml: Updates for CMake 3.22
  fix: Add `Loader` parameter in call to `yaml.load()`
  update test for inline code
  support inline code and another type of number list
  support block and number list
  add orgmode.xml
  add racket.xml

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key:
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https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.89.0

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