KDE Frameworks 5.92.0 released

[David Faure]

13th March 2022. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.92.0.

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/

Changes to multiple frameworks

  Remove broken Python bindings generation
  Make the BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN option dependent on not cross-compiling

Breeze Icons

  Add app icon for TeXstudio (bug 391459)

Extra CMake Modules

  [ECMQmlModule] Fix doc syntax
  ECMGeneratePriFile: support multiple include install dirs
  KDEInstallDirs6: replace ECMQueryQMake usage with qtpaths
  Adapt Android toolchain file and FindGradle to Qt6

KActivitiesStats

  Move Boost dependency to BUILD_TESTING block

KActivities

  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KAuth

  Normalize header names and include path layout to KF standards
  Prepare KF6 KAuthWidgets library, with an interface lib for KF5

KBookmarks

  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KCalendarCore

  Compare timeSpecs when comparing incidences for equality
  Preserve timeSpec of all-day event's dtEnd

KConfig

  Add KWindowStateSaver
  Remove warning from kauthorized.h
  KConfigCompiler: support ItemAccessors=true with signalling items
  QMake pri files: fix missing new path to version header
  Support build without Qt session manager
  Add KConfig GUI logging category

KConfigWidgets

  KHamburgerMenu: Avoid null receiver warning upon showing menubar
  Add a KColorScheme::operator==
  KHambugerMenu: Fix crash on windows when showing the window menubar from the KHamburgerMenu

KContacts

  Split internal and external API into different files
  Also install the address format API header
  Improve output for incomplete addresses and formats with 3+ fields per line
  Rewrite the address formatter

KCoreAddons

  Deprecate KPluginMetaData::fromDesktopFile
  KPluginMetaDataTest: Explicitly call dedicated constructors
  KPluginMetaData: Emit runtime deprecation warnings for deprecated code path
  KPluginMetaData: Add note for deprecated code paths to constructor
  KPluginMetaData: Use QFileInfo::completeBaseName for deriving plugin id
  Downgrade mismatched host tool version to WARNING
  Add a way to indicate to not show a notification on finished
  Allow to create valid KPluginMetaData for plugins without embedded JSON metadata
  Add an OUTPUT_FILE argument to kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json()
  Add KSignalHandler

KDAV

  Add iCloud info to README
  Replace absolute URIs with relative ones in calendar-multiget request

KDeclarative

  Fix double deleting of NetworkAccessManagerFactory (bug 450507)
  Delete networkAccessManagerFactory when we delete the engine
  Improve Open[app]() functions (bug 443984)

KDESU

  Drop obsolete KF5Service and add KF5Config dependency

KDocTools

  [ca at valencia] Add Catalan (Valencian) Language

KFileMetaData

  Port to KPluginMetaData::findPlugins for plugin querying
  enable mobipocket extractor by default

KDE GUI Addons

  [KOverlayIconEngine] Implement ScaledPixmapHook for high-dpi support

KHolidays #

  holiday_pl_pl - add Fat Thursday and State Holidays w/o day-off (bug 447201)

KIconThemes

  Fix pixelated icons in item views (bug 450336)
  [KIconEngine] Create high-dpi pixmap in paint
  Read the reference icon already scaled

KImageFormats

  jxl: encoding improvements
  avif: adjust dimension and memory limits

KInit

  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KIO

  KFilePlacesView: Fix potential crash in `previousVisibleIndex` (bug 450966)
  KFilePlacesView: Fix crash when dragging over topmost section header (bug 450966)
  Add the keywords kdeapi and api for KDE
  Remove Qt4 runner
  Update KDE and Qt runners
  Update KDE API runner to current website
  Have a runner for Krita Manual
  Make KReddit more specific (KDE Reddit)
  Add Invent Merge Requests
  Remove icon in rust.desktop
  DesktopExecParser: parse environment variables too (bug 448859)
  Hide mount point labels if mount point can't be found
  [kemailclientlauncherjob] Fix emitting result
  Fix trash KCM not having any icon on wayland (bug 449859)
  Report error messages instead of error names
  QMake pri files: fix missing new path to version header
  [KFilePlacesView] Consider section header for drop highlight
  [KFileWidget] Hide KMessageWidget initially
  Fix potential crash in pastejob (bug 439948)
  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess
  KBuildSycocaProgressDialog: drop kbuildsycoca4-related code
  Make KFilePlacesModel somewhat usable from QML
  Make KDirModel somewhat usable from QML
  Disable broken DBusActivation with urls arguments for now
  [KFilePlacesView] Mount place when dropping onto it (bug 206629)
  [KFilePlacesView] Unset active/selected state for drag pixmap
  Introduce API to unwatch directories
  OpenUrlJob: fallback to QDesktopServices::openUrl() on Windows and MacOS
  [KFileWidget] Display KFilePlacesView errors
  [KFileWidget] Use KMessageWidget for error reporting
  [KDirOperator] Consider IO finished in case of error
  [KFilePlacesModel] Check query and fragment for closest parent
  [KFilePlacesModel] Check for convertedUrl in closestItem
  Fix memory leak after SimpleJob::putOnHold()
  Fix memory leak when killing a job
  [KFilePlacesView] Add drag auto-activation
  [knewfilemenu] Bind stat job connection lifetime to dialog, not the whole menu (bug 433347)
  [KFilePlacesView] Workaround place being added despite urlsDropped
  [KFilePlacesView] Always set pen explicitly
  [KFilePlacesView] Allow for an empty "Places" section
  [KFilePlacesView] Use DisplayRole when editing a place
  [KPropertiesDialog] Avoid layout shift when interrupting size calculation

Kirigami

  Dialog: Accommodate vertical scrollbars widths properly
  Dialog: Fix implicitWidth binding loop when absolute maximum size used
  consider visibility when calculating page content positions
  update commandlink url to a working one
  FormLayout: make section headings slightly smaller but bolder
  NavigationTabBar: check checkedButton state before updating currentIndex
  Drawer should not eat mouse events at edges (bug 438017)
  Add a CI job to build and test the static build
  Use extra spacing to distinguish narrow-mode form labels and UI controls (bug 450105)
  Revert "Bold labels for narrow FormLayout" (bug 450105)
  Units: add mediumSpacing property
  Ensure OverlayDrawer handles is keyboard navigable
  CheckableListItem: Reset list item's checked property when checking box (bug 449766)
  CheckableListItem: Only conditionally trigger action when checked
  PageRow: properly handle back button
  WheelHandler: Round contentX/contentY positions (bug 449884)
  Allow compiling against Qt configured with -no-opengl
  Fix install path of settings and swipe navigator components

KJSEmbed

  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KNewStuff

  kmoretools: Fix OBS appstream id (bug 414533)
  Add conditional cache preference to http requests
  Engine: Ensure we are not using the wrong ProvidersUrl
  Add http2 to KNewStuff requests
  KNSCore::Engine: Expose our Attica::Provider

KNotification

  Allow to build the Java parts with Gradle from both Qt5 and Qt6

KPty

  Fix FindUTEMPTER when cross-compiling

KRunner

  Bundle plasma-runner.desktop into a qrc, for CI and Windows

KService

  Use :/kservicetypes5 instead of :/kf/kservicetypes5

KTextEditor

  Remove the KateTextLine string() accessor
  TextLine: Remove unused operator[]
  textline: Remove empty destructor and inline ctors
  vi_input_mode_manager member might be invalid if previous test caused a call
  fix highlighting on next/previous match (n/N)
  fix highlighting when opening/closing search bar
  prevent normal search mode highlight when using hls mode
  disable hls mode when switching to normal mode
  handle empty match result
  ignore :noh[lsearch] when hlsearch is disabled
  remove highlights when switching away from vimode
  react to color scheme changes
  vimode: implement hlsearch (bug 449641 449643)
  Mark some internal classes as final
  consistent right aligned status bar content
  Fix default font weight never gets honored
  remove helper that removed style of font
  minimal fix to keep font styles
  Remove menu-indicator from buttons
  katebookmarks: always populate the menu with some actions
  remove modified icon from the statusbar
  view: fix buggy scrolling on macOS (bug 442060)
  katestatusbar: fix margin in status bar buttons on certain styles
  vimode: explicitly set KateViewConfig::WordCompletionRemoveTail during tests
  vimode: find+replace more occurrences of the Control/Meta modifiers
  vimode: move #ifdefs to a common header
  vimode: fix swapped modifiers and arrow keys in insert/replace modes on macOS
  more statusbar out of stack
  hide the dictionary button when there are no dictionaries
  statusbar: Dont create actions with no text
  Lazy load ModeMenuList
  Make the statusbar smaller
  Remove superfluous QTextStream::setCodec call
  Guard against null widgets (bug 450094)
  use the url of the latest used document for save (bug 448618)
  proper parent for hl menu submenus
  fix menu parents for wayland
  Remove some left over dead expand code
  Differentiate docs with identical filenames (bug 381532)
  Remove partial expand stuff
  Remove ExpandingDelegate, replace with simpler QStyledItemDelegate
  Remove more dead completion code
  Remove ExpandingTree, merge with ArgumentHintTree
  Make sure we always only reselect old item if its still the first
  Allow to configure whether the doc tip is always visible or on demand
  Make sure expansion stuff still works in argument hint tree
  Improve wayland support for doc tip
  Use QTextBrowser, we don't want editing in here
  Fix keyboard navigation
  Handle expanding widgets
  completion: show doc in a tooltip instead of as a tree node
  Don't copy QKeyEvents, use a simple data class instead

KUnitConversion

  Add teaspoon (tsp) and tablespoon (tbsp) units (bug 450908)

KWayland

  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KWidgetsAddons

  KCharSelect: connect to the appropriate QFontComboBox signal (bug 445477)
  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess
  Make KSqueezedTextLabel more robust wrt QFontMetrics

KWindowSystem

  Ensure that xdgActivationTokenArrived is always emitted asynchronously (bug 450342)

KXMLGUI

  Support build without Qt session manager
  Add an action in help menu for command bar

ModemManagerQt

  Normalise where headers are installed with the rest of KF

Plasma Framework

  Remove or upgrade QQC1 imports from tests where possible
  show the header if both this and dialog background fallback
  Units: add mediumSpacing
  Remove the use of the QtQml namespace
  Qt6 porting

Prison

  Fix include dir for .pri file
  Normalise where headers are installed with the rest of KF

Purpose

  Remove call to ecm_find_qmlmodule(org.kde.kdeconnect)

QQC2StyleBridge

  Thicken menus on transient touch as well as being in Tablet Mode
  PlasmaDesktopTheme: ensure we initialise the colours
  PlasmaDesktopTheme: Do not compute the colors for invisible items
  PlasmaDesktopTheme: Do not call syncColors after syncWindow
  Menu: use hmargin and vmargin from QStyle
  Support displaying icons in ItemDelegate (bug 425867)
  fix checkbox position for CheckDelegate
  Drop lib prefix when building for Windows
  KQuickStyleItem: Simplify the updatePolish
  Use correct DBus signal for listening for font changes
  Use raw pointer instead of QPointer to track watchers

Solid

  Use enum in switch instead of raw int
  udisks backend: Add UD2_DBUS_PATH_BLOCKDEVICES and use more constants
  udev: Do not ignore joysticks
  Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

Sonnet

  settings: Emit `autodetectLanguageChanged`
  QMake pri files: fix missing new path to version header

Syntax Highlighting

  Bash: fix parameter expansion replacement with path without extended glob
  Lua: fix function highlighting with local function (#17)
  Propagate Qt major version to external project build of the host tools
  Bash/Zsh: fix keyword ! in ! cmd

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key:
pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure <faure at kde.org>
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https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.92.0

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