KDE Frameworks 5.9 changelog

[David Faure]

New module: ModemManagerQt (Qt wrapper for ModemManager API)

Note that Plasma-NM 5.2.x needs a patch in order to build and work with this
version of ModemManagerQt:
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-nm.git&a=commitdiff&h=4d72cb7966edda33bc72c77fc2a126844fc1f134 

Alternatively, upgrade to Plasma-NM 5.3.0 when upgrading to ModemManagerQt 5.9.0.

KActivities

  Implemented forgetting a resource
  Build fixes
  Added a plugin to register events for KRecentDocument notifications
  ...

KArchive

  Respect KZip::extraField setting also when writing central header entries
  Remove two erroneous asserts, happening when disk is full, bug 343214

KBookmarks

  Fix build with Qt 5.5

KCMUtils

  Use new json-based plugin system. KCMs are searched under kcms/. For now a desktop file still needs to be installed under kservices5/ for compatibility
  Load and wrap the QML-only version of kcms if possible

KConfig

  Fix assert when using KSharedConfig in a global object destructor.
  kconfig_compiler: add support for CategoryLoggingName in *.kcfgc files, to generate qCDebug(category) calls.

KI18n

  preload the global Qt catalog when using i18n()

KIconThemes

  KIconDialog can now be shown using the regular QDialog show() and exec() methods
  Fix KIconEngine::paint to handle different devicePixelRatios

KIO

  Enable KPropertiesDialog to show free space information of remote file systems as well (e.g. smb)
  Fix KUrlNavigator with high DPI pixmaps
  Make KFileItemDelegate handle non default devicePixelRatio in animations

KItemModels

  KRecursiveFilterProxyModel: reworked to emit the right signals at the right time
  KDescendantsProxyModel: Handle moves reported by the source model.
  KDescendantsProxyModel: Fix behavior when a selection is made while resetting.
  KDescendantsProxyModel: Allow constructing and using KSelectionProxyModel from QML.

KJobWidgets

  Propagate error code to JobView DBus interface

KNotifications

  Added an event() version that takes no icon and will use a default one
  Added an event() version that takes StandardEvent eventId and QString iconName

KPeople

  Allow extending action metadata by using predefined types
  Fix model not being properly updated after removing a contact from Person

KPty

  Expose to world whether KPty has been built with utempter library

KTextEditor

  Add kdesrc-buildrc highlighting file
  syntax: added support for binary integer literals in the PHP highlighting file

KWidgetsAddons

  Make KMessageWidget animation smooth with high Device Pixel Ratio

KWindowSystem

  Add a dummy Wayland implementation for KWindowSystemPrivate
  KWindowSystem::icon with NETWinInfo not bound to platform X11.

KXmlGui

  Preserve translation domain when merging .rc files
  Fix runtime warning QWidget::setWindowModified: The window title does not contain a '[*]' placeholder

KXmlRpcClient

  Install translations

Plasma framework

  Fixed stray tooltips when temporary owner of tooltip disappeared or became empty
  Fix TabBar not properly laid out initially, which could be observed in eg. Kickoff
  PageStack transitions now use Animators for smoother animations
  TabGroup transitions now use Animators for smoother animations
  Make Svg,FrameSvg work qith QT_DEVICE_PIXELRATIO

Solid

  Refresh the battery properties upon resume

Buildsystem changes

  Extra CMake Modules (ECM) is now versioned like KDE Frameworks, therefore it is now 5.9, while it was 1.8 previously.
  Many frameworks have been fixed to be useable without searching for their private dependencies.
I.e. applications looking up a framework only need its public dependencies, not the private ones.
  Allow configuration of SHARE_INSTALL_DIR, to handle multi-arch layouts better

Frameworkintegration

  Fix possible crash when destroying a QSystemTrayIcon (triggered by e.g. Trojita), bug 343976
  Fix native modal file dialogs in QML, bug 334963

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