KDE team recently announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
New in this Version
Baloo
- Fix date filter used by timeline://
- BalooCtl: Return after commands
- Clean up and armour Baloo::Database::open(), handle more crash conditions
- Add check in Database::open(OpenDatabase) to fail if db doesn’t exist
Breeze Icons
- Many icons added or improved
- use stylesheets in breeze icons (bug 126166)
- BUG: 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen (bug 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen)
- Add 24px dialog-information for GTK apps (bug 355204)
Extra CMake Modules
- Don’t warn when SVG(Z) icons are provided with multiple sizes/level of detail
- Make sure we load translations on the main thread. (bug 346188)
- Overhaul the ECM build system.
- Make it possible to enable Clazy on any KDE project
- Do not find XCB’s XINPUT library by default.
- Clean export dir before generating an APK again
- Use quickgit for Git repository URL.
Framework Integration
- Add plasmoid installation failed to plasma_workspace.notifyrc
KActivities
- Fixed a lock on the first start of the daemon
- Moving QAction creation to the main thread. (bug 351485)
- Sometimes clang-format makes a bad decision (bug 355495)
- Killing potential synchronization issues
- Use org.qtproject instead of com.trolltech
- Removing the usage of libkactivities from the plugins
- KAStats config removed from the API
- Added linking and unlinking to ResultModel
KDE Doxygen Tools
- Make kgenframeworksapidox more robust.
KArchive
- Fix KCompressionDevice::seek(), called when creating a KTar on top of a KCompressionDevice.
KCoreAddons
- KAboutData: Allow https:// and other URL schemas in homepage. (bug 355508)
- Repair MimeType property when using kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json()
KDeclarative
- Port KDeclarative to use KI18n directly
- DragArea delegateImage can now be a string from which an icon is automatically created
- Add new CalendarEvents library
KDED
- Unset SESSION_MANAGER envvar instead of setting it empty
KDELibs 4 Support
- Fix some i18n calls.
KFileMetaData
- Mark m4a as readable by taglib
KIO
- Cookie dialogue: make it work as intended
- Fix filename suggestion changing to something random when changing save-as mimetype.
- Register DBus name for kioexec (bug 353037)
- Update KProtocolManager after configuration change.
KItemModels
- Fix KSelectionProxyModel usage in QTableView (bug 352369)
- Fix resetting or changing the source model of a KRecursiveFilterProxyModel.
KNewStuff
- registerServicesByGroupingNames can define default more items
- Make KMoreToolsMenuFactory::createMenuFromGroupingNames lazy
KTextEditor
- Add syntax highlighting for TaskJuggler and PL/I
- Make it possible to disable keyword-completion via the config interface.
- Resize the tree when the completion model got reset.
KWallet Framework
- Correctly handle the case where the user deactivated us
KWidgetsAddons
- Fix a small artifact of KRatingWidget on hi-dpi.
- Refactor and fix the feature introduced in bug 171343 (bug 171343)
KXMLGUI
- Don’t call QCoreApplication::setQuitLockEnabled(true) on init.
Plasma Framework
- Add basic plasmoid as example for developerguide
- Add a couple of plasmoid templates for kapptemplate/kdevelop
- [calendar] Delay the model reset until the view is ready (bug 355943)
- Don’t reposition while hiding. (bug 354352)
- [IconItem] Don’t crash on null KIconLoader theme (bug 355577)
- Dropping image files onto a panel will no longer offer to set them as wallpaper for the panel
- Dropping a .plasmoid file onto a panel or the desktop will install and add it
- remove the now unused platformstatus kded module (bug 348840)
- allow paste on password fields
- fix positioning of edit menu, add a button to select
- [calendar] Use ui language for getting the month name (bug 353715)
- [calendar] Sort the events by their type too
- [calendar] Move the plugin library to KDeclarative
- [calendar] qmlRegisterUncreatableType needs a bit more arguments
- Allow adding config categories dynamically
- [calendar] Move the plugins handling to a separate class
- Allow plugins to supply event data to Calendar applet (bug 349676)
- check for slot existence before connecting or disconnecting (bug 354751)
- [plasmaquick] Don’t link OpenGL explicitly
- [plasmaquick] Drop XCB::COMPOSITE and DAMAGE dependency