Friday, 8 May 2015

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.10.0.

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

KActivities

• (no changelog provided)

KConfig

• Generate QML-proof classes using the kconfigcompiler

KCoreAddons

• New cmake macro kcoreaddons_add_plugin to create KPluginLoader-based plugins more easily.

KDeclarative

• Fix crash in texture cache.
• and other fixes

KGlobalAccel

• Add new method globalShortcut which retrieves the shortcut as defined in global settings.

KIdleTime

• Prevent kidletime from crashing on platform wayland

KIO

• Added KPropertiesDialog::KPropertiesDialog(urls) and KPropertiesDialog::showDialog(urls).
• Asynchronous QIODevice-based data fetch for KIO::storedPut and KIO::AccessManager::put.
• Fix conditions with QFile::rename return value (bug 343329)
• Fixed KIO::suggestName to suggest better names (bug 341773)
• kioexec: Fixed path for writeable location for kurl (bug 343329)
• Store bookmarks only in user-places.xbel (bug 345174)
• Duplicate RecentDocuments entry if two different files have the same name
• Better error message if a single file is too large for the trash (bug 332692)
• Fix KDirLister crash upon redirection when the slot calls openURL

KNewStuff

• New set of classes, called KMoreTools and related. KMoreTools helps to add hints about external tools which are potentially not yet installed. Furthermore, it makes long menus shorter by providing a main and more section which is also user-configurable.

KNotifications

• Fix KNotifications when used with Ubuntu's NotifyOSD (bug 345973)
• Don't trigger notification updates when setting the same properties (bug 345973)
• Introduce LoopSound flag allowing notifications to play sound in a loop if they need it (bug 346148)
• Don't crash if notification doesn't have a widget

KPackage

• Add a KPackage::findPackages function similar to KPluginLoader::findPlugins

KPeople

• Use KPluginFactory for instantiating the plugins, instead of KService (kept for compatibility).

KService

• Fix wrong splitting of entry path (bug 344614)

KWallet

• Migration agent now also check old wallet is empty before starting (bug 346498)

KWidgetsAddons

• KDateTimeEdit: Fix so user input actually gets registered. Fix double margins.
• KFontRequester: fix selecting monospaced fonts only

KWindowSystem

• Don't depend on QX11Info in KXUtils::createPixmapFromHandle (bug 346496)
• new method NETWinInfo::xcbConnection() -> xcb_connection_t*

KXmlGui

• Fix shortcuts when secondary shortcut set (bug 345411)
• Update list of bugzilla products/components for bug reporting (bug 346559)
• Global shortcuts: allow configuring also the alternate shortcut

NetworkManagerQt

• The installed headers are now organized like all other frameworks.

Plasma framework

• PlasmaComponents.Menu now supports sections
• Use KPluginLoader instead of ksycoca for loading C++ dataengines
• Consider visualParent rotation in popupPosition (bug 345787)

Sonnet

• Don't try to highlight if there is no spell checker found. This would lead to an infinite loop with rehighlighRequest timer firing constanty.

Frameworkintegration

• Fix native file dialogs from widgets QFileDialog:** File dialogs opened with exec() and without parent were opened, but any user-interaction was blocked in a way that no file could be selected nor the dialog closed.** File dialogs opened with open() or show() with parent were not opened at all.

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Installing binary packages

On Linux, using packages for your favorite distribution is the recommended way to get access to KDE Frameworks.Get KDE Software on Your Linux Distro wiki page

Compiling from sources

The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.10.0 may befreely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from theKDE Frameworks 5.10.0 Info Page.

Building from source is possible using the basiccmake .; make; make install commands. For a single Tier 1 framework, this is often the easiest solution. People interested in contributing to frameworks or tracking progress in development of the entire set are encouraged touse kdesrc-build. Frameworks 5.10.0 requires Qt.

A detailed listing of all Frameworks with API documentation is onapi.kde.org.

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