KDE Frameworks 5.79.0 released

13th February 2021. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.79.0.

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/

Attica

Port from QNetworkRequest::FollowRedirectsAttribute to QNetworkRequest::RedirectPolicyAttribute

Baloo

[SearchStore] Remove filesystem dependencies from includeFolder prop
[FileIndexerConfig] Fix hidden check for explictly included directories
[FilteredDirIterator] Request hidden files from QDirIterator

Breeze Icons

new telegram-panel icons
Use correct style for align-horizontal-left-out icons (bug 432273)
Add new kickoff icons (bug 431883)
Add rating-half, 100% opacity for rating-unrated, Text color for rating in dark theme
Remove KeePassXC icons (bug 431593)
Fix @3x icons (bug 431475)
add neochat icon

Extra CMake Modules

Only enable GNU_TAR_FOUND when --sort=name is available
Remove fastlane metadata generation from a given APK
KDEFrameworksCompilerSettings: define -DQT_NO_KEYWORDS and -DQT_NO_FOREACH by default
[KDEGitCommitHooks] Create copy of scripts in source dir
Support the new Appstream file extension as well
fetch-translations: Resolve the URL before passing it to fetchpo.rb
Consider Appstream donation URLs for creating F-Droid metadata
Fix permissions for scripts (bug 431768)
ECMQtDeclareLoggingCategory: create .categories files in build, not configure
Add cmake function to configure git pre-commit hooks

Framework Integration

Fix window decorations not being uninstallable (bug 414570)

KDE Doxygen Tools

Make sure we don't use default doxygen font
Improve QDoc rendering and fix a few bug in the dark theme
Update maintainership information
Brand new theme consistent with develop.kde.org/docs

KCalendarCore

Unregister MemoryCalendar as an observer when deleting an incidence
Use the recurrenceId to delete the right occurrence
Also clear notebook associations when closing a MemoryCalendar

KCMUtils

Ensure single column mode

KCodecs

Remove the usage of non-UTF-8 string literals

KCompletion

Fix regression caused due to porting from operator+ to operator|

KConfig

Refactor window geometry save/restore code to be less fragile
Fix restoring window size when closed while maximized (bug 430521)
KConfig: preserve the milliseconds component of QDateTime

KCoreAddons

Add KFuzzyMatcher for fuzzy filtering of strings
KJob::infoMessage: document that the richtext argument will be removed, unused
KJobUiDelegate::showErrorMessage: implement with qWarning()
Deprecate X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends related methods
Drop X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends keys

KDeclarative

Allow single column items
KeySequenceItem: Assign empty string on clear instead of undefined (bug 432106)
Disambiguate selected vs hovered states for GridDelegate (bug 406914)
Use Single mode by default

KFileMetaData

ffmpegextractor: Use av_find_default_stream_index to find video stream

KHolidays #

Update Mauritius holidays for 2021
Update Taiwanese holidays

KI18n

Don't set codec for textstream when building against Qt6

KImageFormats

Simplify portion of NCLX color profile code
[imagedump] Add "list MIME type" (-m) option
Fix crash with malformed files
ani: Make sure riffSizeData is of the correct size before doing the quint32_le cast dance
Add plugin for animated Windows cursors (ANI)

KIO

Use Q_LOGGING_CATEGORY macro instead of explicit QLoggingCategory (bug 432406)
Fix default codec being set to "US-ASCII" in KIO apps (bug 432406)
CopyJob: fix crash with skip/retry (bug 431731)
KCoreDirLister: un-overload canceled() and completed() signals
KFilePreviewGenerator: modernise code base
KCoreDirLister: un-overload clear() signal
MultiGetJob: un-overload signals
FileJob: un-overload close() signal
SkipDialog: deprecate result(SkipDialog *_this, int _button) signal
Fix lockup when renaming a file from properties dialog (bug 431902)
Deprecate addServiceActionsTo and addPluginActionsTo
[KFilePlacesView] Lower opacity for hidden items in "show all"
Don't change directories when opening non listable urls
Tweak KFileWidget::slotOk logic when in files+directory mode
FileUndoManager: fix undo of copy empty directory
FileUndoManager: don't overwrite files on undo
FileUndoManager: deprecate undoAvailable() method
ExecutableFileOpenDialog: make the text label more generic
KProcessRunner: only emit processStarted() signal once
Revert "kio_trash: fix the logic when no size limit is set"

Kirigami

Use non symbolic icon for quit action
Fix toolbar menu buttons depress correctly
Use subsection instead of section
[controls/BasicListItem]: Add reserveSpaceForSubtitle property
make nav button implicit height explicit
Fix BasicListItem vertical alignment
[basiclistitem] Ensure icons are square
[controls/ListItem]: Remove indented separator for leading items
Re-add right list item separator margin when there's a leading item
Don't manually call reverseTwinsChanged when destructing FormLayout (bug 428461)
[org.kde.desktop/Units] Make durations match controls/Units
[Units] Reduce veryLongDuration to 400ms
[Units] Reduce shortDuration and longDuration by 50ms
Don't consider Synthetized mouse events as Mouse (bug 431542)
more aggressively use implicitHeight instead of preferredHeight
Use atlas textures for icons
controls/AbstractApplicationHeader: vertically center children
[actiontextfield] Fix inline action margins and sizing
correctly update header size (bug 429235)
[controls/OverlaySheet]: Respect Layout.maximumWidth (bug 431089)
[controls/PageRouter]: Expose set parametres when dumping currentRoutes
[controls/PageRouter]: Expose top level parametres in 'params' property map
move pagerouter related examples in a subfolder
Possible to drag the window by non interactive areas
AbstractApplicationWindow: Use wide window on desktop systems for all styles
Don't hide list item separator on hover when background is transparent
[controls/ListItemDragHandle] Fix wrong arrangement on no-scrolling case (bug 431214)
[controls/applicationWindow]: Account for drawer widths when computing wideScreen

KNewStuff

Refactor the KNSQuick Page header and footer for Kirigami-ness
Add number label to Ratings component for easier readability
Reduce minimum size of QML GHNS dialog window
Match lighter hovered appearance for KCM grid delegates
Ensure the minimum width for the QML Dialog is screen-width or less
Fix the BigPreview delegate's layout
Revalidate cached entries before showing dialog
Add support for kns:/ urls to the knewstuff-dialog tool (bug 430812)
filecopyworker: Open files before reading/writing
Reset entry to updateable when no payload is identified for updating (bug 430812)
Fix occasional crash due to holding a pointer incorrectly
Deprecate DownloadManager class
Deprecate AcceptHtmlDownloads property
Deprecate ChecksumPolicy and SignaturePolicy properties
Deprecate Scope property
Deprecate CustomName property

KNotification

Emit NewMenu when new context menu is set (bug 383202)
Deprecate KPassivePopup
Make sure all backends ref the notification before doing work
Make the notification example app build and work on Android
Move notification id handling into KNotification class
Fix removing pending notification from queue (bug 423757)

KPackage Framework

Document PackageStructure ownership when using PackageLoader

KPty

Fix generating the full path to kgrantpty in the code for ! HAVE_OPENPTY

KQuickCharts

Add a "first" method to ChartDataSource and use it in Legend (bug 432426)

KRunner

Check for selected action in case of informational match
Fix empty result string for current activity
Deprecate overloads for QueryMatch ids
[DBus Runner] Test RemoteImage

KService

Deprecate KPluginInfo::dependencies()
CMake: Specify add_custom_command() dependencies
Explicitly deprecate overload for KToolInvocation::invokeTerminal
Add method to get KServicePtr of default terminal application
KService: add method to set workingDirectory

KTextEditor

[Vimode] Do not switch view when changing case (~ command) (bug 432056)
Increase maximum indentation width to 200 (bug 432283)
ensure we update the range mapping e.g. on invalidation of now empty ranges
Only show bookmark chars error when in vimode (bug 424172)
[vimode] Fix motion to matching item off-by-one
Retain replacement text as long as the power search bar is not closed (bug 338111)
KateBookMarks: modernise code base
Don't ignore alpha channel when there is a mark
Fix alpha channel being ignored when reading from config interface
Prevent bracket match preview from overextending outside the view
Prevent bracket match preview from sometimes lingering after switching to a different tab
Make the bracket match preview more compact
Do not show bracket match preview if it will cover the cursor
Maximize width of bracket match preview
Hide the bracket match preview when scrolling
avoid duplicated highlighting ranges that kill ARGB rendering
expose the global KSyntaxHighlighting::Repository read-only
Correct indentation bug when line contains "for" or "else"
Correct an indentation bug
remove the special case tagLine, it did lead to random update faults in e.g. the
fix rendering of word wrap makers + selection
Fix indent for when pressing enter and the function param has a comma at the end
paint the small gap in selection color, if previous line end is in selection
avoid full line selection painting, more in line with other editors
adapt indenter to changed hl files
[Vimode] Port Command to QRegularExpression
[Vimode] Port findPrevWordEnd and findSurroundingBrackets to QRegularExpression
[Vimode] Port QRegExp::lastIndexIn to QRegularExpression and QString::lastIndexOf
[Vimode] Port ModeBase::addToNumberUnderCursor to QRegularExpression
[Vimode] Port simple uses of QRegExp::indexIn to QRegularExpression and QString::indexOf
Use rgba(r,g,b,aF) to handle the alpha channel for html export
Respect alpha colors while exporting html
Introduce a helper method for getting the color name correctly
Alpha colors support: Config layer
avoid that line changed markers kill current line highlight
paint current line highlighting over iconborder, too
Enable alpha channel for editor colors
Fix current line highlight has a tiny gap at the beginning for dyn. wrapped lines
Dont do needles computation, just compare values directly
Fix current line highlight has a tiny gap at the beginning
[Vimode] Do not skip folded range when the motion lands inside
Use a range-for loop over m_matchingItems instead of using QHash::keys()
Port normalvimode to QRegularExpression
properly export right dependencies
expose the KSyntaxHighlighting theme
add configChanged to KTextEditor::Editor, too, for global configuration changes
allow to access & alter the current theme via config interface
Remove const qualifier when passing LineRanges around
Use .toString() since QStringView is lacking .toInt() in older Qt versions
Declare toLineRange() constexpr inline whenever possible
Reuse QStringView version from QStringRev, remove const qualifier
Move TODO KF6 comment out of doxygen comment
Cursor, Range: Add fromString(QStringView) overload
Allow "Dynamic Word Wrap Align Indent" to be disabled (bug 430987)
LineRange::toString(): Avoid '-' sign, as for negative numbers it's confusing
Use KTextEditor::LineRange in notifyAboutRangeChange() mechanism
Port tagLines(), checkValidity() and fixLookup() to LineRanges
Add KTextEditor::LineRange
Move KateTextBuffer::rangesForLine() impl to KateTextBlock and avoid unnecessary container constructions
[Vimode]Fix search inside fold ranges (bug 376934)
[Vimode] Fix Macro Completion Replay (bug 334032)

KWidgetsAddons

Make use of AUTORCC

KWindowSystem

Add fractional opacity convenience helpers
xcb: Work with the active screen as reported by QX11Info::appScreen()

KXMLGUI

Add KXMLGUIFactory::shortcutsSaved signal
Use the correct kde get involved url (bug 430796)

Plasma Framework

[plasmoidheading] Use intended color for footers
[plasmacomponents3/spinbox] Fix selected text color
widgets>lineedit.svg: fix pixel misalignment woes (bug 432422)
Fix inconsistent left and right padding in PlasmoidHeading
Update breeze-dark/breeze-light colors
Revert "[SpinBox] Fix logic error in scroll directionality"
[calendar] fix missing import names
[ExpandableListItem] Make expanded actions list view respect font
DaysCalendar: port to PC3/QQC2 where possible
Remove hover animation from flat buttons, calendar, listitems, buttons
Dump plasmoid errors into console
Solve cyclic dependency of Units.qml
[PlasmaComponents MenuItem] Create dummy action when action gets destroyed
don't make pixmaps bigger than needed
Add JetBrains IDEs project files to ignored
Fix Connections warnings
Add RESET to globalShortcut property (bug 431006)

Purpose

[nextcloud] Rework configuration UI
Evaluate initial configuration
Clip ListViews in kdeconnect and bluetooth config
[plugins/nextcloud] Use Nextcloud icon

QQC2StyleBridge

[combobox] Fix touchpad scroll speed (bug 400258)
Support QQuickWidget (bug 428737)
Allow drag window from empty areas

Solid

[Fstab] Ignore docker overlay mounts (bug 422385)

Sonnet

Don't do multiple lookups when one is enough

Syntax Highlighting

add missing increment of version of context.xml
Support official file endings, see https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2020/096906.html
update reference results
less vibrant operator color for breeze themes
fix syntax for new hugo
Improve readability of Solarized dark theme
merge operator highlighting => update references
add const overloads for some accessors
Bash, Zsh: fix cmd;; in a case (bug 430668)
Atom Light, Breeze Dark/Light: new color for Operator ; Breeze Light: new color for ControlFlow
email.xml: Detect nested comments and escaped characters (bug 425345)
Update atom light to use alpha colors
remap some Symbol and Operator styles to dsOperator
Bash: fix } in ${!xy*} and more Parameter Expansion Operator (# in ${#xy} ; !,*,@,[*],[@] in ${!xy*}) (bug 430668)
Update theme revisions
Update kconfig highlighter to Linux 5.9
Use rgba(r,g,b,aF) to handle the alpha channel for Qt/Browsers correctly
Dont use rgba when in themeForPalette
Make sure rgba is respected in html and Format
Fixes for atom-one-dark
Some more updates for Atom One Dark
Dont check for rgba when checking for a best match
Allow using the alpha channel in theme colors
Update monokai colors and fix incorrect blue
C++: fix us suffix
Bash: fix #5: $ at the end of a double quoted string
VHDL: fix function, procedure, type range/units and other improvements
Update breeze-dark.theme
Raku: #7: fix symbols that starts with Q
quickfix missing contrast for Extension
Add Oblivion color scheme from GtkSourceView/Pluma/gEdit

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key:
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Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB

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