KDE Frameworks 5.88.0 released

13th November 2021. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.88.0.



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

Add Android CI

BluezQt

Add GATT Client functionality
Generate pkgconfig file

Breeze Icons

Bug 404810 add flatpak packages mimetype icon
Bug 444452 Custom folder icons
Use reference to a QString to avoid copying, fixing a warning
BUG: 395569 places icon use ColorScheme colors (bug 395569 places icon use ColorScheme colors)
Add RTL logout icons
Missing color scheme usage at some icons
BUG: 174203 add mail-download-now and mail-download-later icon (bug 174203 add mail-download-now and mail-download-later icon)
BUG: 436931 update anacondainstaller icon to respect fedora logo (bug 436931 update anacondainstaller icon to respect fedora logo)
Fix the dark install directory for installing colored icons (bug 444095)
Install colored icons sizes into breeze-dark them as well (bug 444095)
Make some of the 22 px places icons actually be 22 again
Add Kongress icon fix grid alignment
Fix color of 16px im-user-offline icon (bug 443658)
Optimize places 16 and 22px icons
BreezeIcon additional app icons most are for math apps
BreezeIcons add task-process icons for kalendar app task view
Add Joplin icon
Add syncthing icon
Move all of /preferences to icons, remove it from icons_dark
Fix scalable test to check breeze for breeze-dark
Make breeze-dark inherit from breeze

Extra CMake Modules

Fix Wayland_DATADIR when cross-compiling
[android] Extend NDK workaround to version 22
msvc: Fix __cplusplus value
Fix ECM on systems without PyQt5 on Python 2
ECMFindQMLModule: Use QT_HOST_BINS to find qmlplugindump
FindQtWaylandScanner: Use QT_HOST_BINS to find qtwaylandscanner
ecm_add_test: add -DQT_FORCE_ASSERTS to compile flags by default

KDE Doxygen Tools

Handle uppercase directory names (bug 441560)
Remove whitespace in generic type definitions

KArchive

Add Android CI
This framework is now LGPL-2.0-or-later

KBookmarks

Correct platform specification - we can be built on Android as well

KCalendarCore

Dirty fields and update observers in Event and FreeBusy
Dirty fields and update observers in Incidence
Dirty updates in IncidenceBase
Move IncidencePrivate and IncidenceBasePrivate to headers
Simplify IncidenceBasePrivate constructors
Rename incidence classes from Foo::Private to FooPrivate
Copy improvements in recent changes to Event etc
cmake: Port to using libical's cmake scripts

KCMUtils

KPluginSelector: Make sure to check if metaData/moduleInfo is valid before accessing it
KPluginSelector: Allow KCMs to be loaded using X-KDE-ConfigModule keyword
Remove unused internal method in KPluginSelector
Deprecate KCModuleInfo in favor of KPluginMetaData API
KCMultiDialog: Use deprecation macros to wrap internal KCModuleInfo API usage
KCModuleLoader: Deprecate overloads using KCModuleInfo
KPluginSelector: Port internally deprecated KCModuleInfo usage
KCModuleProxy: Deprecate KService/KCModuleInfo overloads for constructor

KCompletion

New KCompletion::setSorterFunction() to allow custom sorting by providing function (bug 442717)

KConfig

Exclude new enum-overload from python bindings build
Enforce KAuthorized enums being not 0
Create enum to to authorize common keys
Do not try to generate python bindings for KConfigGroup::moveValuesTo
Create utility method for moving entries from one group to another

KConfigWidgets

Fix auto color scheme switching
[kcolorschememodel] Expose color scheme id
[KCommandBar] Additionally sort commands by name (bug 443731)
[KCommandBar] Don't display an indent for an icon if no item has an icon (bug 443382)
[KCommandBar] Skip actions with empty text (bug 443732)
Read proper color setting on Windows (bug 443300)
[KCommandBar] Show information about a command in a tooltip (bug 438735)

KContacts

Adressee: use a vector instead of a QHash with ~8 elements
VCard: Replace QMap with a vector of struct
Addressee: deprecate insertEmail() and add a new method instead
VCardTool::addParamter() should take by pointer
Deprecate parameters/setParameters() from the public API
Deprecate the unused Field class
Replace country <-> iso code mapping with the new KI18nLocaleData
VCardParser: less temporary allocations
Don't use QTime::fromString() with format being a string
Don't use QDate/QTime::fromString() with a string format arg
Perf: Manually parse timezone offset
VCardTool::createVCards(): split Adressee-related code to a separate method
VCardTool::createVCards(): split Adress-related code to a separate method

KCoreAddons

KPluginFactory: Provide more context for warning
Add comments describing checks made before registering plugin
Move utility method to read translated json values to dedicated header
Improve deprecation docs of KAboutData::programIconName
kcoreaddons_add_plugin: Avoid clash if app name and plugin namepace are the same
K_PLUGIN_CLASS_WITH_JSON: Use name provided by kcoreaddons_add_plugin for factory
Port internal readStringList usage
Deprecate KPluginMetaData::readStringList in favor of value overload
Discard KPluginMetaData::value overloads for python bindings
KPluginMetaData: Add overload to interpret char array as string
KPluginMetaData: Add overloads to read int and bool value
merge the util's config.h

KCrash

Move more Linux-specific functions under #ifdef Q_OS_LINUX
Add CMake option to build without X11
Use imported target for X11

KDeclarative

GridDelegate: don't let labels overflow (bug 444707)
Use a readonly property to control KCM margins
[configmodule] Deprecate aboutData
[ConfigModule] Allow creating KCMs without KAboutData
[ConfigModule] Deprecate ctors that take KAboutData and KPluginMetaData
Don't explicitly build shared libs
Expose KAuthorized enum as dynamic properties to QML
KCM GridDelegate: Display a blue line when the delegate has active focus

KDED

Bump KF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT value
Utilize KPluginMetaData::value overloads

KFileMetaData

Fix wrong testcase
[FFmpegExtractor] Remove FFmpeg 2.x/3.0 support, handle deprecations
Fix version checks in FindFFmpeg.cmake
[DublinCore] Also test terms namespace
[PopplerExtractor] directly use getters provided by poppler

KGlobalAccel

Properly split exec line args (bug 444730)

KDE GUI Addons

Remove unneeded lambda capture, fixing a compiler warning

KHolidays #

Correct Name of last day of daylight saving time (bug 444615)
Fixed typo on holiday_mx_es
various holiday_* - assign explicit names for subregions
holidays/holidays.qrc - remove trailing white-space
Remove unneeded fstream include
removed shabs
added pakistan holidays

KI18n

Don't discard non-conflicting substring matches
Fall back to the compile-time detected iso-codes location
Use unique_ptr instead of managing memory manually
Load Qt translations even if some catalogs are missing
Add KCountry[Subdivision]::operator!=
Forward declaration needs a matching export macro on Windows
Extend README to cover the new features
Move the new country/country subdivision/timezone code into its on library
Add QML API for KTimeZone
Add QML bindings for country/country subdivision API
Fix offset overflows for ISO 3166-2 name lookups
Integrate the Unicode normalization and prefix matching from KContacts
Cache iso codes cache sizes
Implement KCountry::fromName()
Add timezone lookup by geo coordinate, and timezone to country mapping
Make use of the spatial index for countries and subdivisions
Generate spatial index for timezones/countries/country subdivisions
Implement timezone by country (subdivision) lookup
QGIS Python scripts for generating country/timezone lookup tables
Add country and country subdivision lookup and translation API

KIconThemes

Add QIcon::fallbackThemeName() as fallback
Fix @since marker
Include a test for properly testing icon recoloring
Also highlight charged text colors (bug 442569)
Use KIconColors to re-color icons
Make icon colouring a per-icon property rather than a system (bug 442533)
Create a d-pointer for KIconEngine
[KIconDialog] Also apply edge padding vertically
Ensure we retrieve our dependencies on Android

KIdleTime

Relicense framework from LGPL-2.0-only to LGPL-2.1-or-later

KInit

Remove code for loading libkdeinit5_foo.so modules

KIO

PasteDialog: fix data pasting in Wayland (bug 421974)
Find LibMount when building statically
kdeinit is gone, use KDE_SLAVE_DEBUG_WAIT in kioslave instead
[KFilePlacesModel] Specify which data roles have actually been changed
Deduplicate KCoreDirLister before going through them
Use CMake to check if copy_file_range() is available
file_unix: make the read/write loop the same as the copy_file_range one
file_unix: let copy_file_range() manage the fd's offsets
file_unix: emit processed size change after each copy_file_range() call
file_unix: only update sizeProcessed once per iteration
KDiskFreeSpaceInfo: Remove redundant deprecation #if
Deprecate KDiskFreeSpaceInfo
fix KTerminalLauncherJob working with exec
file_unix: fix copying status report
file_unix: Refactor copy()
KMountPoint: revert to parsing /dev/disk/by-{uuid,label}/ manually (bug 442106)
CopyJob: handle the no-op case of symlinks on FAT partitions (bug 442310)
SkipDialog: adapt buttons to more use cases
Port to enum values for KAuthorized::authorize
KUrlCompletion: Disregard the trailing slash when sorting directory paths (bug 442717)
Deprecate Scheduler::publishSlaveOnHold as well
Remove the last use klauncher in slave.cpp
Remove cmake option KIO_FORK_SLAVES
KFilePropsPlugin: Allow to edit properties when setFileNameReadOnly is set (bug 441847)
Increase KF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT version
Add easy Invent repo search
Add invent web search keyword
kcm_cookies: Embed json metadata
kcm_webshortcuts: Embed json metadata
kcmproxy: Embed json metadata
kcmtrash: Embed json metadata and drop X-KDE-PluginKeyword usage
scheduler: reorder to avoid the need for fwd-decl functions
[KUrlNavigator] Fix first button text for local paths
kuriikwsfiltereng: Fix quitting match logic if accidentally bang syntax is used (bug 437660)
kurifilter: Add test to check if bang syntax is preferred
Deprecate KAutoMount/KAutoUnmount
file_unix: Fix endless loop during xattr copy (bug 441446)
Improve "trash is full" error message (bug 442865)
Don't use kdoctools on Android
KDesktopPropsPlugin: open "Advanced Options" dialog with show()
Adjust dependencies for Android

Kirigami

Fix missing titlebar on ApplicationWindow modals in Windows
NavigationTabButton: Set minimum width and wrap text
Icon: Use icon-png as the default placeholder instead of icon-x-icon (bug 444884)
Remove the no longer existing Units.qml file from the qrc files
Add missing AboutItem to to the qrc files
Cleanup FormLayout
reliably drop component pools (bug 429027)
[GlobalDrawerActionItem] Dim when disabled
Small improvement in Api doc
Pass properties when creating a dialog for pushDialogLayers
Fix context drawer being inaccessible on secondary layers in mobile mode
[PageRow] Fix variable shadowing
[ActionTextField] Doc: Reword nullable field to an empty list
[Breadcrumb] Fix breadcrumb position on content change
Improve look of FormLayout section headers
Fix punctuation/whitespace of runtime rate-limited deprecation warnings
Always allow sidebar handles in header by default
remove duplicated frile
NavigationTabBar: Support actions that have mnemonics
Heading: Lower all sizes
Fix issues with setting components on tablet

KItemModels

Take into account a possible QLocale::setDefault() override

KJobWidgets

Handle all cases in switch(KJob::Unit) expressions to fix a compiler warning

KJS

Do no longer remove -Wsuggest-override flag

KNewStuff

Port to enum values for KAuthorized::authorizeAction
Make sure that we query KService with lowercase desktop names since it seems that KService stores everything lowercase (bug 417575)

KNotification

Fix Windows build
warn when notifybypopup has pending notifications on destruction
Add KNotifications QML plugin
KWindowSystem is also not required on Android - but unlike Phonon is also needed on Windows
Phonon is not required for KNotifications on Windows or Android

KPackage Framework

Allow KCM kpackages to use metadata of C++ plugin
Utilize std::optional to check if we have already searched for a KPluginMetaData object
KPackage: Copy KPluginMetaData object when copying d-ptr

KParts

Deprecate unused & internal method
PartLoader::createPartInstanceForMimeType: Port inlined code from hack
Increase KF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE_AND_AT version
Un-Overload KParts::BrowserExtension::selectionInfo signal

Kross

Emit deprecation warnings for central Kross::Manager class

KRunner

Deprecate K_EXPORT_PLASMA_RUNNER_WITH_JSON macro in favor or K_PLUGIN_CLASS_WITH_JSON
Deprecate RunnerManager::allowedRunners method

KService

Use KSERVICE_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_SINCE in header instead of BUILD variant
cmake: Remove intermediate copy targets
kservice.h: Silence deprecation warnings in inlined, deprecated code

KTextEditor

ViMode: Dont respond to doc changes when vi mode is disabled for view
Expand katepart metadata (bug 444714)
Set metadata when creating katepart (bug 444714)
TextFolding::importFoldingRanges: get rid of UB (bug 444726)
KateFoldingTest: don't leak ViewPrivate
Simplify DocumentCursor::setPosition
Highlight Folding Markers
#37 Improve the context menu for selections
Make the regex search fast
Improve Appearance > Borders Dialog
KateRenderer: Check for m_view being null in more places
Fix leaving selectionByUser state
Do not cancel mouse selection when using the keyboard
[KateIconBorder] Handle annotations context menu
Enable enclose selection by default for brackets
Dont indent the lines if line already has text + noindent
Improve Open/Save Advanced Dialog
Better General dialogue for text editing settings
[KateIconBorder] Add context menu

KWayland

Correct the eglQueryWaylandBufferWL_func prototype

KWidgetsAddons

KTitleWidget: Lower all sizes
KSqueezedTextLabel: Fix clipped characters (bug 442595)
KMessageDialog: fix setButtons() being called twice
KMessageDialog: disconnect default buttonbox signals as we emit done() manually (bug 442332)

KWindowSystem

Fix the compiler warning by casting int to unsigned
Link privately against XCB when building statically (bug 441266)

KXMLGUI

Migrate "State" config entry to state config group if available
Allow apps to opt-in storing state data in separate file (bug 397602)
[ci] Remove unused kwindowsystem dep

ModemManagerQt

Introduce VoiceInterface Type
Add signals to watch for interface changes
Fix DBus signal connection

NetworkManagerQt

cmake: use imported targets

Plasma Framework

Deprecate KServiceTypeTrader containment action loading
Deprecate standardInternal*Info methods
Avoid creating a Theme object for every icon fetch
Introduce dismissOnHoverLeave property and toolTipVisibleChanged signal (bug 444142)
Deprecate plugin export macros in favor or K_PLUGIN_CLASS_WITH_JSON
PC3 SpinBox: improve visuals and behavior, remove drag to change value
Deprecate parentApp parameter in PluginLoader::listAppletMetaData
PC2 ScrollViewStyle: fix scrollbar sizing
PC3 TextField: Make focus frame not delayed
PC3 Slider: get rid of HoverFocusSvgItem
PC3 CheckIndicator: only show focus visuals for visualFocus
PC3 Slider: fix tickmark positions
PC3 ScrollView: remove ability to show background in onCompleted
PC3 private/RaisedbuttonBackground: disable shadow when disabled
PC3 private/ButtonBackground: reduce opacity when disabled
Breeze button: Use more realistic shadow
PC3/Breeze progressbar: update style, improve implicit sizing
Breeze line: removed built-in blank space, simplify
Breeze button: Use solid backgrounds for raised button pressed graphics
PC3/Breeze sliders: add solid background, handle shadow, fix pixel alignment, fix vertical groove height
PC3/Breeze scrollbar: update style and behavior
PC3/Breeze radiobutton: improve style
PC3 Control: use better implicit size calculation
Fix crash in WindowThumbnail::updatePaintNode() (bug 444015)
ExpandableListItem: Finally fix expanded height calculation permanently (bug 443755)
Properly discard window texture provider when thumbnail item shows only icon
Have Containment::restore also call its parent's Applet::restore
Simplify code by using KPluginMetaData::value overloads
Prevent tooltips from being incorrectly dismissed (bug 434657)
Split window texture provider from window texture node (bug 439681)
Make tab/right move focus to default action button or expand button
Heading: sync with Kirigami version
Ensure context menu is PC2.Menu, and open it relative to the item
Fix context menu opening
Add keyboard navigation to ExpandableListItem
ScrollView: Do not overlay scrollbars over contents (bug 443173)
PC3 Button/ToolButton: use down instead of pressed for background graphics
PC3 TabButton: Add focus underline to label
PC3 TabButton: Use IconLabel, set padding from theme, show background when no tabbar
PC3 TabBar: improve implicit sizing, support spacing, remove pointless background, use 0 highlightResizeDuration
breeze: increase tab top/bottom margins
breeze: fix wrong element IDs for north tab margin hints
PC3 Slider: set implicit handle size, separate hover/focus from shadow
breeze: update slider style (bug 355889)
PC3 private/IconLabel: simplify properties, add convenience display properties
PC3 TextField/lineedit.svg: Add focus frame for visualFocus
breeze: update button style
breeze: update checkbox and radiobutton style (bug 355889)
Use onPositionChanged instead of onContainsMouseChanged in ExpandableListItem
Corona: save after ending edit mode
Heading: Lower all sizes
Add scroll support to calendar component in plasma frameworks
PC3 checkbox/radiobutton/switch: left align IconLabel
PC3 ToolTip: ceil label size
PC3 ToolTip: fix pressed/hovered undefined error
PC3 ToolBar: set spacing, remove pointless contentItem
PC3 TabButton: set spacing, remove pointless background item
PC3 DialogButtonBox: fix property undefined error
PC3 ComboBox: make text field use parent palette, modernize code
PC3 ComboBox: set cursor delegate to null instead of undefined
PC3: Use shared Icon+Label implementation
PC3 ComboBox: account for indicator and content size better
PlasmaCore Units: Fix sizeForLabels icon size
PC3: improve implicit sizing
PC3 ButtonBackground: Don't load the background we aren't using
PC3 Button: use same check for color group as ToolButton
PC3 button backgrounds: remove TODO for required properties

Prison

Decrease the preferred size for PDF417 barcodes
Add PDF417 barcode support

Purpose

cmake: Use custom command instead of custom target for copy
Set a title for JobDialog (bug 444205)
Improve job window buttons (bug 444145)
Fix whitespace punctuation in a warning
email: Ensure we don't crash when there's no mailto preferredService (bug 443788)
Make sharing via Telegram work again

QQC2StyleBridge

Pane: add missing Kirigami import
Add Pane control
Remove some id, this should improve the performance
Do not set the palette for every component (bug 406295)
[TextFieldContextMenu] Fix null property accesses
[TextFieldContextMenu] Free the action function after running it
Only re-compute the icon when it's necessary
Don't change MenuItem's arrow's color when selected (bug 443453)
Use KIconColors to color icons
Implement Spellchecking using Sonnet for TextArea

Solid

Implement ARM specific CPU info

Sonnet

Build examples only when BUILD_EXAMPLES is on
Fix applying highlighter in quick document
data/parsetrigrams.cpp: ensure the output is deterministic
Don't crash on null textDocument if suggestions are invoked
Add missing qmldir
Implement QtQuick bindings for Sonnet

Syntax Highlighting

' is a valid identifier part
Fix the colors of modified and saved lines
cmake.xml: Recognize CMake provided modules and functions/macros
Remove *.nix files from Bash syntax
Add Nix highlighting
debchangelog: add Jammy Jellyfish
update refs to improved Dockerfile highlighting
bash.xml: Add Exherbo script file extensions recognized as `bash`
dockerfile.xml: Use `bash` syntax for shell form of commands
Specify byproducts for ExternalProject_Add call
cmake.xml: Improvements to highlighting
Add support of YAML in Fenced Code Blocks in Markdown
Update GNU Assmebler syntax
merge loadhighlightingdata_p.hpp with highlightingdata_p.hpp and rename KSyntaxHighlighting::loadContextData() to HighlightingContextData::load()
add comments and inline in the header some functions
loading rules in 2 parts to reduce the final memory used

Security information

The released code has been GPG-signed using the following key:
pub rsa2048/58D0EE648A48B3BB 2016-09-05 David Faure
Primary key fingerprint: 53E6 B47B 45CE A3E0 D5B7 4577 58D0 EE64 8A48 B3BB

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