KDE Frameworks 5.92.0 released

13th March 2022. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.92.0.



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/

Changes to multiple frameworks

Remove broken Python bindings generation
Make the BUILD_DESIGNERPLUGIN option dependent on not cross-compiling

Breeze Icons

Add app icon for TeXstudio (bug 391459)

Extra CMake Modules

[ECMQmlModule] Fix doc syntax
ECMGeneratePriFile: support multiple include install dirs
KDEInstallDirs6: replace ECMQueryQMake usage with qtpaths
Adapt Android toolchain file and FindGradle to Qt6

KActivitiesStats

Move Boost dependency to BUILD_TESTING block

KActivities

Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KAuth

Normalize header names and include path layout to KF standards
Prepare KF6 KAuthWidgets library, with an interface lib for KF5

KBookmarks

Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KCalendarCore

Compare timeSpecs when comparing incidences for equality
Preserve timeSpec of all-day event's dtEnd

KConfig

Add KWindowStateSaver
Remove warning from kauthorized.h
KConfigCompiler: support ItemAccessors=true with signalling items
QMake pri files: fix missing new path to version header
Support build without Qt session manager
Add KConfig GUI logging category

KConfigWidgets

KHamburgerMenu: Avoid null receiver warning upon showing menubar
Add a KColorScheme::operator==
KHambugerMenu: Fix crash on windows when showing the window menubar from the KHamburgerMenu

KContacts

Split internal and external API into different files
Also install the address format API header
Improve output for incomplete addresses and formats with 3+ fields per line
Rewrite the address formatter

KCoreAddons

Deprecate KPluginMetaData::fromDesktopFile
KPluginMetaDataTest: Explicitly call dedicated constructors
KPluginMetaData: Emit runtime deprecation warnings for deprecated code path
KPluginMetaData: Add note for deprecated code paths to constructor
KPluginMetaData: Use QFileInfo::completeBaseName for deriving plugin id
Downgrade mismatched host tool version to WARNING
Add a way to indicate to not show a notification on finished
Allow to create valid KPluginMetaData for plugins without embedded JSON metadata
Add an OUTPUT_FILE argument to kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json()
Add KSignalHandler

KDAV

Add iCloud info to README
Replace absolute URIs with relative ones in calendar-multiget request

KDeclarative

Fix double deleting of NetworkAccessManagerFactory (bug 450507)
Delete networkAccessManagerFactory when we delete the engine
Improve Open[app]() functions (bug 443984)

KDESU

Drop obsolete KF5Service and add KF5Config dependency

KDocTools

[ca@valencia] Add Catalan (Valencian) Language

KFileMetaData

Port to KPluginMetaData::findPlugins for plugin querying
enable mobipocket extractor by default

KDE GUI Addons

[KOverlayIconEngine] Implement ScaledPixmapHook for high-dpi support

KHolidays #

holiday_pl_pl - add Fat Thursday and State Holidays w/o day-off (bug 447201)

KIconThemes

Fix pixelated icons in item views (bug 450336)
[KIconEngine] Create high-dpi pixmap in paint
Read the reference icon already scaled

KImageFormats

jxl: encoding improvements
avif: adjust dimension and memory limits

KInit

Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KIO

KFilePlacesView: Fix potential crash in `previousVisibleIndex` (bug 450966)
KFilePlacesView: Fix crash when dragging over topmost section header (bug 450966)
Add the keywords kdeapi and api for KDE
Remove Qt4 runner
Update KDE and Qt runners
Update KDE API runner to current website
Have a runner for Krita Manual
Make KReddit more specific (KDE Reddit)
Add Invent Merge Requests
Remove icon in rust.desktop
DesktopExecParser: parse environment variables too (bug 448859)
Hide mount point labels if mount point can't be found
[kemailclientlauncherjob] Fix emitting result
Fix trash KCM not having any icon on wayland (bug 449859)
Report error messages instead of error names
QMake pri files: fix missing new path to version header
[KFilePlacesView] Consider section header for drop highlight
[KFileWidget] Hide KMessageWidget initially
Fix potential crash in pastejob (bug 439948)
Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess
KBuildSycocaProgressDialog: drop kbuildsycoca4-related code
Make KFilePlacesModel somewhat usable from QML
Make KDirModel somewhat usable from QML
Disable broken DBusActivation with urls arguments for now
[KFilePlacesView] Mount place when dropping onto it (bug 206629)
[KFilePlacesView] Unset active/selected state for drag pixmap
Introduce API to unwatch directories
OpenUrlJob: fallback to QDesktopServices::openUrl() on Windows and MacOS
[KFileWidget] Display KFilePlacesView errors
[KFileWidget] Use KMessageWidget for error reporting
[KDirOperator] Consider IO finished in case of error
[KFilePlacesModel] Check query and fragment for closest parent
[KFilePlacesModel] Check for convertedUrl in closestItem
Fix memory leak after SimpleJob::putOnHold()
Fix memory leak when killing a job
[KFilePlacesView] Add drag auto-activation
[knewfilemenu] Bind stat job connection lifetime to dialog, not the whole menu (bug 433347)
[KFilePlacesView] Workaround place being added despite urlsDropped
[KFilePlacesView] Always set pen explicitly
[KFilePlacesView] Allow for an empty "Places" section
[KFilePlacesView] Use DisplayRole when editing a place
[KPropertiesDialog] Avoid layout shift when interrupting size calculation

Kirigami

Dialog: Accommodate vertical scrollbars widths properly
Dialog: Fix implicitWidth binding loop when absolute maximum size used
consider visibility when calculating page content positions
update commandlink url to a working one
FormLayout: make section headings slightly smaller but bolder
NavigationTabBar: check checkedButton state before updating currentIndex
Drawer should not eat mouse events at edges (bug 438017)
Add a CI job to build and test the static build
Use extra spacing to distinguish narrow-mode form labels and UI controls (bug 450105)
Revert "Bold labels for narrow FormLayout" (bug 450105)
Units: add mediumSpacing property
Ensure OverlayDrawer handles is keyboard navigable
CheckableListItem: Reset list item's checked property when checking box (bug 449766)
CheckableListItem: Only conditionally trigger action when checked
PageRow: properly handle back button
WheelHandler: Round contentX/contentY positions (bug 449884)
Allow compiling against Qt configured with -no-opengl
Fix install path of settings and swipe navigator components

KJSEmbed

Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KNewStuff

kmoretools: Fix OBS appstream id (bug 414533)
Add conditional cache preference to http requests
Engine: Ensure we are not using the wrong ProvidersUrl
Add http2 to KNewStuff requests
KNSCore::Engine: Expose our Attica::Provider

KNotification

Allow to build the Java parts with Gradle from both Qt5 and Qt6

KPty

Fix FindUTEMPTER when cross-compiling

KRunner

Bundle plasma-runner.desktop into a qrc, for CI and Windows

KService

Use :/kservicetypes5 instead of :/kf/kservicetypes5

KTextEditor

Remove the KateTextLine string() accessor
TextLine: Remove unused operator[]
textline: Remove empty destructor and inline ctors
vi_input_mode_manager member might be invalid if previous test caused a call
fix highlighting on next/previous match (n/N)
fix highlighting when opening/closing search bar
prevent normal search mode highlight when using hls mode
disable hls mode when switching to normal mode
handle empty match result
ignore :noh[lsearch] when hlsearch is disabled
remove highlights when switching away from vimode
react to color scheme changes
vimode: implement hlsearch (bug 449641 449643)
Mark some internal classes as final
consistent right aligned status bar content
Fix default font weight never gets honored
remove helper that removed style of font
minimal fix to keep font styles
Remove menu-indicator from buttons
katebookmarks: always populate the menu with some actions
remove modified icon from the statusbar
view: fix buggy scrolling on macOS (bug 442060)
katestatusbar: fix margin in status bar buttons on certain styles
vimode: explicitly set KateViewConfig::WordCompletionRemoveTail during tests
vimode: find+replace more occurrences of the Control/Meta modifiers
vimode: move #ifdefs to a common header
vimode: fix swapped modifiers and arrow keys in insert/replace modes on macOS
more statusbar out of stack
hide the dictionary button when there are no dictionaries
statusbar: Dont create actions with no text
Lazy load ModeMenuList
Make the statusbar smaller
Remove superfluous QTextStream::setCodec call
Guard against null widgets (bug 450094)
use the url of the latest used document for save (bug 448618)
proper parent for hl menu submenus
fix menu parents for wayland
Remove some left over dead expand code
Differentiate docs with identical filenames (bug 381532)
Remove partial expand stuff
Remove ExpandingDelegate, replace with simpler QStyledItemDelegate
Remove more dead completion code
Remove ExpandingTree, merge with ArgumentHintTree
Make sure we always only reselect old item if its still the first
Allow to configure whether the doc tip is always visible or on demand
Make sure expansion stuff still works in argument hint tree
Improve wayland support for doc tip
Use QTextBrowser, we don't want editing in here
Fix keyboard navigation
Handle expanding widgets
completion: show doc in a tooltip instead of as a tree node
Don't copy QKeyEvents, use a simple data class instead

KUnitConversion

Add teaspoon (tsp) and tablespoon (tbsp) units (bug 450908)

KWayland

Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

KWidgetsAddons

KCharSelect: connect to the appropriate QFontComboBox signal (bug 445477)
Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess
Make KSqueezedTextLabel more robust wrt QFontMetrics

KWindowSystem

Ensure that xdgActivationTokenArrived is always emitted asynchronously (bug 450342)

KXMLGUI

Support build without Qt session manager
Add an action in help menu for command bar

ModemManagerQt

Normalise where headers are installed with the rest of KF

Plasma Framework

Remove or upgrade QQC1 imports from tests where possible
show the header if both this and dialog background fallback
Units: add mediumSpacing
Remove the use of the QtQml namespace
Qt6 porting

Prison

Fix include dir for .pri file
Normalise where headers are installed with the rest of KF

Purpose

Remove call to ecm_find_qmlmodule(org.kde.kdeconnect)

QQC2StyleBridge

Thicken menus on transient touch as well as being in Tablet Mode
PlasmaDesktopTheme: ensure we initialise the colours
PlasmaDesktopTheme: Do not compute the colors for invisible items
PlasmaDesktopTheme: Do not call syncColors after syncWindow
Menu: use hmargin and vmargin from QStyle
Support displaying icons in ItemDelegate (bug 425867)
fix checkbox position for CheckDelegate
Drop lib prefix when building for Windows
KQuickStyleItem: Simplify the updatePolish
Use correct DBus signal for listening for font changes
Use raw pointer instead of QPointer to track watchers

Solid

Use enum in switch instead of raw int
udisks backend: Add UD2_DBUS_PATH_BLOCKDEVICES and use more constants
udev: Do not ignore joysticks
Check executables exist in PATH before passing them to QProcess

Sonnet

settings: Emit `autodetectLanguageChanged`
QMake pri files: fix missing new path to version header

Syntax Highlighting

Bash: fix parameter expansion replacement with path without extended glob
Lua: fix function highlighting with local function (#17)
Propagate Qt major version to external project build of the host tools
Bash/Zsh: fix keyword ! in ! cmd

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

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.92.0