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KDE has announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.38.0



KDE Frameworks are 70 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 the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement

Missing in last month's announcement: KF5 includes a new framework, Kirigami, a set of QtQuick components to build user interfaces based on the KDE UX guidelines.

Baloo

Fix directory based search

Extra CMake Modules

Set CMAKE_*_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY to run tests without installing
Include a module for finding qml imports as runtime dependencies

Framework Integration

Return high-resolution line edit clear icon
Fix accepting dialogs with ctrl+return when buttons are renamed

KActivitiesStats

Refactor of the query which combines linked and used resources
Reloading the model when the resource gets unlinked
Fixed the query when merging linked and used resources

KConfig

Fix labels of DeleteFile/RenameFile actions (bug 382450)
kconfigini: Strip leading whitespace when reading entry values (bug 310674)

KConfigWidgets

Deprecate KStandardAction::Help and KStandardAction::SaveOptions
Fix labels of DeleteFile/RenameFile actions (bug 382450)
Use "document-close" as icon for KStandardAction::close

KCoreAddons

DesktopFileParser: add fallback lookup in ":/kservicetypes5/*"
Add support for uninstalled plugins in kcoreaddons_add_plugin
desktopfileparser: Fix non-compliant key/value parsing (bug 310674)

KDED

support X-KDE-OnlyShowOnQtPlatforms

KDocTools

CMake: Fix target name shortening when build dir has special characters (bug 377573)
Add CC BY-SA 4.0 International and set it as default

KGlobalAccel

KGlobalAccel: port to KKeyServer's new method symXModXToKeyQt, to fix numpad keys (bug 183458)

KInit

klauncher: fix appId matching for flatpak apps

KIO

Port the webshortcuts KCM from KServiceTypeTrader to KPluginLoader::findPlugins
[KFilePropsPlugin] Locale-format totalSize during calculation
KIO: fix long-standing memory leak on exit
Add mimetype filtering capabilities to KUrlCompletion
KIO: port the URI filter plugins from KServiceTypeTrader to json+KPluginMetaData
[KUrlNavigator] Emit tabRequested when place in menu is middle-clicked (bug 304589)
[KUrlNavigator] Emit tabRequested when places selector is middle-clicked (bug 304589)
[KACLEditWidget] Allow double clicking to edit entry
[kiocore] Fix the logic error in previous commit
[kiocore] Check that klauncher is running or not
Really rate-limit INF_PROCESSED_SIZE messages (bug 383843)
Don't clear Qt's SSL CA certificate store
[KDesktopPropsPlugin] Create destination directory if it doesn't exist
[File KIO slave] Fix applying special file attributes (bug 365795)
Remove busy loop check in TransferJobPrivate::slotDataReqFromDevice
make kiod5 an "agent" on Mac
Fix proxy KCM not loading manual proxies correctly

Kirigami

hide scrollbars when useless
Add basic example for adjusting column width draggable handle
ider layers in handles positioning
fix handle placing when overlaps the last page
don't show fake handle on the last column
don't store stuff in the delegates (bug 383741)
as we already set keyNavigationEnabled, set wraps as well
better left-lignment for the back button (bug 383751)
don't take into account the header 2 times when scrolling (bug 383725)
never wrap the header labels
adress FIXME: remove resetTimer (bug 383772)
don't scroll away applicationheader in non mobile
Add a property to hide the PageRow separator matching AbstractListItem
fix scrolling with originY and bottomtotop flow
Get rid of warnings about setting both pixel and point sizes
don't trigger reachable mode on inverted views
take page footer into account
add a slightly more complex example of a chat app
more failsafe to find the right footer
Check item validity before using it
Honour layer position for isCurrentPage
use an animation instead of an animator (bug 383761)
leave needed space for the page footer, if possible
better dimmer for applicationitem drawers
background dimming for applicationitem
fix properly back button margins
proper margins for back button
less warnings in ApplicationHeader
don't use plasma scaling for icon sizes
new look for handles

KItemViews


KJobWidgets

Initialize the "Pause" button state in the widget tracker

KNotification

Don't block starting notification service (bug 382444)

KPackage Framework

refactor kpackagetool away from stringy options

KRunner

Clear previous actions on update
Add remote runners over DBus

KTextEditor

Port Document/View scripting API to QJSValue-based solution
Show icons in icon border context menu
Replace KStandardAction::PasteText with KStandardAction::Paste
Support fractional scaling in generating the sidebar preview
Switch from QtScript to QtQml

KWayland

Treat input RGB buffers as premultiplied
Update SurfaceInterface outputs when an output global gets destroyed
KWayland::Client::Surface track output destruction
Avoid sending data offers from an invalid source (bug 383054)

KWidgetsAddons

simplify setContents by letting Qt do more of the work
KSqueezedTextLabel: Add isSqueezed() for convenience
KSqueezedTextLabel: Small improvements to API docs
[KPasswordLineEdit] Set focus proxy to line edit (bug 383653)
[KPasswordDialog] Reset geometry property

KWindowSystem

KKeyServer: fix handling of KeypadModifier (bug 183458)

KXMLGUI

Save up a bunch of stat() calls on application start
Fix KHelpMenu position on Wayland (bug 384193)
Drop broken mid-button click handling (bug 383162)
KUndoActions: use actionCollection to set the shortcut

Plasma Framework

[ConfigModel] Guard against adding a null ConfigCategory
[ConfigModel] Allow programmatically adding and removing ConfigCategory (bug 372090)
[EventPluginsManager] Expose pluginPath in model
[Icon Item] Don't needlessly unset imagePath
[FrameSvg] Use QPixmap::mask() instead of deprecated convoluted way via alphaChannel()
[FrameSvgItem] Create margins/fixedMargins object on demand
fix check state for menu items
Force Plasma style for QQC2 in applets
Install the PlasmaComponents.3/private folder
Drop remains of "locolor" themes
[Theme] Use KConfig SimpleConfig
Avoid some unnecessary theme content lookups
ignore spurious resize events to empty sizes (bug 382340)

Syntax Highlighting

Add syntax definition for Adblock Plus filter lists
Rewrite the Sieve syntax definition
Add highlighting for QDoc configuration files
Add highlight definition for Tiger
Escape hyphen in rest.xml regular expressions (bug 383632)
fix: plaintext is highlighted as powershell
Add syntax highlighting for Metamath
Rebased Less syntax highlighting on SCSS one (bug 369277)
Add Pony highlighting
Rewrite the email syntax definition

  KDE Frameworks 5.38.0 released