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KDE has released KDE Frameworks 5.14.0



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Rename private classes to avoid exporting them accidentally

Baloo

Add org.kde.baloo interface to root object for backward compatibility
Install a fake org.kde.baloo.file.indexer.xml to fix compilation of plasma-desktop 5.4
Re-organize D-Bus interfaces
Use json metadata in kded plugin and fix plugin name
Create one Database instance per process (bug 350247)
Prevent baloo_file_extractor being killed while committing
Generate xml interface file using qt5_generate_dbus_interface
Baloo monitor fixes
Move file url export to main thread
Make sure cascaded configs are taken into account
Do not install namelink for private library
Install translations, spotted by Hrvoje Senjan.

BluezQt

Don't forward deviceChanged signal after device was removed (bug 351051)
Respect -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF

Extra CMake Modules

Add macro to generate logging category declarations for Qt5.
ecm_generate_headers: Add COMMON_HEADER option and multiple header functionality
Add -pedantic for KF5 code (when using gcc or clang)
KDEFrameworkCompilerSettings: only enable strict iterators in debug mode
Also set the default visibility for C code to hidden.

Framework Integration

Also propagate window titles for folder-only file dialogs.

KActivities

Only spawn one action loader (thread) when the actions of the FileItemLinkingPlugin are not initialized (bug 351585)
Fixing the build problems introduced by renaming the Private classes (11030ffc0)
Add missing boost include path to build on OS X
Setting the shortcuts moved to activity settings
Setting the private activity mode works
Refactor of the settings UI
Basic activity methods are functional
UI for the activity configuration and deletion pop-ups
Basic UI for the activities creation/deletion/configuration section in KCM
Increased the chunk size for loading the results
Added missing include for std::set

KDE Doxygen Tools

Windows fix: remove existing files before we replace them with os.rename.
Use native paths when calling python to fix Windows builds

KCompletion

Fix bad behavior / running OOM on Windows (bug 345860)

KConfig

Optimize readEntryGui
Avoid QString::fromLatin1() in generated code
Minimize calls to expensive QStandardPaths::locateAll()
Finish the port to QCommandLineParser (it has addPositionalArgument now)

KDELibs 4 Support

Port solid-networkstatus kded plugin to json metadata
KPixmapCache: create dir if it doesn't exist

KDocTools

Sync Catalan user.entities with English (en) version.
Add entities for sebas and plasma-pa

KEmoticons

Performance: cache a KEmoticons instance here, not a KEmoticonsTheme.

KFileMetaData

PlainTextExtractor: enable O_NOATIME branch on GNU libc platforms
PlainTextExtractor: make the Linux branch work also without O_NOATIME
PlainTextExtractor: fix error check on open(O_NOATIME) failure

KGlobalAccel

Only start kglobalaccel5 if needed.

KI18n

Gracefully handle no newline at end of pmap file

KIconThemes

KIconLoader: fix reconfigure() forgetting about inherited themes and app dirs
Adhere better to the icon loading spec

KImageFormats

eps: fix includes related to Qt Caterogized Logging

KIO

Use Q_OS_WIN instead of Q_OS_WINDOWS
Make KDE_FORK_SLAVES work under Windows
Disable installation of desktop file for ProxyScout kded module
Provide deterministic sort order for KDirSortFilterProxyModelPrivate::compare
Show custom folder icons again (bug 350612)
Move kpasswdserver from kded to kiod
Fix porting bugs in kpasswdserver
Remove legacy code for talking very very old versions of kpasswdserver.
KDirListerTest: use QTRY_COMPARE on both statements, to fix race showed by CI
KFilePlacesModel: implement old TODO about using trashrc instead of a full-blown KDirLister.

KItemModels

New proxymodel: KConcatenateRowsProxyModel
KConcatenateRowsProxyModelPrivate: fix handling of layoutChanged.
More checking on the selection after sorting.
KExtraColumnsProxyModel: fix bug in sibling() which broke e.g. selections

Package Framework

kpackagetool can uninstall a package from a package file
kpackagetool is now smarter about finding the right servicetype

KService

KSycoca: check timestamps and run kbuildsycoca if needed. No kded dependency anymore.
Don't close ksycoca right after opening it.
KPluginInfo now correctly handles FormFactor metadata

KTextEditor

Merge allocation of TextLineData and ref count block.
Change default keyboard shortcut for "go to previous editing line"
Syntax highlighting Haskell comment fixes
Speed up code-completion pop-up appearance
minimap: Attempt to improve the look and feel (bug 309553)
nested comments in Haskell syntax highlighting
Fix problem with wrong unindent for python (bug 351190)

KWidgetsAddons

KPasswordDialog: let the user change the password visibility (bug 224686)

KXMLGUI

Fix KSwitchLanguageDialog not showing most languages

KXmlRpcClient

Avoid QLatin1String wherever it allocates heap memory

ModemManagerQt

Fix metatype conflict with the latest nm-qt change

NetworkManagerQt

Added new properties from the latest NM snapshot/releases

Plasma Framework

reparent to flickable if possible
fix package listing
plasma: Fix applet actions might be nullptr (bug 351777)
The onClicked signal of PlasmaComponents.ModelContextMenu now works properly
PlasmaComponents ModelContextMenu can now create Menu sections
Port platformstatus kded plugin to json metadata...
Handle an invalid metadata in PluginLoader
Let the RowLayout figure out the size of the label
always show the edit menu when the cursor is visible
Fix loop on ButtonStyle
Don't change the flat-iness of a button on pressed
on touchscreen and mobile scrollbars are transient
adjust flick velocity&deceleration to dpi
custom cursor delegate only if mobile
touch friendly text cursor
fix parenting and popping up policy
declare __editMenu
add missing cursot handles delegates
rewrite the EditMenu implementation
use the mobile menu only conditionally
reparent the menu to root
  KDE Frameworks 5.14.0 released