13th March 2015. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.8.0. KDE Frameworks are 60 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.
New frameworks: KPeople, provides access to all contacts and the people who hold them KXmlRpcClient, interaction with XMLRPC services General A number of build fixes for compiling with the upcoming Qt 5.5 KActivities Resources scoring service is now finalized KArchive Stop failing on ZIP files with redundant data descriptors KCMUtils Restore KCModule::setAuthAction KCoreAddons KPluginMetadata: add support for Hidden key KDeclarative Prefer exposing lists to QML with QJsonArray Handle non default devicePixelRatios in images Expose hasUrls in DeclarativeMimeData Allow users to configure how many horizontal lines are drawn KDocTools Fix the build on MacOSX when using Homebrew Better styling of media objects (images, ...) in documentation Encode invalid chars in paths used in XML DTDs, avoiding errors KGlobalAccel Activation timestamp set as dynamic property on triggered QAction. KIconThemes Fix QIcon::fromTheme(xxx, someFallback) would not return the fallback KImageFormats Make PSD image reader endianess-agnostic. KIO Deprecate UDSEntry::listFields and add the UDSEntry::fields method which returns a QVector without costly conversion. Sync bookmarkmanager only if change was by this process (bug 343735) Fix startup of kssld5 dbus service Implement quota-used-bytes and quota-available-bytes from RFC 4331 to enable free space information in http ioslave. KNotifications Delay the audio init until actually needed Fix notification config not applying instantly Fix audio notifications stopping after first file played KNotifyConfig Add optional dependency on QtSpeech to reenable speaking notifications. KService KPluginInfo: support stringlists as properties KTextEditor Add word count statistics in statusbar vimode: fix crash when removing last line in Visual Line mode KWidgetsAddons Make KRatingWidget cope with devicePixelRatio KWindowSystem KSelectionWatcher and KSelectionOwner can be used without depending on QX11Info. KXMessages can be used without depending on QX11Info NetworkManagerQt Add new properties and methods from NetworkManager 1.0.0 Plasma framework Fix plasmapkg2 for translated systems Improve tooltip layout Make it possible to let plasmoids to load scripts outside the plasma package ... Buildsystem changes (extra-cmake-modules) Extend ecm_generate_headers macro to also support CamelCase.h headers http://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.8.0.php -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ kde-announce mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce
