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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 with new changes and improvements in KDE Apps. As you all know that this is just a maintenance release of stable KDE Frameworks 5.x version. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 comes with number of fixes for compiling with upcoming Qt 5.5 along with several fixes in KDE aaplications including fixes in KActivities, KArchive, KAuth, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KConfig, KConfigWidgets, KCoreAddons, KDBusAddons, KDeclarative, KdedKGlobalAccel and KIO applications.

The KActivities app includes fixed starting and stopping activities and fixed activity preview showing wrong wallpaper occasionally. You can now create temporary files in the temp dir rather than in current directory in KArchive whereas KCodecs receives support for CP949 to KCharsets. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

The Plasma Framework receives fixed errorneously opening a broken context menu when middle clicking Plasma popup and fixed keyboard shortcuts. It also includes trigger button switch on mouse wheel and restore hint-apply-color-scheme support. If you wish to checkout complete list of all changes then you can review them on release notes page.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 with new addons, improvements and minor fixes in KDE applications. As you know that KDE Frameworks is the collection of 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 comes with improvements in KDE applications such as Attica, KActivities, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KCompletion, KCoreAddons, KDeclarative, KEmoticons, KHTML, KIO, KJobWidgets, KNewStuff, KNotifications, KRunner, KService, KTextEditor, KWidgetsAddons and KWindowSystem.

The Attica application now uses all of QT_PLUGIN_PATH paths rather than just QLibraryInfo path to look for plugin whereas KActivities received a fixed plugin loading with KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS ON. The KCodecs introduce KEmailAddress class for email validation, adds KCodecs::encodeRFC2407String() and also uses more robust implementation of MIME codecs taken from KMime library.

The KCoreAddons gets KTextToHTML class for plaintext->HTML conversion, add KPluginMetaData::metaDataFileName() and also allows you to read KPluginMetaData from .desktop files. Other changes in KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 includes fixed compilation with Qt 5.2.0, fixed platformstatus kded module and adds thumbnailAvailable property to PlasmaCore WindowThumbnail. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 with new additions and minor improvements or fixes. As you know that KDE Frameworks is basically a collection of libraries and software frameworks by KDE which serves as technological foundation for KDE Plasma 5 and KDA Applications 5.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.2.0 comes with new changes and fixes in KDE apps like fixed handling of uncompressed files in KArchive, fixed missing default shortcuts for standard actions in KConfigWidgets which leads to many runtime warnings. It also provides better support for QGroupBox in KConfigDialogManager.

The new classes like Kdelibs4ConfigMigrator and KPluginMetaData are also added in KCoreAddons along with addition of org.kde.kio component in KDeclarative. It disables the DDS and JPEG-2000 plugins when Qt version is 5.3 or later in KImageFormats. The KIO in this release comes with new classes like EmptyTrashJob and RestoreJob along with new functions in ClipboardDataCut and setClipboardDataCut.

Among other new changes and fixes, KDE Frameworks 5.2 includes new class KColumnResizer in KWidgetAddons, new method KWindowSystem::setOnActivities in KWindowSystem, support for relative libexec dir in Buildsystem changes and file dialog remembers its size correctly and works better with remote URLs in Frameworkintegration. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 with new changes and minor bugfixes. As you all know that KDE frameworks is the collection of 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 comes with new ModemManagerQt module which is also known as Qt wrapper for ModemManager API along with upgrade to Plasma-NM 5.3 Beta when upgrading to ModemManagerQt 5.9.0. Apart from this, the Plasma-NM 5.2.x needs a patch in order to build and work with this version of ModernManagerQt.

The KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 comes with updated KDE Apps such as KActivities, KArchive, KBookmarks, KCMUtils, KConfig, KI18n, KIconThemes, KIO, KItemModels, KJobWidgets, KNotifications, KPeople, KPty, KTextEditor, KWidgetAddons, KWindowSystem, KXmlGui, KXmlRpcClient, Plasma Framework and Buildsystem changes. Also, review recent Software News to know what's new in them ?

KDE Community officially announces the release of second release of KDE Frameworks 5 which is also known as KDE Frameworks 5.1 version. This release is out as per schedule and contains new features and bug fixes of previous KDE Frameworks release.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.1 comes with some of the translation fixes along with few Windows compilation fixes. The major refractories and improvements of vi-mode are made in KTextEditor. The KAuth application is now based on PolkitQt5-1 and new migration agent is added for KWallet application. This release also includes new install dir for KXmlGui files and Appstream metainfo.

The main highlighted feature of KDE Frameworks 5.1 is that the Plasma desktop takes an advantage of OpenGL. David Edmundson, who worked on Plasma with OpenGL, state that " I have been working hard the last weeks. It’s not that we don’t usually work hard, but this time I’m really excited about it". The complete info about Plasma with OpenGL is given here.

As we know that in Plasma, the most important part of system drawing is painting frames. Those are in general elements which are specified in Plasma themes. These will be buttons, dialog backgrounds and line edit decorations. To paint those we were assembling the full image in the CPU and then sending it over to OpenGL as a full texture, then we would do the composing of all the different frames, according to the information provided by QtQuick, through the Qt Scene Graph. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE community officially announces the release of KDE Plasma 5.1.0 which is the first release after Plasma 5.0. This release might disappoint its users as it brings some of the popular feature which already exist in previously release Plasma 5.0 version. The KDE developers give their best efforts to fix large number of issues along with other enhancements.

According to official announcement, KDE Plasma 5.1.0 comes with wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability, better performance and new and improved features. The popular feature which you are going to face in this release includes Icon Tasks taskswitcher along with improved stability and performance.

This release also includes better support for time zones for those who travel a lot whereas for all home users, a revamped clipboard manager is added which allows its users to get their past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1.

The main highlighted feature of this release is the visual improvements and the work on features. The main objective of this release rely on stability and performance improvements with over 180 bugfixes. To run Plasma 5.1, you need KDE Frameworks 5.3 as it brings lot of fixes and improvements which allows Plasma 5.1 work smoothly. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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