A few days ago the KDE development team Announce the Release of KDE Frameworks 5.49 for the latest version of the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment, with over 200 enhancements.
KDE Frameworks consists of more than 70 additional libraries under the Qt applications open source and cross-platform that offers a wide range of commonly needed featuresas well as many essential components and applications that are necessary for the KDE Plasma desktop environment to function properly.
Esto included individual structures offer a wide range of features They provide solutions, including hardware integration, file format support, additional graphical control elements, mapped functions, spell checking, and more.
About KDE Frameworks
For For those of you who don't know the term KDE Frameworks, I can tell you that this is a collection of libraries and various software frameworks by KDE, which serve as the technological foundation for KDE Plasma 5 and the KDE Applications distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
The Frameworks Enclosed cabinets offer a wide variety of functions required for solution delivery including hardware integration, file format support, graphical additional control elements, function rendering, spell checking and more. Frameworks are available for various operating systems.
KDE Frameworks represents a revamp effort on the KDE 4 Platform in a set of individual, platform-independent modules that will be available to all Qt-based applications.
The transition from the KDE Platform to KDE Frameworks started in August 2013, guided by the top of the KDE technical contributors.
In recent years, new versions of KDE Frameworks are released every month on the second Saturday of the month, and KDE Frameworks 5.49 was announced by the KDE Project that I prepare for the month of August 2018, bringing various improvements and fixing various bugs .
New update for KDE Frameworks 5.49
Several key components and applications have been updated for this new KDE 5.49 release, including BBaloo, KCoreAddons, KHolidays, KI18n, KIO, Marco Kirigami, KNewStuff, KService, KTextEditor, KTextWidgets, KWayland, Plasma Frameworks.
In this new KDE Frameworks 5.49 update there are a lot of changes that were improved and polished
Between The main features that we can highlight of this launch can be found:
- More modules honoring the BUILD_TESTING flag for when you build are only being made for testing purposes.
- KHolidays has enhancements for your Norwegian holiday archives.
- Various improvements to KIO.
- Improvements to Kirigami including dynamic support for adding and removing a title, better margin handling, color changes, and other fixes / modifications.
- KTextEditor has extended its Scripting API.
- KWayland now supports cursor hints on locked pointers, XDG WM Base now supports its XDG Shell API, and other XDG Shell manipulation enhancements.
- Purpose now has a Bluetooth plug-in.
- Syntax highlighting has been improved for different programming languages such as Haskell, C ++, CSS, CoffeeScript, Lua, Python, etc.
There are over 220 changes included in the release of this new version of KDE Frameworks 5.49, which was released for the KDE Plasma 5.13 desktop environment, the latest series of KDE Plasma 5, which will be supported until September 4, 2018.
With this we can know that the next delivery of KDE Frameworks 5.50 will be arriving next September, which, to be exact, will be September 8, just in time for the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.14 desktop environment which will be released to everyone on September 13, 2018.
And it is finally expected that KDE Plasma version 9 will be released on October 5.14 in a stable way.
Finally, we only need to wait for the new packages of this KDE Frameworks update to be included in the repositories of the different Linux distributions, so that users can start making the relevant updates.
The mtp (Media Transfer Protocol) has not worked for many months, I do not know why, but trying to connect a device as common as a smartphone or tablet via usb cable is not possible today in plasma5, something that is particularly annoying to me and incomprehensible the truth 🙂
They are those annoying details that kde always has and that they tend to take for a long time.
https://i.imgur.com/xpGzcg0.png
I have Mageia 6 Plasma and the mtp works perfectly. In the case of Mageia, you also have to install the "mtpfs" package that allows or gives the necessary permissions to copy files from the phone to the pc and vice versa. Check that the phone is in "Files" mode on the usb connection and that it is not locked.
If it is blocked the mtp does not work because the connection is blocked when the screen turns off.
Regards!!!