We learned from Softpedia that it is available for download on KDE Frameworks in the version 5.28.0, which is a maintenance version and comes to complete the monthly updates that the KDE team has already used to us.
This new version of KDE Frameworks, comes loaded with a large number of fixes and general improvements in almost all the components and libraries that make it up. Highlighting those carried out on KWayland, which range from improving its cmake to the implementation of support for new protocols.
What is KDE Frameworks?
Es la agrupación de más de 70 librerías, modularizadas y optimizadas para una fácil integración con Qt, las mismas proporcionan una amplia variedad de funcionalidad comúnmente necesarias, estas librerías son bastantes maduras, de amplia actualización, con licencia libre y ampliamente probadas.
El Frameworks de KDE es ampliamente documentado y probados, además, su uso es familiar para los desarrolladores de Qt, ya que sigue el estilo y los estándares establecidos por el Proyecto Qt.
KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 Features?
- Fixed bug in Breeze icons.
- Improvements in the cmake of the modules.
- Updated KActivitiesStats, KDE Doxygen tools, KAuth, KConfig, KCoreAddons, KDeclarative, KDocTools, KIconThemes, KIdleTime, KImageFormats, KItemModels, KJS, KNewStuff, and KNotification.
- KWayland it had considerable updates, bug fixes, and support for various protocols, as well as improvements to Plasma integration.
- Other applications that had improvements and updates are Plasma Framework, KTextEditor, KIO, KWidgetsAddons, KPackage Framework, KPty, KRunner, KUnitConversion, KWallet Framework, KWindowSystem, KXMLGUI, ModemManagerQt, NetworkManagerQt and Solid.
How to install KDE Frameworks 5.28.0?
The complete source code for KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 can be downloaded from here. Instructions for compiling and installing KDE Frameworks 5.28.0 is available in the official guide for KDE Framework 5.28.0.
The easiest way to compile it is by using cmake; make; make install.
This is a great update that I understand is aimed at preparing the framework, to bring Plasma to Wayland.