Thursday, 20 April 2023
New apps join KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 and unlock access to fledgling social
media platforms, online video streaming services, podcasts, and much
more. This new generation of apps are designed to work both on your
computer and mobile phone right out of the box.
But, of course, if you are also looking forward to new versions of the
KDE tools you already know and trust, those are here too! Classics like
Spectacle, Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, and Okular all boast shiny new
features, code optimizations, and performance improvements.
Read on to find out what's new and what has been improved in KDE Gear ⚙️
23.04:
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.04.0/
Changelog: https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/23.04.0/
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.48.0:
* Add a "atk-only" build option. This allows atk to be built without libdbus
installed, but it does not build libatspi or the atk bridge.
* Fix some typos in the documentation.
The atk-only support was added upstraem by Corey Halpin
Reported by: Dmitry Pryakhin <graahnul.grom@ya.ru>
PR: 269996
Exp-run by: antoine
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including:
* ark: Properly check if there is sufficient free space available
before extracting (fixes bug #459418)
* kate: Activate the view of viewspace which made the request (fixes
bug #465811)
* kdenlive: Fix crash and offset when moving a group with subtitle
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.12.3/
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.46.0:
* Fix GetInterfaces documentation on org.a11y.atspi.Accessible
interface.
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.45.91:
* Send device event controller events using the same signature as other
events.
* Document the Accessible, Action, and Cache dbus interfaces.
* Fix license of atspi-gmain.c (#87).
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.45.90:
* xml: Add some documentation.
* xml: Fix event arguments.
* xml: Add some missing DeviceEventController methods.
* Bind the AT-SPI bus to the graphical session.
* Mark bus service as belonging to the session slice.
* Add ATSPI_ROLE_PUSH_BUTTON_MENU.
* Add an "announcement" event/signal to allow objects to send
notifications (!63).
* Various code clean-ups and test improvements.
What's new in at-spi2-core 2.45.1:
* Atk and at-spi2-atk are now merged into this project.
* Now requires meson 0.56.2 and glib 2.67.4.
* at-spi2-atk: Expose the accessible hierarchy via dbus introspection.
* Properly escape the AT-SPI bus address; fixes warnings about the address
not containing a colon (!55).
* Add a text value to AtspiValue, so that a value can expose a textual
description, as in the new Atk value API.
* Add atspi_event_listener_register_with_app, to allow an event listener
to be registered only for a given application (!52).
- accessibility/atk and accessibility/at-spi2-atk have been merged into
accessibility/at-spi2-core
- accessibility/at-spi2-core: bump consumers of removed ports atk and at-spi2-atk
PR: 269704
Exp-run by: antoine
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Thursday, 2 February 2023
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including:
* dolphin: Don't recurse into symlinks when counting directory contents
(Commit, fixes bug #434125)
* kdeconnect: Fix ssh authentication using pubkey on recent openssh
versions (Commit, fixes bug #443155)
* libkdegames: Fix finding knewstuff themes (Commit, fixes bug #464288)
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.12.2/
As with the Qt 5 version, Qt Speech provides application developers with
a QObject subclass, QTextToSpeech, that provides an interface to the
platform's speech synthesizer engine; and a value type QVoice that
encapsulates voice characteristics. With those classes, applications can
make themselves more accessible to users, and go beyond the
screen-reader functionality of assistive technologies. Using non-visual
channels to inform users about changes or events can be very useful in
hands-free situations, such as turn-by-turn navigation systems.
Content-focused applications like ebook readers could benefit from
text-to-speech synthesis without depending on assistive technology.
Switch from Mk/bsd.ruby.mk to Mk/Uses/ruby.mk
Notable changes are.
- Mk/bsd.ruby.mk is moved to Mk/Uses/ruby.mk.
- USE_RUBY=yes is replaced with USES=ruby.
- USE_RUBY_EXTCONF is replaced with USES=ruby:extconf.
- USE_RUBY_RDOC is replaced with USES=ruby:rdoc.
- USE_RUBY_SETUP is replaces with USES=ruby:setup.
- RUBY_NO_BUILD_DEPENDS and RUBY_NO_RUN_DEPENDS are replaced with
USES=ruby:{build,none,run}.
- RUBY_REQUIRE isn't used anywhere, so removed.
- USES=gem now implies USES=ruby.
This is mainly the work of yasu@ at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27863
I have just made some cosmetic changes and ran exp-run to test that the
tree is not in a BROKEN state.
Approved by: portmgr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37925
KDE Gear 22.12 is Here!
Thursday, 8 December 2022
KDE Gear ⚙️ is back with exciting new features, performance boosts, and
bugfixes for all your favorite KDE apps!
In this release: Kate extends a warm welcome, Dolphin offers you more
choices, and a lot of apps serve up hamburgers galore!
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.12.0/
Thursday, 3 November 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* dolphin: Fix opening unnecessary new windows (Commit, fixes bug
#440663)
* konsole: Fix a crash when extending the selection (Commit, fixes
bug #398320 and bug #458822)
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.3/
Changelog: https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/22.08.3/
KDE Gear 22.08.2
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including:
* ark: Fix incompatibility with original 7-Zip (Commit, fixes bug
#456797)
* kdeconnect: Prevent a crash if there’s no audio devices (Commit,
fixes bug #454917)
* kio-extras: Compatibility with Samba >= 4.16 (Commit, fixes bug
#453090)
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.2/
These ports reference the pkg-descr file of some other port and used
to get the WWW entry from that other port's file.
Reported by: dan@langille.org (Dan Langille)
Most USES use a colon for build/run(/test) suffixes. Change kde.mk,
qt.mk and pyqt.mk to do the same, and update all ports using that.
Document in CHANGES.
PR: 266034
Exp-run by: antoine
Approved by: tcberner (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36349
Followup to ca95a67 which introduced a regression of being unable to
build with both backends enabled. This commit allows all backends
combinations including each individual backend, both and none.
PR: 262640
Reported by: lantw44@gmail.com
Approved by: portmgr blanket, maintainer timeout (kde, 6 months)
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* kmail: Searching for messages does work again (Commit, fixes bugs
#458202 and #458245).
* kate: Fix a crash when there are no search results (Commit)
* krdc: Access dates are displayed properly now (Commit, fixes bug
#458587)
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.1/
