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Slackware Developer Not Happy With KDE5 Development
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I've been using Plasma 5 since summer. There have been some rougher spots, but now they're more or less ironed out. The only thing missing is that there is no KScreen5 (probably tied to this issue: it exists, but not officially released...). Now for package maintainers it's probably a bit harder than users, but that's expected at this point. They did say there will be applications releases, for instance, but they will be simply snapshots (obviously then the dependencies will get resolved).
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Originally posted by maslascher View PostArch doesn't like new KDE as well. Plasma is still only in AUR. In contrary KDE 4 still receives even smallest updates.
As of version 5.0, KDE libraries, workspace and applications are released separately and have different release schedules. Frameworks 5 (the libraries) are available in the official repositories as kf5 and kf5-aids. Plasma 5 (the workspace) is available in AUR as plasma-desktop. Applications based on KF5 will have a first release in December 2014.
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Actually, this mess was a complete accident. One of the Plasma developers thought it was OK to make Plasma 5.1 depend on Frameworks 5.3 as Frameworks 5.3 was scheduled to be released first. However, this led to the fact that development versions of Plasma 5.1 couldn't not be built (or tested) on the official stable build of Frameworks at the time (Frameworks 5.2). After speaking to Albert Astals Cid (as Albert is one of the "caretakers" of KDE infrastructure or the "KDE Gardening Team"), the Plasma developers apologized and promised to never let this happen again. Now Plasma will always build on a officially released version of Frameworks. I guess even the Plasma developers are still getting used to the new split releases (at the dismay of packagers)!Last edited by CTown; 15 October 2014, 05:40 PM.
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Originally posted by valeriodean View PostA lot of smoke for nothing.
Maybe the Slackware developer had nothing better to write about for his blog.
But this doesn't seem to be news worthy to bring up a developer frustrated with development software.
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Originally posted by maslascher View PostI'm aware of that but this doesn't change anything. Plasma was released as a stable ages ago, and KDE5 it is not in Arch official repo- at least not completely.
I'd look for KDE5 to start being used more in the Spring, and for most distros to finish switching over next fall.
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