Qt 5.6 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 5.6 Officially Released

Qt 5.6 has finally cleared the door...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.6-Released

[blindfrog]

This really should be in Ubuntu 16.04 by default. Unfortunate timing is unfortunate. Not only because it's too LTS release but it also fixes HiDPI, QWebEngine and quite a few KDE related bugs.

[tomtomme]

This really should be in Ubuntu 16.04 by default. Unfortunate timing is unfortunate. Not only because it's too LTS release but it also fixes HiDPI, QWebEngine and quite a few KDE related bugs.

you meant it should be in +K+ubuntu?

[bug77]

This really should be in Ubuntu 16.04 by default. Unfortunate timing is unfortunate. Not only because it's too LTS release but it also fixes HiDPI, QWebEngine and quite a few KDE related bugs.

Project Neon should fix this, but it doesn't seem like a stable release will happen any time soon.

tomtomme Ubuntu also has KDE in its repos.

[magika]

2fast4me

[Krejzi]

Sadly, the release ships with a bug that prevents Plasma from starting. There's a patch available and recommended to all distros to ship until 5.6.1 is released.

[Krejzi]

strange, im on plasma 5.6 and everything is working fine on Archlinux using testing and Kde unstable
if you look at the buildfiles, only the alsa driver patch is being used too
https://projects.archlinux.org/svnto...kages/qt5-base

I'm on plasma git master and couldn't log in without plasma crashing when the panel tries to load. dmesg shows crash happens in plasma framework (KF 5.20). KDE guys announced that fix needs to be backported manually

https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-distro-packagers/2016-March/000138.html

Note that it says "Plasma may fail to load" ... I don't expect it to happen always or to everyone.

[tomtomme]

Project Neon should fix this, but it doesn't seem like a stable release will happen any time soon.

tomtomme Ubuntu also has KDE in its repos.

I know. But is it testet as much as Kubuntu is? Why would you go for ubuntu LTS + unofficial ppa if you could go for ubuntu?
Honest question.

[bug77]

I know. But is it testet as much as Kubuntu is? Why would you go for ubuntu LTS + unofficial ppa if you could go for ubuntu?
Honest question.

Last I tested (6-9 months ago), installing KDE in Ubuntu was a mess. Missing icons, wrong backgrounds leading to unreadable contrast... But I was just saying that there might be areason to have this in Ubuntu, too.