Originally posted by bobwya
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Taking KDE4 and porting it to Qt5 without any other modifications would have been possible and would have resulted in a usable KDE5 very quickly.
The KDE guys decided to do a major cleanup instead (which is, for the most part, good) - that doesn't have to be done again for Qt 6.
I expect Plasma 5 -> Plasma 6 to be more like KDE 2 -> KDE 3 -- not all that problematic.
I do hope that the time between the release of Qt 6 and the release of Plasma 6.0 will be a lot shorter than the time between Qt 5 and Plasma 5.0 -- the long time KDE was on 4.x while 5.x was available already is what makes Plasma 5 seem a little short-lived.
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