KDE Applications 17.12 Sees Some New KF5 Ports, Other Apps Dropped

[Vistaus]

I have yet to find a desktop music player that does not constantly forces me to manage the playing queue.

Lollypop and GNOME Music. But I don't any that doesn't constantly force one to mange the playing queue for KDE.

[grok]

quod libet is one "automatic" music player I know of.

[mzs.112000]

Weird to see IM dropped? if KDE is a do-it-all desktop. Windows XP came with an IM client.

Kopete is open-source, someone with the C++ and Qt coding skills could probably port to KF5.
Even though it was dropped, I would imagine that if someone were to step up and port to KF5, they would bring it back to official KDE Applications releases.

[Ansla]

Weird to see IM dropped? if KDE is a do-it-all desktop. Windows XP came with an IM client.

Kopete was already obsolete, the new IM plasmoid is based on Telepathy. So IM was not dropped, it just completed the transition.

[TheBlackCat]

Kopete was already obsolete, the new IM plasmoid is based on Telepathy. So IM was not dropped, it just completed the transition.

The telepathy KDE client is being dropped, too, since Telepathy is essentially unmaintained upstream and apparently a nightmare to work with.