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Hi, |
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KDE team intends to stabilise Plasma 5 shortly, so please review the |
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accompanying news items. |
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Regards, |
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Michael |
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Title: KDE Plasma 5 Upgrade |
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Author: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2016-04-02 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: kde-base/plasma-workspace:4 |
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KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life and is no longer supported |
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by upstream. It is therefore recommended for all users to upgrade to |
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KDE Plasma 5. |
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A detailed upgrade guide is available[1], but in most cases it enough to |
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switch to the new desktop/plasma profile, update @world, and |
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emerge kde-plasma/plasma-meta: |
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# eselect profile list |
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# eselect profile set <target> |
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# emerge --ask --changed-use --newrepo --deep world |
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# emerge --ask --verbose kde-plasma/plasma-meta |
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If you normally use KDM to launch Plasma, note that it is no longer |
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supported. |
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Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by |
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plasma-meta by |
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default. To switch, edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER. |
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Due to an an evolution of KDE upstream's release process[2], the traditional |
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monolithic KDE 4 release is now split into three distinct components. This |
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means that KDE Applications are now separate from the Plasma desktop and |
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older KDE 4-based applications will continue to function as normal |
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inside Plasma 5. |
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KDE Workspaces 4.11 will remain in the tree for a reasonable time, but |
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be warned that it is unmaintained and may cause conflicts with |
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newer versions of KDE Applications. |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade |
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[2] https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves |
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