Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: upgrading to Plasma 5

[Richard Yao]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:34:07AM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> KDE team intends to stabilise Plasma 5 shortly, so please review the
> accompanying news items.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> Title: KDE Plasma 5 Upgrade
> Author: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2016-04-02
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: kde-base/plasma-workspace:4
>
> KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life and is no longer supported
> by upstream. It is therefore recommended for all users to upgrade to
> KDE Plasma 5.

Did you mean 4.14? 4.11 should have been EOL a long time ago.

> A detailed upgrade guide is available[1], but in most cases it enough to
> switch to the new desktop/plasma profile, update @world, and
> emerge kde-plasma/plasma-meta:
>
> # eselect profile list
> # eselect profile set <target>
> # emerge --ask --changed-use --newrepo --deep world
> # emerge --ask --verbose kde-plasma/plasma-meta
>
> If you normally use KDM to launch Plasma, note that it is no longer
> supported.
> Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by
> plasma-meta by
> default. To switch, edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER.
>
> Due to an an evolution of KDE upstream's release process[2], the traditional
> monolithic KDE 4 release is now split into three distinct components. This
> means that KDE Applications are now separate from the Plasma desktop and
> older KDE 4-based applications will continue to function as normal
> inside Plasma 5.
>
> KDE Workspaces 4.11 will remain in the tree for a reasonable time, but
> be warned that it is unmaintained and may cause conflicts with
> newer versions of KDE Applications.
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade
> [2] https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves
>
>