Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5

[Mick]

On Wednesday 13 Jul 2016 09:14:37 Stefano Crocco wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 July 2016 22:56:38 Mick wrote:
> > For  example Konqueror on my laptop does not integrate with Dolphin
> > anymore,
>
> This is because konqueror still uses KDE 4, while dolphin has been ported to
> KDE Frameworks 5. The problem is that konqueror has been without a full
> time mantainer for a long time, since the original author shifted his
> attention to other parts of KDE. Since last year I took up the role of
> konqueror mantainer, but unfortunately I had much less free time to work on
> it than I hoped for back then.
>
> Currently, the situation regarding konqueror is the following:
>
> * the application itself has been ported from KDE4/Qt4 to KDE Frameworks/Qt5
> by its original author (David Faure). This means that it compiles and
> mostly works, including the integration with dolphin. There are several
> bugs, however.
> * I've ported most of the plugins (only the user agent plugin doesn't work
> completely)
> * I'm in the process of porting the sidebar, which is the last part of
> konqueror still using KDE 4. However, different from the rest of the
> application, porting this is going to be a lot of work. This is because the
> sidebar (or rather, parts of it) still uses a compatibility library used to
> port applications from KDE 3 to KDE 4. This library, of course, doesn't
> exist in KDE Frameworks, which means that a large part of the sidebar code
> needs to be almost rewritten.
>
> I've thought of writing an ebuild for the developer version of konqueror, (a
> 9999 one, of course), since the application is currently mostly working (I
> use it as my primary browser, even if I have to switch to other browser
> every now and then for sites which won't work with it). The reason I
> haven't done so is that konqueror requires libkonq and that the 4 and 5
> versions of libkonq can't be installed together. Since many applications
> from kde 4 still use it, this would create an issue.
>
> Stefano

Thank you Stefano for taking this project on!  We are grateful for your work.  
I have been using Konqueror since KDE2 if I recall right, and although I've 
tried other browsers/file managers/ftp clients/et al. nothing has ever come 
close in terms of versatility to this 'swiss army knife' on all my Linux 
desktops.  From what you say it seems that libkonq-5 won't become available 
until all reverse deps of KDE4 applications are no longer there.  If this 
can't be addressed by slots in Gentoo, I guess we'll just have to wait until 
all KDE4 applications have been ported to KDE5, or retired.

-- 
Regards,
Mick