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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:22:23
Message-Id: m10bbb$pa$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5? by Pavel Volkov
1 On 10/07/2014 06:41 PM, Pavel Volkov wrote:
2 > On Saturday, October 4, 2014 9:37:04 PM MSK, Michael Palimaka wrote:
3 >> The KDE release structure has evolved[1], decoupling the release cycle
4 >> of the Platform, Workspace, and Applications. This means that there is
5 >> no longer a single Software Compilation in the same way there was with
6 >> KDE 4.
7 >>
8 >> We (Gentoo KDE team) have not yet made a decision as to when the Plasma
9 >> 5 Workspace will be pushed to the main tree. I've been using it on a
10 >> daily basis for about six months, and consider the next release (5.1.0)
11 >> to be a good candidate for the main tree.
12 >>
13 >> The underlying Platform (KDE Frameworks 5) upon which Plasma 5 is built
14 >> is expected in the main tree in about a week, after the 5.3.0 release.
15 >
16 > I think KDE Application 5 haven't been released yet (at least I don't
17 > remember seeing the news). Are you going to package old applications
18 > with Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5?
19 >
20 >
21
22 The first Applications 5 release (currently versioned "14.12") is
23 expected in late December. KDE 4 applications work fine in a Plasma 5
24 environment and we'll continue to ship them for the foreseeable future.