All Things KDE/Plasma-6 for Slackware Users.

rizitis · 05-21-2024, 01:56 PM

question: when official plasma 6 stable release (LTS) will be out?
We all know that Slackware philosophy is KISS and stable system...

plasma stable (LTS) versions is/was:
5.27 (LTS)
5.24 (LTS) eol
5.18 (LTS) eol

for plasma 6 the plan is:

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Version 	Post release Version 	Type 	Tar Date 	Release Date 	Comments
6.0.5 		Bugfix Release 	Tue 2024-05-21 	
6.0.90 	6.1.80 	Beta 	Tue 2024-05-23 	Plasma/6.1 branched
6.1.0 		Release 	Thu 2024-06-13 	Tue 2024-06-18 	
6.1.1 		Bugfix Release 	Tue 2024-06-25 	
6.1.2 		Bugfix Release 	Tue 2024-07-02 	
6.1.3 		Bugfix Release 	Tue 2024-07-16 	
6.1.4 		Bugfix Release 	Tue 2024-08-06
6.1.5 		Bugfix Release 	Tue 2024-09-10

Since no LTS release in near future the best choice is what you are doing now... A Slackware plasma 6 community project, you can organize it better in future.

The benefits: you will learn a lot of things building from scratch plasma, you will help plasma project for real by found bugs and maybe fix bugs also, you are helping Slackware project also...

But a non LTS plasma release, I think PAT cant make it official for slackware-stable.:"
Even AI models when you ask "what is Slackware?" the answer is "Slackware! great choice. Slackware is a KISS and famous for its stability Linux system."

ctrlaltca · 05-21-2024, 05:08 PM

Plasma 6 has no LTS planned right now. They are waiting on distros feedback whether to branch an LTS version, if any.
Maybe never, since experience in the Plasma 5 times was usually the last "bleeding edge" version having fewer bugs than the last LTS version.
Hopefully some moving targets (eg. wayland) will stabilize and development will become slower/more easy to schedule.
My personal feeling is that 5.27 is EOL too, with the exception of fixing disastrous bugs or security issues.

volkerdi · 05-21-2024, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by gildbg

Hi all,

can I ask a question: what's stopping us we to have a KDE6 in current officially ?

Seems really easy, right? Just upgrade to it.

Nobody would be happy with Plasma 6 based on the qt6 that's in current right now. I've been trying for a week to compile qt-6.7.1 on 32-bit, and it's not happening. Since I'd really like to have a 32-bit 15.1 release, that's a strong blocker.

Besides that, how important is this, really? Do we need to never have a release because we can't resist shiny?

I could see releasing without addressing the problems caused by elilo that would be fixed by using grub2, and that's arguably far more important.

EDIT: The latest qt-6.7.1 git pull just compiled on 32-bit x86 with a couple of SlackBuild changes.

gmgf · 05-22-2024, 04:03 AM

Maybe a Slackware (light) 32bit without kde would be a reasonable solution.

gildbg · 05-22-2024, 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi

Seems really easy, right? Just upgrade to it.

Nobody would be happy with Plasma 6 based on the qt6 that's in current right now. I've been trying for a week to compile qt-6.7.1 on 32-bit, and it's not happening. Since I'd really like to have a 32-bit 15.1 release, that's a strong blocker.

Besides that, how important is this, really? Do we need to never have a release because we can't resist shiny?

I could see releasing without addressing the problems caused by elilo that would be fixed by using grub2, and that's arguably far more important.

EDIT: The latest qt-6.7.1 git pull just compiled on 32-bit x86 with a couple of SlackBuild changes.

I understand your wish, the next release may be will be the last 32-bit release of Slackware for desktop. Most of other linux distros already dropped 32-bit support for desktop.
Sorry, but we have no fault because you decided to make a new release once every 5 years.

It is understandable, we have a local saying: Everyone watches from his bell tower.

Do you have a release date for new release ?

volkerdi · 05-22-2024, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gildbg

I understand your wish, the next release may be will be the last 32-bit release of Slackware for desktop. Most of other linux distros already dropped 32-bit support for desktop.
Sorry, but we have no fault because you decided to make a new release once every 5 years.

It is understandable, we have a local saying: Everyone watches from his bell tower.

Do you have a release date for new release ?

We have a local saying here - the release date decides you.

zuriel · 05-23-2024, 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by volkerdi

Besides that, how important is this, really? Do we need to never have a release because we can't resist shiny?

Plasma 6.1 is due next month with Wayland explicit sync support which should fix a lot of Wayland frame pacing and flickering issues, especially for Nvidia GPUs.

I couldn't comment on when Plasma 6 should land in Slackware. It depends on when you're looking at doing a release.

gmgf · 05-23-2024, 06:30 AM

Don't worry about plasma 6, it is highly likely that Eric (alienbob) will provide these.

when the new slackware stable, will be ready.

cwizardone · 05-25-2024, 08:04 AM

This week's new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.

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This week in KDE: Triple buffering and other sources of amazingness
Nate. May 25, 2024.
We just branched for Plasma 6.1 and released the beta, which means the window to add new features has now closed. But before it did, a ton of amazing stuff snuck in! Plasma 6.1 promises to be a large and impressive release.

Probably the most impactful thing is triple buffering support on Wayland! This should make animations and screen rendering smoother in general–ideally up to the level of the X11 session, which already did triple buffering. This work by Xaver Hugl has been in progress for a long time and lands in Plasma 6.1. Link

That’s not all though… oh no, not by a long shot:...............

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2024/05/2...f-amazingness/

cwizardone · 06-08-2024, 08:49 AM

Two weeks of new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.

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These past two weeks in KDE: massive stability work for Plasma 6.1
Nate. June 7, 2024.
Sorry for the interruption last week; I was on vacation. While I was vacating, my colleagues were in full-on fix-everything mode in preparation for the upcoming Plasma 6.1 release in a little over a week. And what a release it promises to be! I think this is going to be a good one, folks. Lots of great features, improved performance and smoothness, and oodles of fixes for all kinds of strange bugs with your wild and wacky hardware devices!

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/0...or-plasma-6-1/

cwizardone · 06-15-2024, 09:14 AM

This week's new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.

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This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2
Nate. June 14, 2024.
Plasma 6.1 is due to be released in three days, and lots of attention went into final release readiness activities: QA, bug-fixing, performance profiling, auto-testing, stuff like that. Boring but important! And happily, reviews of the 6.1 beta are, like, really good. So we want to make sure that the final release doesn’t disappoint!
In addition, we’re hard at work on Plasma 6.2, which is now beginning to accumulate features. Major areas of focus are some of the remaining Wayland pain points, including tablet and artist workflows. You can see some progress on that already:.........

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/1...tures-for-6-2/

r1w1s1 · 06-17-2024, 03:04 PM

Are you ready? Plasma 6.1 drops tomorrow at 10am UTC.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comment...w_at_10am_utc/

r1w1s1 · 06-18-2024, 07:44 AM

Plasma 6.1 is here!

New features include a cool take on Plasma's edit mode, keyboard LEDs that sync with accent colors,
an inbuilt Remote Desktop Server that let's you access Plasma desktops over a network, lots of bug corrections and improvements.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.0/

cwizardone · 06-22-2024, 09:14 AM

This week's new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.

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This week in KDE: Plasma 6.1 cleanups
Nate. June 22, 2024.
Plasma 6.1 has been released to good reviews! We’ve spent the week fixing issues reported so far, as always. So far we’re in good shape here, with almost all the big issues fixed already. We’re still tracking a few more, such as cases where triple buffering introduced stuttering, or random QML widgets and System Settings pages failing to launch until Qt’s QML cache folder is cleared (if you do this, please save it first and attach it to the bug report).
So this time, lets start with the bug fixes: .........

Read all about it at, https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/2...-6-1-cleanups/

cwizardone · 06-25-2024, 11:24 AM

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Xaver's blog
Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
Jun 25, 2024.
KWin had a very long standing bug report about bad performance of the Wayland session on older Intel integrated graphics. There have been many investigations into what’s causing this, with a lot of more specific performance issues being found and fixed, but none of them managed to fully fix the issue… until now.........

Read all about it at, https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/...-hardware.html