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If you follow the links about "exciting things behind the scenes" in the pointy-est-stick blog you will find this page indicating that plasma6 is under development and hence on its way, so to speak.:
Quote:
Plasma 6 porting work we need help doing now!
"6.0" is a word that brings a lot of excitement but also a lot of aprehension and for good reason. The reason our .0 releases sometimes struggle to match the quality isn't due to changes in the underlying libraries changing but how much we have to port away from the things that we've deprecated internally and have put off porting to.
Too many changes in one release becomes overwhelming and bugs creep in without time to get address them.
We want to be proactive in avoiding that.
At a recent Plasma sprint, we went through some of our bigger targets that we want to finish completely porting away from in time for the 6.0 release that we can actively start doing within the 5.x series where we can do things more gradually and inrecementally.
If you continue to wander around you can find some mock up pages and previews of the styling and some wise guy (not me) asking about how to turn off the flippin' transparency (LOL).
Last edited by Regnad Kcin; 07-05-2020 at 09:02 AM.
Reason: addenda
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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I do it "the old fashion way," i.e., downloaded the kde5 files then run, upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new
Of course, that is after kde4 has been removed.
If you follow the links about "exciting things behind the scenes" in the pointy-est-stick blog you will find this page indicating that plasma6 is under development and hence on its way, so to speak.:
Quote:
Plasma 6 porting work we need help doing now!
"6.0" is a word that brings a lot of excitement but also a lot of aprehension and for good reason. The reason our .0 releases sometimes struggle to match the quality isn't due to changes in the underlying libraries changing but how much we have to port away from the things that we've deprecated internally and have put off porting to.
Too many changes in one release becomes overwhelming and bugs creep in without time to get address them.
We want to be proactive in avoiding that.
At a recent Plasma sprint, we went through some of our bigger targets that we want to finish completely porting away from in time for the 6.0 release that we can actively start doing within the 5.x series where we can do things more gradually and inrecementally.
If you continue to wander around you can find some mock up pages and previews of the styling and some wise guy (not me) asking about how to turn off the flippin' transparency (LOL).
Am I reading that right? Are they throwing the baby out with the bathwater AGAIN???
No serious security fixes here that I see. It does beg the question, if Erik is no longer updating ktown, is there any underlying security risks until -current catches up?
No serious security fixes here that I see. It does beg the question, if Erik is no longer updating ktown, is there any underlying security risks until -current catches up?
He is updating ktown. He just stopped providing the regular monthly updates he was doing.
No serious security fixes here that I see. It does beg the question, if Erik is no longer updating ktown, is there any underlying security risks until -current catches up?
Nobody stops you to take the stick and to build as you wish the new versions of KDE Plasma, Frameworks and Applications.
For example, I've built in just a single evening this latest set: Plasma 5.19.3, Frameworks 5.72.0 and Applications 20.04.3, using a box running a ferocious Athlon x4 605e, with a glorious TDP of 45W and paired with some gargantuan 8GB DDR3 1333MHz memories. Honestly, I guess that your Steam-ready rigs are indecently superior to my build box.
Yes, gentlemen!
There is no need to wait to be spoon-feed by Papa Eric, because Mr. Hameleers made a brilliant build system for Plasma5, which just waits for your attention.
Last edited by LuckyCyborg; 07-19-2020 at 03:01 AM.
Nobody stops you to take the stick and to build as you wish the new versions of KDE Plasma, Frameworks and Applications.
For example, I've built in just a single evening this latest set: Plasma 5.19.3, Frameworks 5.72.0 and Applications 20.04.3, using a box running a ferocious Athlon x4 605e, with a glorious TDP of 45W and paired with some gargantuan 8GB DDR3 1333MHz memories. Honestly, I guess that your Steam-ready rigs are indecently superior to my build box.
Yes, gentlemen!
There is no need to wait to be spoon-feed by Papa Eric, because Mr. Hameleers made a brilliant build system for Plasma5, which just waits for your attention.
Same method here, just one little change, 'kdav' is moved in 'frameworks' now, i have also build 'applications beta (20.07.80)' without problem, all work, here
Same method here, just one little change, 'kdav' is moved in 'frameworks' now, i have also build 'applications beta (20.07.80)' without problem, all work, here
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