Is it possable to migrate from a kde4 installation on slackx86_64 current to kde5 without loosing my exsisting desktop configs?
I ask becuse some of my setup is not standard slackware stuff and had to be installed by hand including, an APL interpreter, a youtube viewer and a partially installed linphone. Needless to say, I do not want to lose/unconfigure these.
Any suggestions?

It wouldn't hurt to ask in the "comments section" (bottom of the page) here,

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-...kware-current/

every program should have its own configuration, independent of the DE used
it's all well defined but there are cases where devs don't follow these standards, so i can't guarantee
(for those you counted it should work)

as for having an icon to click,
usually programs come with .desktop files
even if one doesn't you can make a .desktop file yourself and put it in /usr/share/applications/


those are mostly freedesktop standards
shame that freedesktop is going bad lately, but still the older things like this are good

Having read on the link to alien pastures that slackware's next version is to use a late kde4 rather than the current kde5, my need for an answer is less urgent. However, the problem will not go away entirely so I am not marking this as solved. I will continue making enquires.

Having made some enquires on alien pastures and got some replies :- It seems that the remaining barrier to going from kde4 to kde5 is that I will need to re-install wallpapers and wigets. Hopefully this will be resolved when the next main version of slackware hits the streets.

Of course that will not be resolved.
Slackware offers a pristine desktop environment without tweaks. If one workspace is replaced by another workspace then you need to dress up that your new desktop, quite understandable really.
If re-adding widgets (clock, weather applet, etc) to your desktop and changing your wallpaper is enough of a burden to you that you want to stall a migration... what are you doing here?

But perhaps you are just a bit confused and thought that you need to re-install software from un-identified sources in order to get your wallpaper and widgets back? Of course not! The plasma 5 workspace comes with its own set of beautiful wallpapers and widgets and a whole lot of other goodies too.

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