On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:34:07AM +1000, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi, > > KDE team intends to stabilise Plasma 5 shortly, so please review the > accompanying news items. > > Regards, > > Michael > > Title: KDE Plasma 5 Upgrade > Author: Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2016-04-02 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: kde-base/plasma-workspace:4 > > KDE Workspaces 4.11 has reached end of life and is no longer supported > by upstream. It is therefore recommended for all users to upgrade to > KDE Plasma 5.
Did you mean 4.14? 4.11 should have been EOL a long time ago. > A detailed upgrade guide is available[1], but in most cases it enough to > switch to the new desktop/plasma profile, update @world, and > emerge kde-plasma/plasma-meta: > > # eselect profile list > # eselect profile set <target> > # emerge --ask --changed-use --newrepo --deep world > # emerge --ask --verbose kde-plasma/plasma-meta > > If you normally use KDM to launch Plasma, note that it is no longer > supported. > Upstream recommends x11-misc/sddm instead which is pulled in by > plasma-meta by > default. To switch, edit /etc/conf.d/xdm and update DISPLAYMANAGER. > > Due to an an evolution of KDE upstream's release process[2], the traditional > monolithic KDE 4 release is now split into three distinct components. This > means that KDE Applications are now separate from the Plasma desktop and > older KDE 4-based applications will continue to function as normal > inside Plasma 5. > > KDE Workspaces 4.11 will remain in the tree for a reasonable time, but > be warned that it is unmaintained and may cause conflicts with > newer versions of KDE Applications. > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade > [2] https://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolves > >
