Armin K. wrote:
Hello everyone,
While Christopher was busy with GNOME 3 work, I took some free time
today to update my earlier work on bringing KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE
Plasma 5 into BLFS.
I am pround to say that I believe everything should be in place to get a
fully working KDE Plasma 5 desktop.
Work is available on a new location, rebased onto BLFS svn from few
hours ago:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/kde5/kde5/kde5.html
For now, all my work is kept in "kde5" branch of BLFS repository and I
don't expect merging it anytime soon (if ever).
This first release, 5.0.0 only targets Frameworks (lower level
libraries) and Plasma Workspace (the Desktop). There are no released
applications at the moment that use KDE Frameworks 5 or Qt5.
Some applications, such as Kate, Konsole and Dolphin are in process of
porting and are only available from git. Others are either in early
stages or haven't started porting at all.
To me, the critical app is konsole, but others are important too. My
quest is about the Desktop. Does it include a settings app and panels?
I see that there is a SystemSettings-5.0.0 and KMenuEdit-5.0.0, but can
you give some feel for how mature these are.
KDE team announced plans for KDE Applications 14.12, which should happen
in December this year and will hopefully bring KF5 based apps. I don't
believe that KDE 5 will be merged before that, given that it's wanted.
Yes, I think it's wanted, but we don't want to rush it. It took us a
while after KDE 4.0 to get it into the book. What you are doing with a
separate branch is the perfect way to get experienced users some
advanced experience.
-- Bruce
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