On 07/16/2014 07:22 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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. >
Yes. It's almost the same desktop as KDE 4 is. See the announcement and check out the 2nd video embedded on that page. http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ >> 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 -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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