= Proposed System Wide Change: Plasma 5 = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Plasma_5
Change owner(s): KDE SIG & Daniel Vrátil <dvra...@redhat.com>, Lukáš Tinkl <lti...@redhat.com>, Jan Grulich <jgrul...@redhat.com>, Rex Dieter <rdie...@fedoraproject.org>, Than Ngo <t...@redhat.com>, Kevin Kofler <ke...@tigcc.ticalc.org> Plasma 5 is successor to KDE Plasma 4 created by the KDE Community. It is based on Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5 and brings many changes and improvements over previous versions, including new look & feel as well as important changes under the hood. == Detailed Description == Plasma 5 is a new major version of KDE's workspaces. It has a new theme called Breeze, which has cleaner visuals and better readability, improves certain work-flows and provides overall more consistent and polished interface. Changes under the hood include switch to Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5 and migration to fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack based on OpenGL(ES). Note that Plasma 5 only includes the actual shell, decorations, icons and a few applications coupled with workspace (e.g. KWin, System Settings, KSysGuard). It does not include "regular" applications like Dolphin, Okular, Konqueror, etc. which are part of KDE Applications product and released independently of Plasma 5. Plasma 5 gets a new feature release every three months, and each feature release has monthly bugfix releases. Plasma 5.2 is scheduled to be released on January 27. KDE SIG intends to ship Plasma 5.2.2 or Plasma 5.3, depending on the final schedules. == Scope == * Proposal owners: ** Submit, review and import new packages for Plasma 5 to rawhide/F22 ** Modify existing KDE 4 packages to ensure smooth upgrade path to Plasma 5 ** Retire KDE 4 packages not compatible with Plasma 5, or available in Plasma 5 under different names/components * Other developers: Optionally, maintainers of 3rd party KDE Workspace 4 packages such as Plasma applets or KCMs may want to consult upstream regarding Qt 5/Frameworks versions of their packages, and eventually update them to Frameworks version, so that they are available in Plasma 5. * Release engineering: No, this change requires no coordination with rel-eng. * Policies and guidelines: No, this change requires no update to packaging guidelines or policies. == Contingency Plan == * Contingency mechanism: Rolling back to KDE 4 and shipping KDE Workspace 4.11.X. As rawhide would already have packages with version 5.x.y, we would have to increase the epoch number of all affected KDE 4 packages, and making them Obsolete their Plasma 5 equivalents (since some Plasma 5 packages have been renamed or split from larger KDE 4 packages) * Contingency deadline: Before F22 beta freeze * Blocks release? No * Blocks product? No _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
