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. 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
