On Thursday, April 16, 2015 03:59:58 PM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi everyone! I have drafted a Qt4-removal announce in gobby, Teams→KDE→Qt4, > right at the top. > > As many of you might know there are different feelings about this removal. > On one hand we will not be having anything else but security-related bugs > fixed in Qt4 from the next point release which should happen really soon > until possibly 2017 (which is possibly one year after Strech's release). On > the other hand the number of apps using Qt4 is just enormous. > > My suggestion to this is to simply try to get the removal done and see what > happens during Strech's developing life cycle. Our experience with Qt3 was > actually better that many think it was, having only 13 source packages using > Qt3 when we asked for it's removal, and all of them where dead upstream > (even if functional, like Twinkle). > > As usual I would like you to review the aforementioned removal announce. > Feel free to edit it, that's why we have Gobby there. > > I would also like some input from the KDE maintainers, specially (but not > limited to) maxy on how KDE's porting efforts are being developed (for > example, do you think we will have a usable KDE with Qt5 experience by the > end of the year?) I haven't tried it myself yet so any input in this regard > will be highly appreciated.
Since Kubuntu is doing a largely Plasma5/Kf5/Qt5 release this month, I think we'll have a very good idea based on user feedback to Kubuntu about how usable the KDE/Qt5 experience is. I haven't tried it either. Scott K -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk