Neil Rickert wrote:
At present Plasma 5 is not ready for prime time. It is cripple-ware. I'm seriously considering reinstalling Tumbleweed (and KDE4).
Did you read the whole mail that introduced this thread, in particular the last paragraph? I asked for constructive feedback. "Cripple-ware" is not constructive feedback. Bear in mind that the soon-to-be-released 5.3 version is much improved compared to the current 5.2. I wouldn't have recommended 5.3 for default if it weren't. (I'm running Plasma git master on all my machines)
(a) Keep KDE4. It works well and has many users.
There is no "KDE4" just like there's no "KDE5". This discussion only touches the workspace (Plasma Workspace 4.x) and not the applications, which will take far longer to port to the KF5 libraries (this was also stated in the original mail). If you also hop on the opensuse-kde ML archives, you'll see the results of our evaluation of the situation. Don't forget that after August the long-term support period of the 4.x workspace will end, which has important impacts on security.
(b) Provide Plasma 5, but in such a way that it can be installed alongside KDE4. Maybe that requires a separate install path for the present.
We have tried this for quite a while. Upstream does not support it at all, and for some pieces of the system (polkit helpers and agents) it's even impossible to do.
Few people are trying it, because they have seen the reports and consider it not ready.
More details (or even better: bug reports upstream or on b.o.o if they're packaging errors) would be most welcome. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org