On Monday 01 September 2014 15:43, Timothy Butterworth wrote:
Thanks for the update. I was hoping KDE4 and Apps would keep being maintained for another year or two in a maintenance mode while Plasma 5 is maturing and Apps are being ported to avoid a major user backlash like what happened with KDE4 when it started shipping too early in the mainline distros.
As Luca already indicated, some components of KDE4 are in a long-term support mode. Especially the workspace which is already in this mode since KDE 4.11 release. However we should remember that KF5 is different in its releases than KDE4. KF5 will have three independent releases (Framework, Plasma and Applications). The Framework components has been worked on already since the moment that kdelibs4 reached LTS (around KDE 4.9/4.10) and work started on Plasma after KDE 4.11 release. Only recently we see that porting work for applications have started. So we already have a different starting point than the KDE3 -> KDE4 transition. But as indicated for the upcoming 13.2 we will ship it with KDE4 as default and we will ship alongside it the Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 packages. Unfortunately it is not possible to have both kdebase4-workspace and Plasma 5 installed. For next year, we might consider moving components to KF5 (e.g.replacing Workspace (4.x) with Plasma 5), while keeping non-mature Applications on their respective KDE4 versions. But this is all speculation and we will start drafting plans end of this year after the release of KDE Applications 14.12. And even then we will only make changes to KDE:Distro:Factory and openSUSE:Factory. KDE:Current will remain at least until the last KDE4 application has been ported or made obsolete within KF5). Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org