On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 02:20:18 PM Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote: Hi Stanislav
But here is a question: when Plasma5 comes closer to be default, will you do the "migrational" KDE 4 repository for incompatible apps? We've been enjoying Wolfgang's Plasma5 "compatibility" packages under KDE4 for quite some time now, and doing the same for KDE 4 would be really helpful.
Well, for a certain amount of time we would have KDE4 parts living together with Plasma5. As an example we will have for at least another year a KDEPIM suite that is based on KDE4, so we definitely will need to keep a number of KDE4 packages alive to support this. Also around half from the KDE Applications release is currently still KDE4 based.
I don't know how many of apps like are out there, my main usecase is Kate, as I would like to use Kate5 (and I'm using it from Wolfgang's repos) but krusader is a showstopper app for me, and it specifically requires Kate 4. Well, here we get into the difficulty. The libraries were designed and ported to Frameworks with the idea/setup to be co-installable. The applications however where never designed for this. So Kate5 actually still installs the binary /usr/bin/kate, which also Kate4 does.
One could of course easily say, that you could have Kate4 install into a different prefix. Maybe, question would be if this also means that the libraries should be installed in this specific prefix. In order to set this up and validate if it works together with a standard desktop takes time. Time that we might have or not have. The team itself is very small and we rely on volunteers to do this specific setups for us. Wolfgang was so helpful to set up a specific repository which could be used for a complete co-installable Plasma5 experience. I am not sure if he would be willing to set up something similar for KDE4 applications. On the other hand, I have seen that porting work has started on Krusader, so maybe we have a Plasma5 based Krusader when we make the switch. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org