T10812: KDE Applications

ltoscano added a comment.


  In T10812#182245 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T10812#182245>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > In T10812#182242 <https://phabricator.kde.org/T10812#182242>, @cfeck wrote:
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  > > If you are asking for my personal opinion, I propose to split current KDE Applications into parts:
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  > > - Base/essential applications (Dolphin, Ark, KCharSelect, KCalc, Kate/KWrite, Konsole, Spectacle, Gwenview, Okular, thumbnailers, more?). Ship them together with Plasma[1]. I really love the Fibonacci release cycles of Plasma for bug fixes. Also, Plasma developers sometimes decide to do an LTS release, and the base applications would also benefit from LTS support. All of them should use the same 5.x (later 6.x) version number.
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  > I was actually going to suggest this myself, so I'm glad you did. :) I agree 100% with this as well as your other ideas about splitting up apps into different releases.
  
  
  We have been trying hard to sell those applications as not "part of KDE (Plasma)" (DE agnostic, OS agnostic). That would be a huge step back. Big -1.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/T10812

To: ngraham, ltoscano
Cc: ltoscano, cfeck, aacid, #yakuake, #okular, #dolphin, #kate, #spectacle, #konsole, #gwenview, #kde_pim, #kde_games, #kde_applications, ngraham