Re: Proposal: Archive all unported Qt5 projects

Christoph Cullmann <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:14:25 +0000

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Hi,

> Hi,
> 

> Qt6/KF6 has been around long enough that most KDE projects have been
> ported to it. Qt5 is increasing degrees of dead, and any project not
> ported to Qt6 is likely equally dead.
> 

> With that in mind I propose that we declare unmaintained and archive all
> KDE projects that still don't build with Qt6 (unless there's signs of
> active development or they are otherwise relevant).
> 

> In particular this would apply to the following projects:
> 

> Never released:
> khipu
> kde-nomodeset
> kije
> kirogi
> tikzkit
> pikasso
> kdev-css
> kdev-embedded
> kdev-executebrowser
> kdev-krazy2
> kdev-mercurial
> kdev-ruby
> kdev-upload
> kdev-verapp
> kdev-xdebug
> samba-mounter
> polkit-kde-kcmodules-1
> 

> No release in a long time:
> libqgit2
> kdb
> kproperty
> kreport
> kexi
> kalternatives
> 

> Formerly part of KDE Gear:
> cervisia
> 

> I have excluded Okteta and latte-dock since there is recent activity.
> 

> Any thoughts/concerns on this?

+1

unarchiving is close to no work anyways

Greetings
Christoph

> 

> Cheers
> 

> Nico
> 

>

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