Re: has the sun set ?

Duncan <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:39:16 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Philip Webb posted on Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:31:25 -0400 as excerpted:

> I didn't say that (grimace) : I'm a happy user of KDE 4 apps -- Konsole
> Gwenview Okular etc -- , but don't need the heavyweight desktop & do
> still like to use  3  small pkgs which didn't get ported.

OK, thanks for the correction.  I had read that before and simply=20
forgotten about it.

At least with the 4-2-5 upgrade, upstream is supporting qt4 and kdelibs4=20
still being installed, along with various misc kde4 apps, some of which=20
are known not to have (stable) qt5/kde5 versions, yet, and actually ship=20
some still kde4 versions in their recent kde4/5 unified desktop=20
releases.  It's only the core desktop (including kwin, unfortunately for=20
me) that must be 5 if any of it is 5 and can't be installed with 4, the=20
rest can still be 4.

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