Re: Applications 17.12 Beta to enter KDE:Applications

On 21/11/17 04:20 AM, gumb wrote:
> On 21/11/17 08:44, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> > I'm generally looking forward final drop of KDE4 and having everything only on
> > KDE5, but there are some important KDE4 based applications I use. Do You or
> > anyone have any idea about replacement or ongoing KF5 port of:
> > * Amarok (is there any other official and maintained KDE music player? There
> > seems to be some KF5 port in home:wolfi323 and other repos)
> > * KBibTex (some KF5 version is in home:wolfi323)
> > * Kile (excellent TeX editor, there is KF5 beta in KDE:Unstable:Extra,
> > upstream is working on KF5 version)
> > * Kopete (especially when Telepathy based solution was recently dropped as
> > unmaintained, there seems to be some KF5 port in home:wolfi323)
> > * Krename (some KF5 version is in home:wolfi323)
> > * RKWard (IMHO the best R GUI, there is ongoing upstream work on KF5 port,
> > some dev version is in home:wolfi323)
> > Interestingly, 'zypper se -i -s --requires kdelibs4' shows some applications
> > of version like 17.08.X requiring Qt4/KDE4 libs, like akonadi-ews, dolphin-
> > plugins, kalzium, kfind, kmplot, konqueror, soundkonverter. Why is there such
> > requirement and what is going to happen with such applications?
>
> What are the possibilities for running these apps in the future in some sandboxed way, so as to get around the bitrot and dependencies issues? I
> don't know if that can be done with an AppImage.
>
> You just reminded me that Krename is another of the apps that provides a stumbling block for me for a full KF5 transition. The other two I rely
> on more heavily are Komparator and Audex.
>
> I've already enquired on the main opensuse list about Komparator alternatives and whilst one or two apps can mimic certain functions, there's
> just nothing that really reproduces all of its features, especially its KIO Slave integration. Sadly it looks like a long forgotten application.
>
> As for Audex the CD ripper, there is really just one small bit of functionality I asked the Audex developer to add years ago that I can't
> replicate in K3B or other apps: taking the first x character(s) from the artist string to use in the file name/path format, so as to
> automatically sort ripped discs into alphanumerical subfolders. I might see if I can get the K3B devs to add that as it does just about
> everything else.
>
> gumb
You can try syncron as a replacement for kompare.

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Roman
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