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ktatar156

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KDE 5 default

When kde 5 components will replace plasma and apps (4.x version)? it will be natural (I mean pacman -Syu) or all the time that will be different packages? will kde 14.12 apps land in Arch official repo?

Last edited by ktatar156 (2014-12-30 10:03:47)

smirky

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Re: KDE 5 default

This question isn't asked in the right place. Plasma 5 isn't yet stable. Many KDE 4 apps are still not ported to the new framework and maybe some never will. Go to the KDE website and check the schedules. Personally, I think 'pacman -Syu' will surprise you at the end of 2015.

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ktatar156

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Re: KDE 5 default

Thanks for your answer! So what I shoud install to use fresh plasma 5 + Kontact  (with google sync) + Baloo (is it insted of nepomuk? is it works?)?

pb

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Re: KDE 5 default

When kde 5 components will replace plasma and apps (4.x version)?

In Arch? We have 3 groups: plasma-next, kf5 and kf5-aids. If you want to install new DE (Plasma 5) you have to type:

# pacman -S plasma-next

It should install new DE and unistall some parts of KDE4 (because they cannot coexist now)
BTW: There isn't (and will not be) such DE like KDE 5

will kde 14.12 apps land in Arch official repo?

As arojas said https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1485631 they should be in official repo soon.
But you must to know, that almost all packages in KDE Applications 14.12 are bugfixes for KDE 4.14.3 apps. Only few are building against of KF5. See: https://www.kde.org/announcements/annou … 4.12.0.php and https://dot.kde.org/2014/12/17/kde-appl … orks-ports As Mario Fux said: " We expect the porting of applications to Qt 5 and Frameworks 5 to happen over the next year or two."