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On the road to Plasma 6

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jun 18, 2023

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At this point you’ve heard a lot about Plasma 6, and each of my weekly “This week in KDE” brings news of a few new features, UI changes, or bugfixes that are only in Plasma 6. But how do we get there, and how long will it take? So today I’d like to talk about the process and schedule a bit. Let’s start with an outline of the required steps to get there, in sequential order...

My sense right now is that we’re in the middle of steps 3 and 4. Basically everything in Plasma compiles with Qt 6, and at this point Plasma 6 is fairly livable. To give you a sense of how livable, it’s good enough that over the past 2 months, I’ve gone on three KDE-related trips from the USA to Europe, with my only computer running Plasma 6 in “current git master” state, with work-in-progress merge requests applied! Its stability has been good enough that this has caused me no apprehension, and indeed, it’s been totally fine on each trip.

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