State of Qt5 in distributions

[Eric Hameleers]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2026, Nicolas Fella wrote:

> Hi,
>
> most of you probably want to get rid of Qt5 in your distributions, or have 
> already done so. Since this also affects what we are doing upstream I wanted 
> to ask where you are with that.
>
> Specifically:
>
> - Are you still shipping any Qt5-based software at all?
>
> - Are you still shipping Qt5-based KDE software (excluding the bits and 
> pieces to support Qt5-based software like breeze and plasma-integration)?
>
> - Anything we as KDE can do to help with the process?
>
> Thanks in advance for your information
>
> Nico

Slackware ships okteta which still does not have a completed Qt6 port.
What you could do is offer assistance to the developer to speed up the 
porting process.

Cheers, Eric

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