State of Qt5 in distributions

Antonio Rojas arojas at archlinux.org
Tue Jun 2 07:49:26 BST 2026


Speaking of Arch:

El lunes, 1 de junio de 2026 a las 21:04 Nicolas Fella escribió:

> Specifically:
> 
> - Are you still shipping any Qt5-based software at all?

Yes, lots of it (including some big stuff like VLC)

> - Are you still shipping Qt5-based KDE software (excluding the bits and 
> pieces to support Qt5-based software like breeze and plasma-integration)?

Yes

> - Anything we as KDE can do to help with the process?

Make releases of stuff that has been ported to Qt6 for a while: kaffeine, kbibtex, krename, rsibreak, kronometer, kdesvn... so that we can at least drop KF5 in the near future.




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