State of Qt5 in distributions

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

On Dienstag, 9. Juni 2026 12:52:56 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Adriaan de 
Groot wrote:
> On Monday, 1 June 2026 21:43:17 CEST Anna Wilcox wrote:
> > The most important Qt 5 software we still ship is Quassel IRC. 
> > Konversation is available in our repos but Quassel’s core/client model
> > means you get znc-like functionality for “free” without having two layers
> > of clients.
> FWIW, there is an irc/quassel in FreeBSD ports as well, although it isn't
> owned by the kde@ group. It in turn uses qca's Qt5 build, which is-owned-by-
> kde.

One[1] out of three PR attempts to port Quassel to Qt6/KF6 works well enough 
for us to ship as distribution package. More eyes on it would be nice to help 
upstream as much as possible whenever they do get around to it eventually.

> net/remmina (the VNC viewer), for instance, which only added a KF5Wallet
> plugin 3 months ago (!?).

remmina switched to KF6Wallet in Gentoo a couple of months ago[2].

> kexi / kproperty, kraft, .. those are things at
> the periphery of the KDE world which may or may not be easy to update (e.g.
> Kraft 2.0)

I found Kraft 2.0 upgrade to be fairly uneventful[3], but kexi got too 
difficult to support quite some time ago (last-rited in Gentoo at end of 2024 
after yet again failing to build and having accumulated a fair share of 
patches). No good solution there, unfortunately.


[1] https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/631
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/950750
[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/954090
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