Proposal: Archive all unported Qt5 projects

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 12:04 AM Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>
wrote:

> Nicolas Fella ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Qt6/KF6 has been around long enough that most KDE projects have been
> ported to
> > it. Qt5 is increasing degrees of dead, and any project not ported to Qt6
> is
> > likely equally dead.
> >
> > With that in mind I propose that we declare unmaintained and archive all
> KDE
> > projects that still don't build with Qt6 (unless there's signs of active
> > development or they are otherwise relevant).
> >
> > In particular this would apply to the following projects:
> >
> > [...]
>
> > No release in a long time:
> > [...]
> > kdb
> > kproperty
> > kreport
> > kexi
>
> Does anyone know what happened with kexi and its libraries? Quite recently
> (ok, it was more than one year ago) a new website was created (with some
> questionable images, but that's another story) which seemed to imply that
> some
> update was close, but then nothing else.
> (cc JJaroslaw Staniek).
>

Thank you for the CC.

Indeed, the update was quite close to release, but it did not bring any
significant new features. Then, in early 2023, the AI revolution arrived
and fundamentally changed the landscape, including the area in which
applications like KEXI operate. Portability between backends was not as
crucial question as integration with external tools (scripting, and soon,
AI models).

Since our last releases in 2019, there have been numerous discussions-many
of them documented-about the future direction of the project. One option
being considered is to simplify and narrow the scope towards self-contained
database applications based exclusively on SQLite.

There are many technical and product-level considerations involved, and any
such transition would require careful evaluation to minimize disruption and
loss of functionality. At least we are not dependent on QtSql, which has
seen relatively few changes in Qt 6 compared to Qt 5, aside from
improvements related to QML integration.

Porting to Qt 6 and a release in 2026 is of interest to me.

Jarek


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