Plasma 5 RC

[John Layt]

On 7 July 2014 10:16, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:36:00AM +0100, John Layt wrote:
>> Co-installabilty of Plasma 4 and Plasma 5 with minimal work required
>> by the distros is a must if we want to avoid the mess of KDE4.
>> Already openSUSE has announced that you can't have both installed at
>> once, which will force people to choose one or other, when what we
>> really want is for them to be able to try Plasma 5 out while still
>> being able to switch back to 4 if there are things that break their
>> workflow.
>
> They won't be co-installable just as konsole won't be co-installable
> with its kdelibs4 version, it's a new version of the same programme.
> But the parts that are used by applications, libraries and runtime
> parts need to be co-installable so kdelibs4 and kf5 applications can
> be installed on the same system.

Hmmm, well that's not quite what I was expecting, I was hoping to be
able to install them in parallel and test it out while keeping my old
desktop safe, like I can install and try Gnome or Unity or XFCE.  I
don't expect to have parallel installs of apps though, the latest
version should just run under any desktop.  No Plasma 5 for me then
until a couple more releases and it's stabilised :-\

John.