KDE Gear "6.0" status update: all 40 games & 2 libs now Qt6-only in master

Justin Zobel justin.zobel at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 00:09:06 BST 2023


Great work Friedrich! Thank you for this. I will start packaging more of 
the KDE Games in my Fedora Copr in preparation for the transition to Qt6.

On 2/10/23 03:20, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quick heads-up to keep more people in the loop:
>
> all the 40 game apps & 2 game libs covered by KDE Gear starting today are now
> Qt6-only in their master branches. And thus can/will be released based on Qt6/
> KF6 in the KDE Gear "6.0" 24.02 release.
>
> So the section "Games" can be checked off WRT Qt6 porting for KDE Gear.
>
> For libkdegames I plan to use the window of opportunity with API/ABI changes
> to consolidate some things, e.g.
> * Rename Kg* classes to KGame*, to iron out some historic artifacts
>    https://invent.kde.org/games/libkdegames/-/merge_requests/30
> * Split-off QWidgets API into separate library,
>    to prepare more QML work in the years to come
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
>


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