About 6 weeks ago, I posted a tentative roadmap for Plasma 6. I wanted to give everyone an update on how things have gone since then! So where are we? I previously explained that we were somewhere …
Is there some sort of overall vision doc for KDE 6? What are they building towards? I find 5 so good have a bit of trouble imagining where they’ll go to improve
Plasma 6 is built using QT 6, currently plasma 5 is using QT5. This is a huge effort to move the code to the new version of QT but it brings many improvements behind the scenes. Once this is done a lot of the code is going to be cleaner and more maintainable, which should translate to a smoother user experience.
afik they are rebasing on qt6, which fixes a lot of issues with Wayland due to Wayland not being thought of during the development of qt5.
Correct me if I’m wrong though
Is there some sort of overall vision doc for KDE 6? What are they building towards? I find 5 so good have a bit of trouble imagining where they’ll go to improve
Plasma 6 is built using QT 6, currently plasma 5 is using QT5. This is a huge effort to move the code to the new version of QT but it brings many improvements behind the scenes. Once this is done a lot of the code is going to be cleaner and more maintainable, which should translate to a smoother user experience.
Here’s the plasma 6 wiki: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#Work_that’s_been_decided_on_but_not_implemented_yet
This is super helpful, thanks!
afik they are rebasing on qt6, which fixes a lot of issues with Wayland due to Wayland not being thought of during the development of qt5. Correct me if I’m wrong though
Thanks!