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diff --git a/README.5_16.04 b/README.5_16.05 index 54d0167..49745b7 100644 --- a/README.5_16.04 +++ b/README.5_16.05 @@ -1,46 +1,28 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_16.04 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.21.0, -Plasma 5.6.3 and Applications 16.04.0. +Here is KDE 5_16.05 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.22.0, +Plasma 5.6.4 and Applications 16.04.1. -Upgrading from the previous 5_16.03 should be straight-forward. -KDE-5_16.04 is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and +Upgrading from the previous 5_16.04 should be straight-forward. +KDE-5_16.05 is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- Frameworks 5.21.0 is an enhancement release with one new framework: - kactivities-stats. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.21.0.php -- Plasma 5.6.3 is the third interation of the 5.6 series which I have not - shipped before. I have upgraded Qt5 to 5.6.0 to accompany this Plasma - release. Lots of visual improvements, the task manager is much more - informative about running tasks and the weather applet is back... -- Two packages were removed that I added to 'plasma-extra' to cover for the - period after release of Frameworks 5.20.0 and before Plasma 5.6.0. - The package 'kactivities-workspace' has been absorbed in Plasma and - Applications packages, and 'kactivitymanagerd' is now part of Plasma itself. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.6.3.php . -- Applications 16.04.0 was just released. KColorChooser, KFloppy, KMahjongg - and KRDC have now been ported to KDE Frameworks 5, and the Kontact Suite - (KDEPIM) has been subject to massive bughunting (and -fixing). Lots of - PIM related libraries were split-off into their own source tarballs, - resulting in 16 new packages. For the announcement, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.04.0.php . -- KDE Telepathy now officially has a voice & video GUI application. - Previously I shipped a beta release of the "ktp-call-ui" package. - Also I upgraded or recompiled the complete stack of "deps/telepathy" - packages. -- ktorrent (and libktorrent) have also been ported to KF5, and packages for - these have been added to kde/applications-extra/ . -- Phonon, and its plugins for gstreamer and VLC backends, have been upgraded - offering improvements for the Qt5 build, better volume slider and muting - support, and use of the VLC 2.2 API. Remember, if you actually want to - use the VLC backend for phonon you will have to install a VLC package - separately (it is not included with the 'ktown' releases). -- And finally, QT5 was updated to the latest release 5.6.0. A new package - was added (qt5-webkit) because the Qt5 WebKit source code has been removed - from Qt5 since 5.6.0 and it needs to be compiled/packaged separately now. +- Frameworks 5.22.0 is an enhancement release with one new framework: + kwayland (this has been moved from plasma to frameworks). + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.22.0.php +- Plasma 5.6.4 is an incremental bug fix release. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.6.4.php +- Applications 16.04.1 is the first stability upgrade for 16.04 with just + bugs fixed, no new functionality. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.04.1.php . +- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 port of ktorrent can be found in the + applications-extra directory. And sddm-qt5 (the SDDM graphical + login/session manager) has been fixed so that it uses the proper + homedirectory again (the 'sddm' account was added to Slackware months ago + but with an incorrect homedirectory. The start of SDDM in runlevel 4 + is now (almost) instantaneous again. Further points of interest: - kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware-current (calligra, @@ -93,7 +75,6 @@ If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of * kdevelop-php-docs * kio-mtp * oxygen-gtk2 - * partitionmanager * skanlite NOTE: @@ -131,6 +112,9 @@ If you have Slackware-current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed: ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde' and de-select the packages you want to keep (calligra, skanlite etc). +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.04 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.03 installed: - Upgrade to KDE 5_16.04 Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.04: @@ -315,4 +299,4 @@ Wait a long time, and you will find the new packages in /tmp/kde-build . Note that these packages will already have been installed by KDE.SlackBuild ! ============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 20-apr-2016 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 15-may-2016 |