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diff --git a/README.5_16.03 b/README.5_16.04 index 7626f21..54d0167 100644 --- a/README.5_16.03 +++ b/README.5_16.04 @@ -1,32 +1,52 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_16.03 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.20.0, -Plasma 5.5.5 and Applications 15.12.3. +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. -Upgrading from the previous 5_16.02 should be straight-forward. -KDE-5_16.03 is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and +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 it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- Frameworks 5.20.0 is an enhancement release without new frameworks. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.19.0.php -- Plasma 5.5.5 is the last release of the 5.5 series; since there is an - interdependency between development of Frameworks and Plasma, two packages - were added as 'plasma-extra' to cover for the period after release of - Frameworks 5.20.0 and Plasma 5.6.0: kactivities-workspace and - kactivitymanagerd. Their content will be split into Frameworks 5.21.0 and - Plasma 5.6 so the two packages will be removed from the 'ktown' repository - in the next round. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.5.5.php . -- Applications 15.12.3 provides stability updates for the 15.12 release, see - https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.12.3.php +- 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. Further points of interest: - kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware-current (calligra, k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2, kdevplatform, kdevelop-pg-qt, kdevelop, kdev-python, kdevelop-php, kdevelop-php-docs, - skanlite, kio-mtp, libktorrent, ktorrent, partitionmanager) + skanlite, kio-mtp, partitionmanager) - Lots of packages in the 'deps' department are completely new to Slackware. Since KDE 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 had Qt4 as its base) you'll find many Qt5 related packages. Also, in order for Qt4 and GTK based @@ -35,7 +55,8 @@ Further points of interest: new telepathy support packages (see below), these are the new ones: OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, json-glib, libappindicator, libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, lmdb, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, - polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, qt5, sni-qt, wayland and libxkbcommon. + polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, sni-qt, wayland + and libxkbcommon. - A completely new subset of "deps" packages, contained in their own "telepathy" subdirectory, needed for KDE Telepathy: libotr, libnice, farstream, libaccounts-glib, libaccounts-qt5, @@ -57,10 +78,7 @@ If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of during installation, you will be missing several add-on packages, some of these are essential to the proper functioning of KDE! If you excluded the complete Slackware-current 'KDE' series, then you - will have to install the following essential Slackware-current packages - at a a minimum: - * libktorrent - And optionally install these Slackware-current packages as well: + can optionally install these Slackware-current packages as well: * amarok * calligra * k3b @@ -74,11 +92,17 @@ If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of * kdevelop-php * kdevelop-php-docs * kio-mtp - * ktorrent * oxygen-gtk2 * partitionmanager * skanlite +NOTE: +If you had installed KDE4 previously as your default desktop, the removal +of KDE4 packages will break the symbolic link '/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc'. +An attempt to run 'startx' in a console will fail with a black screen. +After installing Plasma5 for the first time, you need to run 'xwmconfig' +and select 'xinitrc.plasma' as your desktop session. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Install pre-compiled packages: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -105,7 +129,12 @@ If you have Slackware-current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed: # removepkg polkit-kde-kcmodules-1 # removepkg kdeconnect-kde ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde' and de-select - the packages you want to keep (libktorrent, calligra, skanlite etc). + the packages you want to keep (calligra, skanlite etc). + +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: + * removepkg kactivities-workspace If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.02 installed: - No further actions are needed. @@ -286,4 +315,4 @@ 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 / 14-mar-2016 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 20-apr-2016 |