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diff --git a/README.5_17.04 b/README.5_17.05 index 1e6f285..43bfe30 100644 --- a/README.5_17.04 +++ b/README.5_17.05 @@ -1,41 +1,26 @@ KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_17.04 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.33.0, -Plasma 5.9.4 and Applications 17.04.0 on top of Qt 5.7.1. +Here is KDE 5_17.05 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.33.0, +Plasma 5.9.5 and Applications 17.04.0 on top of Qt 5.7.1. -Upgrading from the previous 5_17.03 is straight-forward. +Upgrading from the previous 5_17.04 is straight-forward. -KDE-5_17.04 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. +KDE-5_17.05 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware -current. It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! Plasma 5 has mostly gotten rid of its Qt4 legacy. What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- The 'deps' section has one recompiled package (because of incompatible - library updates in slackware-current): dvdauthor, and five upgrades: - accountsservice, frei0r-plugins, gpgme, ninja and poppler. - There's also one new package: qtav as a new dependency for digikam. -- Frameworks 5.33.0 is an bugfix release. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.33.0.php -- Plasma 5.9.4 is yet another iteration of the 5.9 series with small fixes only. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.9.4.php . -- Applications 17.04.0 is an new major release. Again some remaining kdelibs4 - based applications have been ported to KF5. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-17.04.0.php . - The k3b is now part of the Applications suite, so I have removed the package - based on a git snapshot from 'applications-extra'. Another package which - is no longer part of my 'ktown' set: kajongg (it requires python3 now). - Two packages are no longer shipped becasue their sources are no longer part - of Applications: pim-storage-service-manager and kommander. -- In applications-extra I added the latest releases of the kdevelop suite - and of kpmcore (the partitionmanager core libraries). I rebuilt digikam - against qtav. - The newest calligra was already added last week as part of a package - rebuild, caused by slackware-current library updates. -- In kde4-extragear I have added audiocd-kio4 and libkcompactdisc4 which are - built from kdelibs4 based Applications 16.08.3 sources. - The audiocd-kio4, libkcddb4 and libkcompactdisc4 packages are (only) - required by kaudiocreator. +No exciting stuff, the changes compared to last week are minimal. +- The 'deps' section has two updated packages: json-glib and sip. +- Plasma 5.9.5 is the final bugfix release of the 5.9 series before 5.10. + The oxygen theme package is now extended with Qt4 support so that KDE4 + applications can blend in with the Plasma 5 applications if you use the + Oxygen theme. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.9.5.php . +- In applications-extra I updated krita and krusader, and rebuilt calligra. +- In kde4-extragear I added a patched oxygen-gtk2 package which should + fix crashes in firefox-derived browsers such as Pale Moon. Further points of interest: - There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the @@ -44,7 +29,7 @@ Further points of interest: * freerdp: access RDP servers through krdc. All of these can be found in my regular package repository. - The following kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware - itself: kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2 . + itself: kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart. - Lots of packages in the 'deps' department are completely new to Slackware. Since KDE 5 aka Plasma 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 uses Qt4 as its base) you'll find many Qt5 related packages. Also, in order for Qt4 and GTK based @@ -105,7 +90,6 @@ If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of * kaudiocreator * kplayer * kwebkitpart - * oxygen-gtk2 NOTE: If you had installed KDE 4 as your default desktop previously, the removal @@ -158,6 +142,9 @@ the way, they were split up, renamed or integrated and that is the reason for some of the 'removepkg' lines you'll see below. Here we go: +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.04 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_17.03 installed: - Upgrade to KDE 5_17.04 Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_17.04: @@ -343,4 +330,4 @@ Note that these packages will already have been installed by KDE.SlackBuild ! Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session. ============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 20-apr-2017 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 04-may-2017 |