Plasma 5 and KDE Workspaces in F22

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Mar 26 10:18:19 UTC 2015



Am 26.03.2015 um 11:14 schrieb Ed Greshko:
>
> On 03/26/15 18:03, Daniel Vrátil wrote:
>> On Thursday, March 26, 2015 04:41:56 PM Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> Are there plans to allow for both Plasma 5 and KDE Workspaces to coexist in
>>> F22?
>
>> Hi,
>
>> no, there are currently no plans to support both. Plasma 5 is an upgrade to
>> KDE Workspaces 4, so we treat it as such (updated the packages).
>
>> It is technically possible to have legacy packages with KDE Workspaces 4,
>> which would conflict with Plasma 5, so users could install one or the other,
>> but the burden of maintaining two KDE desktops is one too many.
>
>>> Currently, that seems not possible due to, at least, Network Manager
>>> components being obsoleted by Plasma 5 installation.
>
>> Yum/dnf update should give you smooth upgrade of KDE Workspace 4 and all it's
>> components to Plasma 5.
>
>
> Thanks for that....
>
> On going from F21 to F22 via "fedup" will one have the option to stick with KDE4 or will one be forced into a Plasma 5 upgrade

"but the burden of maintaining two KDE desktops is one too many" was 
pretty clear - since nobody maintains KDE4 for F22 you can't stick on it

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