Systray (was Re: F22 / KDE5)

[Piotr Gbyliczek]

On Wednesday 16 September 2015 14:56:40 Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > I'm just wondering while lurking this discussion : how hard would it be to
> > backport KDE4 into F22+ and offer it as an alternative ? I think OpenSUSE
> > offers that, maybe Fedora should too ?
> 
> For the record, I got confirmation from OpenSUSE packagers that they do
> *not* offer Plasma 4.x as an alternative.


I've just grabbed OpenSUSE 13.2 net install ISO and started installation on VM 
to check. There was choice of Gnome, KDE and others. Choosing KDE did result 
in kde packages being installed with what seems to be  KDE 4.14. 

So, maybe they do *not* offer it as an alternative, because it is their main 
choice ? I will finish the installation anyway to see If maybe this is some 
legacy packages, and report if there will be Plasma 5 there after 
installation. 

This may offer some people (me included) an alternative, as for now I will not 
upgrade to F22 on my work machines. Should F24 or F25 prove to be unusable to 
me from business perspective, I will look at another distro to use in work, 
and use Fedora only on non critical systems.

BTW, OpenSUSE 13.1 is an evergreen release, which means longer support period 
provided by OpenSUSE community. So it is safe to say that KDE4 in it will be 
stable until November 2016.

Regards,
Piotr