from a kde POV

KDE Applications 15.08 RC is now available in Mageia cauldron with new akonadi and Kdepim based on KF5. As reminder, please report bugs to KDE Bugzilla and packaging bug to Mageia Bugzilla

Now that cauldron is open, the kde team has updated KF5 to 5.12.0, Plasma to 5.3.2 and Kde Applications to 15.04.3. we have added minimal kde-workspace and kdebase4-runtime that can now be installed with plasma. This migration is a good way to remove old and unmaintained apps. If you want to help don’t be shy […]

Sddm in cauldron is now updated to the last release ( 0.0.9 ) and it is now working. Some work have been done for in the pam config file. If you want to test it in mageia you will need to do : systemctl disable prefdm.service && systemctl enable sddm.service On next reboot it will […]

Things moved recently about kf5 in mageia. We had, since a long time, the framework part. Now that the first stable release is out we packaged the desktop/workspace  release based on KF5. Unfortunalty this can’t be co-installed in parallel of KDE4. For the moment ( not yet clean packages ) you have to follow those […]

After some weeks of work, we now have in mageia the First Alpha of KF5. This is the first step to have this new Version usable, as we now need to wait for the runtime and workspace pieces to be available, we miss a task-framework or task-kf5 but this will come later. This is about […]