Looking Back: What's Next
summary
KDE completes the Qt6 migration with the Feb 2024 Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 mega release, after adding Qt6 CI, branching KF6 in Jan 2023, and maintaining dual Qt5/Qt6 builds during porting. The codebase totals 15 million lines of C++ and QML, Wayland is default with 80% Wayland users, and packaging guidance plus a KDE patch collection for Qt5 smoothes distro rollouts. Remaining pain points: Neon and Arch rollout bugs, scarce QML-compatible deprecation tooling, undocumented third‑party porting steps, and lingering Qt5-compatible plugins.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and Qt 6 goals
- 3:46Transition timeline and mega release
- 10:41API design and documentation challenges
- 17:21Qt 5 end of support and future plans
- 20:54Next steps for KDE software platform
- 25:57Future of Qt and breaking changes
- 31:10Q&A on documentation and porting
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