OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing.
After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine. What a monster. With my CPU power at home, I can build it 1-2 times a day which makes tasting a little bit annoying and time intensive.
But today we can be happy about an up-to-date KDE stack in OpenBSD. Currently - at the end of January - our stack is very up-to-date:
- Qt 5.15.2
- Qt Creator 4.14.0
- KDE Frameworks 5.78.0
- KDE Applications 20.12.1 (Almost everything!)
- Kdevelop 5.6.1
- Kirta 4.4.2
- KMyMoney 5.1.1
- DigiKam 7.1.0
I try to keep KDE Applications 20.12.x stable until the 6.9 release.
Let’s move on to the topic of KDE Plasma. The Plasma desktop and some other KDE applications have a strong dependence on the Wayland. As long as there is no Wayland under OpenBSD, there will also be no KDE Plasma.
It can be observed that more and more KDE applications already prefer a strong dependency on Wayland. For example Spectacle.
In summery, no OpenBSD Wayland support no KDE Plasma and probably less and less KDE applications.