KDE Frameworks, Plasma 5, and Applications, each with their own release cycle, is the next generation of KDE software, based on Qt 5. The single monolithic release in KDE ('KDE SC 4') has been replaced by these three distinct components.
High level overview
KDE Frameworks is a large collection of libraries organised into tiers. Tier 1 libraries may only depend on Qt frameworks or other system libraries. Tier 2 libraries may only depend on tier 1 libraries, Qt frameworks or other system libraries, and so on. This design makes it easy for other projects to benefit without having to "pull in KDE".
KDE Plasma builds upon Frameworks to provide the desktop environment. Due to an upstream design decision, it is not coinstallable with Plasma 4.
In order to match this distinct three-way upstream categorisation, we have introduced three new categories: kde-frameworks, kde-plasma, and kde-apps.
Current status
| Status |
Explanation
|
| Todo |
Not yet packaged
|
| In progress |
Packaged, but requires more work
|
 Done |
Packaged and is considered ready for testing
|
Frameworks
Tier 1
| Framework |
Status |
Comments
|
| attica |
Done |
|
| bluez-qt |
Done |
|
| breeze-icons |
Done |
|
| breeze-icons-rcc |
Done |
Split from breeze-icons.
|
| extra-cmake-modules |
Done |
|
| kapidox |
Done |
|
| karchive |
Done |
|
| kcalendarcore |
Done |
Since 5.63.0
|
| kcodecs |
Done |
|
| kconfig |
Done |
|
| kcoreaddons |
Done |
|
| kdbusaddons |
Done |
|
| kdnssd |
Done |
|
| kguiaddons |
Done |
|
| kholidays |
Done |
Since 5.43.0
|
| ki18n |
Done |
|
| kidletime |
Done |
|
| kirigami |
Done |
Since 5.37.0
|
| kitemmodels |
Done |
|
| kitemviews |
Done |
|
| kplotting |
Done |
|
| kquickcharts |
Done |
Since 5.65.0
|
| kwayland |
Done |
Since 5.22.0
|
| kwidgetsaddons |
Done |
|
| kwindowsystem |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| modemmanager-qt |
Done |
|
| networkmanager-qt |
Done |
net-misc/networkmanager USE deps need double-checking
|
| oxygen-icons |
Done |
|
| prison |
Done |
Since 5.29.0
|
| qqc2-desktop-style |
Done |
Since 5.39.0
|
| solid |
Done |
|
| sonnet |
Done |
|
| syntax-highlighting |
Done |
|
| threadweaver |
Done |
|
Tier 2
| Framework |
Status |
Comments
|
| kactivities |
Done |
|
| kauth |
Done |
|
| kcompletion |
Done |
|
| kcontacts |
Done |
Since 5.63.0
|
| kcrash |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| kdoctools |
Done |
|
| kfilemetadata |
Done |
|
| kimageformats |
Done |
|
| kjobwidgets |
Done |
|
| knotifications |
Done |
|
| kpackage |
Done |
|
| kpty |
Done |
|
| ksyndication |
Done |
Since 5.50.0
|
| kunitconversion |
Done |
|
Tier 3
| Framework |
Status |
Comments
|
| baloo |
Done |
|
| kactivities-stats |
Done |
|
| kbookmarks |
Done |
|
| kcmutils |
Done |
|
| kconfigwidgets |
Done |
|
| kdeclarative |
Done |
|
| kded |
Done |
|
| kdesu |
Done |
|
| kemoticons |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| kglobalaccel |
Done |
|
| kiconthemes |
Done |
|
| kinit |
Done |
|
| kio |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| knewstuff |
Done |
|
| knotifyconfig |
Done |
|
| kparts |
Done |
|
| kpeople |
Done |
|
| krunner |
Done |
|
| kservice |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| ktexteditor |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| ktextwidgets |
Done |
|
| kwallet |
Done |
Potentially split out kwalletd.
|
| kxmlgui |
Done |
|
| kxmlrpcclient |
Done |
|
| plasma |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| purpose |
Done |
Since 5.43.0
|
Tier 4
| Framework |
Status |
Comments
|
| frameworkintegration |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
Porting Aids
| kdelibs4support |
Done |
Tests fail, restricted.
|
| kdesignerplugin |
Done |
Only in kde overlay, no more revdeps
|
| kdewebkit |
Done |
Last-rited together with dev-qt/qtwebkit
|
| khtml |
Done |
|
| kjs |
Done |
|
| kjsembed |
Done |
Only in kde overlay, no more revdeps
|
| kmediaplayer |
Done |
Only in kde overlay, no more revdeps
|
| kross |
Done |
|
Plasma 5
| Status |
Explanation
|
| Todo |
Not yet packaged
|
| In progress |
Packaged, but requires more work
|
| Done |
Packaged and is considered ready for testing
|
| Package |
Status |
Comments
|
| bluedevil |
Done |
|
| breeze |
Done |
|
| breeze-grub |
Done |
|
| breeze-gtk |
Done |
|
| breeze-plymouth |
Done |
|
| discover |
In progress |
Useful for global addons management; no application backend
|
| drqk |
Done |
|
| kactivitymanagerd |
Done |
|
| kde-cli-tools |
Done |
Tests require running environment, restricted.
|
| kde-gtk-config |
Done |
|
| kdecoration |
Done |
|
| kdeplasma-addons |
Done |
Needs to be checked at each major release for new deps from unported applets
|
| kgamma |
Done |
|
| khotkeys |
Done |
follow upstream commits, tests subdir is commented at the moment
|
| kinfocenter |
Done |
|
| kmenuedit |
Done |
|
| kscreen |
Done |
|
| kscreenlocker |
Done |
|
| ksshaskpass |
Done |
manpage disabled due to doc/ being commented out by KDE_HANDBOOK
|
| ksysguard |
Done |
|
| kwallet-pam |
Done |
|
| kwayland-integration |
Done |
|
| kwin |
Done |
kactivities can be optional. review opengl/egl/etc. stuff
|
| kwrited |
In progress |
Forced deps due to bin/kded change
|
| libkscreen |
Done |
|
| libksysguard |
In progress |
Bogus deps
|
| libkworkspace |
Done |
Split from plasma-workspace
|
| milou |
In progress |
Bogus deps
|
| oxygen |
Done |
|
| plasma-desktop |
In progress |
kactivities can be optional. bogus itemmodels?
|
| plasma-integration |
Done |
|
| plasma-nm |
Done |
Deps need rechecking after porting away from kdelibs4support. Double-check teamd USE pinning.
|
| plasma-pa |
Done |
|
| plasma-sdk |
In progress |
|
| plasma-thunderbolt |
In progress |
sys-apps/bolt needs init script
|
| plasma-workspace |
Done |
|
| plasma-workspace-wallpapers |
Done |
|
| polkit-kde-agent |
Done |
|
| powerdevil |
Done |
|
| sddm-kcm |
In progress |
Bogus dependencies, RR upstream
|
| systemsettings |
Done |
|
| user-manager |
Done |
|
| xdg-desktop-portal-kde |
Done |
|
| xembed-sni-proxy |
Done |
Split from plasma-workspace
|
Applications
| Status |
Explanation
|
| Todo |
Not yet packaged
|
| In progress |
Packaged, but requires more work
|
| Done |
Packaged and is considered ready for testing
|
applications
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| dolphin |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kate |
Done |
14.12 |
|
| kde-baseapps |
see separate section below
|
| khelpcenter |
Done |
From Plasma 5 |
|
| konsole |
Done |
14.12 |
|
| kwrite |
Done |
14.12 |
|
kdeaccessibility
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| jovie |
dropped in 17.12
|
| kaccessibile |
dropped in 17.12
|
| kmag |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| kmousetool |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| kmouth |
Done |
17.12 |
|
kde-baseapps
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| kdebase-meta |
Done |
|
wrapper for plasma-meta and kdecore-meta
|
| kdepasswd |
dropped in 16.12
|
| kdialog |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| keditbookmarks |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| kfind |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| kfmclient |
Done |
16.12 |
merged into konqueror-16.12
|
| konq-plugins |
Done |
16.12 |
merged into konqueror-16.12
|
| konqueror |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| libkonq |
Done |
16.12 |
merged into konqueror-16.12
|
| nsplugins |
Done |
16.12 |
merged into konqueror-16.12
|
| plasma-apps |
dropped in 16.12
|
kdeadmin
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| kdeadmin-meta |
Done |
|
|
| kcron |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| ksystemlog |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| kuser |
dropped in 16.12
|
kdebindings
Note
There are other kdebindings packages that have no KDE Applications release yet
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| kross-interpreters |
Done |
15.08 |
part of kdesdk in gentoo
|
| pykde5 |
todo |
master branch |
unmaintained upstream
|
kdeedu
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| analitza |
Done |
|
|
| artikulate |
Done |
|
|
| blinken |
Done |
|
|
| cantor |
Done |
|
|
| kalgebra |
Done |
|
|
| kalzium |
Done |
|
|
| kanagram |
Done |
|
|
| kbruch |
Done |
|
|
| kdeedu-data |
Done |
|
|
| kgeography |
Done |
|
|
| khangman |
Done |
|
|
| kig |
Done |
|
|
| kiten |
Done |
|
|
| klettres |
Done |
|
|
| kmplot |
Done |
|
|
| kqtquickcharts |
Done |
|
|
| kstars |
Done |
|
|
| ktouch |
Done |
|
|
| kturtle |
Done |
|
|
| kwordquiz |
Done |
|
|
| libkdeedu |
dropped in 16.08
|
| libkeduvocdocument |
Done |
|
|
| marble |
Done |
|
|
| minuet |
Done |
|
|
| parley |
Done |
|
|
| rocs |
Done |
|
|
| step |
Done |
|
|
kdegames
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| bomber |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| bovo |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| granatier |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kajongg |
Done |
17.04 |
|
| kapman |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| katomic |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kblackbox |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kblocks |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kbounce |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kbreakout |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kdiamond |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kfourinline |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kgoldrunner |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| kigo |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| killbots |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kiriki |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kjumpingcube |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| klickety |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| klines |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kmahjongg |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kmines |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| knavalbattle |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| knetwalk |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kolf |
Done |
17.12 |
|
| kollision |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| konquest |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| kpat |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kreversi |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| kshisen |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| ksirk |
Done |
17.12 |
|
| ksnakeduel |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| kspaceduel |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| ksquares |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| ksudoku |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| ktuberling |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| kubrick |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| libkdegames |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| libkmahjongg |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| lskat |
Done |
17.08 |
|
| palapeli |
Done |
17.12 |
|
| picmi |
Done |
15.08 |
|
kdegraphics
Last audit: 16.08.0
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| gwenview |
Done |
14.12 |
|
| kamera |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| kcolorchooser |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdegraphics-mobipocket |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| kdegraphics-thumbnailers |
packaged as thumbnailers |
15.12 |
|
| kruler |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kolourpaint |
Done |
16.08 |
|
| ksaneplugin |
dropped in 17.08
|
| libkdcraw |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| libkexiv2 |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| libkface |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| libkgeomap |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| libkipi |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| libksane |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| okular |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| spectacle |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| svgpart |
Done |
16.12 |
|
kdelibs
Last audit: 16.08.0
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| baloo-widgets |
Done |
15.08 |
|
kdemultimedia
Last audit: 16.08.0
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| audiocd-kio |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| dragon |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ffmpegthumbs |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| juk |
Done |
17.12 |
|
| kdemultimedia-meta |
Done |
|
|
| kdenlive |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kmix |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kscd |
n/a |
frameworks branch |
live ebuild in kde overlay
|
| libkcddb |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| libkcompactdisc |
Done |
16.12 |
|
kdenetwork
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| kaccounts-integration |
Done |
15.08 |
tests restricted bug #549444
|
| kaccounts-providers |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kdenetwork-filesharing |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| kget |
Done |
17.12 |
|
| kio-extras |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kopete |
Done |
18.04 |
|
| kppp |
dropped in 17.12
|
| krdc |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| krfb |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| ktp-accounts-kcm |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-approver |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-auth-handler |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-call-ui |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| ktp-common-internals |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-contact-list |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-contact-runner |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-desktop-applets |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-filetransfer-handler |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-kded-module |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-send-file |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktp-text-ui |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| signon-kwallet-extension |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| zeroconf-ioslave |
Done |
17.12 |
|
kdepim
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| akonadi |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| akonadi-calendar |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| akonadi-search |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| calendarsupport |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| eventviews |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| gpgmepp |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| grantleetheme |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| incidenceeditor |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kalarmcal |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kblog |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kcalcore |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kcalutils |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kcontacts |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kdepim-addons |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdepim-apps-libs |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdepim-runtime |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kdgantt2 |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kholidays |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kidentitymanagement |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kimap |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kldap |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kleopatra |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kmailtransport |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kmbox |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kmime |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kontactinterface |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kpimtextedit |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| ktnef |
Done |
15.08 |
packaged as libktnef
|
| libgravatar |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| libkdepim |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| libkleo |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| libksieve |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| mailcommon |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| mailimporter |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| messagelib |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| pimcommon |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| syndication |
Done |
15.08 |
|
kdesdk
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| cervisia |
Done |
16.08 |
|
| dolphin-plugins |
Done |
15.08 |
split into -bazaar, -dropbox, -git, -mercurial, -subversion
|
| kapptemplate |
Done |
14.12 |
|
| kcachegrind |
Done |
17.04 |
|
| kde-dev-scripts |
Done |
14.12 |
|
| kde-dev-utils |
Done |
17.04 |
|
| kdesdk-kioslaves |
Done |
17.04 |
|
| kdesdk-thumbnailers |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| kompare |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| libkomparediff2 |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| lokalize |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| okteta |
Done |
14.12 |
|
| poxml |
Done |
15.12 |
|
| umbrello |
Done |
15.08 |
|
kdeutils
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| ark |
Done |
15.08 |
Investigate find_package calls for formats that are handled via libarchive
|
| filelight |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kcalc |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kcharselect |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kdebugsettings |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| kdf |
Done |
16.08 |
|
| kfloppy |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kgpg |
Done |
16.12 |
|
| kremotecontrol |
dropped in 17.12
|
| kteatime |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| ktimer |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| kwalletmanager |
Done |
15.08 |
|
| print-manager |
Done |
15.04 |
|
| sweeper |
Done |
17.12 |
|
kdewebdev
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| kfilereplace |
dropped in 17.12
|
| kimagemapeditor |
Done |
17.12 |
moved to kdeutils
|
| klinkstatus |
dropped in 17.12
|
| kommander |
dropped in 17.12
|
Other
| Package |
Status |
Upstream Porting |
Comments
|
| kde-runtime |
Done |
Not required (Plasma 5) |
|
| kdebase-runtime-meta |
Done |
Not required (Plasma 5) |
|
| kde-l10n |
Done |
Obsolete |
Shipped per-application since 17.04
|
| kde4-l10n |
Done |
N/A |
kde4
|
Sets
| Name |
Master |
Stable Branch |
Comments
|
| kde-applications |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kde-baseapps |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdeaccessibility |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdeadmin |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdebase-runtime |
n/a |
16.04 |
16.04.3 last packaged Gentoo version
|
| kdeedu |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdegames |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdegraphics |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdemultimedia |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdenetwork |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdepim |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdesdk |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdeutils |
Done |
16.04 |
|
| kdewebdev |
Done |
16.04 |
17.04.3 last packaged Gentoo version
|
Todo
- Follow up test failures with upstream
- New overlay wiki page for frameworks 5
- New overlay wiki page for plasma 5
- New kde wiki page for frameworks 5
- New kde wiki page for plasma 5
- Eclass: make tests optional as some upstream maintainers refuses to accept optional test patches
- Eclass: make handbook optional if some upstream maintainers refuses to accept optional test patches
- A lot of frameworks now require linguist-tools, review what to do when translations are shipped?
- Check handbook stuff.
Done
- Urgent - patch kde4-meta.eclass to use KDE/4.x branch for kde-workspace 9999 ebuilds, as master will soon be KF5
- Tests are optional to build, but dependencies required for them are still pulled in. The add_subdirectory entry for autotests should just be commented out when tests are disabled. tests/ and examples/ should always be removed.
Create a new or update existing bump script for releases- Review local coinstallability changes eg. many binaries are renamed upstream, but we still install everything into a custom directory
- Audit which packages have tests and add FRAMEWORKS_TEST="false" as appropriate
- Some frameworks with X USE flag now have runtime detection. Drop USE flag where appropriate, and look at porting the dep checks upstream away from deprecated HAVE_X11 (which unconditionally requires xproto and libX11) to the specific header
- doc USE flag is turned on by default by kde-frameworks eclass, but this is likely only required for actual frameworks.
- KF Keyword file generation
- Eclass: implement subslots
- Overlay wiki page refactoring
- kde wiki page refactoring
Blockers
- Naming scheme - kde-workspace master will become KF5 soon, breaking all -9999 overlay ebuilds from that repo Done
- Parallel installation (kde-base/kdelibs and kde-frameworks/* naturally collide) Done
- Qt 5 in the tree Done
- New eclass approval Done
- New category approval Done
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