On 7 July 2014 10:16, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:36:00AM +0100, John Layt wrote: >> Co-installabilty of Plasma 4 and Plasma 5 with minimal work required >> by the distros is a must if we want to avoid the mess of KDE4. >> Already openSUSE has announced that you can't have both installed at >> once, which will force people to choose one or other, when what we >> really want is for them to be able to try Plasma 5 out while still >> being able to switch back to 4 if there are things that break their >> workflow. > > They won't be co-installable just as konsole won't be co-installable > with its kdelibs4 version, it's a new version of the same programme. > But the parts that are used by applications, libraries and runtime > parts need to be co-installable so kdelibs4 and kf5 applications can > be installed on the same system.
Hmmm, well that's not quite what I was expecting, I was hoping to be able to install them in parallel and test it out while keeping my old desktop safe, like I can install and try Gnome or Unity or XFCE. I don't expect to have parallel installs of apps though, the latest version should just run under any desktop. No Plasma 5 for me then until a couple more releases and it's stabilised :-\ John. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel