On Tuesday 08 July 2014 18:45:41 John Layt wrote: > 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 :-\
A few random thoughts: * some parts (e.g. KWin) are co-installable and can be used in a kde4 session * some distros (e.g. openSUSE) offer the possibility to easily switch, you can go back to a kde4 session * stability is way better than you would think. I cannot remember when I had the last crash of plasmashell of kwin_x11 and I'm not restarting all those parts every few minutes (e.g. today I neither restarted plasmashell or kwin_x11 as I was working on different stuff) So I'd say: give it a try if your distro offers a forward and backward path. If your distro doesn't offer such a path, nag ;-) Cheers Martin
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