OpenBSD KDE Status Report

OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. Thatmakes me very happy because it was a big piece of workand long discussions.This of course brings questions:Kde Plasma 5 package missing.

After half a year of work, I managed to successfullyupdate the Qt5stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2.On the whole, the most work was updatingQtWebengine. What a monster! With my CPU power at home,I can build it 1-2times a day which makes testing a little bit annoyingand 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
• Krita 4.4.2
• KMyMoney 5.1.1
• DigiKam 7.1.0

I try to keep KDE Applications 20.12.x stable untilthe 6.9 release.

Let's move on to the topic of KDE Plasma.The Plasma desktop and some other KDEapplications have astrong dependenceonWayland.As long as there is noWayland under OpenBSD, there will also be no KDE Plasma.

It can be observed that more and more KDE applicationsalready prefer a strongdependency on Wayland.For exampleSpectacle.

In summary, no OpenBSD Wayland support, no KDE Plasma,and probably less and lessKDE applications.