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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2022-04-2022-06/kde.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-04-2022-06/kde.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e460dbdafa --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2022-04-2022-06/kde.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +=== KDE on FreeBSD + +Links: + +link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[KDE FreeBSD] URL: link:https://freebsd.kde.org/[https://freebsd.kde.org/] + +link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[KDE Community FreeBSD] URL: link:https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD[https://community.kde.org/FreeBSD] + +Contact: Adriaan de Groot <kde@FreeBSD.org> + +The KDE on FreeBSD project packages the software from the KDE Community, along with dependencies and related software, for the FreeBSD ports tree. +The software includes a full desktop environment called KDE Plasma (for both X11 and Wayland) and hundreds of applications that can be used on any FreeBSD machine. + +The KDE team (kde@) is part of desktop@ and x11@ as well, building the software stack to make FreeBSD beautiful and usable as a daily-driver graphics-based desktop machine. +The notes below describe *mostly* ports for KDE, but also include items of import to the entire desktop stack. + +==== KDE Stack + +KDE Gear releases happen each quarter, KDE Plasma updates once a month, and KDE Frameworks have a new release each month as well. +These (large) updates land shortly after their upstream release and are not listed separately. + +* *astro/kstars* latest release 3.5.9. +* *deskutils/grantleetheme* got an entry in UPDATING because of some unusual changes to the installed structure of the port. +* *deskutils/kalendar* joined the KDE Gear releases. +* *devel/okteta* updates to the binary (and octal and hexadecimal) data viewer and editor. +* *finance/kraft* needed specific build-fixes for newer KDE Frameworks. +* *games/gcompris-qt* expanded, new releases, and now supports more image formats (needed for some activities). +* *graphics/digikam* no longer needs a SQL server during the build. +* *graphics/krita* was updated to 5.0.5, likely the last 5.0 version. +* *math/labplot* has a huge number of new features in recent releases, well worth looking at if you need any kind of data-plotting. +* *net-im/ruqola* was updated. + This is a Qt-styled Rocket chat application. +* *www/falkon* joined the KDE Gear releases. + +==== Related Applications + +* *archivers/quazip* was updated. +* *deskutils/semantik* updated. +* *devel/py-qt5-pyqt* updated so that the port now pulls in DBus as well. + DBus is needed by nearly all desktop Qt applications, including those written in Python. +* *devel/qcoro* had build issues on certain FreeBSD versions, resolved. +* *devel/qtcreator* updated with each new release. +* *devel/qt5* had its infrastructure updated in ports so it does not produce strange error messages during de-installation. +* *graphics/ksnip* and related libraries updated to recent releases. +* Matrix clients Nheko (*net-im/nheko*) and Neochat (*net-im/neochat*) were updated following releases and library bumps. +* *x11/rsibreak* updated; helps prevent injury while writing long quarterly reports. + +==== Elsewhere + +* *devel/appstream* update supports more application-information. +* *devel/cmake* prefers generic python3 over versioned-python3, if users have multiple python3 ports *and* lang/python3 installed. +* *devel/dbus* updated. +* *graphics/poppler* updated several times. +* *graphics/ImageMagick* (both 6 and 7) updated several times. +* *multimedia/gstreamer* updated. |