knotes in KDE5

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devsk · Post by **devsk** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:36 am

I have been thinking of jumping to KDE5 for a while but what's been holding me back is lack of knotes (and some not so important plasmoids) in KDE5.

I use knotes heavily for tracking my day-to-day tasks. Its simple and convenient, and I am just burnt into it (think 10 years worth of notes)...

But as per a senior person on this forum, knotes is already ported to KDE5:

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=2 ... 5&p=353105

Does anybody know, why is it not available in portage tree yet?

Post by **asturm** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:39 am

knotes is part of the KDE PIM suite, which so far has not been moved to tree because of lack of stability.

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:49 am

What do you mean by instability? Does it not build? or Does it crash? Does it kill everything running on the desktop?

Any idea on even an unstable ebuild making into tree anytime soon? Looks like knotes for KDE5 has been there since Aug last year....

IMO, That's been too long!

Post by **asturm** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:55 am

It is mostly the akonadi/kmail part that is troublesome at runtime. Actually, now that I remember, the knotes part has also been more than a little crash-happy.

Until very recently knotes:5 was not packaged separately but part of one big kdepim:5, that has changed with 15.12.2 so there is some chance it could enter tree without the rest of KDE PIM. However, 16.04 also isn't that far away anymore which has many of the things that require ebuild/eclass hacks for a proper split, upstream.

However, what's wrong with using knotes:4? There is no 'lack of' knotes on a Plasma-5 system.

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:06 am

genstorm wrote:However, what's wrong with using knotes:4? There is no 'lack of' knotes on a Plasma-5 system.

There is nothing wrong with knotes:4. I was wondering if I could avoid the mix.

Post by **asturm** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:29 pm

Your chances are slim, unless by chance you really only need those applications that have already been ported. No meta ebuilds for you then.

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 1:35 pm

genstorm wrote:Your chances are slim, unless by chance you really only need those applications that have already been ported. No meta ebuilds for you then.

You mean there is never going to be a clean KDE5 install in Gentoo?

Post by **asturm** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:07 pm

No, that's not what I said.

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:18 pm

genstorm wrote:No, that's not what I said.

Is there a list of apps that have not been ported yet? Just to see if I am good with KDE5.

Post by **asturm** » Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:40 pm

It is not completely up to date, but for a good measure: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:KD ... plications

Barbieken · Post by **Barbieken** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:42 pm

Are there any rough estimates on when the pim suite are going to be packaged in the main tree?

LukynZ · Post by **LukynZ** » Sun May 08, 2016 9:24 pm

I am using kdepim for Plasma5 for some months and I don't see any problem with it. Well maybe one...I have to use kde overlay. It's only place, where is kdepim for Plasma 5. Dunno why it's not in main tree...at least masked if someone has some problems with it...

Post by **asturm** » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:05 pm

KDE Applications 16.08.0 is now in kde overlay, with KDE PIM in a state that may grant it tree inclusion, even if masked. Testing much appreciated!

Wiki on KDE PIM was beefed up in preparation: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE#KDE_PIM