SIGs/KDE/KDE 4 to Plasma 5 update

This document describes steps needed to be done by the KDE SIG and respective maintainers of various KDE packages shippedin Fedora to ensure smooth update from KDE 4 to Plasma 5 for users.

The update should happen in a few phases, each of them documented below.

Phase 1: Split existing KDE 4 packages

Upstream tarballs released as part of "Plasma 5" are different from tarballs released in KDE 4. This happened due to upstream splitting applications and libraries into many git repositories, each containing a specific application or library, rather than having large repositories with groups (like kde-workspace). It is desired that Fedora packages all applications and libraries independently, following the new upstream release scheme. This requires handling lots of Conflits/Provides/Obsoletes that can sometimes get complicated due to the reorganization.

So in the first stage, the existing KDE 4 packages should be split into subpackages following naming of Plasma 5 releases as closely as possible: an example being creating kwin subpackage of kde-workspace. This will make it easier to simply update from kwin-4.11.14 to kwin-5.X.Y (as an independend package) without having to deal with Obsoletes in the new kwin-5.X.Y package.

Proposed splits:

kde-runtime

• kde-cli-tools
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/kcmshell4
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/kde-cp
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/kde-mv
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/kde-open
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/keditfiletype
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/kioclient
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/kmimetypefinder
  • %{_kde4_bindir}/ktraderclient
  • %{_kde4_libexecdir}/kdeeject
  • %{_kde4_libexecdir}/kdesu
• kio-extras (?)
  • %{_kde4_libdir}/kde4/kio_*.so
• khelpcenter - done

kde-workspace

• kmenuedit
• khotkeys
• kinfocenter
• systemsettings
• kwrited
• powerdevil
• ksysguard-libs - done
• ksysguardd - done
• kwin - done
• kde-style-oxygen - done

kde-workspace = plasma-desktop + plasma-workspace? or kde-workspace = plasma-workspace kde-plasma-desktop = plasma-desktop (helper utils, KCMs, ...)

Phase 2: Import Plasma 5 packages

	Package	Requires	Details
inprogress	kde-cli-tools		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135465
done	kdeplasma-addons		Already exists in KDE 4
Unknown unknown	kf5-baloo	kf5-kfilemetadata	Consider renaming to baloo, since it's not really a Framework
inprogress	kf5-kfilemetadata		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135468
inprogress	kf5-kscreen		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135470
Unknown unknown	kf5-ksysguard		Currently not co-installable with KDE 4, https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119990/, consider renaming to libksysguard, since it's not really a Framework
Unknown unknown	kf5-kwayland		Cannot be imported to F20, unless Wayland is updated
inprogress	kf5-libmm-qt		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135499, Will be released with KDE Frameworks as of 5.5 or 5.6
inprogress	kf5-libnm-qt		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135495, will be released with KDE Frameworks as of 5.5 or 5.6
inprogress	khelpcenter		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135465
Unknown unknown	khotkeys	plasma-workspace
Unknown unknown	kinfocenter
inprogress	kio-extras		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135503
Unknown unknown	kmenuedit
Unknown unknown	kscreen	kf5-kscreen
Unknown unknown	ksysguard	kf5-ksysguard
Unknown unknown	kwalletmanager		Not released yet (as of Plasma 5.1)
inprogress	kwin		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135522
inprogress	kwrited		https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135528
Unknown unknown	plasma-breeze
Unknown unknown	plasma-desktop	plasma-workspace, kwin
Unknown unknown	plasma-milou	plasma-workspace	Rename to plasma-applet-milou?
Unknown unknown	plasma-nm	kf5-libmm-qt, kf5-libnm-qt, plasma-workspace	Rename to plasma-applet-nm?
inprogress	plasma-oxygen	kwin	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1163440
Unknown unknown	plasma-systemsettings		Rename to systemsettings? Sounds too generic...
Unknown unknown	plasma-workspace	kf5-baloo, kf5-ksysguard, kf5-kscreen, kwin
Unknown unknown	plasma-workspace-wallpapers
Unknown unknown	powerdevil		Rename to plasma-powerdevil?
Unknown unknown	kcm_touchpad		Not released yet (as of Plasma 5.1). Rename to plasma-kcm-touchpad?

Phase 3: Deprecate/remove unported KDE 4 applets

TODO