KDE Plasma - Qt changes due this year

There was notification of this pending change to the Qt offerings due this year, in the “Planet KDE” news feed: <https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020&gt;.

Starting with Qt 5.15, long term support (LTS) will only be available to commercial customers.

From an openSUSE perspective this would only be relevant if Evergreen were still around. Tumbleweed and LEAP take the latest point release.

I think Leap has been going with the latest LTS release. So it still might be relevant.

From my perspective, it does disappoint somewhat.

If you want latest and not LTS,
You can just add the KDE Qt repositories to get those.

After years of using just what is in the OSS, this past year I’ve been running LXQt with those Qt repositories and haven’t had a problem. LXQt Users should know that LXQt uses the same Qt framework maintained by KDE.

TSU

You misunderstood though, because it was not clear enough what I was referring to. I was disappointed in the sense of Qt company, I like LTS releases of Qt for FOSS development and long term stable distros.

But, LTS needs to be funded – if the funding isn’t clear then, unfortunately, commercial only …

  • Yes, yes, I know: FOSS funding – how does one guarantee to generate enough donations to pay for the development machines and, the servers? …