KDE Frameworks 6 Discussions Light Up With Qt 6.0 Coming Next Year

With The Qt Company working hard now on development around Qt 6, the KDE developers are beginning their early discussions over their path forward to adopting this next evolutionary tool-kit update.

KDE developer Volker Krause has shared some of his early ideas and discussions around the path ahead to KDE Frameworks 6 following Qt6. Some of the -- very early -- highlights include:

- KDE Frameworks 6 likely being within a two year horizon, or within a year following Qt 6.0. The actual KF6 development will presumably get underway around H2'2020 when Qt 6.0 is getting buttoned up.

- There's probably going to be some sort of KF6 sprint in the not too distant future.

- There's been recent infrastructure work to disable deprecated methods in KDE Frameworks at compile-time.

- Remaining KDE programs are being ported away from KHTML.

- Porting components off KTcpSocket.

- Porting code away from deprecated Qt methods in order to start building cleanly off Qt 5.14 with deprecations disabled.

More details in Volker's blog.