Read more about those in the official releasenotes. If you had not yet installed the Plasma 5.13 from my ‘testing’ repository then you will see a fresh new Plasma Desktop with a lot of visual and under-the-hood changes. For that reason, it’s best if you point your package manager ( slackpkg+ comes to mind) to the ‘ latest‘ URL instead of using the ‘ testing‘ URL. In future I will probably use the ‘testing’ repository to test Wayland usability in Slackware, like I did in the past. So that settled it, and the difference between ‘latest’ and ‘testing’ is gone again. Based on discussions in the forum it was clear that the latest Qt (5.11) combined with the latest Plasma Desktop (5.13) gets rid of bugs that have been annoying Slackware users who have been installing my ‘ktown’ packages.
I did this after talking to Patrick to see what his ideas are about Plasma5 and whether he would adopt LTS releases of the software, or perhaps stick with the latest and greatest. Meaning: I have said goodbye to the LTS (Long Term Support) versions of Qt5 (5.9.6) and Plasma (5.12) and will focus again on the bleeding edge of KDE’s development. Important to know is that I have bridged the ‘latest’ repository to the ‘testing’ repository. That means that the ‘ktown’ version needs to be kept in sync with the Slackware version to prevent breakage in your Slackware installation. Therefore I recompiled my ‘poppler’ and at the same time, I used the opportunity to grab all the latest sources from the KDE download server and built a whole new and fresh Plasma5 experience for Slackware. The ‘ktown’ repository for Plasma5 contains a custom built ‘poppler’ package, one that includes Qt5 support. Last week, Slackware-current updated its poppler package .
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