The KDE Neon development team is announcing the availability of the recently released Qt 5.9 open-source and cross-platform application framework in the testing repositories of the KDE Neon Developer Unstable Edition operating system.
Because of the issues between KDE Plasma’s KWin window manager and the next-generation Wayland display server that the KDE Neon devs encounter with the Qt 5.8 release of the widely-used application framework, they decided to jump straight to version 5.9, which they say it’s more promising.
“We held off on Qt 5.8 because of problems with the Wayland support between it and KWin. Qt 5.9 seems a little more promising but we don’t want to change something so fundamental to KDE’s software without checking for issues so it’s still in the hidden testing repo for now,” reads the announ… (read more)
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