After kf5 removal, room for new packages

demm

This will be a similar thread as the one from 6 years ago:
https://forum.kaosx.us/d/2340-room-for-new-packages/117

With the removal of all of kf5 (and quite a few very old/unmaintained Qt5 based packages), the amount of packages in the KaOS repositories has fallen under 2100, so there is room to add quite a few new.

This time I will ask too if there is a desire to add packages from KCP that require no building, just download & install (examples, well maintained in KCP Vivaldi, another browser, binary only, Brave), or are you guys OK with just using KCP for those kind?

Please use this thread to post what you would like to see added, and why you think your selection would benefit the KaOS community as a whole.

orangezipper

The web browser is one of the most important pieces of software we use. Both Brave and Vivaldi are very popular among Linux users, especially the techie types of users. Moving Vivaldi and Brave into the main KaOS repo would go a long way to reducing extra steps for a lot of users. It would especially help those who are new to KaOS (like me). I know from personal experience that KCP isn't hard, but it is another hurdle a new user would have to go over just to get a popular browser like Brave or Vivaldi. That said, even if Brave does not move to the main repos, I will still do my best to keep it updated at the KCP Github.

demm

Two new groups have been added, one will be a future replacement for the (legacy) FCITX group, for FCITX5 fcitx5, fcitx5-qt, fcitx5-gtk, fcitx5-anthy & fcitx5-configtool have been added.
For an extra (needed) Python build system (Hatchling), five new Python packages have been added.

shalokshalom

Waydroid is an Android emulator.

orangezipper

@demm Are there any statistics available from KCP that would indicate which packages are the most popular? That might be useful when selecting packages to include in the KaOS official repo.

demm

orangezipper Only thing I can use right now is stars, but not many users apply stars, so I've not been able to use it much over the years.

orangezipper

@demm I understand. Thank you.

demm

An old one is back in the repositories, Amarok:

Pre-release version, since that one is kf6 ready. Back because it's previous replacement, Clementine, is dead upstream (and has been removed a while ago)

orangezipper

Wow! I had thought Amarok was dead many, many years ago.

demm

And one more added, plasma-keyboard. Since KaOS never shipped Maliit keyboard, there was never a good integration for using a virtual-keyboard with Plasma.
Now that upstream Plasma is working on their own version, it should soon no longer be needed to have Maliit for lockscreen integration for example.
This virtual-keyboard will also follow the plasma style, see in Calamares, no more black keyboard: