14 DAY TRIAL // KDE Telepathy has finally joined KDE Applications after the developer has ported the messaging app to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
This is not the first application to join the newest KDE Applications family. In case you haven't noticed until now, the KDE project has been split into three parts called KDE Plasma (the desktop), KDE Applications, and KDE Frameworks. The KDE developers also made the switch to Qt5 a while ago and now the other devs have to do the same, if they want to continue to be integrated.
This is the second piece of news of this kind we received this week. The Kdenlive multi-track video editor has also made the switch to KF5 and Qt5, and just like KDE Telepathy, it will be available for use starting with the 15.04 branch. This is not Ubuntu 15.04, if you're wondering. KDE Applications will soon have the 15.04 version, which just happens to share the year and the month with Ubuntu. It's the same thing, it marks the year and the month.
KDE Telepathy is a long time member of the KDE family
This instant messaging app has been around for a few years, so it's not exactly a surprise that it's continuing its journey. If you are a fan of Telepathy, you will have to wait for a while until it arrives for everyone.
"In the past couple months I've been busy porting KDE Telepathy project over to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5. I'm happy to announce that the ports have been completed and after about a month of testing, KDE Telepathy was moved to join the KDE Application releases with the nearest release being the 15.04 one. This should ensure more regular releases with new version every 4 months. KDE Telepathy will now adopt the KDE Applications versioning scheme, meaning that the next release and first Qt5/KF5 based will be version 15.04. There's only little sense in maintaining different internal versions, that just makes things unnecessarily complicated," wrote the developer of Telepathy.
The first RC for KDE Applications 15.04 is expected to arrive on March 25 and the release of the stable branch is scheduled for April 15.