State of play with kde5

[Dave Tyson <dtyson%anduin.org.uk@localhost>]

The kde4 desktop stuff is getting very long in the tooth now and various bits 
like okular etc. have fallen by the wayside due to the dropping of support for 
kde4 in dependancies. In fact, building with the latest pkg2019Q2 I had to 
comment out more stuff in the main Makefile to get the build to complete...

kde5 has been out for quite a while now and some of the base support stuff 
(qt5 , kf5 etc.) is in pkg. pkgsrc-wip has some of the plasma components, but 
some seems quite old (5.12.4 vs the latest 5.16.4). I did exchange emails with 
Mark D a while back and he noted stability issues - I think a lot of the 
problems may to be due to the code being very sensitive to the compiler 
version.

I have been using kde5 under FreeBSD, but *really* would prefer to have it 
under NetBSD as I find some bits of FreeBSD are a PITA...

I guess the obvious comment will be - 'if you want it,  then start to build, 
test and add it to pkg-wip'. Sadly my C++ skills are non-existent and I find 
cmake utterly confusing - I have had to hack around various problems building 
packages in the past using horrible kludges, but I wouldn't want to show them 
in public :-)

Comments on the state of play and way forward would be helpful

Cheers,
Dave