Developer adridg has announced that KDE Frameworks 5 and KDE Plasma 5 Desktop environment is now available on FreeBSD, with support for Wayland still in development. Read the full blog from the author Adriaan de Groot himself at the link below

It’s been quiet from the KDE-FreeBSD folks for a bit, but not because it’s actually been quiet. Tobias has been on a roll, and Dima has started doing stuff again, and Gleb is still watching over some ports, and Raphael is hovering over it all with good advice. So here’s some bits and pieces:

Some time ago I mentioned a branded wallpaper for FreeBSD, based off of the Flying Konqui wallpaper — which in turn I had mentioned in February. Anyway, here’s a screenshot of the if-it’s-up-to-me default wallpaper for Plasma 5 on FreeBSD. It’s running in VirtualBox, which is why KInfoCenter reports an interesting resolution (KInfoCenter has also been expanded with a lot better data on FreeBSD hosts, so that it reports sensible memory use, and sensible disk usage).

Original article: http://euroquis.nl/bobulate/?p=1521

Related: http://news.softpedia.com/news/kde-frameworks-5-and-kde-plasma-5-desktop-landed-on-freebsd-wayland-coming-soon-511400.shtml

The Trinity Desktop Environment, forked from the popular K Desktop Environment, has included partial FreeBSD support on their latest release R14.0.4. They welcome additional support from those who are interested in seeing better compatibility with FreeBSD.

Aside from the new additions, there has been security fixes, switching to a newer version of the Jabber protocol for Kopete, and other maintenance items. Trinity Desktop continues to offer partial FreeBSD support but they acknowledge “progress will probably be slow.” For now the best support for this desktop environment is on Linux distributions.

Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Trinity-Desktop-R14.0.4

Support for FreeBSD is still partial and some new issues have arisen with the latest versions of FreeBSD. The TDE team will try their best to improve support for FreeBSD but progress will probably be slow. Additional developers or contributors willing to help porting the remaining features and applications are always welcome.

Trinity Desktop: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2016.11.07

For those wondering about KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, Phoronix has reported that it will be available for FreeBSD when its production is stable.

While many Linux distributions are in the process of stopping to support the KDE Plasma 4 desktop, FreeBSD isn’t yet ready to make the move to the “KDE 5” packages.

While there are outside repositories to experiment with KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 on BSD systems, the “KDE 5” set is largely not found in the official FreeBSD ports tree. FreeBSD/KDE developer Adriaan de Groot has written a blog post about this: When’s KDE5 going to be available on FreeBSD?

Full article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5-FreeBSD