I hope Slackware 15.1 comes with KDE Plasma 5. KDE Plasma 6 is not ready yet for production use - there are several complaints about serious bugs about it. There is certainly a hype for it - but Slackware never cared about that.

Something I would add ask to add to Slackware, if possible, is ccid and pcsc support, so there is a native support for smartcards. I use it daily as a Brazilian lawyer to file motions before courts. The Slackbuilds scripts are pretty mature.

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EDIT: Sorry, I see we have it already.

pipewire-1.0.6
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipew...e-1.0.6.tar.gz

Glad someone else said it (pipewire).

Upstream seems to go in the direction of reddog83, to split the package into the current one and a legacy one:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Relen...on/-/issues/26

I don't want to weight in on Plasma 5 vs 6, but if you had any problem or found any bug in current Plasma 6 on Slackware, can you please report/link them in a thread?
Thank you

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Yeah, no kidding.

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What's the status of gFTP? Does it support to compile on GTK+3?

I just tried building gFTP with --disable-gtk2 --enable-gtk3

In file included from options_dialog.c:20:
gftp-gtk.h:89:3: error: unknown type name 'GdkPixmap'
89 | GdkPixmap * pixmap;
| ^~~~~~~~~
gftp-gtk.h:90:3: error: unknown type name 'GdkBitmap'
90 | GdkBitmap * bitmap;
| ^~~~~~~~~
gftp-gtk.h:296:51: error: unknown type name 'GdkPixmap'; did you mean 'GdkPixbuf'?
296 | GdkPixmap ** pix,
| ^~~~~~~~~
| GdkPixbuf
gftp-gtk.h:297:51: error: unknown type name 'GdkBitmap'; did you mean 'GdkKeymap'?
297 | GdkBitmap ** bitmap );
| ^~~~~~~~~
| GdkKeymap


In file included from bookmarks.c:20:
gftp-gtk.h:89:3: error: unknown type name 'GdkPixmap'
89 | GdkPixmap * pixmap;
| ^~~~~~~~~
gftp-gtk.h:90:3: error: unknown type name 'GdkBitmap'
90 | GdkBitmap * bitmap;
| ^~~~~~~~~
gftp-gtk.h:296:51: error: unknown type name 'GdkPixmap'; did you mean 'GdkPixbuf'?
296 | GdkPixmap ** pix,
| ^~~~~~~~~
| GdkPixbuf
gftp-gtk.h:297:51: error: unknown type name 'GdkBitmap'; did you mean 'GdkKeymap'?
297 | GdkBitmap ** bitmap );
| ^~~~~~~~~
| GdkKeymap

make[3]: *** [Makefile:440: bookmarks.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/gftp-2.8.0b/src/gtk'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:428: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/gftp-2.8.0b/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:412: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/gftp-2.8.0b'
make: *** [Makefile:351: all] Error 2


So, you can attempt to debug it if you'd like to.

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Nevermind.

That was using the SRC downloaded from the slackware distro repository.

Tried and succeeded using the current SRC downloaded from github

https://github.com/masneyb/gftp

Question: Is there some particular reason why you'd like it built for gtk+3 instead of gtk+2 ?

Because GTK+2 was EOL'd. And also GTK+2 has no native Wayland support compared to GTK+3. Unless GTK+2 was forked and add Wayland support.

Post your request on gftp website, he has nothing to do in this thead

gftp has already have indeed GTK+3 support. However the available package on slackware current repo was GTK+2 compiled. Maybe GTK+3 conversion may not be finished

The latest commit of gftp git date of 'Jul 29, 2023'. it never compiled with gtk3.

https://github.com/masneyb/gftp

this request has nothing to do with slackware-current.

What's wrong with FileZilla?

Nothing
That's why it's available on SBo

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Well, about my request to switch to Plasma 6, I still think it's appropriate. I know that Pat intended to have 15.1 with Plasma 5, but I think criterion was set under the vague expectation of a release date that would have been closer to 15.0 release than it is now.

I'm in no hurry to see any release at all, but I would have liked to have Slackware stable shipped with a reasonably current, mature and stable version of the Plasma desktop.

I support whatever Pat decides on the matter; but if (for example) we get a LTS Plasma 6 version before the next Slackware stable release, I think switching to Plasma 6 would be best.

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