KDE Plasma 6.4 Has Landed in OpenBSD

OpenBSD Journal writes: Yes, you read that right: KDE 6.4.0 Plasma is now in OpenBSD packages... The news was announced 2025-07-04 via a fediverse post and of course the commit message itself, where the description reads....

"[I]n 6.4 the KDE Kwin team split kwin into kwin-x11 and kwin (wayland). This seems to be the sign that X11 is no longer of interest and we are focussing on Wayland. As we currently only support X11, kwin-x11 has been added as a runtime dependency to kwin. So nobody should have to install anything later. This ports update also includes Aurorae; a theme engine for KWin window decorations."

Another Question

[iced_773]

Why not?

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[martin-boundary]

Because it takes effort to actively remove functionality? Things break as much when you remove things as when you add new things.

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[ArchieBunker]

My firewall/router is an OpenBSD box and my ZFS pool runs FreeBSD.

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[test321]

Fair enough. But do you need something like KDE on those systems?

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[Mononymous]

My laptop triple-boots FreeBSD, Manjaro Linux, and OpenBSD, with Plasma 6 on all three.
I admit I spend most of my time on FreeBSD, but it's great to have Plasma working so well on OpenBSD.

How much of KDE is Linux dependencies?

[simlox]

GNOME is more and more tied up with systemd, which is Linux only. In the open source community, there used to be pride in making things cross platform (at least all Unix machines, Windows is just a very weird OS), but I think it is very tempting to be Linux only these days. Systemd is one place where Linux distributions are way different. Have Wayland been ported yet? And namespaces, being the basis of containers, are also something, which makes it hard to port stuff to *BSD once used.

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[ChunderDownunder]

As per the summary, Wayland isn't on OpenBSD (yet).

From the release notes, the main obvious Linuxisms seemed to be Pipewire and Polkit, which seem to have been ported to underlying native BSD subsystems.