Solus 4 ?

PerfMonk

Isn't Solus 4 supposed to be using Qt instead of GTK ?
Is there any description of what direction the new Solus is going ?
And what about KDE, is it going to be an official WM eventually (like in 4) ?

I'm just curious of what future Solus will be, and the path it takes.

Regards,
BT

Harvey

PerfMonk
What was reported as using QT was Budgie 11 which was never going to be in Solus 4 anyway. An they're going GTK with Budgie 11 now regardless.

Plasma is not going to be released with Solus 4

If we look at:

eopkg info budgie-desktop
Name                : budgie-desktop, version: 10.5

But 10.5 isn't actually an officially tagged release yet. There may be some stuff being held back from what will be the official 10.5 release of budgie in Solus 4, I don't know 🤷‍♂️

Version numbers are just milestones so for example we know gnome 3.30.x that people wont shut up about is coming in Solus 4.1 as explained here https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/

I'm sure some are so eager for the latest and greatest of the gnome shit pile who will give Solus a try once 4.1 is out. They know what to keep an ear out for.

Relevent to future of Solus:
https://getsol.us/2019/01/14/2019-to-venture-ahead/
https://getsol.us/solus/roadmap/

But these are just goals not set in stone time frames, as always with Solus, its ready when its ready.

crom5

Linux world has arrived to Kernel 5.0, Mesa 19.0, GNOME 3.32 - in my humble opinion, Solus 4 shouldn't be released without these very important new improvements.

kyrios

crom5 These are just numbers... There aren't more changes between the kernel 4.20 to 5.0 than there were for version 4.19 to 4.20. And regarding GNOME, it will be upgraded after Solus 4 (for Budgie 10.5.1 / Solus 4.1) as explained on the 2019: To Venture Ahead blog post.

cacio-confusa

and i also hope with default hardware acceleration support in the browsers

evert

I've said it so many times before : be patient. Solus 4 will come, Budgie 5 will come, Gnome 5 will come. It won't change the world. You will keep the same fantastic system as all the years before. And I know what I am talking about, I use Solus allready from day 1. It will all become in time.

kyrios

evert Budgie 5 will come ? But but it was released years ago... in July 2014 😛

Luciad10

evert I've said it so many times before : be patient. Solus 4 will come, Budgie 5 will come, Gnome 5 will come. It won't change the world. You will keep the same fantastic system as all the years before assurances obsèques. And I know what I am talking about, I use Solus allready from day 1. It will all become in time.

But I'm sure that with some updates, it will be more fantastic than before.

JoshStrobl

Why would we even go from Budgie 10.5 to Budgie 11 to Budgie 5? 😄

evert

I do not care about the numbers, whatever you name them. I only care about the impatience. That's all.

JoshStrobl

evert

I do not care about the numbers, whatever you name them. I only care about the impatience. That's all.

You care about it way more than Core Team does. Turn it down a notch bud.

dbarron

JoshStrobl, maybe we want confuse them, numbers out of sequence and all 🙂
I was thinking this morning about the numbers, and why it thrills me to see them roll. I came to a very strange conclusion, that I apparently like downloading large amounts of data and seeing change. This make absolutely no sense, but it's the conclusion that I came to. I mean, I prefer real upgrades that provide bug fixes and new features, but part of me just wants the data to roll.

Kvothe

I know it won't be released with Solus 4, but are there any news about the Plasma release ? I feel like it's been a while since I heard anything.

PerfMonk

Kvothe I'm on KDE and Solus 4. It uses KDE 5.56.0 / Plasma 5.15.2.
Working fast and smoothly. To try it is to keep it! Love it.

kyrios

Now I start wondering... perhaps there were some guys keeping on asking to Microsoft devs when will Windows 4 be released... after some time they found a way to solve this problem: 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, ...

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And one day a Microsoft Engineer decided to put some order in the version numbers : 7, 8, 8.1 but then some evil users started harassing them again asking when version 9 will be released... As a revenge, he decided version 9 would never be released and now Windows will remain in version 10 forever !

So you all who keep on asking when version 4 will be released, do you realize all this mess was caused by you !!!??

evert

JoshStrobl I think you are right.
Greetings, Evert.

dbarron

Kvothe, it's my understanding that the team has been working toward Sol 4 and Budgie 10.5*. I believe I saw it stated that Plasma work would get more resources after that.

hugok

Ready when its Ready

Riotvan81

I don't care if you guys put another couple of 9's behind the version number. Might as well just call it Solus and have updated images every once in a while, like summer 2019 for example. That being said i would love to see the kernel 5.0 and mesa 19.0 but that's because i ordered a Radeon VII and it's recommended to have the latest and greatest at this point 😁

henkesteen

Riotvan81
I totally agree. Put the version numbers in the bin, and release images every quarter or something, just tag them with the date.
It's starting to get a bit tiresome with all this talk about "Solus 4".
To the devs: Just keep doing what you are doing, and I think we all will be happy. Solus is awesome!

Karol

Riotvan81 Yeah, just call it Solus 19.04 already

[deleted]

Spoiler: they jump straight to 5

Rook

Gaming4LifeDE If that's all that happens, then why do people act as if Solus 4 is going to be more than that?

dbarron

As sad as it makes me, I have to agree with Kyrios 😅, it's just gonna be a particular release that gets assigned a number. There may be some milestone component in it, or it may be 'Today, I feel like Solus should be 4.0'. Take it for what it's worth 🙂
I will still get a moment of joy when the bootloader menu shows 'Solus 4.0' or 'Solus 4'.

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