This week SDDM–the venerable login manager used by KDE and some other DEs–finally got a new release after two and a half years! This work was pushed through by a variety of KDE contribu…
Generally people don’t use DE’s from the AUR except for some weird exceptions (i’m using swayfx), and because it’s made by arch users, there’s almost never an ETA that can be given.
As for when it enters the real repos, it’s not even released yet, so, after it releases and they’ve tested it.
They’re asking for betatesters in the blog post. Having that beta version available in the AUR would explode the amount of beta testers.
AUR contains tons of Linux Mobile stuff which I hated a lot in the beginning, but then I thought that if it helps devs to distribute those mobile apps then I’m fine with it.
The AUR is the Arch User Repository
Generally people don’t use DE’s from the AUR except for some weird exceptions (i’m using swayfx), and because it’s made by arch users, there’s almost never an ETA that can be given.
As for when it enters the real repos, it’s not even released yet, so, after it releases and they’ve tested it.
They’re asking for betatesters in the blog post. Having that beta version available in the AUR would explode the amount of beta testers.
AUR contains tons of Linux Mobile stuff which I hated a lot in the beginning, but then I thought that if it helps devs to distribute those mobile apps then I’m fine with it.
Those people would just use the normal -git packages.