Oxygen icons converging

April 03, 2017

The Oxygen icons which have colored the KDE4 desktop on FreeBSD for a long time are updated regularly upstream. However, they are no longer the Oxygen icons for KDE4, but for KDE Applications with KDE Frameworks 5. This means that icon updates do not happen for KDE4 from ports.

The KDE-FreeBSD team has renamed the port of the Oxygen icons from kde4-icons-oxygen to kf5-oxygen-icons5, and updated the port with the latest upstream release. This is another small step in preparing for KDE Applications. While the port is now named "kf5-", it is not, in fact, based on Qt5 or KDE Frameworks 5, and can be used in a KDE4 environment with no change. The KDE4 ports have been adjusted to use this newer version, even though the mix of KDE4 and KDE Frameworks 5 looks a little strange.