source: kde5/plasma/intro.xml@ 3899973

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE partintro PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>

<sect1 id="plasma-intro">
  <?dbhtml filename="plasma-intro.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Introduction to KDE Plasma 5</title>

  <para>
    <application>KDE Plasma 5</application> is a desktop environment
    built using <application>KDE Frameworks 5</application> and QML
    which runs on top of a fully hardware accelerated graphics stack
    using <application>Qt5</application>, QtQuick 2 and an OpenGL(-ES)
    scenegraph.
  </para>

  <para>
    For more information on <application>KDE Plasma 5</application>, see
    the original announcement at
    <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/"/>
  </para>

  <sect2>
    <title>Build Order</title>

    <para>
      <application>KDE Plasma 5</application> packages are listed
      in the recommended and tested build order based on dependencies.
    </para>

    <para>
      No additional configuration is needed before building the
      <application>KDE Plasma 5</application> because it uses
      the same configuration that
      <application>KDE Frameworks 5</application> use.
    </para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>