https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457838
--- Comment #7 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> --- I'm afraid you have misunderstood, yes. It's a very common mistake. Allow me to explain: "LTS" is a designation made by the distro that means "Long term support". It absolutely does *not* mean "all bugs will be fixed"; that's impossible. What means is that the distro will intentionally delay shipping newer software on the theory that newer software is buggier than old software, in order to give the newer software a chance to mature a bit. Then, the distro also says that for a specified period of time (IIRC 5 years for Ubuntu) they will make an effort to backport fixes for bugs and security issues where feasible, so that your old software which does not gain new features will at least get bug fixes and remain secure. The rub is that sometimes bugs get fixed in the form of new features being developed, so if your distro is intentionally holding back new features, you won't get any of that. Additionally, IMO the Ubuntu LTS basically doesn't mean anything when it comes to KDE software, because Ubuntu's paid engineers don't typically do much if any of this backporting for the KDE software stack — only for the GNOME software stack. So IMO you are getting the worst of both worlds: no new features and also few if any bug fixes to the KDE software. You'd be better off using non-LTS Ubuntu releases, or another distro that ships software closer to developers' release schedules. I'm quite fond of Fedora KDE nowadays. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
