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Hi, (excuse me about my poor english)
I am a kde enthusiast since the times of debian sarge, that's kde 3.5 I think (by the way a marvelous and stable Desktop). I look at the current time with growing concern.
Naturally I think about the conflict between the QtCompany and the open source community.
https://linuxreviews.org/KDE_Is_Now_Offering_A_Qt_5.15_LTS_Branch_Patch-set_For_The_Free_Software_Community

I would like to give my opinion on the matter on some thinks:
*The kde project doesn't deserve this treatment. Things will not be better with time
*Working over qt6 patches will affect the stability of the desktop? In the suppose it doesn't, won't be a lot effort for not much benefit?
*Wouldn't it be better to invest the effort in making patches, to adopt another technology and to extend it? A technology that belongs to the opensource community, and on which kde can have more confidence and even decision-making power in the future?
*I would propose wxWidgets or join gtk, and in this way to end desktop fragmentation, with which we would all win

I know it's a lot of effort, but you guys already did it once, when you rewrote all of kde3.5. It's also about your survival.

I personally, like programmer, I moved from Qt5 to wxWidgets, and I'm happy. (Ok, there is not QML there, but if more people adopt this technology could be an incoming feature)

Sincerelly yours,
Jos.

That is a non trivial task...

Sure, porting all the GUI components is a _huge_ task, but that actually is not the difficult issue here.
Instead you need to understand that the Qt library is _not_ just a UI library. Instead it offers a treasure chest of solution components in all areas: configuration handling, database integration, logging, hardware abstraction, ...