The distribution I’m using has a separate repository for KDE Gear releases.
When an issue in this forum is being discussed, the affected KDE Gear version is sometimes useful information.
Where I am, the only way to determine the installed KDE Gear version seems to be, to inspect the change logs of the packages in the “Gear” repository.
Are there any thoughts in the community related to providing a mechanism to quickly determine the installed KDE Gear version, possibly from a CLI?
i can see no reason why it should not be included in kinfo as a matter of course… seems like the only missing piece, unless it’s always tied to the framework version.
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Indeed, seems including the KDE Gear version in kinfo would be the way to go.
It already contains Plasma, Frameworks, and Qt versions. Why not include the KDE Gear version?
╰─ kinfo
Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.5-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
The only way atm is, for example,
~/Descargas kate -v ✔ 01:02:10
kate 25.12.0
But yes, better in kinfo.
Regards
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Yes, but –
> konsole --version
konsole 25.12.1
QThreadStorage: entry 3 destroyed before end of thread 0x561559eb0cf0
QThreadStorage: entry 2 destroyed before end of thread 0x561559eb0cf0
>
> kdebugsettings --version
kdebugsettings 25.12.1
QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x5556f2afef50
QThreadStorage: entry 0 destroyed before end of thread 0x5556f2afef50
>
Disabling all the messages and information with “kdebugsettings” doesn’t get rid of the things Qt wants to complain about …
I have the same problem but, for the thread, I omitted it. 
~/Descargas kate -v ✔ 12:04:19
kate 25.12.0
QThreadStorage: entry 1 destroyed before end of thread 0x55804ca01660
QThreadStorage: entry 0 destroyed before end of thread 0x55804ca01660
Regards
I’ve created the wish-list Bug 514861.
that got batted down quick.
i guess there is no meta package called “gear” that KDE can point to and sampling a few applications does not provide a definitive enough story to include in kinfo
this overview shows the Gear versions for some popular distros but with an asterisk that states….
* = Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Applications like the Dolphin file manager, the Kate text editor or the screenshot utility Spectacle belong to them.
and if anyone one of them is upgraded to a newer version then “gear” no longer exists.
In Reply to @skyfishgoo:
Yes, exactly –
Up until Thursday, November 7, 2019 there was the concept of “KDE Applications” – <Schedules/Applications/19.08 Release Schedule>.
And then, on Thursday, November 7, 2019, the concept of a “Release Service” appeared – <Schedules/release service/19.12 Release Schedule>.
And then, on Thursday, March 11, 2021, “KDE Gear” became visible – <Schedules/KDE Gear 21.04 Schedule>.
It seems that, there are folks in the KDE Community who are not quite up to speed with the KDE Project’s Release Schedule –
During development, the KDE community sets goals in features and dates for upcoming releases of various projects. This applies for the bigger projects like Frameworks or Plasma. This way, the teams knows when it would be a good time to add a new feature or when it’s time to focus on cleaning up any bugs in preparation for a release. Any plans are tentative schedules and the final dates are generally decided on the release-team mailing list.
See Policies/Application_Lifecycle for what gets released where.