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Hello everybody. I am testing Mageia 9 beta release. It seems very nice so far. Congratulations to everybody involved in the work on this release!

I have the following suggestion. Lets not use qt6 library for application UI as of yet with the following reasoning:
(1) qt6 adds more bloat into the system
(2) qt5 is definitely more mature, used by most programs, and also officially supported till 2025
(3) qt6 applications look out of place at least in KDE Plasma and this will not change any time soon https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448450

There are following applications in my system depending on qt6:
- libreoffice
- mkvtoolnix
- avidemux
- transmission

In all these cases it is possible switching to qt5 with build time options. Thank you for considering this suggestion

This is the wrong place for this suggestion. Either use Dev ML or Bugzilla.

sandrick wrote::
(1) qt6 adds more bloat into the system

How do you justify this? Qt6 even removed unused or unmaintained modules. So Qt6 is far more developed and the future as the support for Qt5 ends this year (see next point).

sandrick wrote:(2) qt5 is definitely more mature, used by most programs, and also officially supported till 2025

Support for Qt5.15 ends 26th May 2023! You only get an extended support until 2025 by buying an license and paying a fee which Mageia isn't doing as far as i know.
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-5.15-extended-support-for-subscription-license-holders#:~:text=Legacy%20license%20types%20include%20all,is%2026th%20May%202023.

sandrick wrote:(3) qt6 applications look out of place at least in KDE Plasma and this will not change any time soon https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448450

It's already an old bug for an ancient Plasma version. The conversion of Plasma to Qt6 is in progress.