There are various KDE applications I can install such as plasma-meta, plasma, plasma-desktop so I am not too sure which one I should go with if I want to install KDE desktop environment on EndeavourOS?
This is what i have installed
pacman -Qs plasma
local/bluedevil 1:5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Integrate the Bluetooth technology within KDE workspace and applications
local/breeze 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Artwork, styles and assets for the Breeze visual style for the Plasma Desktop
local/breeze-gtk 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Breeze widget theme for GTK 2 and 3
local/discover 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE and Plasma resources management GUI
local/drkonqi 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
The KDE crash handler
local/eos-plasma-sddm-config 22.03.1.2-1
EndeavourOS Theme for SDDM for Plasma
local/eos-settings-plasma 1.3.1-1
Plasma settings and theme for EndeavourOS
local/kaccounts-integration 22.12.2-1
Online account management system and its Plasma integration components
local/kactivitymanagerd 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
System service to manage user activities and track the usage patterns
local/kde-cli-tools 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Tools based on KDE Frameworks 5 to better interact with the system
local/kde-gtk-config 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
GTK2 and GTK3 Configurator for KDE
local/kdecoration 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Plugin based library to create window decorations
local/kdeplasma-addons 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
All kind of addons to improve your Plasma experience
local/kgamma5 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Adjust your monitor gamma settings
local/khotkeys 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KHotKeys
local/kinfocenter 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
A utility that provides information about a computer system
local/kmenuedit 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE menu editor
local/konsave 2.2.0-1
Save and apply your KDE Plasma customizations with just one command!
local/kpipewire 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Components relating to pipewire use in Plasma
local/kscreen 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE screen management software
local/kscreenlocker 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Library and components for secure lock screen architecture
local/ksshaskpass 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
ssh-add helper that uses kwallet and kpassworddialog
local/ksystemstats 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
A plugin based system monitoring daemon
local/kwallet-pam 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KWallet PAM integration
local/kwayland-integration 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Provides integration plugins for various KDE frameworks for the wayland windowing system
local/kwin 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
An easy to use, but flexible, composited Window Manager
local/kwrited 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE daemon listening for wall and write messages
local/layer-shell-qt 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Qt component to allow applications to make use of the Wayland wl-layer-shell protocol
local/libkscreen 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE screen management software
local/libksysguard 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Library to retrieve information on the current status of computer hardware
local/milou 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
A dedicated search application built on top of Baloo
local/oxygen 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE Oxygen style
local/oxygen-sounds 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
The Oxygen Sound Theme
local/plasma-browser-integration 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Components necessary to integrate browsers into the Plasma Desktop
local/plasma-desktop 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE Plasma Desktop
local/plasma-disks 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Monitors S.M.A.R.T. capable devices for imminent failure
local/plasma-firewall 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Control Panel for your system firewall
local/plasma-framework 5.103.0-1 (kf5)
Plasma library and runtime components based upon KF5 and Qt5
local/plasma-integration 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Qt Platform Theme integration plugins for the Plasma workspaces
local/plasma-nm 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Plasma applet written in QML for managing network connections
local/plasma-pa 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Plasma applet for audio volume management using PulseAudio
local/plasma-sdk 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Applications useful for Plasma development
local/plasma-systemmonitor 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
An interface for monitoring system sensors, process information and other system resources
local/plasma-thunderbolt 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Plasma integration for controlling Thunderbolt devices
local/plasma-vault 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Plasma applet and services for creating encrypted vaults
local/plasma-wayland-session 5.27.2-1
Plasma Wayland session
local/plasma-workspace 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE Plasma Workspace
local/plasma-workspace-wallpapers 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Additional wallpapers for the Plasma Workspace
local/polkit-kde-agent 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Daemon providing a polkit authentication UI for KDE
local/powerdevil 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
Manages the power consumption settings of a Plasma Shell
local/sddm-kcm 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE Config Module for SDDM
local/systemsettings 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
KDE system manager for hardware, software, and workspaces
local/xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.27.2-1 (plasma)
A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5
have a look at which package is still missing under Plasma
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There is no single answer to that question.
My recommendation would be to use the group plasma
plasma-desktop is just one component of plasma.
plasma-meta is a meta package instead of a group.
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Returned nothing so I guess I will install Plasma
Ok I just did sudo pikaur -S plasma
There is one thing it is asking me:
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for phonon-qt5-backend:
:: Repository extra
1) phonon-qt5-gstreamer 2) phonon-qt5-vlc
Which one should I chose?
to get a full plasma experience you could compare my data with yours after installing the package plasma
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Whichever you prefer. Either will work.
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My 2 cents.
Generally whenever installing any Linux distro I prefer to go with the defaults during installation. Select the options you need and follow the defaults. This is what I personally do in general.
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