Changes/Unified KDE OOBE

Unified KDE Out of Box Experience

Summary

All Fedora KDE variants will use the Plasma Setup application to configure the system after installation. Anaconda will have redundant settings disabled for installation.

Owner

• Name: Neal Gompa
• Email: ngompa13@gmail.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 44
• Last updated: 2025-11-29
• Announced
• Discussion thread
• FESCo issue: #3487
• Tracker bug: #2407058
• Release notes tracker: #276

Detailed Description

A new integrated initial setup experience will be released alongside the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 release. As part of shipping this, the Fedora KDE Anaconda profiles will be tweaked to turn off configuration stages that duplicate the initial setup. This will change the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition, Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile Spin, and Fedora Kinoite.

Benefit to Fedora

This allows Fedora KDE variants to unify the installation flows for live and disk image deliverables, and enables a mobile-friendly initial setup process for the Plasma Mobile variants. Additionally, this also enables Fedora KDE variants for OEM deployments.

Scope

• Proposal owners:
  • Packaging: Package plasma-setup
  • Anaconda: Update fedora-kde profile to drop redundant spokes
    • Pull request: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/6778
  • Comps: Drop kde-spin-initial-setup group, add plasma-setup to kde-desktop group
    • Pull request: https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/1206
  • Kiwi descriptions: Switch from Anaconda Initial Setup to Plasma Setup
    • Pull request: https://pagure.io/fedora-kiwi-descriptions/pull-request/214

• Other developers:
  • QA: OpenQA needles need updating to account for this Change.

• Release engineering: #12968

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with the Fedora Strategy: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

There is no impact on existing systems, this only affects new installs.

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? Yes.

How To Test

Once the Anaconda changes and kiwi descriptions updates are merged, this can be tested by downloading a Rawhide Fedora KDE image and going through the normal install process.

User Experience

New installs for Fedora KDE variants will have a simplified live install experience where accounts and date/time settings are deferred to first boot. The first boot experience will provide a KDE-native method to set up the first user and provide basic system-wide configuration.

Dependencies

• anaconda
• plasma-setup

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: Revert back to F43 configuration and use Anaconda Initial Setup again.
• Contingency deadline: Beta Freeze
• Blocks release? Yes.

Documentation

Upstream announcement about KDE Initial System Setup (now called Plasma Setup): https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/23/this-week-in-plasma-kde-initial-system-setup/

Release Notes

Fedora KDE variants now provide an integrated out-of-box first-run experience that give the user the opportunity to configure their system post-install. This also enables Fedora KDE variants for OEM deployments.