LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release

LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-1.4-Released

[guglovich]

Your bets on a drop in productivity?

[babali]

Now they can begin to work on Qt6 port.

[rafanelli]

Now they can begin to work on Qt6 port.

It seems to be in full swing for over a year.


Here a repo with info, configs and screenshots(!) on how to get LXQt to work with Wayland with various compositors. There used to be a LXQt+mutter-with-patchs. But now the LabWC seems to be favorite.

https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files

It contains start up scripts for:

• startlxqthyprland
• startlxqtkwin
• startlxqtlabwc
• startlxqtsway
• startlxqtwayfire

[Weasel]

Ah the bliss of backwards-incompatible libraries. 90% of the work is spent migrating from one ABI version to the next. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

Ask GIMP.

[Steffo]

Ah the bliss of backwards-incompatible libraries. 90% of the work is spent migrating from one ABI version to the next. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.

Ask GIMP.

You don't want using old APIs forever. Technical debts lead to unmaintainability.

[ClosedSource]

You don't want using old APIs forever. Technical debts lead to unmaintainability.

Absolutely. But for smaller volunteer projects without enough developers, unless the porting is straightforward, the developers might wish to spend their contribution time working on internal code, features, and bug fixes instead. GIMP and XFCE are good examples of nice projects that could use more volunteer contributors.

[Steffo]

Absolutely. But for smaller volunteer projects without enough developers, unless the porting is straightforward, the developers might wish to spend their contribution time working on internal code, features, and bug fixes instead. GIMP and XFCE are good examples of nice projects that could use more volunteer contributors.

I have to say, that Qt applications are much more straightforward to port.
And if you don't want to port applications, then dort port them and live with the consequences.

[guzz46]

My favorite desktop, its very modular and they make it very easy to use your window manager of choice, when used with kwin its like using plasma without the bugs.

[rafanelli]

Ask GIMP.

Wasn't it GIMP that had their toolkit "blessed" to become The (wonderful) GTK? If it was a Qt project from the start, ORRRRR if they never had their toolkit forked, they had a lot less trouble. The good thing of the forking is, they do not have to implement Wayland and other new features for "their" GTK themselves