[kwlug-disc] Which desktop?

[B.S.]

 > So, larger community, more likely to get fixes and support, ...etc.

Right, well ... maybe. Remember, the OP to which this is responding 
(firing up Skype, perhaps for a one or only a few off) (let alone being 
KDE users) - kde, which is essentially to say, qt based.

I don't dispute that lxqt isn't 'real' but probably bears worth 
watching. If the stated reason for shift is from gtk3 towards a more 
'real' environment, and they're not alone in the larger community for 
that (?), then there may be something to where they're headed. [Not 
intending or interested in a qt / gtk flamewar here - just that there 
must be something to this debate, given it's discussion prevalence. Deja 
vu to systemd, here, or gplv3 even.]

I am encouraged by the blurb there (http://lxqt.org/) about not 
reinventing the wheel. Which is to say, it doesn't feel like there will 
be any lack of fixes or support should it be needed. So I think distro 
popularity must be taken with some inspection - to include what is the 
repository source, and what feeds it. If it's all internal remunging and 
refactoring, then I think your comment probably directly applies. 
Otherwise, maybe not, e.g. Debian sources. [It's a kernel, plus apps ... 
distro is just a vehicle to apps getting to the kernel so the user can 
perform real value add work - some (you and I, anyways) may say, without 
an extraordinary amount of desktop baggage coming along, such as seems 
to have happened with KDE/Kubuntu. Within that all, however, comes the 
gtk vs qt debate, and the presence or likelihood of the gui apps you 
need or want being present. Never mind that there's no reason you can't 
have both, simultaneously even, not just switching to one or the other.]


 > Not an urgent thing. Perhaps not before 2016 when the next LTS comes out.

I don't think the next LTS coming out much bears. Ubuntu server, which 
is to say, the repositories that come with it, will probably always be 
your de rigeur system - for all the reasons you state. But, there is no 
desktop inherent to that - so such is a different question / debate / 
answer.

Did come across these, which seems encouraging in the sense of this 
reasoning seeming likely to hold water.

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/12/install-lxqt-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-14-04-13-10/

http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/installing-the-lightweight-lxde-qt-desktop/

Perhaps I'll even getting around to trying one of these with the next 
vm. Probably not long after Monday. (-:


On 14-10-29 02:50 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:45 PM, B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> On 14-10-29 12:54 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>>> Thanks for the heads up. I was considering Slackware as a possible
>>> future option, but I will stick with KDE, or Xubuntu ...
>>
>> lxde (LXDE-Qt / Razor-qt) ? lubuntu? or to come lxqt variants?
>
> Xubuntu seems to be more used than Lubuntu or even Kubuntu.
> As per here
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/10/ubuntu-10-years-user-survey-results
>
> So, larger community, more likely to get fixes and support, ...etc.
>
> Not an urgent thing. Perhaps not before 2016 when the next LTS comes out.
>