[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

[James Kelsh]

Thanks for clearing that up, Doug. I first heard about the change to LXqt on Linux Action News podcast but had no details.
Jim

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From: doug moen
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 11:03 AM
To: KWLUG discussion
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

> But isn't LXDE about to undergo a major rewrite?

The Qt port of LXDE now has their own domain, https://lxqt.org/, and their own github repo.
Formerly they were a subproject of LXDE.
"LXQt was first supposed to become the successor of LXDE one day but as of 09/2016 both desktop environments will keep coexisting for the time being."

And it's no longer an LXDE port, it's now a blend of the best components of LXDE and Razor-Qt, built on the Qt platform. The Razor-Qt team joined the LXQt project.

The LXQt people claim memory consumption that is slightly higher than LXDE but definitely lower than XFCE.
https://blog.lxde.org/2016/10/04/benchmark-memory-usage-lxqt-desktop-environment-vs-xfce/

The LXQt repo on github was last updated yesterday, the LXDE "files" section on sourceforge was last updated Nov 2017. LXQt is obviously newer and shinier.

(As a C++ developer, I'm planning to use Qt in a future GUI project. Using Gtk (which LXDE is based on) has never crossed my mind. Gtk is legacy technology that is only used by legacy projects with a big investment in Gtk, it's not for new projects. So, I understand why people would prefer to work on a Qt based project. I also prefer github projects to sourceforge projects. Your contributions on github have higher visibility.)

Finally, Lubuntu is switching from LXDE to LXQt in the 18.10 release, according to this:
https://news.softpedia.com/news/lubuntu-is-finally-moving-to-lxqt-by-default-with-the-lubuntu-18-10-release-520951.shtml


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