<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for clearing that up, Doug. I first heard about the change to LXqt on Linux Action News podcast but had no details.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:doug@moens.org">doug moen</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, June 25, 2018 11:03 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">KWLUG discussion</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>> But isn't LXDE about to undergo a major rewrite?</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Qt port of LXDE now has their own domain, <a href="https://lxqt.org/">https://lxqt.org/</a>, and their own github repo.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Formerly they were a subproject of LXDE.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"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."</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The LXQt people claim memory consumption that is slightly higher than LXDE but definitely lower than XFCE.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://blog.lxde.org/2016/10/04/benchmark-memory-usage-lxqt-desktop-environment-vs-xfce/">https://blog.lxde.org/2016/10/04/benchmark-memory-usage-lxqt-desktop-environment-vs-xfce/</a></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(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.)</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Finally, Lubuntu is switching from LXDE to LXQt in the 18.10 release, according to this:</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://news.softpedia.com/news/lubuntu-is-finally-moving-to-lxqt-by-default-with-the-lubuntu-18-10-release-520951.shtml">https://news.softpedia.com/news/lubuntu-is-finally-moving-to-lxqt-by-default-with-the-lubuntu-18-10-release-520951.shtml</a></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>