<div dir="ltr"><div>> But isn't LXDE about to undergo a major rewrite?</div><div><br></div><div>The Qt port of LXDE now has their own domain, <a href="https://lxqt.org/">https://lxqt.org/</a>, and their own github repo.</div><div>Formerly they were a subproject of LXDE.<br></div><div>"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."</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The LXQt people claim memory consumption that is slightly higher than LXDE but definitely lower than XFCE.</div><div><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></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>(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.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, Lubuntu is switching from LXDE to LXQt in the 18.10 release, according to this:</div><div><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><br></div><br></div>