[Hamara-devel] LXDE and QT was Re: BOSS is back ?? Seems like Yes !

[shirish]

On Wednesday 23 September 2015 01:17 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 23/09/15 12:26, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

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>> Please beware that LXDE seems to be changing radically for the upcoming
>> Debian release, to be based on Qt.  Maybe relevant for your work, maybe
>> not.
> Yes - am watching that. Our changes are mainly in themeing so we're not
> seeing it as a problem.
>
> There have been discussions on our dev list about shipping with lxde/QT
> but it was not quite ready at that point.
>
> I will take a closer look at it in the next few days however.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Vik

Hi all,

Hey Jonas, good to see you here :)

While I haven't tracked LXDE, QT I know has been changing quite a bit 
along with KDE, QT5 and KDE5 has been having lots of updates. Also with 
the recentish rise in numbers in the QT/KDE team they seem to have a 
good thing happening.

AFAIK the idea of LXDE ties in with using it on Pi Model B to be used 
for sharing content, education etc.

Unless they really bloat it to full-featured Desktop Environments like 
KDE/GNOME we would be safe and then again I don't think there is a 
dearth of light desktop environments.

There is openbox, icewm, fluxbox and fvwm-crystal to name a few. How 
good/bad the development is, how they are funding it and how much 
community-focused they are would be something that would need to be 
looked at.

Thank you bringing it to the light though as haven't been tracking LXDE, 
now fixed :)

Look forward to see you when you are here in India :)
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org