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LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release
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we could have more merging of projects, like xfce and mate, both trying the same thing, both started with the same goal(keep the old gnome style) but both need help, why don't work together?
edit: xfce is old than gnome 3 so i was wrong sorry, but more collaboration on apps that both need is interesting
Xfce absolutely did not start as a project to "keep the old gnome style" since it was released 2 years before GNOME 1.0.
XFCE and LXDE are nice in their own right. I used to run xfce and lxde on my laptops and netbooks. Those bottom of the barrel, underpowered, bargain bin machines hummed. At the time though HiDPI support was weak still (at least for xfce) so they never made it to my desktop. Didn't like many multi-sized monitors. I assume this is a problem of the past now.
Xfce is my DE of choice. Hipdi support has gotten much better, though I'm using it on a 3200*1800 13" display so a simple 2x scale is all I need.
They do work together upstream, i.e on XDG standards, libraries, etc and probably will work together on Wayland too
For Wayland, I know XFCE is going with wlroots. I dunno what MATE is doing.
I didn't know about wlroots. It's nice to see that smaller DEs won't be left behind.
yeah, even KDE dev said about it on their blog, that they gonna stick with their own library but it's possible to port KDE to work on wlroots in the future, so theur don't spend so much time in something that only them work(btw kde work very closely to wlroots anyway)
MATE is most likely not not using wlroots
Why do you say that?
What? Please no. XFCE is its own thing. It is not old GNOME. They are both GTK based so a little collaboration on apps they both need would be interesting. Beyond that, they are different projects—like GNOME and KDE. BTW, there is also an “old” KDE called Trinity.