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LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release (www.phoronix.com)
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LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects.

LXQt 1.4 targets the Qt 5.15 LTS toolkit but if all goes well this will be their final Qt5-based release. By the time of the next LXQt version they hope to be fully ported over to using the Qt 6 toolkit, even if it means a drawn out release cycle.

LXQt 1.4 also has lxqt-menu-data replacing lxmenu-data, various improvements to the LXQt file manager, QTerminal now supports an audible bell as an option, the LXQt image viewer has minimal support for color spaces, many translation updates, and a variety of other smaller fixes.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects.

LXQt 1.4 targets the Qt 5.15 LTS toolkit but if all goes well this will be their final Qt5-based release.

By the time of the next LXQt version they hope to be fully ported over to using the Qt 6 toolkit, even if it means a drawn out release cycle.

LXQt 1.4 also has lxqt-menu-data replacing lxmenu-data, various improvements to the LXQt file manager, QTerminal now supports an audible bell as an option, the LXQt image viewer has minimal support for color spaces, many translation updates, and a variety of other smaller fixes.

Downloads and more details on this morning's LXQt 1.4 release via GitHub.

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[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Well you tried your best

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] raptir 31 points 1 year ago

Xfce absolutely did not start as a project to "keep the old gnome style" since it was released 2 years before GNOME 1.0.

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] raptir 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

They do work together upstream, i.e on XDG standards, libraries, etc and probably will work together on Wayland too

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

For Wayland, I know XFCE is going with wlroots. I dunno what MATE is doing.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't know about wlroots. It's nice to see that smaller DEs won't be left behind.

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

MATE is most likely not not using wlroots

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Why do you say that?

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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