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LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by gerbal »

higherpurpose wrote: post #5

Please make the new LXQt prettier and more modern, too. I wish I would use LXDE/Lubuntu on older machines, but it's just so ugly I can't stand it. I think the next best thing for people like me right now is the MATE environment for Linux Mint, but it does use a bit more resources than LXDE, too.

Modern features tend to mean fancy-3d-compositing-features which are not lightweight.

I do think the default LXDE theme looks rather windows 2000/Gnome 2.6. However, changing the theme is not hard and LXDE can use any XFCE themes. Hopefully the new LXQt preserves that compatibility.

Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by gerbal »

cgh wrote: post #19

Some years back, I worked with Qt 3.x and quite liked it. A pure Qt desktop would be interesting but I've never used LXDE. How does it compare to Openbox, which is what I use via Crunchbang? I realise Openbox is "just" a window manager so I'd like to know what additional benefits LXDE offers.

LXDE uses openbox as its window manager. So it's openbox with a more robust ecosystem build around it.

Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by ChuckMcM »

Shamanmuni wrote: post #16
ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

Not trying to be a problem here, but what problem does this solve? Why does someone undertake to make a new desktop environment? Is XFce/Kde/gnome/cinammon/what-have-you not enough?

Problem 1: you have a slightly old machine (512MB or 1GB of RAM) or something like a Raspberry Pi and you want a resource-efficient but modern-looking desktop. Problem 2: you want a VM with a DE but don't want to spend too much resources in it. Problem 3: you have a modern computer but prefer to have a lightweight DE and let the rest of the resources be used by your applications. Both LXDE and Razor-qt consumed about…

Ok, thanks for that list. I pretty much had 'xfce' as the solution there but can see the user model of Qt being a good component swap.

I'll certainly build a VM with it to try it out, but my concern is that unless it gets some sort of traction it will just sort of fizzle out as folks graduate and move on to other jobs.

Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by venomsnake »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

Not trying to be a problem here, but what problem does this solve? Why does someone undertake to make a new desktop environment? Is XFce/Kde/gnome/cinammon/what-have-you not enough?

My "eyebrow dismissal" comment seeing the title was "can we at least focus on current gen". But after reading this seems like a normal evolution of a well received project.

And Qt seems like is here to stay. So probably not bad decision from technical point of view too. It was nice when I used it.

Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by [deleted] »

Shamanmuni wrote: post #16
ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

Not trying to be a problem here, but what problem does this solve? Why does someone undertake to make a new desktop environment? Is XFce/Kde/gnome/cinammon/what-have-you not enough?

Problem 1: you have a slightly old machine (512MB or 1GB of RAM) or something like a Raspberry Pi and you want a resource-efficient but modern-looking desktop. Problem 2: you want a VM with a DE but don't want to spend too much resources in it. Problem 3: you have a modern computer but prefer to have a lightweight DE and let the rest of the resources be used by your applications. Both LXDE and Razor-qt consumed about…

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Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by Debilski »

jamesaguilar wrote: post #13
higherpurpose wrote: post #5

Please make the new LXQt prettier and more modern, too. I wish I would use LXDE/Lubuntu on older machines, but it's just so ugly I can't stand it. I think the next best thing for people like me right now is the MATE environment for Linux Mint, but it does use a bit more resources than LXDE, too.

Depending on what you mean by "prettier," that would kind of defeat the purpose of LXDE.

For starters, they could try to get the spacing in and between UI elements right. For example, the text in drop down menus looks pretty misaligned in those screenshots.

Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by pekk »

[deleted] wrote: post #25
Shamanmuni wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem 1: you have a slightly old machine (512MB or 1GB of RAM) or something like a Raspberry Pi and you want a resource-efficient but modern-looking desktop. Problem 2: you want a VM with a DE but don't want to spend too much resources in it. Problem 3: you have a modern computer but prefer to have a lightweight DE and let the rest of the resources be used by your applications. Both LXDE and Razor-qt consumed about…

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They are both relatively slow, so it was reasonable to mention them both in the context of something which is useful for machines that are relatively slow.

Re: LXQt – The next generation of the Lightweight Desktop Environment

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Post by zokier »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

Not trying to be a problem here, but what problem does this solve? Why does someone undertake to make a new desktop environment? Is XFce/Kde/gnome/cinammon/what-have-you not enough?

I think Razor-Qt was created partially as a reaction to KDE4 launch which was less than stellar, bit similar to the Cinnamon vs Gnome3 situation.

LXDE on the other hand was specifically crafted for low-end systems. It's homepage says that it has been tested on PentiumII/266 with 192MB of RAM among others.

LXQt is the new merger of the two projects.

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