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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 higherpurpose »

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.

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

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Post by jiggy2011 »

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?

This seems to be an evolution of LXDE which has been around for a while and is the default desktop on the raspberry pi for example.

As for why the switch the Qt, I'm guessing it's because the next version of Unity/Ubuntu will be Qt based so this will be more compatible with that.

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

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Post by cwyers »

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?

Well, this is a merger of two of the what-have-yous, LXDE-Qt and Razor-Qt. So it actually reduces the number of desktop environments in the wild, by one.
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