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Hello, |
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I've been the only member of the lxde project for a while. |
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I recently stopped using lxde myself. |
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Currently lxde still works, the bug count is relatively low, but it's a |
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challenging situation. Upstream development has largely stopped and |
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people have moved to lxqt. |
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My personal issue why I stopped using lxde was that the latest version |
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of electron - and subsequently signal - switched its tray icon |
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implementation to a new API called StatusNotifier which is not |
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supported by lxde's panel. |
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There's also one issue where an lxde package depends on a deprecated |
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version of a library [1]. I assume such issues will become more over |
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time and it's unclear if there will be any upstream activity fixing |
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such issues. |
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If anyone is willing to take over I'm happy to give any guidance I can. |
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Likely within the next days I'll remove myself from the lxde project, |
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making it empty. |
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With approval from the lxqt project I have moved the openbox window |
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manager, which is shared by lxde and lxqt, to the lxqt project. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/708188 |
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Hanno Böck |
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https://hboeck.de/ |
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