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On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:47:07 -0500 |
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wireless@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> On 05/27/14 00:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's |
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> > zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt |
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> > site. |
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> I run lxde on one desktop; and my experimental results are nothing |
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> short of fabulous. A while back they (LXDE and razor-qt projects) |
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> decided to merge and support QT5. [1] If you have a spare desktop, |
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> you might want to experiment with QT5 via LXDE-QT [2]. |
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> I have not inquired when "LXDE-QT" known also as LXQT will formerly |
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> appear in portage; I can't remember where I read rumblings about it. |
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> I have just now looked for an overlay [3]. |
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> I do like the new (old_school?) approach of LXde and it's resource |
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> footprint is very, very small. qt is a fine piece of work; I have |
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> issues with the KDE "vision" and LXQT seems to be reading my mind |
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> on what a gui environment should and should not do, imho. |
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> Lightweight X means it could and should run in many places, easily |
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> and securely, like in a VM environment, tablets, etc etc. |
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> hth, |
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> James |
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> [1] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Migrate_from_GTK%2B_to_Qt |
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> [2] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source |
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> [3] https://github.com/mika-k/lxqt-overlay |
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lxqt is up and running in Gentoo. It's listed in packages. |
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The only problem I had was emerging lxqt-panel but just had to change a use flag of lxqt-panel from quicklauch to |
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-quicklaunch and it emerged. No problems with anything else and desktop |
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is good. |
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John D Maunder |
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