[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to Qt 5?

[James]

john <jdm <at> jdm.myzen.co.uk> writes:

>
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 18:11:11 -0400
> covici <at> ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> > James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > john <jdm <at> jdm.myzen.co.uk> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > lxqt is up and running in Gentoo. It's listed in packages.
> > > > The only problem I had was emerging lxqt-panel but just had to
> > > > change a
> > > use flag of lxqt-panel from
> > > > quicklauch to
> > > > -quicklaunch and it emerged. No problems with anything else and
> > > > desktop is good.
> > >
> > >
> > > Wow! Did you do a fresh install or convert from lxde?
> > > If yuo converted, do you like it better? Was the conversion
> > > easy?  Does your usb device auto-discovery/mount thingie work?
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you use the lxqt-meta package?
> > >
> > > got a list of files/configs you have to customize?
> > > useful docs or a wiki?   I'm still fairly new to the
> > > whole lx** thing... But I love the light resource footprint!
> > >
> > > Maybe I should put it on a non-essential machine first?
> > >
> > > your thoughts and suggestions are welcome.....
> >
> > When I tried to emerge lx-qt-neta, it only wanted to emerge qt4
> > packages, even though I said use=qt5, how can I get it to emerge qt5
> > as well, or are they mutually exclusive?
> >
> >
>
> I "emerge -vp lxqt-meta" and it gave me an output of masked packages
> which I populated /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
>
> eg
> =lxqt-base/lxqt-panel-0.7.0-r1 ~amd64
> etc
>
> Then emerge "emerge lxqt-meta" again.
>
> It only depends on qt4 packages though. Not sure about qt5 as I believe
> this is not available in standard packages yet. I can only see qt
> versions 4.8.5 in portage.
>
> Perhaps the use flag is for future functionality. Or you may need to
> use an overlay to get qt5.

I'm pretty sure this overlay uses QT5, if you read overlay listing here:

https://github.com/mika-k/lxqt-overlay

I have only been using lxde for a few months and it's been a bit
painful makking every thing work. USD auto recongnition still does
not work, but that may be a kernel issue.

I used "openbox (3.5.2-r1). I do not want to result to a problem
install, so I'm builing up an old system to install the overlay 
with QT5 on it, for testing and eval.

If anyone has converted from lxde(openbox) to to lxqt, and has precise
syntactially correct guidance, then I'd give it a shot. I've had to 
manually all sorts of (conflicting) config files here and there
to get to where I am (various xterms etc). Hell, I'm not even positive
of the dozen or so little config files the lxde-openbox is reading.
Sometime I know it is several.


So the one thing I'm looking for in lxqt is a singular set of 
config files to control the desktop. That is my only negative
experience with LX*. Other that that, its fablulous and bodes
well for my journey to a James_enviroment on everything I have to
use. I also intend to run evernything on hardened and maybe 
even SeLinux, after the basic desktop is robustly cool.

Anybody putting lxqt(5) onto android tablets?  Windows? Cell phones
or any arm based hardware, yet?

> I did not use lxde before but razor. Its very similar to this.

Without clear migration path/encourage, I'm more inclined to experiment
on yet another box. Maybe the pentoo project would be supporting 
LXqt(5) ?  or LilBlue ?

That would be berry, berry COOL!

Comments, suggestions or guidance is keenly appreciated.

James