LXDE-QT Port Of LXDE GTK+2, A Bloat ? No Sir!
Developers at LXDE are developing QT based LXDE. Recently in the latest blog posted by PCMan, the lead of LXDE Project itself has shown a preview screenshot of LXDE-QT.
Yeah, the bottom panel also known as lxpanel has been ported to the QT hence given name as lxpanel-qt. It infact looks pretty slick than before.
However, PCMan said that it's still freshly ported & thus it is very rough & needs lots of polishing.The PCManFM File manager is the ported file manager to qt, however there's not even a slight change in the interface of it.The LXDE developers might add some features once entire Desktop Environment is ported to QT.
The Image viewer is not GPicview, the default image viewer of LXDE-GTK; it's basically qt version of image viewer for LXDE, which is very fast than the Gpicview.
The LXDE Team has not decided to drop the GTK+2 version of the LXDE, they are considering QT version of LXDE as side-project & their main focus is still on GTK+2 version of LXDE.Until there's no confirm news on the settlement between KDE & Gnome developers over selection of display servers Mir or Wayland. PCMan & his team will wait before they make fully LXDE-QT fully compatible to Wayland display server.
LXDE is the most lightest Desktop Environment on Linux,You can run the latest Linux OS under this environment in your decade old PC, thus the resource consumption should be taken care off.
With the port of QT of LXDE, some developers believe that the DE will be bloated.
As GTK+2 is no longer supported by its developers, and GTK3 consumes too much of resource than QT, it's the smart choice to opt for QT than GTK3.
What's your take, CEans ?
Port to QT by LXDE Team, smart move or this will turn LXDE-QT into bloat ?
However, note that LXDE-QT is just a side-project ; Team's main focus is till on LXDE GTK+2 version of DE.
Source : #-Link-Snipped-#
The screenshot includes the open windows of Main Workspace,PCManFM LXDE File Manager & Image Viewer.You can clearly notice the change in the bottom panel of the LXDE.Yeah, the bottom panel also known as lxpanel has been ported to the QT hence given name as lxpanel-qt. It infact looks pretty slick than before.
However, PCMan said that it's still freshly ported & thus it is very rough & needs lots of polishing.The PCManFM File manager is the ported file manager to qt, however there's not even a slight change in the interface of it.The LXDE developers might add some features once entire Desktop Environment is ported to QT.
The Image viewer is not GPicview, the default image viewer of LXDE-GTK; it's basically qt version of image viewer for LXDE, which is very fast than the Gpicview.
The LXDE Team has not decided to drop the GTK+2 version of the LXDE, they are considering QT version of LXDE as side-project & their main focus is still on GTK+2 version of LXDE.Until there's no confirm news on the settlement between KDE & Gnome developers over selection of display servers Mir or Wayland. PCMan & his team will wait before they make fully LXDE-QT fully compatible to Wayland display server.
LXDE is the most lightest Desktop Environment on Linux,You can run the latest Linux OS under this environment in your decade old PC, thus the resource consumption should be taken care off.
With the port of QT of LXDE, some developers believe that the DE will be bloated.
As GTK+2 is no longer supported by its developers, and GTK3 consumes too much of resource than QT, it's the smart choice to opt for QT than GTK3.
What's your take, CEans ?
Port to QT by LXDE Team, smart move or this will turn LXDE-QT into bloat ?
However, note that LXDE-QT is just a side-project ; Team's main focus is till on LXDE GTK+2 version of DE.
Source : #-Link-Snipped-#
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Abhishek RawalUpdate : QT port of LXDE is moving ahead pretty fast. Interested one can try out from the information available in official website : #-Link-Snipped-#
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