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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 08:44:37AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2016 26 Feb 17:16 -0600, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:46:58 +0100
> > Florian Zieboll <f.zieboll@???> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > IIUC, LXDE's decision to go Qt was based on the fact that it otherwise
> > > and rather sooner than later would have to go GTK+ 3, which I see very
> > > well in tune with the base motives of Devuan. May everybody think of
> > > KDE what s/he likes (there's a reason that I chose LXDE...), but Qt is
> > > not KDE. Devuan is hardly going to make it without confederates and I
> > > would like a lot to see LXQt being one of them.
> >
> > So are you saying maybe we should make some acquaintances in the LXQt
> > world? Sounds kindof cool.
>
> I'd like to give LxQt a whirl but see that they only have packages from
> their 0.9 release available for Jessie.


And lxqy seems not to be a package in the devuan jessie repository.
Should it be?

-- hendrik

> Perhaps 0.10 relies on a newer
> Qt than supported by Jessie. I guess I could try building it locally
> but that can be a pain for all the other things a desktop links to.
>
> I think Qt should have a brighter future for a universal toolkit since
> it's available on the major platforms. It has good language bindings
> and doesn't seem to be boxing itself into the corner of only existing
> primarily to support a single desktop environment as GNOME seems to be
> intending with GTK+3.
>
> - Nate
>
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