+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted May 8, 2014 Subscriber² Share Posted May 8, 2014 Linux desktop environment LXQt achieves first release Besides being stable and versatile, Linux-based operating systems are very customizable too. You see, most distributions allow you to customize the UI by selecting different environments. While GNOME, KDE and Unity are a few of the popular environments, there are many others as well. Two such less-known, but well-respected environments are LXDE and Razor-qt. Surprisingly, last year, the projects decided to merge. It makes sense, as they both share the focus of being lightweight and functional. Today, the fruition of their merger goes public -- LXQt 0.7.0. "The LXDE and Razor-qt teams are proud to announce LXQt 0.7.0, the first release of LXQt, the Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment. This beta release is considered a stable continuation of the Razor desktop. It has been almost a year since the Razor-qt project and the LXDE-Qt project decided to merge. Since then, the LXQt desktop has been under active development by 13 developers and dozens of contributors and translators", says Jerome Leclanche. Leclanche further explains, "the merge has been praised by a lot of members of this community. The Maui Project has joined our efforts in creating a better Qt desktop and together we hope to focus less on our differences and more on what we share. The KDE Project has, in their efforts in building the modular KDE Frameworks, opened new doors for Qt developers working with desktop libraries. KF5 libraries may soon power some LXQt components! In the same spirit, I would like other desktops to consider this an open invitation to come and talk to us about how we could benefit from each other's work". Luckily for some dedicated users, LXDE will not be immediately killed. However, the writing is on the wall that it will likely see its demise soon enough. It remains to be seen how official LXDE-based Ubuntu spin, Lubuntu, will handle this turn of events. Will we see an official LXQt Ubuntu version? If you are interested in trying this love-child of LXDE and Razor-qt, you can try it immediately. Arch users can get the packages here, while Ubuntu users can get them here. Source: BetanewsLink: lxqt.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted May 8, 2014 Veteran Share Posted May 8, 2014 hmmm, will give this a try later :) it looks very nice although looks like its gonna have to be a source install :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Interesting.. LXDE was never one of my personal favorites (don't care for the lightweights), didn't know they were ditching GTK in favor of QT. Will have to toss this one into a VM and see how that turned out out of curiosity, always preferred how the QT based software looked over GTK, never mind building with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Majesticmerc MVC Posted May 8, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 8, 2014 I wasn't even aware that they were planning to merge. Looks good though. Like Max said, QT-based software always seems to look great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted May 8, 2014 Veteran Share Posted May 8, 2014 so whos doing a tutorial for installing in debian then lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 it looks good, i will run it in a virtual machine if possible. just cant see me moving away from solydk anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted May 8, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 8, 2014 Meh, still looks like Linux. The closest thing that doesn't look like Linux is Elementary OS. but even that still has some of the back forward, refresh icons, that yell Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh4hb4z Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Meh, still looks like Linux. The closest thing that doesn't look like Linux is Elementary OS. but even that still has some of the back forward, refresh icons, that yell Linux. And your point is? Some people don't need/want Linux to look like Windows. Some people don't need/want Linux to look like Mac. Some people, myself included, like Linux to look like... Linux. True story. simonlang, Suburban Errorist, Tews and 3 others 6 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 If anyone gets this up and running, can they take and post some screenshots of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_was_here Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Meh, still looks like Linux. The closest thing that doesn't look like Linux is Elementary OS. but even that still has some of the back forward, refresh icons, that yell Linux. If that's the worst thing about Elementary then what's the problem? Icons can EASILY be changed. Ph1b3r0pt1c 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Eh it was never meant to be heavy on visuals anyway, this distro focuses on being lightweight versus a ton of visuals and bells and whistles. Subjective of course, for QT I'm quite fond of KDE personally.. so much so one of my Win 8 machines runs KDE as it's shell instead of Explorer, just because, plus with most desktops you can change up how it looks and feels to what's more comfortable to use.. Windows can do that too obviously but you've got a lot more options to pick from with *Nix if customizing it is your thing.. especially shells/DE's, Windows is fairly lacking in that department even though it's totally capable. That said, there's only so many ways you can make things look different that's still functional. Just look at Unity or some of the changes in Gnome 3 for example, change just for the sake of change isn't always good, especially when usability takes a step (or three) backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 And your point is? Some people don't need/want Linux to look like Windows. Some people don't need/want Linux to look like Mac. Some people, myself included, like Linux to look like... Linux. True story. and for all people the fact remains that you can customize linux ANY way you like it and certainly much much more than windows or macosx. Ph1b3r0pt1c 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 gonna give this a run sometime to see how it performs. :) Looking really solid, congrats to the LXQt Team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted May 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted May 9, 2014 anyone get thi working? i followed instructions for ubuntu in a vm its installed fine but then when i rebooted and tried to login i got "Failed to load session" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorak Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Meh, still looks like Linux. The closest thing that doesn't look like Linux is Elementary OS. but even that still has some of the back forward, refresh icons, that yell Linux. Most default Linux setups indeed leave more to be desired. However, the same can be said about Windows. Plus, my Arch installations look pimp and far better than any Windows setup. With that said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. LXQt is a great project. It is already looking promising so I cannot wait to see what the future holds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Fahim S. MVC Posted May 9, 2014 MVC Share Posted May 9, 2014 Meh, still looks like Linux. The closest thing that doesn't look like Linux is Elementary OS. but even that still has some of the back forward, refresh icons, that yell Linux. Trolling much? Every operating system has a distinctive look and feel, otherwise they would be the same OS. Or is the 'still looks like Linux' statement meant to be derisory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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