LXQt Now Has Full Qt5 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LXQt Now Has Full Qt5 Support

The "LXQt" desktop that's a Qt version of the lightweight LXDE desktop can now be compiled using Qt5 where as previously there were still Qt4 dependencies...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTczMTc

[J?rnS]

It would be really awesome to run LXQt on Wayland!

[gufide]

It would be really awesome to run LXQt on Wayland!

Just wait for Kwin

[Krejzi]

It would be really awesome to run LXQt on Wayland!

It would be ironic for "Lightweight X Desktop Environment" to run on non-X.

Jokes aside. LXDE doesn't have its own window manager so I wonder if they will use one of the existing wayland compositors or they will port openbox (the X window manager they currently recommend) to be a wayland compositor.

[e?iukas]

<..> or they will port openbox (the X window manager they currently recommend) to be a wayland compositor.

Would be wonderful!

[pouar]

Unless Wayland gets "network transparency" A lot of people will still need X based systems. Here's hoping either Wayland implements it or XWayland would be enough. In the long term I doubt XWayland would be enough.

[GreatEmerald]

Awesome news. And Gentoo already has 0.7 in ~amd64. Can't wait to try it all out in two weeks.

It would be ironic for "Lightweight X Desktop Environment" to run on non-X.

You mean the "Lightweight X Qt"?

Jokes aside. LXDE doesn't have its own window manager so I wonder if they will use one of the existing wayland compositors or they will port openbox (the X window manager they currently recommend) to be a wayland compositor.

Openbox is entirely dependent on X. Trying to port it means recreating it from scratch, and I think they have more interesting ways of spending their time. KWin is supported just as well, and perhaps they could also add support for Weston.

Unless Wayland gets "network transparency" A lot of people will still need X based systems. Here's hoping either Wayland implements it or XWayland would be enough. In the long term I doubt XWayland would be enough.

"A lot of people" that require network transparency being like five.

[ua=42]

Unless Wayland gets "network transparency" A lot of people will still need X based systems. Here's hoping either Wayland implements it or XWayland would be enough. In the long term I doubt XWayland would be enough.

Sigh.

Gui programs on linux haven't been network transparent for a long time. Instead, it has been mostly sending screenshots over the network in a very inefficient manner.

Wayland will be better for gui apps over the network.

[FLHerne]

I don't see how 'converting' Openbox to be a Wayland compositor could make any sense - it does almost nothing beyond allowing you to drag windows about, with minimal UI, so just about all the code will be X11-specific. Porting a big flashy thing like KWin is reasonable, because it has a ton of fancy effects, desktop switching UI, theming and menus that aren't directly related to the actual window management.

Unless Wayland gets "network transparency" A lot of people will still need X based systems. Here's hoping either Wayland implements it or XWayland would be enough. In the long term I doubt XWayland would be enough.

I bet the number of people who currently use X network transparency is almost nil. Both the major toolkits use features that aren't properly network-transparent, so those hypothetical people must be using 10-15 year-old applications drawing X primitives directly (or does Motif or something equally antiquated support it)?

[xeekei]

Openbox isn't a compositor, as far as I know. So they'll need to port Compton. Kwin will probably arrive sooner though. While Kwin is quite heavy, it's still fast if you don't use fancy effects.