Qt-Powered Lumina Desktop 1.6 Released For BSD/Linux Systems

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt-Powered Lumina Desktop 1.6 Released For BSD/Linux Systems

Out this weekend is Lumina 1.6 as the latest release of this Qt-powered desktop environment originally developed by iXsystems as part of PC-BSD / TrueOS...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lumina-Desktop-1.6-Released

[Nille_kungen]

Maybe i should give it a spin.
A lite qt desktop environment is good but plasma desktop is pretty light in it self but it's bigger.

[Charlie68]

Maybe i should give it a spin.
A lite qt desktop environment is good but plasma desktop is pretty light in it self but it's bigger.

There is also Lxqt, if you want a very light QT DE.

[kpedersen]

Maybe i should give it a spin.
plasma desktop is pretty light in it self

How is plasma light in any possible way?

Just look at all these dependencies it drags in.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=^plasma5-plasma-desktop-5.17.5_1

[DanL]

How is plasma light in any possible way? Just look at all these dependencies it drags in.

That looks like the full desktop metapackage. You can make a lighter Plasma install than that.

[Nille_kungen]

How is plasma light in any possible way?

Just look at all these dependencies it drags in.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=^plasma5-plasma-desktop-5.17.5_1

It's light when using it.
Low on ram and resources actually plasma uses almost the same resources as xfce.
It's an DE of course it will have a lot dependencies and most you see there are other plasma or qt5 components that's because it's modular.

[240Hz]

What's the point of this? It looks and feels like absolute trash and there are much better lightweight alternatives around. Easily the worst UI I have ever used

[willbprog177]

That looks like the full desktop metapackage. You can make a lighter Plasma install than that.

It's a bit dated and not scientific, but this comparison shows that Qt is definitely not 'lightweight' compared to things like FLTK: https://www.pismotek.com/brainout/co...-resources.php

[kpedersen]

That looks like the full desktop metapackage. You can make a lighter Plasma install than that.

Yeah, for example you can just install the WM component. However this is ricing and means that you are no longer running the Plasma desktop. Instead you are making your own non-standard setup using individual components. A corporate install for example would not do this.

[240Hz]

Yeah, for example you can just install the WM component. However this is ricing and means that you are no longer running the Plasma desktop. Instead you are making your own non-standard setup using individual components. A corporate install for example would not do this.

You dont know what you are talking about. You can install KDE but there is no need to install all KDE apps and KDE games. This is not "ricing"

How is plasma light in any possible way?

Just look at all these dependencies it drags in.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=^plasma5-plasma-desktop-5.17.5_1

Libvdpau? A lot of that is not even plasma, speaks more about Freebsd package maintainers.