LXQt 1.0 Released For Lightweight Qt5 Desktop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LXQt 1.0 Released For Lightweight Qt5 Desktop

After eight years in development, the LXQt desktop that was created by the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt open-source desktop projects is celebrating its v1.0 release...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LXQt-1.0-Released

[Aryma]

party is over

go back to port it to Qt 6.0 ASAP

[uid313]

It would be nice to finally see a Qt 6 desktop...

[zexelon]

I am a bit confused, where did they release 1.0? Their site still seems to indicate 0.17.1 from April.

Also, is this the right source repo? https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt

It looks like it hasnt seen really any activity in the last 3 - 5 years!

[bug77]

It seems very strange after all these years they didn't a little more time to start this on Qt6. And a little worrisome, considering at this point Qt6 is mostly about removing deprecated stuff from Qt5.

[Chewi]

I've mostly seen it on OpenSUSE, where it feels a little buggy and incomplete, if I'm honest. Is it better on other distros?

[slacka]

The killer app of LXDE is that it allowed me to run a full desktop environment on my 2GB Pi4. Now that LXQt is out at 1.0, would be interested to see some memory usage benchmarks under different loads.

[bug77]

I am a bit confused, where did they release 1.0? Their site still seems to indicate 0.17.1 from April.

Also, is this the right source repo? https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt

It looks like it hasnt seen really any activity in the last 3 - 5 years!

It is the right repo, but it's not where things happen. From the beginning of the readme:

This is a superproject which contains all LXQt components. After checking out this repo please do the following to initialize git submodules.

[schmidtbag]

I've mostly seen it on OpenSUSE, where it feels a little buggy and incomplete, if I'm honest. Is it better on other distros?

I used to try it on Arch a couple years ago but pretty much every other Qt update caused something to break, so, I'd say it likely isn't better on most other distros.

[flower]

Did they fix that all panel icons and text seemed a little bit unaligned?

I like the idea of lxqt, but couldn't use it that way