Show the embedded worls some love
Dear LXDE. I think it is a wise decision to move to Qt, as it really is a ell thouguth out and well documented Application Framework. I am a big fan of KDE, but worry that it is moving away from my needs on the Desktop. They seem to put so much energy into things I don't use or care about - Semantic desktop, PIM, and Plasma. So I look forward to a new simple lightweight desktop based on Qt.
I would like to see LXDE throw out a super light weight desktop for embedded systems. We used to have Qtopia for this, it was nothing fancy but for industrial design it was perfect. Qtopia has been gone for sometime now but there is nothing to feel its place. A lot of companies need a very light weight desktop that simply gives you a desktop with icon management to launch applications and control them, a lightweight IPC mechanisim, and maybe a package management system.
Compared to a fully blown desktop this is really low hanging fruit. and I feel it would be quickly adopted by thousands of projects (commercial and open source) and all chip manufactures offering Board Support Products (BSP).
Please consider the embedded space for LXDE
Dear LXDE. I think it is a wise decision to move to Qt, as it really is a ell thouguth out and well documented Application Framework. I am a big fan of KDE, but worry that it is moving away from my needs on the Desktop. They seem to put so much energy into things I don't use or care about - Semantic desktop, PIM, and Plasma. So I look forward to a new simple lightweight desktop based on Qt.
I would like to see LXDE throw out a super light weight desktop for embedded systems. We used to have Qtopia for this, it was nothing fancy but for industrial design it was perfect. Qtopia has been gone for sometime now but there is nothing to feel its place. A lot of companies need a very light weight desktop that simply gives you a desktop with icon management to launch applications and control them, a lightweight IPC mechanisim, and maybe a package management system.
Compared to a fully blown desktop this is really low hanging fruit. and I feel it would be quickly adopted by thousands of projects (commercial and open source) and all chip manufactures offering Board Support Products (BSP).
Please consider the embedded space for LXDE
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