LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41

A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release.

LXQt 2.0 released back in April and brought its initial Qt 6 desktop port, better Wayland support, and a range of other improvements for this lightweight Qt-based open-source desktop environment. The Wayland support remains experimental for LXQt 2.0. While the LXQt desktop doesn't have a particularly big presence in the Fedora space, the change proposal opened this week is for getting LXQt 2.0 all packaged up for Fedora 41.

Besides letting LXQt users have the upgraded desktop, the other motivation for getting LXQt 2.0 in F41 is for having one less package dependency in the repository that requires the end-of-life Qt 5 toolkit.

More details on the proposed LXQt 2.0 plans, which still need to be approved by FESCo, can be found on the Fedora Wiki.