LXQt 0.9.0 ahead

[melmarker]

LXQt is tagged as 0.9.0 Release - if you run LXQt there will be some trouble while the new packages arrive - please wait with a d-u until all package are finished and transfered to your mirror.

Thanks.

[unklarer]

Thx! 

[melmarker]

All packages are landed at packages.siduction.org - so it could be a day until synced to all mirrors. Have fun.

Experimental ISOs could be fund here: http://test.siduction.org

[gerd]

Looks fine. Could replace XFCE sooner or later.

Thank you Agaida for your engagement with LXQt. I tried to compile and package (proper Debian package) LXQt 0.8 myself and have an imagination what beastly job it is.

[melmarker]

It takes some time. Starting with LXQt packaging back in late 2013, becoming member of upstream later.

EDIT: To be true, i have no clue why LXQt should replace XFCE. This would mean we should add more programms, integration etc pp. The result would be opposite to the goal of LXQt and LXDE - to be a lightweight modular DE.

[seasons]

Thanks for the work. I tried LXQt and it's in much better shape than when I tried it the last time (0.7.x). I found it very responsive on my hardware (Phenom II and an 8400GS using nouveau driver).

LXQt has potential, but I'm sticking to xfce right now because I have the theming (mostly) how I want it.

[unklarer]

OK today!
 If interested, here is the log.

 Thank you for the good work.   

[gerd]

EDIT: To be true, i have no clue why LXQt should replace XFCE. This would mean we should add more programms, integration etc pp. The result would be opposite to the goal of LXQt and LXDE - to be a lightweight modular DE.

Not replace in (supported) distribution. XFCE is very good and stable. I talked about replacement on my personal desktop. But then there are many features XFCE offers and i', used to LXQT doesn't have as for now. Custom user actions in file manager. Nice network traffic monitor in panel and such things.

[sunrat]

Is it safe to d-u LXQT Indian Summer install now? I just downloaded it before reading this and saw there was iso in experimental.

[melmarker]

one can do a full d-u - thats the recommend way, i think. Please file bugs if the packaging has flaws here. Bugs in functionality, suggestions, whishes should go directly to the bugtracker @ http://github.com/lxde/lxqt
 

[sunrat]

Cheers. Just about to install on EeePC 900. Will report back.

My EeePC is dead, keyboard not working. Which is why I wanted to try new OS anyway. Had MX-14 on it.

[belze]

Take a look

[melmarker]

Thanks belze - i had hopes that the packages work for testing, but i was to lazy to try this out - Ok, Pcman knows, what he is doing. But don't think that doing any measurement of the footprint make sense right now. On a typical system one will find a loaded Qt 4 beside some loaded GTK2 and GTK3 modules. So i would agree with "runs good with 1 or better 2 G of RAM" honestly. So a real system with a sufficient uptime and a normal use would look like that:

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System:    Host: razorbox Kernel: 3.18-3-ck-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: LXQt
           Distro: siduction 13.1.0 Firestarter - rqt  - (201306021344)
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G73 [GeForce 7300 GT] 
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1920x1200@59.95hz 
           GLX Renderer: GeForce 7300 GT/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 304.125 
Info:      Processes: 208 Uptime: 8 days Memory: 3089.3/32180.0MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.18


[belze]

i pointed this out as a press release about siduction 
If i hade more spare time i'd test lxqt on debian testing (and/or solydx) and report back how (if) it works