Hi, sorry for jumping in so late. On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:04:39 +0800 Chun Yu Charlie CHAN <10014705@life.hkbu.edu.hk> wrote:
As far as I know from the LXDE official blog, developers from LXDE never see LXQt as a "replacement" of LXDE, and neither LXDE would cease development.
LXQt is a project merged from LXDE and razor-qt, as developers from both projects felt that they have a common ground and therefore should pull resources together. On the other hand, LXDE developers are still maintaining their GTK apps, they even planned to port some of them to GTK3.
I would say both projects would co-exist for some time in the future.
That's totally right. PCMan one of the driving forces behind LXDE at some point started to experiment with Qt and created LXDE-Qt. After a while razor-qt, a similar project with the goal of a minimal DE written in Qt and LXDE-Qt (the playground of PCMan) merged since both had few developers. LXDE guys usually heavily protest if one sais LXQt is the replacement for LXDE, as this never was their plan. I am maintaining LXQt on openSUSE, where I took over from Andrea and SFalken who both told me that they have almost no time for the project anymore. They were also the primary maintainers of LXDE. Since they left LXDE is not really maintained in openSUSE anymore. I have rights for X11:lxde but only because initially LXQt components lived in that project. Later I created X11:LXQt to have it more separated. I am in contact with LXQt upstream and take care of it in openSUSE but have not contact with LXDE at all. If there come submit requests to X11:LXDE I try to take care of them but actually I am not actively maintaining it. As for the original question: I really don't mind dropping lxdm ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org