#11679: Move lxde to GTK3
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Reporter: pierre.labastie | Owner: pierre.labastie
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.5
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by renodr):
An interesting footnote:
{{{
Looking further ahead, the GTK version of LXDE will be dropped and all
efforts will be focused on the Qt port. We, the main developers and
administrators of the projects, will try to figure out where we align and
where we have differences to grind out.
}}}
[https://blog.lxde.org/2013/07/22/the-future-of-razor-and-lxde-qt/]
I don't know if anything has changed since then, but PCManFM's creator
having a serious disdain for GTK+-3 does not bode well for the future of
LXDE. I get that it's lightweight, but it's not without its problems. One
of those is that it doesn't start a dbus-session by default, as I have to
start one myself in a terminal anytime I want to run a test suite for
packages that need it (and I use LXDE to run tests for some GNOME
components before I get a working GNOME Shell installed). Recent issues
such as the LXPanel bug do not bode confidence either IMO. Because
Qt5-based DEs start the user-session for dbus-daemon automatically upon
startup, I don't have to worry about this. XFCE does it as well, but that
goes into Thunar's dependency on GVFS.
[https://blog.lxde.org/2013/03/26/pcmanfm-qt-0-1-0-released/]
This is just my 0.02c though. As the guy who does GNOME, I will have
different opinions than others.
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