#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 pierre.labastie):
Looks like I had almost all the bugs:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jcsl:LXDE-GTK3, and there is
no hope they'll get fixed. So we need gtk2, but this brings in a couple of
unmaintained deps (keybinder, libunique, python2 and pygtk, etc). lxde
itself will become unmaintained in the near future, I guess.
So we should really put lxqt back (and remove lxde). It can be built with
a lightweight Qt (only 4 modules IIRC), only a few kf5 libraries, and one
plasma library. How we do that exactly, in order to minimize maintenance
burden, I am not sure. Maybe have a page for lightweight Qt (maybe with
more modules than just needed for lxqt, perhaps enough for building kf5
modules allowing to run our preferred KDE apps (k3b, kate, konsole), then
another page for supplementary modules needed for full plasma and Falkon
(this would not introduce more maintenance burden, since we already have
two pages for Qt and qtwebengine). The only thing is that we would have
two pages for kf5: one for the modules needed for lxqt and preferred KDE
apps, and aonther one for full plasma. But if somebody tells me it puts
too much maintenance burden, I'll tell her to just drop plasma from the
book :)
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