Hi Ben, On 05/12/2014 07:06 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 12 May 2014 03:28, Jauhien Piatlicki <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> LXQt 0.7.0 has been released [1]. >> >> As it is project different from LXDE > > That is debatable. LXQt is released by the merged LXDE and Razor-Qt > upstreams. One could say there are simply two expressions of LXDE now: > one in GTK+ and one in Qt. > >> and will be supported in parallel >> with it, it seems like a good idea add a new category lxqt-base. > > Personally I don't see a need for this. All the Qt-specific packages > are named accordingly, and should not confuse anyone installing > anything from the lxde-base category. I would like to see that latter > category re-used for this.
> > But I know the maintainers of LXDE herd do not support this view, and > since at this point I don't have the time to maintain LXQt, I will > leave the decision up to you guys. It's only me who spoke on behalf of LXDE so far :( gtk2 is still alive, and lxde said that while it's still alive, the GTK lxde will still be supported. After all, lxde-base, as the name implies, is for lxde-related packages (maintained by lxde@). The new project is lxqt, which makes the lxde category slightly irrelevant. Since the lxde team has nothing to do with it, this will add more confusion. That's my opinion. Same thing for razor-qt apparently. Fortunately/unfortunately there is this tendency to use a distinct category (and set of maintainers/herd) for each DE. > >> compton-conf >> libqtxdg >> qt-gtk-engine >> libfm >> libsysstat >> obconf-qt >> pcmanfm-qt > > I think these packages could be placed in the relevant x11-* > categories, as they are perfectly usable in other environments as > well, tho for ease of maintenance you could stick them with the LXQt > packages. > +1 (pcmanfm-qt is already in the tree in x11-misc/, libfm too etc) Maybe it's possible to merge obconf and obconf-qt with a new 'qt' use flag. The less duplication we do, the less time we will need to spend maintaining the packages. -- Regards, Markos Chandras
