2013/4/22 Andrej N. Gritsenko <[email protected]>: > Hello! > > PCMan have written on Tuesday, 26 March, at 10:42: >>Hello world, >>I just released PCManFM Qt file manager 0.1.0. >>The tarball is available for download here. > > I never looked into razor-qt before and I wasn't aware such DE even > exists but now that I looked into its site I've found out some conceptual > similarities with LXDE. And I've got some crazy idea. Since libfm/pcmanfm > has Qt port already and LXDE as whole has too few active developers, it > might be reasonable to join projects (razor-qt and LXDE), i.e. port to Qt > rest of LXDE components so LXDE will be based on Qt instead of GTK and > razor-qt will get few missing applications as well. It's a crazy idea, I > know, and may be even silly one, I just got that thought and decided to > write it out loud. :) > I never did comparizon on resourses consumption between pcmanfm GTK > and Qt versions though, it should be done somehow sometime. And if Qt is > more lightweight than GTK then... you know. :) > The only problem is that GTK is C but Qt is C++...
It's not a so crazy idea. I'm seriously looking at razor-qt and Qt in general for a possible future of Lubuntu. Ubuntu will use more and more Qt applications in the future, so it makes sense for us to investigate this way. Regards, Julien Lavergne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
