-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/2014 04:53 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > I'm very happy about our 0.7 release; only a couple of days in and > it's a big success. We've seen increased activity, bug reports and > overwhelmingly encouraging feedback on hacker news, reddit and other > sources. > > When it comes to features and functional polishing, I'm quite > confident we're set and we have the right people for it. > The most common complaint about LXQt however is graphics, and I tend > to agree. I've gotten used to the QtCurve look by now but the truth is > it didn't age well. The alternative Qt 4 themes are .. simply awful. > Oxygen is okay but unfortunately requires kdelibs, and has no Qt 5 > port that I know of.
I am also using QtCurve, I find that if I install kde systemsettings (and tons of other kde libs) i can use the QtCurve customization menu, from there I was able to customize (remove) allot of the ugly default QtCurve settings to get some more modern and sensible.. QtCurve currently support gtk+2 as well. the combination I'm pretty happy with, however, it would be great if QTCurve themes and colors could be customized without needing kde base libraries.. > Functionally, there are a couple of points I wanted to raise. > First of all, lxqt-notifications and lxqt-panel are heavy users of > QSS. I love QSS but it's getting zero love in upstream Qt and I > believe we will have to drop it. > I think these two apps are actually great candidates to port to QML, > which allows a lot more freedom and high level control over their > looks. I'm not a big fan of QML myself but it's here and it's not > going away, I also think it solves the use cases for our panel and > notifications. I also think it'd be pretty well suited for > lxqt-runner. > > The second point is about Qt 5. There's been spiking interest in > finishing the port and we're actually almost there. As soon as the > desktop fully compiles with Qt 5 I will switch the Arch packages to > use that everywhere. I believe that this is something we need to > finish first before anything can happen on the graphics side, as Qt 5 > has a very different set of widget themes.[1] > > Now, on to graphics themselves. There's several parts to take care of > synchronously: > - Qt Widget theme, which controls the majority of the look and feel of Qt > apps > - Icon and cursor themes > - Extra theming for LXQt apps (panel, notifications and runner > styling for example) > - Wallpapers > - Display manager theme > > On the general look and feel of the desktop, something that was > brought up before and that I've thought about myself is a flat look & > feel. While it's somewhat trendy it's not universally approved so it > would need to stay an option. Still, if it's an easier route it could > use some focus. > On specifics, the Qt theme itself is very hard to control - very few > graphics devs actually know how to deal with that stuff. > Icon themes are easier mainly because there's already a large set to > choose from. > > The three other items are easier dealt by graphics people. The problem > is of course that we don't really have graphics people right now. So > this email is also a call for artists, if anyone is willing to work on > this please either reply to this email or contact me directly. > > Open to thoughts. > > > [1] > http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/10/30/cleaning-up-styles-in-qt5-and-adding-fusion/ > > J. Leclanche > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find out: > • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity > • Requirements for releasing software faster > • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTbQq3AAoJEGhkq3NMC00tX5YIAJZjOER/2/rr5JFS3I0nHjAI eK+0uazPmPk2GSw/0nmbC6nP28sGiXK/fL7GMWPAhRpTDyfU6V2wMkgwrC10iU7k VuxvA73gROR0pUtkLpFwUNWZAJms2WyYbYR3dMkW3FTiVorYk4IX0mnsWOjYdyDP dRBeu/ZeQDFi6moh+sHAKZIl0vCs7q6LjC4jJ8qKcJx6uzXIfybOxOvOn+YE7fK9 7G7/BYjOeKv5SPMReE6x6WXB53b0KwLqp7p1Wxfb3em2iEkeCq1+PCs8wSvJ6/cG XHYXMIaJTu0UlU/BOQ3m7PIqd1+dgR4xvmbkIvD3Y6zaZf+r23d7f8d2tM6P3Sk= =yoSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find out: • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity • Requirements for releasing software faster • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
