On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:50 PM, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For your information, we are discussing a potential migration from >> LXDE + Gtk applications to a LXQt + Qt environment for Lubuntu. You >> may be interesting in the discussion about the different applications >> for the different user cases : >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lubuntu-brainstorming/qt-migration >> >> Maybe you will be interesting to participate to the discussion, and >> maybe bless or advise some Qt applications for other distributions >> trying to build a lightweight Qt one ? :-) LXQt is still incomplete as >> a desktop environment (compare to Gnome or KDE), and I don't how much >> functionalities / integration you want to support in the project at >> the end (all uses cases or a core system with recommended external >> applications) >> >> I'm still a bit worried about some applications / features not >> available in a Qt lightweight solution (office solution, language >> support, tasks manager …). But I'm still in the process to discover >> the Qt world :-) >> >> Any comments / inputs are, of course, welcome :-) >> >> Regards, >> Julien Lavergne > > What apps do you need? Do you have a list for it? > I have some recommendations. > ======================================================= > music player: qmmp + simple ui plugin (very similar to audacious) or > clementine (amarok like) > text editor: juffed > system monitor: qps (replaces lxtask) > terminal: qterminal > clipboard manager: qlipper > compositing manager: compton > irc: quassel > web browser: firefox is still better, Arora is a Qt alternative but it > crashes frequently > calculator: I haven't found a simple yet good one
I'm not sure how entrenched kcalc is with KDE libraries (it uses libkdecore and libkdeui), but it is a very nice calculator. > file archiver: I haven't found a simple yet good one (peazip works, > but its UI is weird) > image viewer: lximage-qt > screenshot tool: lximage-qt can does it :-) > volume mixer: qastools (for alsa) > system admin tools: lxqt-admin (replaces gnome-system-tools), this is > a work in progress and will be available soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
