Hi all When LXQt was created, we also created another organization on Github called QtDesktop: https://github.com/qtdesktop/
The goal was to have a place where Qt desktop apps with no dependency on any particular DE could be developed in a collaborative way. I think it's safe to say the experiment failed. In total, we managed to get four members: Screengrab, QPS, EasyPaint and QTerminal. All three went completely unmaintained by their original authors; Screengrab was picked up by LXQt maintainers. QTerminal was picked up by LXQt itself. I would like, in the coming weeks/months, to formally archive the experiment. A word on each of the apps: - QPS is an app which attempts to port ksysguard but a process viewer/visualizer is a fairly complex piece of work. ksysguard simply does the job better and its dependencies nowadays are pretty light. I'd love to figure out a way to have it be a better drop-in-to LXQt (on Arch at the moment it depends on the entire KDE stack, including Phonon etc), because it's an important part of a power-user-friendly desktop. - EasyPaint started off promising but lost its author too early, there's nothing to work with there. Image editing software is not easy. Pinta (https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/) looks promising nowadays but unfortunately it's in gtk-sharp. Hoping for a Qt alternative is probably a lost cause at this point. - QTerminal/QTermWidget are in a pretty awful state at the moment. They have severe memory leaks, issues with unicode/wide fonts, lots and lots of things which have since been fixed in Konsole. But again, Konsole pulls in the entire KDE stack on some distros so there's no good answer there. QTermWidget is extremely useful and I hope the Konsole devs would consider creating a widget counterpart that does not depend on the KDE libs; then this whole situation becomes a lot simpler. - Finally, Screengrab. I wrote earlier that I'd like to give it the same treatment as QTerminal: Move it to LXQt (https://github.com/QtDesktop/screengrab/issues/42). If we do that, we can then drop the screenshot functionality in lximage-qt which is currently an unfortunate duplication of efforts. But the main issue with it is its usage of Qxt, which could then be replaced by lxqt-globalkeys usage. Thoughts? J. Leclanche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
