From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F6B3138350 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69EC0E0B43; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E04EFE0995 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from computer (unknown [IPv6:2a02:8109:8380:7e7e:ac57:3773:24ce:ae5b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hanno) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A62534EFA5 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:19:28 +0100 From: Hanno =?UTF-8?B?QsO2Y2s=?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] State of the lxde Project Message-ID: <20200319121928.395d1d8d@computer> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.5 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 35f57a18-6879-41c4-ae21-394c3887a217 X-Archives-Hash: 4df0b887f37206389724369fd1ff4517 Hello, I've been the only member of the lxde project for a while. I recently stopped using lxde myself. Currently lxde still works, the bug count is relatively low, but it's a challenging situation. Upstream development has largely stopped and people have moved to lxqt. My personal issue why I stopped using lxde was that the latest version of electron - and subsequently signal - switched its tray icon implementation to a new API called StatusNotifier which is not supported by lxde's panel. There's also one issue where an lxde package depends on a deprecated version of a library [1]. I assume such issues will become more over time and it's unclear if there will be any upstream activity fixing such issues. If anyone is willing to take over I'm happy to give any guidance I can. Likely within the next days I'll remove myself from the lxde project, making it empty. With approval from the lxqt project I have moved the openbox window manager, which is shared by lxde and lxqt, to the lxqt project. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/708188 --=20 Hanno B=C3=B6ck https://hboeck.de/