* [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
@ 2016-08-07 8:22 Pacho Ramos
2016-08-10 5:46 ` Raymond Jennings
2016-08-11 3:16 ` Hanno Böck
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From: Pacho Ramos @ 2016-08-07 8:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE is empty
Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead for a
long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the packages
would also be an option
Thanks
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-07 8:22 [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE Pacho Ramos
@ 2016-08-10 5:46 ` Raymond Jennings
2016-08-10 12:12 ` james
2016-08-11 3:16 ` Hanno Böck
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From: Raymond Jennings @ 2016-08-10 5:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE is empty
>
> Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead for a
> long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the packages
> would also be an option
>
> Thanks
>
>
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 5:46 ` Raymond Jennings
@ 2016-08-10 12:12 ` james
2016-08-10 14:44 ` Nathan Zachary
2016-08-10 18:46 ` Pacho Ramos
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From: james @ 2016-08-10 12:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE.
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org
> <mailto:pacho@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>
> Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE
> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE> is empty
>
> Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead for a
> long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the packages
> would also be an option
>
> Thanks
>
>
+1::
me too. I have it on several (older) systems. Hopefully there will be a
news item, when the time comes, with instructions on migration to
lxqt or a listing of other light weight replacement options, with a wee
bit of migration detail....
hth,
James
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 12:12 ` james
@ 2016-08-10 14:44 ` Nathan Zachary
2016-08-10 16:18 ` james
2016-08-10 18:46 ` Pacho Ramos
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From: Nathan Zachary @ 2016-08-10 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On 10/08/16 07:12, james wrote:
> On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>> Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org
>> <mailto:pacho@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE
>> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE> is empty
>>
>> Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead
>> for a
>> long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the packages
>> would also be an option
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
> +1::
>
> me too. I have it on several (older) systems. Hopefully there will be
> a news item, when the time comes, with instructions on migration to
> lxqt or a listing of other light weight replacement options, with a
> wee bit of migration detail....
>
>
> hth,
> James
>
I was under the impression that both LXDE and LXQT would continue
development, but that LXQT would be favoured. Is there an official
statement that LXDE is dead?
Cheers,
Nathan Zachary
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 14:44 ` Nathan Zachary
@ 2016-08-10 16:18 ` james
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: james @ 2016-08-10 16:18 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 08/10/2016 09:44 AM, Nathan Zachary wrote:
> On 10/08/16 07:12, james wrote:
>> On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>>> Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org
>>> <mailto:pacho@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE
>>> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE> is empty
>>>
>>> Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead
>>> for a
>>> long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the packages
>>> would also be an option
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>> +1::
>>
>> me too. I have it on several (older) systems. Hopefully there will be
>> a news item, when the time comes, with instructions on migration to
>> lxqt or a listing of other light weight replacement options, with a
>> wee bit of migration detail....
>>
>>
>> hth,
>> James
>>
> I was under the impression that both LXDE and LXQT would continue
> development, but that LXQT would be favoured. Is there an official
> statement that LXDE is dead?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan Zachary
Upstream:: NO :: Release date and age February 21, 2016
But upstream is dev light, to say the least. Here at gentoo,
the dev maint situation for lxde is:: skinny, at best [1].
So I guess dev are reading the tea leaves. I'm sure a proxy-maintainer
stepping forward for either, would be keenly appreciated, but lxqt has
always been on my scope.... ymmv. If you believe upstream, then lxqt is
the future.
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE
hth,
James
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 12:12 ` james
2016-08-10 14:44 ` Nathan Zachary
@ 2016-08-10 18:46 ` Pacho Ramos
2016-08-10 21:06 ` james
1 sibling, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Pacho Ramos @ 2016-08-10 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
El mié, 10-08-2016 a las 07:12 -0500, james escribió:
> On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> >
> > Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org
> > <mailto:pacho@gentoo.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE
> > <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE> is empty
> >
> > Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead
> > for a
> > long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the
> > packages
> > would also be an option
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
> +1::
>
> me too. I have it on several (older) systems. Hopefully there will be
> a
> news item, when the time comes, with instructions on migration to
> lxqt or a listing of other light weight replacement options, with a
> wee
> bit of migration detail....
>
>
> hth,
> James
>
What is needed apart of emerging the new desktop and starting to use
it?
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 18:46 ` Pacho Ramos
@ 2016-08-10 21:06 ` james
2016-08-10 21:07 ` Tom H
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From: james @ 2016-08-10 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 08/10/2016 01:46 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El mié, 10-08-2016 a las 07:12 -0500, james escribió:
>> On 08/10/2016 12:46 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey, just a heads up as a user. I'm currently using LXDE.
+_1
(correctly located).
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org
>>> <mailto:pacho@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE
>>> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE> is empty
>>>
>>> Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead
>>> for a
>>> long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the
>>> packages
>>> would also be an option
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>> me too. I have it
LXDE, that is, and I like it very much.
>> on several (older) systems. Hopefully there will be a
>> news item, when the time comes, with instructions on migration to
>> lxqt or a listing of other light weight replacement options, with a
>> wee bit of migration detail....
>>
>>
>> hth,
>> James
>>
>
> What is needed apart of emerging the new desktop and starting to use
> it?
Changes in config files? Has this been tested? Surely folks have a
myriad of setups with lxde and those do not automagically migrate to
lxqt, or do they? If/when lxde goes away are there other similar
choices in lieu of lxqt ? The reason I say this, is the lxde installs I
have done (all 3) have had extensive hacking to get things to work. But
once that was done, they (lxde setups) require little to nothing, which
strongly appeals to me. Hack it once and done.
For example on usb, I gave up and just installed udevil. Most DE users
expect usb usage to be ubiquitous. I know I did before I ever installed
lxde. likewise dvd burning, particularly double sided medias. Others
have different solutions. Terminal windows. I spent days reading and
hacking to get a Kludge I like. I have not had the time to migrate
things to lxqt, despite tinkering around with it. The next system I
install, will go direct to lxqt. I left KDE for many bloated reasons. I
sure hope lxqt is light weight, easy to setup and config and stable.
I have a deep disdain for DEs that require adming work. I want to do my
admin and dev work on clusters, not the rendering/command/control system
know as a workstation.
To me, the entirety of KDE should be replaced with aggressive and
ubiquitious clusters, where any mixture of codes, kde included can be
run. KDE is an OS, and a bloated one at that, that imposes itself on my
DE. I want no part of the KDE vision, nor any other DE that does more
than provide a fast environment to display apps. There is a growing
crowd of folks that like minimal DE environments, imho. Advances should
be in the cluster or a single local server, imho. So, actually, I'd like
to keep lxde into perpetuity and it'd be perfect to train folks for
proxy-maint, imho. Safe, stable, extraordinarily useful and not critical
to anything in the core system. Folks do not have use it.
Old, stable codes are worth their weight in gold, but we must be trendy,
right? So we need to removed lxde, right?
I mean thing about it from a different prospective. I have a vintage
car, not being maintained any more by the manufacturer. It's worthless
now, right? Let's just toss it away so nobody can use it or maintain it
right. Turns out old vintige cars are worth a bloody fortune now days.
Who is to say in 20 or 30 years, these old code will not be worth
extreme value to folks? It costs nothing to just park the codes and
ignore them. Mark lxde as you like and move it to an overlay and let it
sit idle, if you have to clean the tree, that's my wisdom on the matter.
My (college aged kids) get down boxes of old electronic toys to play
with every christmas. It's a blast and friend of all ages enjoy this one
a year treat too. Whos to say and old DE might not be the same
experience one day?
But, I suspect you are implying the correct answer is "Nothing". I'm
just saying if/when lxde goes away or a news item first comes out and
encourages lxde folks to migrate to lxqt, then some detail as to the
situation and easy migration steps, shows a kinder and gentler Gentoo.
I think that's this is one of the proxy-maint exit test questions; when
is a News item is warranted. So this is my opinion, particular if an
update removes lxde and installs lxqt; a news item is then definitely
warranted.
I'm not against keeping lxde around, at all. But from the last year of
experiences with tree cleaning it is more of a religious agenda than
removing what has to be removed. I know, I have dozens of old codes
sitting quite peacefully in /usr/local.... and working just fine.
But I do not enjoy the pressures of being a gentoo dev, so do what you
have to do; news items are great. ymmv. I recommend that you convert
your (gentoo dev) burdens into a peaceful pleasure as you see fit.
Now if you are asking what's broken with news items, then I have an
idea, so they do not have to be avoided. Require all news items to be
very short. A sentence or 2 and more than 50 words. Also they should
have a link to the longer answers and details. That would make 2/3 news
items per day, pretty cool, ymmv. An additional benefit, is that those
linked documents can be annotated more than once and edited until near
perfection (think back to the ncurses debacle.... thank goodness for
vapier. I spent a week stabalizing almost a dozen (gentoo) systems on
that ncurses nightmare and there should have been one place to read
(concurrently) what went wrong and what to do. On gentoo-user, there was
much more zagging than zigging...... (granted to others it was no big deal).
OK? I'm happy with whatever you decide to do.
TIA,
James
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 21:06 ` james
@ 2016-08-10 21:07 ` Tom H
2016-08-11 2:16 ` james
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From: Tom H @ 2016-08-10 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:06 PM, james <garftd@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I have not had the time to migrate things to lxqt, despite tinkering
> around with it. The next system I install, will go direct to lxqt. I
> left KDE for many bloated reasons. I sure hope lxqt is light weight,
> easy to setup and config and stable.
If LXQT's too bloated for you, try Lumina:
https://lumina-desktop.org/
There's an ebuild.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-10 21:07 ` Tom H
@ 2016-08-11 2:16 ` james
2016-08-12 12:30 ` Tom H
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From: james @ 2016-08-11 2:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 08/10/2016 04:07 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 5:06 PM, james <garftd@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have not had the time to migrate things to lxqt, despite tinkering
>> around with it. The next system I install, will go direct to lxqt. I
>> left KDE for many bloated reasons. I sure hope lxqt is light weight,
>> easy to setup and config and stable.
>
> If LXQT's too bloated for you, try Lumina:
>
> https://lumina-desktop.org/
>
> There's an ebuild.
>
>
Yep the ebuild is clean and well written; I shall put that one in my
EAPI-6 reference folder....
I looked at some of the code (https://github.com/trueos/lumina),
impressive, clean and well organized. I do like what I've seen on quick,
first glance.
I did a quick search and did not find a comparison of lumina to lxqt.
I'd like to see a feature comparison to lxqt; gotta ref on the
comparison? I'm interested but cannot commit to a timeline for some test
deployments. For sure this DE is aimed at security and flexibility
and I do like that.
thx Tom,
James
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-07 8:22 [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE Pacho Ramos
2016-08-10 5:46 ` Raymond Jennings
@ 2016-08-11 3:16 ` Hanno Böck
2016-08-14 5:39 ` Hanno Böck
1 sibling, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Hanno Böck @ 2016-08-11 3:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Pacho Ramos; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 10:22:28 +0200
Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Now https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LXDE is empty
>
> Feel free to join, anyway, if I don't misremember, LXDE is dead for a
> long time in favor of LXQT... in that case treecleaning the packages
> would also be an option
Oh...
I'm actually using lxde and I have recently pushed a bunch of memory
safety fixes to upstream that were a result of my address sanitizer
testing.
LXDE upstream isn't totally dead, occasionally releases with fixes
happen, yet they're slow.
I'll look that I maintain some of the stuff, yet I'd prefer if I'd be
not the only one.
--
Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/
mail/jabber: hanno@hboeck.de
GPG: BBB51E42
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-11 2:16 ` james
@ 2016-08-12 12:30 ` Tom H
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Tom H @ 2016-08-12 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo Devel
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:16 PM, james <garftd@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 08/10/2016 04:07 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> If LXQT's too bloated for you, try Lumina:
>>
>> https://lumina-desktop.org/
>>
>> There's an ebuild.
>
> I did a quick search and did not find a comparison of lumina to lxqt.
> I'd like to see a feature comparison to lxqt; gotta ref on the
> comparison?
>
> thx Tom,
You're welcome.
Sorry, I have no refs. There may not be a head-to-head comparison and
it might make sense because Lumina's more of a WM+ than a DE.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-11 3:16 ` Hanno Böck
@ 2016-08-14 5:39 ` Hanno Böck
2016-08-14 8:38 ` Pacho Ramos
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From: Hanno Böck @ 2016-08-14 5:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Ok, so it seems I'm currently the only one interested.
While the wiki page lists no other devs, there are two more devs listed
in the email alias, yet they haven't replied to my questions whether
they consider themselve still part of the project.
I'll take over the project now and will start committing latest upstream
updates piece by piece.
Not sure if there's any long term future for LXDE, but for the time
being I'll take care of it.
--
Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/
mail/jabber: hanno@hboeck.de
GPG: BBB51E42
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-14 5:39 ` Hanno Böck
@ 2016-08-14 8:38 ` Pacho Ramos
2016-08-17 8:51 ` Raymond Jennings
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Pacho Ramos @ 2016-08-14 8:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
El sáb, 13-08-2016 a las 22:39 -0700, Hanno Böck escribió:
> Ok, so it seems I'm currently the only one interested.
>
> While the wiki page lists no other devs, there are two more devs
> listed
> in the email alias, yet they haven't replied to my questions whether
> they consider themselve still part of the project.
>
> I'll take over the project now and will start committing latest
> upstream
> updates piece by piece.
>
> Not sure if there's any long term future for LXDE, but for the time
> being I'll take care of it.
>
When looking to bugs assigned to the team I found some people willing
to help via proxy-maint too... you should be CCed by me in that bug
report for being aware :)
Thanks for joining the team!
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Empty project: LXDE
2016-08-14 8:38 ` Pacho Ramos
@ 2016-08-17 8:51 ` Raymond Jennings
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Raymond Jennings @ 2016-08-17 8:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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From an interested user, you have my thanks.
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> El sáb, 13-08-2016 a las 22:39 -0700, Hanno Böck escribió:
> > Ok, so it seems I'm currently the only one interested.
> >
> > While the wiki page lists no other devs, there are two more devs
> > listed
> > in the email alias, yet they haven't replied to my questions whether
> > they consider themselve still part of the project.
> >
> > I'll take over the project now and will start committing latest
> > upstream
> > updates piece by piece.
> >
> > Not sure if there's any long term future for LXDE, but for the time
> > being I'll take care of it.
> >
>
> When looking to bugs assigned to the team I found some people willing
> to help via proxy-maint too... you should be CCed by me in that bug
> report for being aware :)
>
> Thanks for joining the team!
>
>
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