From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5A41381FA for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 07:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54F9AE0978; Fri, 30 May 2014 07:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA2BE087B for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 07:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.71.28.203] (helo=echoes) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WqHgs-00018d-5x for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 07:57:26 +0000 Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 08:57:24 +0100 From: john To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5? Message-ID: <20140530085724.259b2423@echoes> In-Reply-To: <5384CF9B.7060803@tampabay.rr.com> References: <5384CF9B.7060803@tampabay.rr.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.71.28.203] X-Archives-Salt: 698e5d19-6a07-4915-89e8-fd7f751219b4 X-Archives-Hash: 45e5bfbf70711ad7700087c1ebf1a485 On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:47:07 -0500 wireless@tampabay.rr.com wrote: > On 05/27/14 00:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's > > zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt > > site. > > > I run lxde on one desktop; and my experimental results are nothing > short of fabulous. A while back they (LXDE and razor-qt projects) > decided to merge and support QT5. [1] If you have a spare desktop, > you might want to experiment with QT5 via LXDE-QT [2]. > > > I have not inquired when "LXDE-QT" known also as LXQT will formerly > appear in portage; I can't remember where I read rumblings about it. > I have just now looked for an overlay [3]. > > I do like the new (old_school?) approach of LXde and it's resource > footprint is very, very small. qt is a fine piece of work; I have > issues with the KDE "vision" and LXQT seems to be reading my mind > on what a gui environment should and should not do, imho. > > Lightweight X means it could and should run in many places, easily > and securely, like in a VM environment, tablets, etc etc. > > > hth, > James > > > [1] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Migrate_from_GTK%2B_to_Qt > > [2] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Build_LXDE-Qt_From_Source > > [3] https://github.com/mika-k/lxqt-overlay > lxqt is up and running in Gentoo. It's listed in packages. The only problem I had was emerging lxqt-panel but just had to change a use flag of lxqt-panel from quicklauch to -quicklaunch and it emerged. No problems with anything else and desktop is good. -- John D Maunder