Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Here comes LXQt: merge of two lightweight desktop projects, LXDE, and QT Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:07:30 -0700 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <87bnv3du96.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <20140512145650.71dd961e.rsw@therandymon.com> <87egzzq7rf.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net apAEQZW+dwklFCkeLpBWkghOBfl7+5YvzdgZrr9DIhsQ2vAFV7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+PzNqhW4SVZx1twYFHDkl8x16qA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2764 Mike Easter wrote: > Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> I'm an LXDE user and worry about big changes. > > LXDE was based on gtk+2 and needed to be migrated to gtk+3. This blog article footnote section from 2013 Mar presents the picture from the eyes of Hong Jen Yee http://blog.lxde.org/?p=990 I, however, need to admit that working with Qt/C++ is much more pleasant and productive than messing with C/GObject/GTK+. Since GTK+ 3 breaks backward compatibility a lot and it becomes more memory hungry and slower, I don't see much advantage of GTK+ now. GTK+ 2 is lighter, but it's no longer true for GTK+ 3. Ironically, fixing all of the broken compatibility is even harder than porting to Qt in some cases (PCManFM IMO is one of them). So If someone is starting a whole new project and is thinking about what GUI toolkit to use, personally I might recommend Qt if you're not targeting Gnome 3. -- Mike Easter