Hi Andrew, On Sat, 9 May 2026 15:54:31 +0200 Andrew Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 7:55 AM Bryan Gardiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be nice if the panel started with widgets even without > > lxqt-branding-debian, but I understand if you consider this a corner > > case. Maybe Debian's lxqt-panel could continue to install it under > > /usr/share/lxqt, if lxqt-branding-debian is more important? > > > > [1] https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-panel/issues/2175 > > Thanks for the info. I hope you assumaion is correct that panel.conf > from lxqt-branding-debian under /etc is higher prioity than panel.conf > from /usr/share/lxqt. And we can satisfy both cases. According to the docs for QSettings, this should be how it works. First ~/.config is checked, then each directory in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. LXQt sessions set that variable to "/etc:/etc/xdg:/usr/share". And if that variable is unset, Qt defaults it to /etc/xdg. > Feel free to submit patches or Merge Request via salsa. I will test > them and make upload to fix these shortly. Thanks, I would be happy to open a MR. Before I do though, if we revert to installing under /usr/share/lxqt, that will leave the upstream bug #2175 above unfixed, so without lxqt-branding-debian installed, non-LXQt sessions will default to empty panels. I confirmed that this happens with an Openbox session when the panel config is only in /usr/share/lxqt and not /etc/xdg/lxqt. LXQt probably can't (and shouldn't) force XDG_CONFIG_DIRS into other sessions. One option that respects #2175 might be to have an alternate "stock" branding package that provides the default panel.conf (and I assume this is all that would need to be in there at the moment), and give lxqt-panel "Depends: lxqt-branding" or some variant on that. Or maybe there's some other way. But it feels like lxqt-panel depends on *some* panel.conf existing now. How should we proceed? Thanks, Bryan
