On Tue, 27 May 2014 12:47:07 -0500 wirel...@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
