Episode 4:16: Super PCMan

Coming up in this episode Themes Are More Global Than You Think Kdenlive Does Some Layering The History of LXDE To Qt, or not to Qt? Then, we call an audible 0:00 Cold Open 2:17 Theme of the Crop 16:22 The Lost Edit 28:11 The History of LXDE 55:51 How'd LXQt and LXDE Go? 1:24:28 Next Time 1:31:13 Stinger The Video Version https://youtu.be/Y8_rMTmnIXc 🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop KDE's Attack Surface? Hackaday coverage The Reddit Post Kdenlive gave Leo a hard time 24.02.0 was hot off the press and Leo couldn't resist. Thankfully 24.02.1 followed to hopefully resolve the issues. 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 The History of LXDE (and some LXQt) The LXDE mailing list goes back to 2008 Ubuntu Lite later known as U-lite commited to using LXDE. DesktopLinux.com coverage Elemental Linux, MoonOS and WattOS followed with a commitment A PCManFM review from 2008 The blog appears December 2008 status update Sidux adds an unofficial LXDE flavor Mandriva adds LXDE Fedora too LXDE Translation project PCMan asks the community for feedback FOSDEM 2009 Lubuntu enters the chat LXDE on android phones LXDE on Solaris LXDE in Centos PCLXDE First Lubuntu test ISO Fedora success OpenSUSE status update Refactor time Rewrite, and make it faster Movable desktop icons LXDE becomes an available Debian desktop A Qt port begins Diverse paths PCMan develops a "Guide for Migrating from Gtk+ to Qt" LXDE-QT preview Razor-Qt PCMan had this to say about Razor-Qt A merger of LXDE-Qt and Razor-Qt LXDE-Qt is not bloated PCManFM-Qt was in a usable state LXQt alpha is announced shortly after it was announced. Initial FreeBSD support for LXQt Comparing Numbers LXQt got “full” Qt5 support LXQt 0.8 released LXDE is still going We say goodbye to Razor-qt The 0.9 release was caught on snags but eventually released LXQt 0.10 followed LXQt 0.11 released More stats LXQt 0.12.0 LXQt 0.13.0 The end for GTK 2 Debian, at the time, set the death date GTK 3 would end up being the target for LXDE LXQt 0.17 LXQt 1.0.0 was released! LXDE diehards are still keeping things alive for LXDE LXQt 2.0 is planned to release in the usual April slot Speaking of Wayland Quick LXQt History More 📣Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch all the great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord or Lemmy. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids Next Time Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is Xz. Stay tuned 📡 and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Johnny Co-Producer Tim GrouchyM Super User A.J. Advait CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Livet Musical Coder Nicholas Nick sleepyeyesvince The Saigoneer Tobias Support Linux User Space