Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017

LXQt Spin proposed for Fedora 26, new test build available

Around christmas we announced some initial effort for a Fedora LXQt remix/spin. After some weeks of testing and tuning, reworking translation packages and updating whole LXQt to 0.11.x (x>0) the LXQt SIG decided to propose the LXQt Spin for inclusion in Fedora 26.

The current selection of applications:

  • LXQt 0.11.x
  • PCManFM-Qt (LXQt file manager)
  • Ark (archiver, from KDE)
  • Dragon (media player, from KDE)
  • KCalc (calculator, from KDE)
  • KWrite (text editor, from KDE)
  • LXImage-Qt (image viewer)
  • Psi+ (XMPP client)
  • qBittorrent (torrent client)
  • Qlipper (clipboard tool)
  • qpdfview (pdf and ps viewer)
  • Quassel (IRC client)
  • QupZilla (web browser)
  • Trojita (IMAP mail client)
  • Yarock (music player)
The set of applications is not yet fixed, we've chosen some KDE applications as they are Qt5 based and integrate well while having a small dependency footprint. In cases where LXQt provides an application (e.g. LXImage-Qt image viewer), this one has been selected.

For configuration we included the LXQt config tools (lxqt-config and obconf-qt) of course, in addition we added lxappearance to be able to change GTK themes too. The theme itself is the Breeze theme known from KDE, it looks nice and is provided for GTK in addition, so the user can have a unified look. By default we've chosen the Openbox window manager, in addition the spin will contain KWin for those who like to have compositing etc.

For software management we included dnfdragora, a nice graphical frontend for DNF providing a nice Qt based GUI in our case (but as it uses libyui abstraction layer, it can use GTK and curses too, as known from SUSE YaST). This is not yet included in Fedora, but on a good way to arrive soon. Right now Kevin Kofler provides a COPR for it.

A new test build is available in the usual location, comments and ideas (like different applications which may fit better) should be shared in our project on pagure.

2 Kommentare:

  1. I'm not sure where to talk about this suggestion. So, just add here. I would suggest to add Kate into the collection of selected applications.

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