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Development on LXQt's been rough lately. I really wish the Lumina guys would have contacted us at some point, reached out to us. There is a very big lack of ma
by scrollaway 10y ago
Development on LXQt's been rough lately. I really wish the Lumina guys would have contacted us at some point, reached out to us.
There is a very big lack of manpower, lack of designers, lack of general availability from sysadmins or developers competent at UX.
It saddens me greatly. I used to take care of releases, outreach and UX but focusing on my company means I don't have the time to do that anymore. Despite taking great care to reduce the bus factor as much as possible, right now, LXQt is stuck without a release because there's nobody that both cares about the project and has the time and skills to do this kind of stuff.
This is how the Linux desktop dies. A couple of "big" players doing their own thing and a plethora of small players never trying to partner up with similar projects. LXQt was successful for a long time because it was two small projects that merged into a larger one, but people move on and the momentum gets lost.
- optforfon 10y agoAs far as I know Lumina is a one man project. I remember listening to a podcast with him. It sounded very much like a guy started messing around and trying stuff out and ended up with Lumina. Kinda like Hammer2 is also mostly a one man project. That's why it's pretty slow moving. Sorry about LxQt. Wish I had some Qt experience to help out
- digi_owl 10y ago> A couple of "big" players doing their own thing So much for Freedesktop standardization...
- scrollaway 10y agoFDO is a failed project. It got us a few good things, but now it's a joke. Nobody cares about or reads the mailing list, nobody takes the various requests in it seriously, blah... I'm pretty upset about it.
- pjmlp 10y agoThe problem with GNU/Linux is that they just replaced the UNIX wars with Linux wars. For a long time, starting with Slackware 2.0 and for around 10 years, I wanted to use fully use GNU/Linux and used most of the distributions until eventually settling on Ubuntu. Which I only use on a travel netbook anyway. As someone that is focused on UX and the whole desktop stack, never found a UNIX that cared about the user desktop experience. Compared to Atari, Amiga, BeOS or even Windows. NextSTEP was probably the closest to it, but even its UNIX underpinnings were more a side effect to speed up its development and make it easy to port software than anything else. So my daily OSes have become Windows, OS X and Android. The fact that Apple and Google have a UNIX kernel is totally irrelevant for the programming languages I make use of.
- mixedCase 10y agoJust like LXDE and Razor-Qt merged, wouldn't it be a good idea for LXQt to merge with Lumina? It would not only ensure that LXQt's torch is carried on but also set a great example to all other open source projects that merging provides as great a solution as forking does, although for opposite problems.
- scrollaway 10y agoSure would be, unfortunately nobody's talking or available to actually do it. The Razor-Qt merge wasn't an easy project - it took us almost 6 months to complete.
- boomboomsubban 10y agoLicensing issues make this unlikely, a big reason Lumina was developed is to be able to ship a BSD licensed OS with a GPL free desktop environment.