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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?
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:
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📣
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Next Time
Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is Xz.
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