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Episode 4:16: Super PCMan

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Show Notes

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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.

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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

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