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📣

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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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