by wandrien » Fri May 05, 2023 8:55 am
edward wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:12 am
LXDE is in development, the current version is 0.10.1.
I recently discovered an issue attempting to use some Openbox themes in LXDE and reported my findings. The issue was confirmed and a proposed patch to correct the issue, has been submitted.
My desktops are now 14 and 11 years old, the older of the two recently had the HDD replaced with a solid state drive and LXDE runs amazingly fast on both of them. With the older desktop now running on the SSD, it's now so fast, one would think it's a brand new system.
Hi!
Unfortunately, the LXDE development has stalled. The latest commit dates in the repos on Github:
- lxpanel: Mar 4, 2021
- lxappearance: May 18, 2022
- pcmanfm: Mar 4, 2021
- lxsession: Apr 20, 2021
- libfm: Feb 6, 2021
- lxterminal: Dec 4, 2021
- gpicview: Mar 5, 2021
There seems to be a quite lot of bug reports, patches and pull requests to review there, but nobody have any time or desire to get into it.
I sent emails to a couple of LXDE developers several days ago, but have no response yet. I hope to get in touch to someone who has admin access to the repos to consider adding my github profile to the project.
I am familiar with the code base of some LXDE parts and I could get busy reviewing and merging patches as well as preparing bug-fix releases.
edward wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:12 amMy desktops are now 14 and 11 years old, the older of the two recently had the HDD replaced with a solid state drive and LXDE runs amazingly fast on both of them. With the older desktop now running on the SSD, it's now so fast, one would think it's a brand new system.
I have two laptops that is about 10 or 11 years old too. The CPUs are Core i5-2450M and Core i7-4700MQ. I've been running Arch Linux for more than 10 years on this hardware, and it works blazing fast here. The DE is basically LXDE with some parts replaced with my custom heavily patched versions. This hardware is capable of running without noticeable slowdown the modern versions of XFCE, KDE and GNOME as well, but I am completely satisfied with my custom setup that works fine for many years and see no reason for switching to another DE. I also have two more desktop computers with older and slower CPUs (such as Pentium D-935), and LXDE is the only possible option there.
[quote=edward post_id=58251 time=1674529930 user_id=67]
LXDE is in development, the current version is 0.10.1.
I recently discovered an issue attempting to use some Openbox themes in LXDE and reported my findings. The issue was confirmed and a proposed patch to correct the issue, has been submitted.
My desktops are now 14 and 11 years old, the older of the two recently had the HDD replaced with a solid state drive and LXDE runs amazingly fast on both of them. With the older desktop now running on the SSD, it's now so fast, one would think it's a brand new system. :)
[/quote]Hi!
Unfortunately, the LXDE development has stalled. The latest commit dates in the repos on Github:
[list]
[*]lxpanel: Mar 4, 2021
[*]lxappearance: May 18, 2022
[*]pcmanfm: Mar 4, 2021
[*]lxsession: Apr 20, 2021
[*]libfm: Feb 6, 2021
[*]lxterminal: Dec 4, 2021
[*]gpicview: Mar 5, 2021
[/list]
There seems to be a quite lot of bug reports, patches and pull requests to review there, but nobody have any time or desire to get into it.
I sent emails to a couple of LXDE developers several days ago, but have no response yet. I hope to get in touch to someone who has admin access to the repos to consider adding my github profile to the project.
I am familiar with the code base of some LXDE parts and I could get busy reviewing and merging patches as well as preparing bug-fix releases.
[quote=edward post_id=58251 time=1674529930 user_id=67]My desktops are now 14 and 11 years old, the older of the two recently had the HDD replaced with a solid state drive and LXDE runs amazingly fast on both of them. With the older desktop now running on the SSD, it's now so fast, one would think it's a brand new system. :)
[/quote]I have two laptops that is about 10 or 11 years old too. The CPUs are Core i5-2450M and Core i7-4700MQ. I've been running Arch Linux for more than 10 years on this hardware, and it works blazing fast here. The DE is basically LXDE with some parts replaced with my custom heavily patched versions. This hardware is capable of running without noticeable slowdown the modern versions of XFCE, KDE and GNOME as well, but I am completely satisfied with my custom setup that works fine for many years and see no reason for switching to another DE. I also have two more desktop computers with older and slower CPUs (such as Pentium D-935), and LXDE is the only possible option there.