by wandrien » Fri May 05, 2023 10:18 am
Ziggi wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:49 pm
Linux org Forum say that ALL LXDE people have moved over to LXQT such that there is no future for LXDE.
I do hope this is not the case. I have just been banned from there for promoting LXDE and contradicting Admin and Mod, saying that LXDE is still alive and kicking. Their Mod is also part of Lubuntu team - so no bias there...????
In particular Antix-22 Full with LXDE which is not supported and as the owner says - never will be.
I also tried to promote this Locos por Linux who has 22,000 subscribers who also sets up Antix with LXDE (88MiB RAM used)
He has his own official spin Loc-OS but it is in Spanish but most gets converted when you set your own language during the rapid install.
Antix Forum banned me for same reasons - they are openly hostile to LXDE - especially when you show their distro running less RAM with LXDE desktop than any of their WM plus File manager combos. OMG
There still seems to be a plenty of LXDE users, but the question is, is there anyone willing to keep writing the code.
I can look after the code and review/merge patches in my spare time, but we still need someone of the core devs to grant the access to the repo.
Sure it's totally possible to clone the repos in a separate account and provide the code maintenance there. But in this case, it's hard to keep track between pull requests and bug reports accumulated over years in the old repo and commits in the new one. So I hope the work will continue using the existing infrastructure.
[quote=Ziggi post_id=58188 time=1672836574 user_id=19809]
Linux org Forum say that ALL LXDE people have moved over to LXQT such that there is no future for LXDE.
I do hope this is not the case. I have just been banned from there for promoting LXDE and contradicting Admin and Mod, saying that LXDE is still alive and kicking. Their Mod is also part of Lubuntu team - so no bias there...????
In particular Antix-22 Full with LXDE which is not supported and as the owner says - never will be.
I also tried to promote this Locos por Linux who has 22,000 subscribers who also sets up Antix with LXDE (88MiB RAM used)
He has his own official spin Loc-OS but it is in Spanish but most gets converted when you set your own language during the rapid install.
Antix Forum banned me for same reasons - they are openly hostile to LXDE - especially when you show their distro running less RAM with LXDE desktop than any of their WM plus File manager combos. OMG
[/quote] There still seems to be a plenty of LXDE users, but the question is, is there anyone willing to keep writing the code.
I can look after the code and review/merge patches in my spare time, but we still need someone of the core devs to grant the access to the repo.
Sure it's totally possible to clone the repos in a separate account and provide the code maintenance there. But in this case, it's hard to keep track between pull requests and bug reports accumulated over years in the old repo and commits in the new one. So I hope the work will continue using the existing infrastructure.