Re: [Lxde-list] [Pcmanfm-develop] PCManFM Qt 0.1.0 released.

[Julien L. <gi...@ub...>]

2013/4/22 Andrej N. Gritsenko <an...@re...>:
>     Hello!
>
> PCMan have written on Tuesday, 26 March, at 10:42:
>>Hello world,
>>I just released PCManFM Qt file manager 0.1.0.
>>The tarball is available for download here.
>
>     I never looked into razor-qt before and I wasn't aware such DE even
> exists but now that I looked into its site I've found out some conceptual
> similarities with LXDE. And I've got some crazy idea. Since libfm/pcmanfm
> has Qt port already and LXDE as whole has too few active developers, it
> might be reasonable to join projects (razor-qt and LXDE), i.e. port to Qt
> rest of LXDE components so LXDE will be based on Qt instead of GTK and
> razor-qt will get few missing applications as well. It's a crazy idea, I
> know, and may be even silly one, I just got that thought and decided to
> write it out loud. :)
>     I never did comparizon on resourses consumption between pcmanfm GTK
> and Qt versions though, it should be done somehow sometime. And if Qt is
> more lightweight than GTK then... you know. :)
>     The only problem is that GTK is C but Qt is C++...

It's not a so crazy idea. I'm seriously looking at razor-qt and Qt in
general for a possible future of Lubuntu. Ubuntu will use more and
more Qt applications in the future, so it makes sense for us to
investigate this way.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne