From: Andrej N. G. <an...@re...> - 2013-04-22 20:30:28
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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++... Cheers! Andriy. |