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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] New category lxqt-base
From:       Pavel Kazakov <nullishzero () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-05-13 4:16:17
Message-ID: 53719C91.2060602 () gentoo ! org
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On 05/12/2014 01:17 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> It's only me who spoke on behalf of LXDE so far :( gtk2 is still
> alive, and lxde said that while it's still alive, the GTK lxde will
> still be supported. After all, lxde-base, as the name implies, is for
> lxde-related packages (maintained by lxde@). The new project is lxqt,
> which makes the lxde category slightly irrelevant. Since the lxde team
> has nothing to do with it, this will add more confusion. That's my
> opinion. Same thing for razor-qt apparently. Fortunately/unfortunately
> there is this tendency to use a distinct category (and set of
> maintainers/herd) for each DE. 

I'm of the same opinion. Since lxde will still be supported, I'm leaning
towards keeping lxde-base for lxde-related packages and using a new
category for lxqt.

>>> compton-conf
>>> libqtxdg
>>> qt-gtk-engine
>>> libfm
>>> libsysstat
>>> obconf-qt
>>> pcmanfm-qt
>> I think these packages could be placed in the relevant x11-*
>> categories, as they are perfectly usable in other environments as
>> well, tho for ease of maintenance you could stick them with the LXQt
>> packages.
>>
> +1 (pcmanfm-qt is already in the tree in x11-misc/, libfm too etc)
> Maybe it's possible to merge obconf and obconf-qt with a new 'qt' use
> flag. The less duplication we do, the less time we will need to spend
> maintaining the packages.
>

Agreed.

Regards,
Pavel

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