[lubuntu-devel] LXQt

[Phill. Whiteside]

Following on discussions with Julien, Jorn and Alf (agaida). The install
mehtod proposed by Jorn is adopted. With the clear statement that
lubuntu-qt for 16.04 does not, in fact, exist and this is merely  a mockup
of what it should look like once the tasksel stuff is all done.

At its heart, it uses the already existing lxqt meta package and then adds
on 'lubuntu' things. This will be the case when we do have a release as the
lxqt meta package will not contain things like desktop, artwork etc. etc.
This will be added by each distro.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Regards,

Phill.

On 2 May 2016 at 22:16, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Recently there has been a lack of communication regarding LXQt and I
> wanted to clear up some things.
>
> So a tentative plan we had was to have LXQt ready for 16.10. I still
> believed that this would be the case recently, so I started working to
> get it prepared. Alongside this, we have several metapackages that
> contain LXQt, and I wanted to clear up the purpose of each in my eyes:
>
> ppa:tsimonq2/lxqt-meta - This is only a metapackage and makes installing
> LXQt much much easier. I created this package after testing LXQt on and
> off for a bit of time. The page required use of the Lubuntu Daily PPA,
> which I describe below, and to install packages from that PPA. It worked
> fine without the PPA, and I was sick and tired of typing in every single
> package every time I wanted to install LXQt in a VM, and I was doing it
> a lot. So I literally copied and pasted the dependencies from the LXQt
> page, published it to a PPA, and it worked. I then worked with Paul Wise
> and Paul Tagliamonte, both are Debian developers, to make sure my
> package fit the Debian policies set in place. It was just an easier way
> than specifying each package one by one, so I adjusted the LXQt page to
> reflect use of my metapackage. Yesterday, I was made aware of the "lxqt"
> metapackage by Alf Gaida. I checked it out, and in Yakkety, this is now
> what I specify. I still have a Xenial and Yakkety package.
>
> ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily - Daily PPA for LXQt and LXDE components.
> In my experience, the combination of these packages break more often
> than not. I've been burned too many times and I recommend that nobody
> should use the LXQt metapackage in this PPA.
>
> ppa:lxqt/ppa - Another daily PPA, I used it for a short amount of time
> and it also was broken more times than not.
>
> So as stated above, my LXQt metapackage was on the LXQt page[1] and
> nobody complained. Today, the instructions were changed to favor the use
> of the ppa:lxqt/ppa and to regard my metapackage as testing. About my
> metapackage, this is NOT the purpose. The purpose of my package is to
> use packages that are proven to work, from the Ubuntu archive. The
> packages in the Ubuntu archive come from Debian, and the Debian LXQt
> team maintains it. I am using it on my system, and it hasn't broken for
> me. I try very hard to maintain a stable package.
>
> Regarding the use of PPAs, Julien recently stated that we don't need a
> PPA to install LXQt. While this is the case, as the "lxqt" metapackage
> has a minimal LXQt installation, my metapackage has the Lubuntu artwork
> and SDDM greeter.
>
> I've reverted the LXQt page back to what it had before but I've kept
> Phill's extended description because it's not accurate and my
> metapackage does the *exact* same thing.
>
> Am I missing something here? Have we changed plans on LXQt?
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/LXQt
>
> --
> Simon Quigley
> tsimonq2 at ubuntu.com
> tsimonq2 on Freenode
>
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