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Coming up in this episode

• Themes Are More Global Than You Think
• Kdenlive Does Some Layering
• The History of LXDE
• To Qt, or not to Qt?
• Then, we call an audible

0:00 Cold Open
2:17 Theme of the Crop
16:22 The Lost Edit
28:11 The History of LXDE
55:51 How'd LXQt and LXDE Go?
1:24:28 Next Time
1:31:13 Stinger

The Video Version
https://youtu.be/Y8_rMTmnIXc

• Hackaday coverage
• The Reddit Post

• 24.02.0 was hot off the press and Leo couldn't resist.
• Thankfully 24.02.1 followed to hopefully resolve the issues.

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• The LXDE mailing list goes back to 2008
• Ubuntu Lite
• later known as U-lite commited to using LXDE.
• DesktopLinux.com coverage
• Elemental Linux, MoonOS and WattOS followed with a commitment
• A PCManFM review from 2008
• The blog appears
• December 2008 status update
• Sidux adds an unofficial LXDE flavor
• Mandriva adds LXDE
• Fedora too
• LXDE Translation project
• PCMan asks the community for feedback
• FOSDEM 2009
• Lubuntu enters the chat
• LXDE on android phones
• LXDE on Solaris
• LXDE in Centos
• PCLXDE
• First Lubuntu test ISO
• Fedora success
• OpenSUSE status update
• Refactor time
• Rewrite, and make it faster
• Movable desktop icons
• LXDE becomes an available Debian desktop
• A Qt port begins
• Diverse paths
• PCMan develops a "Guide for Migrating from Gtk+ to Qt"
• LXDE-QT preview
• Razor-Qt
• PCMan had this to say about Razor-Qt
• A merger of LXDE-Qt and Razor-Qt
• LXDE-Qt is not bloated
• PCManFM-Qt was in a usable state
• LXQt alpha is announced
• shortly after it was announced.
• Initial FreeBSD support for LXQt
• Comparing Numbers
• LXQt got “full” Qt5 support
• LXQt 0.8 released
• LXDE is still going
• We say goodbye to Razor-qt
• The 0.9 release was caught on snags but eventually released
• LXQt 0.10 followed
• LXQt 0.11 released
• More stats
• LXQt 0.12.0
• LXQt 0.13.0
• The end for GTK 2
• Debian, at the time, set the death date
• GTK 3 would end up being the target for LXDE
• LXQt 0.17
• LXQt 1.0.0 was released!
• LXDE diehards are still keeping things alive for LXDE
• LXQt 2.0 is planned to release in the usual April slot
• Speaking of Wayland
• Quick LXQt History

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