#lxde

[verilog-official]

I miss the late 2000s gradients and swoopy shapes and colors. everything now is just flat and boring. maybe adding a shadow effect or transparency effect if you're fancy.

[causeimapunkrocker]

The urge to try out new desktop environments just to get a feel of them, and to customise them to your heart and eyes' fullest desires!

[linuxscoop]

Peppermint OS 9 - See What's New

Peppermint OS 9 is the latest release of Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a desktop environment mashup of Xfce and LXDE components. The latest release nearly completes a process begun several upgrades ago, using more Xfce elements and fewer LXDE components.

Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), Peppermint OS 9 is using the Linux 4.15 kernel and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware architectures. Highlights of this release include a new default system theme based on the popular Arc GTK+ theme, support for both Snap and Flatpak universal binary packages via GNOME Software, which will now be displayed in the main menu. 

Also installed by default is the Menulibre menu editor, the Xfce Panel Switch utility, xfce4-screenshooter as default screenshot utility instead of pyshot, and xfce4-display-setttings replaces the lxrandr utility for monitor settings. The Htop system monitor utiliy is available as well and has its own menu item, and the Mozilla Firerefox is now the default web browser instead of Chromium.

[verilog-official]

i miss LXDE, I really liked GTK2's styling.

but at least LXQt is much less of a hodgepodge than LXDE was.

but now that they're switching from Openbox to xfwm4 I feel like they're starting to go away from the original notion of minimalism—theyre using a full compositing WM with shadows and transparency effects and stuff now, instead of just a basic and lightweight stacking WM. LXDE grew from around 100MB fully installed to now LXQt being several hundred MB.

[verilog-official]

what do you mean rip LXDE???

I just fucking used it for my last college project

It just works

Also, bunny –> ／(˃ᆺ˂)＼

I agree on how LXDE is great and just works (usually), and LXDE is actually still maintained.

but it's been slowly dying over the last decade. though there is a steady stream of active development, there hasn't been a full release since 2021. this is due to a lot of factors.

most importantly is the fact that LXDE still relies on GTK2 which has been deprecated since 2020, and porting it to GTK3 will take a lot of effort.

actually, when GTK3 came out in 2013, the head maintainer didn't like the new styling or API or something, just didn't want to use GTK3. so he decided to start making a Qt port of LXDE: LXDE-Qt, which later merged with Razor-Qt to become LXQt. (well, he initially started with PCManFM-Qt but I'll still count that as the beginning of LXQt)

and by 2018 the LXDE team had completely transitioned to LXQt. there's still a few people who work on it, but development is really slow.

there's another project to port LXDE to GTK3 but it's still in early development. I'm not sure on the details for that.

also THANK YOU FOR THE BUNNYYYY

[linuxscoop]

Peppermint OS 8 Respin – See What’s New

Peppermint OS 8 Respin is the latest release of Peppermint OS Linux Distribution. This release based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS n(Xenial Xerus), powered by linux kernel 4.10 series, using LXDE desktop environment with new "Pepirus" xfwm4, GTK+ and icon themes. Also, brings 64 bit and 32 bit installation images. The 64 bit release provides complete support for UEFI systems and secure boot. 

Peppermint 8 Respin also ships with a bunch of improvements and the latest software releases, including the Nemo 3.4.7 file manager, OpenVPN 2.4.4 VPN implementation, replaces lightdm-gtk-greeter with slick-greeter, improves the i3lock lock screen app, disables GTK+ overlay scrollbars, makes the default terminal window a bit larger, adds mint-translations, and fixes peppermint-proxy-configuration for the 32-bit ISO image.

https://peppermintos.com/2017/12/peppermint-8-respin-released/

[ujiki-oo]

[q4os-tde-official]

my thoughts on LXDE

pros:

nostalgic vibes

cons:

the entire thing broke a few minutes after i installed it, and even before then half of it didn't work, it is literally unusable