History
Even though some people often confuse LXQt as arewrite of LXDE in Qt, this is not true.PCMan, the original author of LXDE, startedexperimenting with Qt, first by implementing a GUI for PCManFM in Qt. While doing so he wrote upA Guide for Migrating from GTK+ to Qt where he sums up his experiences.
When he released apreview, some people feared that a Qt-based desktop environment would be too heavy and bloated, so heposted about this too. LXDE was written in GTK+2, but times change and GTK+3 came out. Some people thought that GTK+3 was not good, and that a port to GTK+3 would have been rather bloated, but a Qt version wouldn't be.
Short notice: for those interested in numbers, PCMan later created another post about the usage and performance, which you can findhere.
At the same time another group of people were working on a Qt-based desktop environment called razor-qt, and eventually the LXDE-Qt and razor-qt peopledecided to work together and createLXQt. So instead of being a rewrite of LXDE in Qt, LXQt is rather alightweight desktop environment heavily based on the razor-qt code base and a team consisting of LXDE and ex-razor-qt developers. This same information is stated in a post calledIn memory of Razor-Qt.
Some distributions still have it categorized under the name LXDE-Qt, for historical reasons that should be now clear. Inthis post you can still see the name mentioned asLXDE-Qt or LXQt, but now the official name is settled, and it'sLXQt
Initially it was developed in Qt4. In June 2014 it gotfull Qt5 support and since version 0.9.0 only supports Qt5.
Recently it has beenswitching from using many individually developed libraries to instead use the KFrameworks5 library. Again, some people where afraid of introducingbloat because they thought it would mean including all KDE libraries and dependencies, but once again this has not been the case. KFrameworks5 was actually introduced in an attempt to split the basic functionality from KDE specific libraries and thus make it usable in other projects than just KDE.
Introduction
Installation
Installation Introduction
Binary packages
Building from source
Third party apps
Configuration
General
Launching LXQt sessions
Window managers
Miscellaneous
Themes
Development
Reporting bugs
Translation
Contributing code
Admin tools
KF5 usage in LXQt
LXQt 0.11
Maintaining a good new dev experience
Release Announcements
Roadmap
Tarballs
Thoughts on Pootle
TODO for Wayland
Infrastructure Fellows

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