LXQt SIG

🔗 Mission

The LXQt SIG (Special Interest Group) is a group of Fedora contributors that contribute towards LXQt in Fedora. Their mission is to define a high-quality LXQt experience to Fedora users and developers in maintaining packages, documentation, infrastructure and helping each other in all LXQt related efforts.

🔗 Fedora LXQt Spin

Raphael Groner initiated the effort to create a Fedora LXQt spin (A installable Live CD) for Fedora and above releases. It is now maintained collectively by the LXQt SIG. The idea was forked from the LXDE_SIG.

• Fedora LXDE Spin

🔗 Suggested applications

Here is a list with suggestions of packages to include in the spin.

1. at least one application for each main purpose a desktop environment is used

2. must fit to the requirements LXQt tries to achieve

3. already packaged in Fedora

• Editor: JuffEd

• Partioning: QtParted
  • not feature complete currently
  • inactive since 2012
  • try the fork qparted (notice the one character in diff): Review

Is a partition editor really a basic part of a graphical desktop environment? Besides the need to work with partitions during the installation, 
it is actually not needed. I would discourage everybody to change partitions while the system is running, and this wouldn't work anyway on all partitions.
The better way is to boot a live medium. Then it doesn't matter whether a Qt or GTK or whatever based partition editor is used.

• Web Browser (oh well!):
  • 1. Qupzilla - needs update
  • 2. Dillo - but it's based on FLTK what we want?
  • 3. Konquerer - conflicts with PCManFM-Qt as the (default) file manager
  • 4. Firefox - too much overload propably…

• Mail client
  • Honestly, no real idea yet, suggestions are welcome
  • Trojita ??
    • Review (original request: 1080411)
    • look at Features

• Multimedia player: QMMS
  • seems to be feature complete and packaged actively

🔗 References

• LXQt on Fedora
• The official LXQt Website
• LXDE Wiki
• Fedora in the LXDE Wiki

🔗 Participants

• Helio Castro - Lead packager
• Christian Dersch - Tester
• Raphael Groner - (maybe!! Project Leader)

🔗 Joining the SIG

Joining the LXQt SIG is as simple as being part of Fedora and having a love for LXQt. Once you are a contributor to Fedora, you can join the SIG by adding your name above and communicating with the rest of the team in the usual Fedora channels .

🔗 How you can help

If you have no idea how to help us with providing a good and qualitative excellent release of LXQt in Fedora here are some proposals where we need help:

• Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
• Reviewers: Only a few persons are doing the LXQt-related reviews. Help us reviewing so that more packages could be included.
• Testers: If you love LXQt use the development version or the updates-testing repository and report bugs, bugs, bugs, request enhancements or features. We need your feedback to improve LXDE.
• Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with LXQt related bugs.
• Documentation writers: Make sure that documentation of LXQt is high quality and complete in Fedora.
• Release Notes: Help with writing the release notes
• Wiki: Maintain http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXQt and keep it updated with end user information.
• Artists: To provide a matching theme for nodoka-theme (or other??) and also other LXQt related artwork

🔗 IRC Channel

We have informal chats about LXQt development in #fedora-kde IRC channel in freenode under the blessing of KDE team. Refer to Communicate page for more information.