{"id":468,"date":"2024-02-24T00:08:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/announcement-lxqt-2-0-desktop-to-be-launched-in-april-with-upgraded-applications-menu-and-qt-6-port\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:13:01","slug":"announcement-lxqt-2-0-desktop-to-be-launched-in-april-with-upgraded-applications-menu-and-qt-6-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/announcement-lxqt-2-0-desktop-to-be-launched-in-april-with-upgraded-applications-menu-and-qt-6-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: LXQt 2.0 Desktop To Be Launched in April with Upgraded Applications Menu and Qt 6 Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The development team behind the lightweight LXQt desktop environment has provided some details on the development state of the next major release, LXQt 2.0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The biggest change in LXQt 2.0 will be the port to the latest <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/calamares-3-3-2-installer-improves-manual-partitioning-and-qt-6-compatibility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Qt 6<\/a><\/strong> open-source application framework to provide users with more modern UI\/UX and also bring them a performance boost compared to the current Qt 5-based releases. With this change, LXQt will completely drop Qt 5 support.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Most of the default apps and core components have already been ported to Qt 6, including the session, notifications, power management, appearance, input, monitor, file associations, and locale settings, Qps, QTerminal, Screengrab, runner, LXQt Admin, LXQt sudo, as well as LXQt OpenSSH Askpass.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The rest of the components, such as the panel, desktop, PCmanFM-Qt file manager, LXimage-Qt image viewer, PolicyKit, PavuControl, and global shortcuts will all be ported to Qt 6 until April, when the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/lxqt-1-4-desktop-arrives-for-lubuntu-23-10-users-heres-how-to-install-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LXQt<\/a><\/strong> devs plan to launch the final release of LXQt 2.0, though no date was set yet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Another interesting change in the upcoming LXQt 2.0 release will be a new default applications menu, called \u201cFancy Menu\u201d, which will finally be on par with the default applications menus of most desktop environments, featuring an All Applications section, a Favorites section, and an improved search function.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On top of that, LXQt 2.0 promises improved support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/lubuntu-24-04-lts-to-ship-with-optional-wayland-session-improved-installer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wayland<\/strong><\/a> display protocol. Many LXQt apps and components are already working perfectly on Wayland, but with the upcoming release, the devs plan to add some missing pieces that should make LXQt run better on Wayland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cA missing piece is the release of layer-shell-qt 6.0 as the actual version can\u2019t be used except to some extent in the notification daemon, the second most missing piece is a taskmanager-plugin in the panel for Wayland,\u201d said the devs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lxqt-project.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/qt-6-and-wayland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>blog post<\/em><\/a>. \u201cSome steps are on the way in this direction, but \u201clong is the way to Wayland\u201d so patience is needed here and help is always welcome naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>One thing that will not change with Wayland is LXQt\u2019s philosophy of being modular in the sense that it will work with all wlroots-based <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/miracle-wm-is-a-new-tiling-wayland-compositor-based-on-mir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayland compositors<\/a><\/strong>. For now, the devs are focusing their work around Labwc, a Wayland window-stacking compositor inspired by Openbox.<\/p>\n<p><em>Last updated 3 hours ago<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development team behind the lightweight LXQt desktop environment has provided some details on the development state of the next major release, LXQt 2.0. 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