was just a quick question – on the GTK side of things, we have the progression of LXDE → XFCE → Gnome – but on the Qt side of things, with LXQT → ??? → Plasma, there’s kind of a missing middle option?

    • iamonabike@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      And I didn’t read your post properly. But I still think lxqt does fill that gap.

  • raptir@lemdro.idEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    lxqt > Plasma > Deepin

    More serious answer, Trinity.

    But you’re also setting up a bit of a false scenario because there are far more gtk DEs than what you have listed. Mate, Cinnamon, Budgie…

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Hmm what are you searching for specifically?

    I think no other Qt baded, Wayland-capable DE exists, and thats probably okay.

    I see though, how buggy and complex KDE sometimes is. KDE 6.0 will be more streamlined and unified, and I think on that base it cooould make sense to remove components, slim it down more, maybe prefer some resource saving Apps over others, and you are good to go.

    At the same time I have no idea what apps should be replaced, as KDEs are very good. And with Trinity, based on some outdated version of KDE, I dont think you will get a good experience.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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    9 months ago

    There are a few not-so-popular-yet options for QT based desktops out there.

    I think LXQT fills the role of XFCE well.

    And for an LXDE equal thing you could look at something like PaperDE or even DesQ although they are very early days still.