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- | Lubuntu 18.10 was a landmark release for this Ubuntu flavor. Since its first release in 2010, Lubuntu has been a showcase for the LXDE desktop, but with the 18 October, 2018 release of 18.10, it moved to the new LXQt desktop. | + | **Lubuntu 18.10 was a landmark release for this Ubuntu flavor. Since its first release in 2010, Lubuntu has been a showcase for the LXDE desktop, but with the 18 October, 2018 release of 18.10, it moved to the new LXQt desktop. |
History | History | ||
- | The LXDE desktop traces its origins back to 2006, when Taiwanese computer programmer Hong Jen Yee released a new file manager. Hong’s user name is PCMan, so he named the new file manager, PCMan File Manager or PCManFM for short. The new file manager was well received and the idea quickly grew to build a new, lightweight Linux desktop around it. This became LXDE, the Lightweight X-11 Desktop Environment. LXDE is written in the C programming language, uses the GTK+ 2 toolkit, and sports a distinctive stylized swallow logo. | + | The LXDE desktop traces its origins back to 2006, when Taiwanese computer programmer Hong Jen Yee released a new file manager. Hong’s user name is PCMan, so he named the new file manager, PCMan File Manager or PCManFM for short. The new file manager was well received and the idea quickly grew to build a new, lightweight Linux desktop around it. This became LXDE, the Lightweight X-11 Desktop Environment. LXDE is written in the C programming language, uses the GTK+ 2 toolkit, and sports a distinctive stylized swallow logo.** |
- | Lubuntu, | + | Lubuntu |
- | Hong was not happy when the GTK3 toolkit came along and he decided to experiment with rewriting PCManFM using the Qt toolkit in the C++ language instead in 2013. He wrote, “working with Qt/C++ is much more pleasant and productive than messing with C/ | + | Historique |
- | Hong immediately got questions as to whether | + | L’origine du bureau |
- | Instead of moving LXDE to the Qt toolkit on 3 July, 2013, Hong announced a new port of the LXDE desktop using Qt, instead, initially called LXDE-Qt. The only complication was that there already was a project working on producing a new lightweight Qt-based desktop, called Razor-qt, with a rotary “pizza” cutter as its logo. The two communities of developers found common ground | + | **Lubuntu, featuring |
- | One of the stated aims of LXQt is to eventually replace LXDE and so LXDE went into “maintenance status”, getting bugs fixed, but not adding new features. | + | Hong was not happy when the GTK3 toolkit came along and he decided to experiment with rewriting PCManFM using the Qt toolkit in the C++ language instead in 2013. He wrote, “working with Qt/C++ is much more pleasant and productive than messing with C/ |
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+ | Avec LXDE en vedette, Lubuntu est arrivé pour la première fois en avril 2010 comme la 10.04 et a rapidement gagné des partisans parmi ses utilisateurs. Son menu unique était convivial et ses exigences en RAM et processeur étaient basses ; il tournait bien sur du matériel vieillissant et très rapidement sur des équipements récents. Au cours du temps, le bureau LXDE a été progressivement perfectionné et, en 2010, PCManFM a été complètement réécrit. Lubuntu est devenu une saveur officielle d’Ubuntu le 11 mai 2011. | ||
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+ | Hong n’était pas content quand l’ensemble des outils GTK3 est arrivé ; à la place, il a donc décidé d’essayer de réécrire PCManFM avec l’ensemble d’outils Qt dans C++ en 2013. Il a alors écrit, « travailler avec Qt/C++ est beaucoup plus agréable et productif que de bricoler avec C/ | ||
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+ | **Hong immediately got questions as to whether LXDE would switch to being Qt-based. He wrote in a blog post, “No, LXDE will NOT use Qt. Don’t panic!! It’s just one of my side projects and was an experiment to test how good libfm and Qt are.” | ||
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+ | Instead of moving LXDE to the Qt toolkit on 3 July, 2013, Hong announced a new port of the LXDE desktop using Qt, instead, initially called LXDE-Qt. The only complication was that there already was a project working on producing a new lightweight Qt-based desktop, called Razor-qt, with a rotary “pizza” cutter as its logo. The two communities of developers found common ground and decided to merge their efforts. The new combined project was named LXQt and got a new hummingbird logo.** | ||
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+ | Hong a tout de suite reçu des questions de gens voulant savoir si LXDE serait finalement basé sur Qt. Dans un billet de blog, il a écrit, « Non, LXDE N’utilisera PAS Qt. Pas de panique ! Ce n’est qu’un de mes projets secondaires et je voulais faire des expériences pour tester la qualité de libfm et Qt. » | ||
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+ | Au lieu de migrer LXDE ves les outils Qt le 3 juillet 2013, Hong a annoncé un nouveau portage du bureau LXDE avec Qt à la place, appelé initialement LXDE-Qt. Le seul problème était l’existence d’un projet qui travaillait déjà sur un nouveau bureau léger basé sur Qt, qu’ils appelaient Razor-qt, avec, comme logo, un coupe-pizza rotatif. | ||
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+ | **One of the stated aims of LXQt is to eventually replace LXDE and so LXDE went into “maintenance status”, getting bugs fixed, but not adding new features. | ||
LXQt in Lubuntu | LXQt in Lubuntu | ||
- | It was originally intended to introduce LXQt into Lubuntu with the 14.10 release, but more work was needed. Lubuntu releases through 2015-2018 all were initially announced as hoping to move to LXQt, but the implementation was consistently delayed to get all the parts working right. During this period the Lubuntu users had many solid LXDE-based releases, all offering great stability and no new learning curve. These included two Long Term Support (LTS) releases, 16.04 and 18.04. Finally LXQt landed in Lubuntu 18.10. | + | It was originally intended to introduce LXQt into Lubuntu with the 14.10 release, but more work was needed. Lubuntu releases through 2015-2018 all were initially announced as hoping to move to LXQt, but the implementation was consistently delayed to get all the parts working right. During this period the Lubuntu users had many solid LXDE-based releases, all offering great stability and no new learning curve. These included two Long Term Support (LTS) releases, 16.04 and 18.04. Finally LXQt landed in Lubuntu 18.10.** |
- | The Lubuntu developers’ aims changed with the new desktop’s introduction, | + | L’un des objectifs annoncés de LXQt est de remplacer LXDE un jour ; ainsi LXDE est entré dans un état de maintenance, |
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+ | LXQt dans Lubuntu | ||
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+ | À l’origine, | ||
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+ | **The Lubuntu developers’ aims changed with the new desktop’s introduction, | ||
LXQt Arrives In Lubuntu | LXQt Arrives In Lubuntu | ||
- | With four years of lead-up to the introduction of LXQt, there was a great deal of anticipation in the Lubuntu community. Of course this was not the first time that an Ubuntu flavor had changed its user interface. Kubuntu had made the move from the K Desktop Environment 3 to the KDE Plasma Desktop in 8.04. Ubuntu itself changed from GNOME 2 and its three menu system, to Unity and its desktop launcher in 10.10/11.04 and then to GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell) with 17.10. | + | With four years of lead-up to the introduction of LXQt, there was a great deal of anticipation in the Lubuntu community. Of course this was not the first time that an Ubuntu flavor had changed its user interface. Kubuntu had made the move from the K Desktop Environment 3 to the KDE Plasma Desktop in 8.04. Ubuntu itself changed from GNOME 2 and its three menu system, to Unity and its desktop launcher in 10.10/11.04 and then to GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell) with 17.10.** |
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+ | Avec l’introduction du nouveau bureau, les objectifs des développeurs de Lubuntu ont également changé, comme le développeur Simono Quigley l'a expliqué le 27 juillet 2018 : « Lubuntu restera léger et devrait être toujours utilisable par des utilisateurs avec de vieux systèmes. Mais nous ne fournirons plus des prérequis système minimaux et notre cible primaire ne sera plus le matériel vieillissant. » | ||
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+ | LXQt arrive dans Lubuntu | ||
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+ | Étant donné les quatre années de préparation à l’introduction de LXQt, le communauté Lubuntu l’attendait impatiemment. Bien sûr, ce n' | ||
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+ | **Booting up Lubuntu 18.10 and touring through it shows a lot of careful work done. The new user experience is smooth and feels quite slick. Much of LXQt works just like LXDE, all from a single menu on the bottom panel (which can be moved). The menus are now more complex, though, but offer a high degree of customization to give Lubuntu the look and feel you want. | ||
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+ | The file manager, PCManFM-Qt, is where this all started. Opening it shows that it looks a bit different under Qt. It works differently too, with different menus and preferences. Mostly it gives equivalent functionality, | ||
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+ | En démarrant Lubuntu 18.10, puis en la parcourant, on constate beaucoup de travail soigné. La nouvelle expérience utilisateur est fluide et donne l’impression d’être très astucieuse. Une grande partie de LXQt fonctionne exactement comme LXDE, à partir d’un menu unique sur le panneau du bas (qui peut être déplacé). Pourtant, les menus sont maintenant plus complexes, mais proposent une personnalisation maximum pour que vous puissiez donner à Lubuntu l’apparence et les sensations que vous désirez. | ||
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+ | Le gestionnaire de fichiers, PCManFM-Qt, marque ses débuts. Ouvrez-le et vous verrez que son apparence est un peu différente sous Qt. Son fonctionnement est différent aussi, avec des préférences et des menus différents. Pour la plupart, il fournit une fonctionnalité équivalente, | ||
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+ | **It isn’t just the core components that have been re-written using Qt, either. You would expect the menus, panel, customization interfaces, and, of course, the file manager, to look new and they all do, but the Lubuntu developers have done their best to provide a full suite of Qt-based default applications as well and that means the whole user experience has changed. Some of the newly-introduced applications come from KDE, which is also Qt-based. | ||
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+ | New Qt applications to Lubuntu include the VLC media player, Quassel internet relay chat , FeatherPad text editor, Skanlite scanning application, | ||
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+ | Ce ne sont pas que les composants centraux qui ont été réécrits avec Qt. Vous vous attendriez à ce que les menus, le panneau, les interfaces de personnalisation et, bien entendu, le gestionnaire de fichiers aient une apparence neuve, et c’est le cas, mais les développeurs de Lubuntu ont fait de leur mieux pour fournir une suite complète d’applications par défaut basées sur Qt. Cela signifie que toute l’expérience utilisateur a changé. Certaines des applications nouvellement introduites viennent de KDE, basé aussi sur Qt. | ||
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+ | Les nouvelles applications Qt dans Lubuntu comprennent le lecteur de média VLC, Quassel IRC, l’éditeur de texte FeatherPad, l’application de scan Skanlite, le client mail Trojitá et, venant de KDE, l’application de gravure des CD/DVD K3B. Les applications de bureau Gnumeric et AbiWord sont remplacées par LibreOffice, | ||
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+ | **There are still some GTK-based applications. The developers had hoped to have a Qt web browser and Falkon looked very promising, but didn’t quite make the cut. Falkon, formerly QupZilla, is an excellent browser, with lots of potential, but, for now, the GTK-based Firefox remains the default browser in an otherwise Qt environment. It is worth noting that GTK-based applications can still be run alongside Qt applications in Lubuntu, they just look a bit different than Qt applications, | ||
- | Booting up Lubuntu 18.10 and touring through it shows a lot of careful work done. The new user experience is smooth | + | In testing |
- | The file manager, PCManFM-Qt, is where this all started. Opening it shows that it looks a bit different under Qt. It works differently too, with different menus and preferences. Mostly it gives equivalent functionality, although some previous specific features are missing. For instance there are no keyboard shortcuts for views, although these can be selected from the “view” | + | Il reste encore quelques applications basées sur GTK. Les développeurs espéraient avoir un navigateur Web Qt et Falkon semblait très prometteur, mais, de peu, n’a pas été accepté. Falkon, précédemment Qupzilla, est un navigateur excellent à haut potentiel, mais, pour l’instant, |
- | It isn’t just the core components that have been re-written using Qt, either. You would expect the menus, panel, customization interfaces, and, of course, the file manager, to look new and they all do, but the Lubuntu developers have done their best to provide a full suite of Qt-based default applications as well and that means the whole user experience has changed. Some of the newly-introduced applications come from KDE, which is also Qt-based. | + | Quand j’ai testé Lubuntu 18.10 sur mon portable System76 de huit ans, j’ai trouvé quelques bugs, comme « taper pour cliquer » qui ne fonctionnait pas sur mon pavé tactile, et l’indisponibilité d’un vérificateur orthographique dans LibreOffice. Il y avait également quelques problèmes de réseau et de verrouillage d’écran qui semblent communs à plusieurs saveurs d’Ubuntu 18.10 ; aussi, ils ne sont sans doute spécifiques ni à Lubuntu ni à LXQt. |
- | New Qt applications | + | **Overall LXQt, as seen in Lubuntu 18.10, is ready for day-to-day use, while there is also still room for ongoing refinement. Introducing LXQt in Lubuntu |
- | There are still some GTK-based applications. The developers had hoped to have a Qt web browser and Falkon looked very promising, but didn’t quite make the cut. Falkon, formerly QupZilla, is an excellent browser, with lots of potential, but, for now, the GTK-based Firefox remains the default browser in an otherwise Qt environment. It is worth noting that GTK-based applications can still be run alongside Qt applications in Lubuntu, they just look a bit different than Qt applications, | + | Globalement, |
- | In testing Lubuntu 18.10 on my eight-year old System76 laptop I did find a few bugs, such as “tap to click” not working on my touchpad and a lack of spell checking available in LibreOffice. There were also some networking and screen-locking issues that seem to be common in several 18.10 Ubuntu flavors and thus probably not Lubuntu or LXQt-specific. | ||
- | Overall LXQt, as seen in Lubuntu 18.10, is ready for day-to-day use, while there is also still room for ongoing refinement. Introducing LXQt in Lubuntu 18.10 was a careful choice by the Lubuntu developers. Coming right after Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, the final LXDE release, it gives developers three “standard” releases to continue to polish LXQt before the first LTS release, which will be 20.04 LTS, due out in April 2020. Until then, many of us will continue to use Lubuntu 18.04 LTS and test the new LXQt versions as they come out. | ||
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