Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:14

sounds good I will give it a try

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:14

Im still just starting to programme just ended edx harvard cs50 course.

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:13

those seam valid concerns

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17 December 2020 18:13

which kind of re-iterates the "changes frequently and breaks things" comment

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17 December 2020 18:12

using gtk aplications on a qt based system

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:12

doesnt allways render well though

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:11

Qt is a much more "stable" graphical toolkit, and much lighter in my experience.

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:10

wasnt gtk a viable option? if not feel free to critizise such without any problem Im a logical person so if you present arguments for such I will accepted them as long as they are based

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:08

continuing, why was qt5 choosen and were other stack considered

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17 December 2020 18:07

? also what you stated before about qt5 and previous statements of yours, tie well to my second a and last topic question

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17 December 2020 18:07

if it is a KDE app, you will actually see it trying to start up the KDE desktop (or pieces of it) in the background

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17 December 2020 18:06

so then most desktop "apps" dont really run on lumina

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:05

given probably you need to setup everything every time you use something?

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:05

but doesnt that make for a clunky navigation

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:04

I not really understanding the "special setup or configuration" part very well

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:14

but so far in terms of design gtk seams superior, or at least the implementations using it

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:13

so we only hook into the Qt theme systems by default, and recommend installing/using a different GTK-theme configuration system if you use lots of GTK apps

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17 December 2020 18:13

ok I see you the bases for such choice was in favor of atack surface leaness and stability

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:12

GTK has a completely separate theming system, which changes rather frequently

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:12

so I can write Qt apps, and not have to worry about every minor version update to the toolkit breaking the app itself, like many people deal with on GTK

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:11

You can still use GTK apps on Lumina no problem though - so it does not really matter

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17 December 2020 18:11

given most "apps" are writen for gtk and, from my experience most qt based DE and applications look a bt cluncky and not so refined, like this telegram client for example

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17 December 2020 18:09

this was actully my main question qhen I heard of this project

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17 December 2020 18:08

it is just the DE-specific apps that are really only designed to work with specific desktops

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17 December 2020 18:07

most apps are nice and DE-agnostic, and work no problem

Lumina Desktop

17 December 2020 18:07

they can - it just depends which "Desktop" the apps were written for

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17 December 2020 18:06

thanks for the time and energy spent explaining by the way @beanpole135

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17 December 2020 18:05

so the desktop is separate from the tools completely, whereas most DE's have a jumbled "soup" of app-to-desktop communication requirements

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17 December 2020 18:04

The Lumina tools are all designed as stand-alone utilities that do not need to interact on a low level with the desktop at all - which is a main difference from most DE utilities

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17 December 2020 18:03

Lumina is just 1 main binary/tool for the DE itself - with single-process communication used rather than multi-process communication