The LXQt 2.5.0 desktop environment has been released

After 6 months of development, the release of the LXQt 2.5.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been presented, continuing the evolution of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. The LXQt interface follows the principles of classic desktop organization but brings in modern design and techniques that enhance usability. LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly environment that incorporates the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is hosted on GitHub and is available under GPL 2.0+ and LGPL 2.1+ licenses. Ready-to-use builds are expected for Ubuntu (LXQt is offered by default in Lubuntu), Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, FreeBSD, ROSA, and ALT Linux.

In the new version:

• The QTerminal terminal emulator and QTermWidget widget now support: escape sequences OSC 8 (Operating System Command 8) for inserting hyperlinks; area selection through Shift+click; new modes for placing background images; visual indication of beep code (0x07); buttons for expanding the current nested terminal; options for displaying a notification when no new information appears in the terminal; showing a warning on the abrupt termination of a process.
• The use of the menu-cache component has been discontinued, which was the last dependency from LXDE. Necessary built-in functionality for menu item caching has been added to the libfm-qt library, providing higher performance.
• In the PCManFM-Qt file manager, a button to stop searches has been added to the panel, and an incremental result output mode has been implemented, allowing users to stop the search at any moment without losing the list of files found up to that point. An option has been added in the settings to disable desktop wallpaper caching for displaying images in their original quality.
• Changes in the panel: The network status tracking plugin has implemented correct scaling of the icon and the ability to use a unified system icon theme. In the custom command output display plugin, an option has been added to set a minimum size, preventing the panel from compressing when the length of the displayed text changes. A tooltip showing the current brightness level has appeared in the screen brightness control plugin. D-Bus bus usage has been established when enabling the auto-hide feature of the panel. In the plugin settings dialogs, the focus is now set by default on the 'Close' button to prevent accidental application of changes when pressing Enter.
• An interface for selecting Bluetooth codecs has been added.
• The ability to configure monitor settings in X11-based environments has been temporarily disabled due to the discontinuation of X11 support in the libkscreen-6.8 library from KDE. Support for this feature is planned to be returned in the next patch release through the development of a replacement.
• The minimum supported version of Qt has been declared as release 6.10.0.

Source: opennet.ru