In reply to the proposed patches I want to submit that many problems in
my LXpanel have been solved with the applied patches. I have applied the
patches against 0.10.4-1 and named it 0.10.4-1.1. Please consider this
as at present LXDE is totally unusable. After patching I get a working
LXDE desktop with Desktop pager working (see link
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-powerpc-debian-wiki.2178457/post-32724685).
I had to add libxkbfile-dev in Build-Depends in the control field. If
you need more information I can provide it if needed.
Please consider the following (from
https://github.com/orgs/lxde-continued/discussions/4)
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There are still many LXDE users, as well as unresolved bugs and unmerged
pull request.
At the same time, most LXDE developers switched to LXQt.
Nobody reviews and merges pull requests, nobody makes new releases with
bug fixes. There is no activity in the repositories.
The developers intentionally ignore LXDE, but at the same time they do
not declare it obsolete and officially abandoned. Some time ago, one of
them even wrote that "development continues." These words do not
correspond to the facts.
I've been trying to contact some of the developers to offer my help in
reviewing the PRs. I didn't get any response.
The only way to revive the project is to make copies of the repositories
and start over with a new development team.
In this regard, this "fork" should not be considered as a fork, but as a
new official LXDE upstream instead of the old abandoned one.
Everyone interested in working on LXDE are welcome.
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I can speak for many users of LXDE, as I maintain a distribution for
PowerPC and ppc64 based on Debian LXDE called MintPPC.
Regards,
Jeroen Diederen
