In the last few months we have been reporting a desk whose numberings were something like 0.15.0, 0.16.0 o 0.17.0. They are not the most normal when we talk about something that includes operating systems like Lubuntu, based on Ubuntu and used by many of those who prioritize performance over beautiful or customizable, but those past versions are already part of the past, worth the redundancy, because this afternoon I know launched LXQt 1.0.0.
Among the novelties we have of all kinds, both in the graphical environment and in the applications and libraries. To begin with and in the general section, the project highlights that LXQt 1.0.0 depends on Qt 5.15, the latest LTS version of Qt. They have also introduced new features in the panel, the terminal and its widget, do not disturb mode has been added and now the filing cabinet shows a promt for the password for files with encrypted lists.
General news in LXQt 1.0.0
- Emblems can now be added / removed in the File Properties dialog.
- Recursive customization of folders.
- Added an option to make desktop items sticky by default.
- Added mount, unmount, and eject actions to the file context menu in computer: ///.
- Avoided crash when mounting encrypted volumes by workaround (for a problem in GLib, Qt, or both).
- Fixed a bug in GFileMonitor regarding file monitoring within folder symbolic links.
- The closing of the file operation dialog when closing the main window has been prevented.
- Ensured correct selection order with Shift + mouse in icon view.
- Auto-overwriting in the file request dialog has been prevented.
- Fixed case insensitive regex search in Cyrillic.
- Improvements and fixes to smooth wheel scrolling. Now compact and list modes have it by default too (but it can be disabled for them).
- Options have been added to the LXQt file dialog to show hidden files and disable smooth scrolling in list and compact modes. Also, the hidden columns of the LXQt file dialog in list mode are remembered.
The LXQt 1.0.0 code It is now available, which means, above all, that developers can now start working with it. In the next few days, the new packages will begin to arrive in Rolling Release distributions, while those that follow a different development model will add them in future versions of the operating system.