Qt6nad wayland update post (#138)

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+layout: post
+title: Qt6 and Wayland
+slug: qt-6-and-wayland
+date: 2024-02-15 08:58
+promoted: true
+categories: blog
+---
+
+An overview of the development state of both goals. Priority has porting  
+all components to the Qt6 libraries and there will be no Qt5-based version of LXQt anymore.
+
+
+What will be most noticeable in the upcoming LXQt 2.0.0 release due in April
+ has nothing to do directly with the port to Qt6: The new default application menu
+ "Fancy Menu, featuring "All Applications", favorites and an improved search function.
+
+![Fancy Application Menu](../../../../../images/posts/fancymenu.png)
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+
+
+## Port to Qt6
+
+[![Developer preview of Qt6](../../../../../images/posts/port-qt6.png)](../../../../../images/posts/port-qt6.png)
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+
+This is the actual state, with the work-in-progress apps listed in the menu.
+The progress can be checked in [project-qt6](https://github.com/orgs/lxqt/projects/3).
+It won't be noticeable but Qt6 is supposed to be a little bit faster in processing.
+
+
+
+## Wayland
+
+An overview of the actual development is [here.](https://github.com/orgs/lxqt/projects/4/views/2)
+
+Qt6 libraries should provide some more tools to continue development - basically implement
+wayland-specific code in components like panel, desktop, runner, shortkeys and notification daemon.
+Many applications and LXQt components are already working perfectly on
+wayland, others partially and some not, see the table below for a detailed list.
+
+A missing piece is the release of [layer-shell-qt 6.0](https://invent.kde.org/plasma/layer-shell-qt/)
+ as the actual version can't be used except to some extent in the notification daemon, the
+ second most missing piece is a taskmanager-plugin in the panel for wayland. Some steps are on the way
+ in this direction, but "long is the way to wayland" so patience is needed here and help is
+ always welcome naturally!
+
+The LXQt philosophy to being modular will not change with wayland: it is supposed to work with all
+(wlroots-based) compositors in the same way as users can choose their window manager now.
+
+This said there aren't so many compositors actively developed at the moment, mainly three "stacking":
+labwc, wayfire and kwin_wayland and two "tiled": sway and Hyprland. At the moment the
+most satisfying results can be achieved with labwc.
+
+
+![Qt6 and Wayland table](../../../../../images/posts/lxqt-state.png)
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