Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

[Posted August 8, 2016 by corbet]

Version 1.0.0 of the Lumina Desktop Environment has been released. "After roughly four years of development, I am pleased to announce the first official release of the Lumina desktop environment! This release is an incredible realization of the initial idea of Lumina – a simple and unobtrusive desktop environment meant for users to configure to match their individual needs." Lumina is a from-scratch, BSD-licensed desktop system.

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 9, 2016 2:12 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (6 responses)

At the time I'm writing this, their webserver seems to be refusing connections entirely. Hopefully it's not running the same base OS...

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 9, 2016 5:09 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

At the time I'm writing this, their webserver seems to be refusing connections entirely. Hopefully it's not running the same base OS...

Up now. Lumina seems to be a DE that runs on several OS's. From the site:

lumina-textedit (binary name). This is a simple plaintext editor with some additional features like multi-tab support, syntax highlighting, line numbers, and find/replace functionality.

I wonder why every DE project I have seen writes its own simple GUI text editor? There must be by now dozens of "notepads" like this.

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 9, 2016 16:47 UTC (Tue) by yroyon (guest, #99220) [Link] (4 responses)

From what I gathered:

- The desktop environment is based on Qt5.
- It aims to be XDG compliant.
- It comes from the TrueOS people, previously PC-BSD.

I like the feature list. Definitely looks interesting.

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 10, 2016 0:02 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

Site's up now, and I have to admit it looks very nice. Reminds me of KDE 4 in the old days but it also looks more open to tweaking.

That 150MB requirement seems pretty modest too, considering my current Openbox desktop is using at least half that... might be worth trying out.

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 10, 2016 8:06 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> That 150MB requirement seems pretty modest too

Although the relative old-timer in me chuckled when he read "extremely lightweight" equals "runs on only 1 GB of RAM!" ;)

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 11, 2016 13:41 UTC (Thu) by vasvir (subscriber, #92389) [Link] (1 responses)

Normally I am not that kind of person but in this specific case I can't help it but wonder: What's bringing on the table?

1) Light weight? (like XFCE, LXDE, openbox, fvwm etc?)
2) Qt based? (KDE, LXQt)

I think the space is pretty crowded with options that obviously require more polishing.

I understand the arguments. It's a developer's itch. It's his time not yours. As I said I can't help it this time...

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 13, 2016 22:30 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

I guess it is just the typical "80% of the work can be done quickly and it looks great but now the remaining 20% to take it from looking like something to actually being useful happens to take 80% of the time and I got bored" you so often see. It is why we have half a dozen GNOME based desktops and it looks like the Qt side wants to catch up... meanwhile none ever get finished it seems. Let's hope some of this will turn out useful someday through some collaboration like the RazorQt/lxQt merger or the efforts put in KDE Frameworks

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 9, 2016 7:08 UTC (Tue) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

Looks interesting, but... smooth scrolling? (I have it religiously disabled in my browser, so it immediately leaps out.) If this is a testament of the designers' design sensibility, then I'm out ;)

That said, let me repeat that it looks interesting and I may even break through my inertia and check it out. I like the idea of a desktop that is just a desktop and doesn't hog my CPU, but never really cared enough to use one ;)

Lumina Desktop 1.0.0 released

Posted Aug 9, 2016 14:31 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Well, I did git clone https://github.com/trueos/lumina.git, and I'm wondering, what happened to the lumina/libLumina directory? It was there in 0.8.4. It seems as though the build process changed and the documentation does not yet reflect this.