[pkg-lxqt-devel] Bug#903836: pcmanfm-qt: depends on libfm4 which pulls in GTK+ libraries

[Alf Gaida]

Maybe the long version is slightly more understandable:
libfm-qt was in the beginning a wrapper around libfm. With the current
release only a minor part of the libfm functionality is used, over time
the dependencies to libfm was reduced and replaced by native c++
implementations. Second dependency from "old" LXDE is menucached.

With the 0.14 release series libfm-qt will be a pure c++ implementation
that uses glib2 and Qt. The old dependencies to libfm are removed.
Unfortunately this doesn't help much right now regarding libfm -
pcmanfm-qt will still depend on menu-cached, menu-cached depend on libfm
- so, bingo. But that isn't so bad as it sounds at a first view - libfm
is small, menu-cached is small, our devs like glib (i can understand
that) - so pcmanfm-qt combines the best things of both worlds. And
menu-cached will only be loaded as long a user use the pcmanfm-qt
application menu. This is the last part we use from LXDE directly.

If one want to get rid of pcmanfm-qt - why not, just use some other Qt
based filemanager, dolphin comes to mind. Hmm, wait, i guess that would
not be a really lightweight replacement.

To sum it up - libfm-qt and pcman-qt will not migrate away from glib2,
dependencies to menu-cached and lifm will hopefully disappear within the
next year.