The next major release of the LXQt computer should arrive in April. Like the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0, it will use version 6 of the Qt toolbox.
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The development team pre-announced LXQt 2.0 as a replacement for the current LXQt 1.4.0, which came out last November. The 1.x versions were built around Qt 5, which has now passed the end of its supported life, but the new version will use the current Qt 6.
LXQt is the successor to the widely used LXDE desktop, which for example is still included in some editions of the Raspberry Pi OS. Both are Windows 9x-style lightweight PCs for FOSS Unix, including Linux and BSD.
LXDE was implemented with version 2 of GNOME's Gtk toolkit, as were Xfce and MATE. As we mentioned when discussing Gtk 5, it took both Xfce and MATE years to migrate from Gtk 2 to Gtk 3. Xfce 4.14 finished migrating its core components to Gtk 3 in 2019, just a year before Gtk 4 appeared.
