Recently, PC-BSD developers just reminded us that there is an unmet need for a Qt desktop for BSDs. So, here you go. 🙂

As stated earlier, we’re not really Linux-centric. We support Linux better simply because we’re Linux users. Now with some help from several FreeBSD users, things can be different. I installed FreeBSD 10 in Virtualbox last week. After reading some docs and fighting with it we fixed some broken makefiles. Now the major components should work as expected.

Of course, there are still some Linux things which do not work (yet).

lxqt-powermanagement: this requires upower

lxqt-policykit: I haven’t test if policykit works for FreeBSD

volume control applet: currently it only supports ALSA and PulseAudio. I’m going to implement OSS support for it.

removable device applet: this requires udisks

Reboot/Shutdown from the menu: We use logind/consolekit now. Any good alternative for BSD?

Other parts should just work. We hope that we can improve FreeBSD support more. Of course, help from the BSD community is needed.

Cheers!