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I don't follow at all the discussion of SliTaz makers in the SliTaz forum and in the blackboards / per msg , so I don't know what is the actual status from next SliTaz and the integration of LXQT or not (it did begin to work fine with the actual SliTaz 5). A 4th front is already opened as SliTaz seems to have decided to go back to the design with Russian dolls (a wonderful design really, a big progress as it makes the base levels really clear
a- without X and just running well nothing more
b- without X and full operable with full i/o's 'd enough tools
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d- with X and full operable with enough tools with dialogs
e- with X and full operable with TazWeb for TazPanel and some really tiny app's
f- with X just able for media
more is matter of TazPkg and TazFlavours
This design create needs for the system architecture because SliTaz did renounce to JWM as main window manager but the discussion about LXQT and the presence of it makes the transition between d- and e- to be problematic! How to do that?
(SliTaz did not recognize until know that it needs to go back to JWM with or without JWM menu automatic to permit to select some other window manager. Puppy would be able to solve that with some dotsfs )
Because of the TazPanel, a really beautiful progress compared with the poor Puppy dialogs, with a central position in the SliTaz system architecture, SliTaz is dependant of some webkit or webengin and as SliTaz is and stay a tiny distro probably from first webkitgtk release working really well (as I did note testing Deepin! Don't disturb a running system...) (*2. As long as it will be possible to get access to 99 % of the web pages with midori or xombrero (offering spell check etc.), and it continues to be so actually, no need to change to .. To what? That is also your question! The only one problem is, regarding TazPanel needs SliTaz an integrated Browser at starting point from stages -e and -f (Puppy needs nothing: it can start without some browser in the main dotsfs as it can it per supplementary dotsfs with or without starting script as RSH does!).
It is wrong to include as permanent part some browser in the main dotsfs because of the different dependencies (excepted you go back to some browser like link2 needing poor depencies)!
Browser ARE the stuff in Linux having always required the most updating (in the past with Wine. I suppose that Wine is better now under this point of view...)
I find that mplayer is a super stuff and I would like to see Xine comes back with power!
http://bkhome.org/news/201510/neo-64-hits-a-bump.html???Barry Kauler did also announce us such a design at his time!
kind regards
(*0 I did not read all the thread, sorry!
(*1 intended for Puppy: an intermediate level would be here possible:
c- without X and full operable with full i/o's 'd enough tools including handling of SFS-packages on the non graphic system
and would open the way to grow the system only per dotsfs files!
adding the abilities that RSH did show us in his T.O.P.L.E.S.S. it would possible to start per config file selected by grub entries in the modified initrd.gz from RSH which system (and requirement to your machine!) you start: simply text, just X JWM only, just X LXDE, just X LXQT etc. (following slax with an adequate kde.sfs like we have for KDE4 till real KDE environment!). The depository from RSH for his modular Puppy is extremely impressive...)
next step: remastering such a modular system without to unmont the dotsfs packages, you get a pure ISO of your actually running configuration!
(*2 no problem with youtube in TazWeb if libfirefox is installed! Same in Deepin if flashplugin, version for FF (Deepin has 3 versions), is in! Have you some youtube links beeing difficult to test then?