On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 16:35 (-0500), Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
> On 4/23/25 3:37 PM, Jim via tde-users wrote:
>> That seems like overkill. Why not just start up the file manager of one of
>> the other DEs, access the camera, and then kill that file manager?
> There is an old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks. That proverb
> is misleading. Old dogs can learn new tricks. They just prefer not to.
Or they know their wages should have gone up over the years and expect more
treats per new trick.
> Statler and Waldorf might comment about my intelligence too.
Most eloquently, too.
> From within TDE I launched Xfce Thunar. In the navigation panel was a
> "Devices->Android" option. Selecting /Internal Storage/photos/ showed no
> files but selecting /Internal Storage/DCIM/100KAIOS/ found a fresh photo.
That seems very promising.
> Similarly with logging in with Xfce. In addition to Thunar readily
> recognizing the device, an "Android" icon appeared on the desktop.
I will admit I only have tried Thunar, and that would be because it works
for me in situations like this.
> Launching KDE Dolphin and Konqueror from within TDE seems to indicate the
> tools see a device but fail to show anything because some kind of handshake
> or process notification is missing from the full KDE environment.
Maybe that's it, but (speaking as a person who uses a window manager, as
opposed to a DE) it seems bizarre to me. Maybe there is some good design
reason why a program needs all of the DE daemons and such running in order
for it to be able to do much. I'm really not fond of this design, but
(given I am sending this to the TDE users' list) I may be the only person
here who feels this way.
> Possibly playing with some KDE environment variables might help use those
> tools within TDE, but probably not worth my time since Xfce Thunar
> recognizes the device with no fuss.
Probably not worth your time, unless you feel like some derring-do, tilting
at windmills and the like.
Jim
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