On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 17:29 (-0500), Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
> On 4/23/25 5:05 PM, Jim via tde-users wrote:
>> I will admit I only have tried Thunar, and that would be because it works
>> for me in situations like this.
> I admit the entire way Xfce handled the phone impressed me. I hate the
> cliche, but Thunar "just worked" and a nice icon appeared on the desktop.
> So simple and quiet.
Yup. (While I don't use xfce, I do recommend it to some people every now
and then. My wife uses it on her laptop, under MX Linux.)
>>> 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.
> Which window manager? There is the rebellious grumpy old man part of me
> that sometimes thinks about going back to those days, but ever since KDE
> 3.5 I have been content with DEs.
fvwm3. I suppose I'm missing out on all sorts of conveniences and features
and bells and whistles, but the only thing that I know that I'm missing is
the notification (in whatever form it takes) telling me I just plugged
something in. Well, duh, I know I just plugged it in, because I just
plugged it in. Admittedly, having to type "mount /sdcard" instead of
clicking on some icon is an onerous task not all people would want to do,
but I'm OK with it. Not for the faint-hearted, I suppose.
>> 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.
> I am not one who feels a severe need to do the Calvin decal thing with KDE.
It took me a few seconds to realize what you meant. :-)
> To me KDE 4 was a fiasco,
I agree. The first time I started that up my machine (reasonably powerful
for the time) was ground down into unresponsiveness because some KDE person
thought I should have an up-to-date index of all of mankind's knowledge, or
whatever it was doing. Mind you, had KDE4 worked well, I wouldn't have
gone looking and found TDE.
> especially after 4.7 or so when the developers forced upon users their
> silly "pillars." KDE 5 seems much nicer than 4.
Could it be as bad or worse?
> I used KDE 5 for a couple of years before pushing back to TDE. I keep
> KDE 5 (and Xfce) installed as an alternative and backup. I don't like
> all of how KDE 5 is designed, such as the useless activity manager and
> that nonsense known as akonadi, but I tamed KDE 5 quite a bit to be
> useful for me.
I think configuring xfce is probably less work, but to each his own.
Jim
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