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