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.
The KDE method isn't too bad although likely I do not have something configured correctly. With KDE I am annoyed by --oops- informed with a popup that a new device exists. Selecting "browse files" launches Dolphin and that is fine. I think Xfce wins the day here. Now I am a tad curious now how other DEs or file managers handle all of 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.
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.
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. To me KDE 4 was a fiasco, especially after 4.7 or so when the developers forced upon users their silly "pillars." KDE 5 seems much nicer than 4. 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.
Oh well, this is a TDE mail list. Best I move along now.