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