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Re: XFCE 4.18

#51

Post by apricot »

dmm wrote: post #19
coldpie wrote: post #3

Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my ho…

As an enthusiastic XFCE user, do you mind answering a question? How do you usually launch applications? I can appreciate the discoverability provided by a nested start menu but I've grown very fond of text launchers with autocomplete provided by gnome, mac os, dmenu, etc.

Most of the time, I use dmenu_run (bound to super-R) for launching usual applications, and the menu for seldom-used ones.

Re: XFCE 4.18

#52

Post by HeckFeck »

Kukumber wrote: post #41
capableweb wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!! Don't have it in front of me right now, but can't you hit CTRL+L to bring up the "address bar" and manually write the path there? CTRL+L works in a lot of places to enter paths, from web browsers to local disk browsers.

Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head) 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate abou…

> i have a document with everything that i hate about it

I can save you the effort by reminding everyone that the GTK3 file picker is a significant setback from the Windows 98 filepicker, and it the amount of times I encounter it on Linux is beginning to feel like flagellation.

Re: XFCE 4.18

#53

Post by noir_lord »

XFCE was my main desktop for a long time, it's what I'd go back to if Cinnamon ever stopped been the one I use everywhere - Cinnamon in many ways feels like what XFCE would have been if it was started decades later - it also (like XFCE) doesn't screw with the standard desktop UX approach and that's a must for me, 28 years of using basically the same approach makes me feel uncomfortable on anything else.

Re: XFCE 4.18

#54

Post by osrec »

I really enjoy the Linux lightweight desktop environments. Not as whizzy as some of the heavyweight environments, but so much more usable and functional, in my opinion.

I am personally a fan of LXDE. It just gets out of my way and lets me do stuff!

Re: XFCE 4.18

#55

Post by nor-and-or-not »

dmm wrote: post #19
coldpie wrote: post #3

Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my ho…

As an enthusiastic XFCE user, do you mind answering a question? How do you usually launch applications? I can appreciate the discoverability provided by a nested start menu but I've grown very fond of text launchers with autocomplete provided by gnome, mac os, dmenu, etc.

I use XFCE4 together with Albert https://albertlauncher.github.io/

Re: XFCE 4.18

#56

Post by jayp1418 »

Only DE which supports all BSD, Linux most DEs have problem in one or other BSD or require lot of patches to be used with

Re: XFCE 4.18

#57

Post by eYrKEC2 »

dmm wrote: post #19
coldpie wrote: post #3

Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my ho…

As an enthusiastic XFCE user, do you mind answering a question? How do you usually launch applications? I can appreciate the discoverability provided by a nested start menu but I've grown very fond of text launchers with autocomplete provided by gnome, mac os, dmenu, etc.

I bind + to the "Application Finder". This makes it launch with keybindings matching those that launch the Windows start menu. I start typing the program and it narrows down the results until the program is selected. Then, I hit and it opens the program.

* In Applications -> Settings Manager -> Keyboard Shortcuts

* + Add

* command: xfce4-appfinder

* shortcut: Ctrl + Escape

----

My other favorite bindings are to tile a window into a quadrant of the screen.

Applications -> Settings Manager -> Window Manger -> Keyboard

Search "Tile window to the top-left", et c.

I hold ctrl + alt and then one of

    qwe
    a d
    zxc
These commands tile the window to

Re: XFCE 4.18

#58

Post by Gordonjcp »

Kukumber wrote: post #41
capableweb wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!! Don't have it in front of me right now, but can't you hit CTRL+L to bring up the "address bar" and manually write the path there? CTRL+L works in a lot of places to enter paths, from web browsers to local disk browsers.

Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head) 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate abou…

At least on normal Ubuntu 22.04 the path bar behaves as you'd expect - it shows what you've clicked on, and if you click on the path bar and start typing a path it goes where you say.

Re: XFCE 4.18

#59

Post by Gordonjcp »

HeckFeck wrote: post #52
Kukumber wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head) 1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything 2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate) 3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate abou…

> i have a document with everything that i hate about it I can save you the effort by reminding everyone that the GTK3 file picker is a significant setback from the Windows 98 filepicker, and it the amount of times I encounter it on Linux is beginning to feel like flagellation.

Can you explain why you think it's worse?

Re: XFCE 4.18

#60

Post by gen2brain »

dmm wrote: post #19
coldpie wrote: post #3

Awesome. Been using XFCE for ages. It hits just the right spot of modern features and usability without trying to re-invent the desktop paradigm for the Nth time. If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. WRT this update, the Thunar updates look fantastic. The File Highlight feature looks especially cool. I can imagine using that to highlight really frequently used folders in my ho…

As an enthusiastic XFCE user, do you mind answering a question? How do you usually launch applications? I can appreciate the discoverability provided by a nested start menu but I've grown very fond of text launchers with autocomplete provided by gnome, mac os, dmenu, etc.

I use gmrun for many years, in every DE, bind to Alt+F2. I am happy that now there is a new home here https://github.com/wdlkmpx/gmrun. I cannot imagine using something else.
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