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XFCE 4.18

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Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by chungy »

tcmart14 wrote: post #103
chungy wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GNOME and KDE both work fine on Linux and FreeBSD. In addition, OpenBSD usually gets the newest GNOMEs.

It has gotten better on the BSDs, but there are a lot of patches and shims that have been implemented and maintained to do that though. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGwaT5rQML0&t=580s

Should be worth noting that NetBSD is its own thing; FreeBSD and OpenBSD haven't had problems getting the newest GNOME versions for the entire lifetime of 3.0 and higher.

Unlike Linux, the BSDs aren't distributions of some "upstream BSD"; instead they are developed independently with different feature sets and different goals. Unique challenges for NetBSD don't reflect on how other BSD derivations behave.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by HeckFeck »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #113
HeckFeck wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you've read me wrongly. All that I described above are problems in the GTK3 file picker that aren't problems in the Windows 98 file picker. See the linked web page for a screenshot of the W98 picker for a visual aid.

Yes, the Windows 98 one is broken.

If you think that not having image thumbnails for image files in a filepicker is a 'feature', you must be trolling. Or a Gnome developer.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by Koshkin »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #9
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…

> If you just want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. If you want Windows 95 in 2022: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by raisin_churn »

KronisLV wrote: post #49
ufo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's what I did back when I used XFCE a couple of years ago: The xfce whiskermenu plugin includes a text search feature that looks similar to the one from Windows. On Xubuntu the whiskermenu is the default "start menu" while in some other distros you may need to add it in the panel settings. Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text sea…

> Finally, in the keyboard shortcuts bind Super to the xfce4-popup-whiskermenu command, to bring up whisker menu for a text search. I've had this trigger the popup menu when there is another shortcut that binds the Super key in combination with something else. Say, if I had something under Super+R, then the menu would also open. Though maybe this has been patched out in the newer versions, I remember that issue being…

ksuperkey[0] addresses this, though it is unfortunately not widely packaged so you likely have to compile it. I haven't used it in a while, but it worked well when last I did.

[0] https://github.com/hanschen/ksuperkey

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by lastdong »

Best desktop manager ever, it’s so lightweight but provides all the functionality you need, and super customisable too.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by jraph »

nice_byte wrote: post #112
JayGuerette wrote: post #85

I've used XFCE seemingly forever, at least 20 years. In recent years I've grown to dislike Thunar and a variety of other things that were mostly GTK issues and some XFCE issues. I was really frustrated with clicking on the system tray and having that click register as a click on the menu that popped up, that just so happened to be 'Quit', and closing the app. Then I upgraded my computer in a huge jump. Sure, games we…

> I love the polish of KDE this is really funny, because to me, KDE starting from ~4 is the gaudiest thing I've seen.

Versions 4 and 5 look radically different.

Version 3 was fine. Very fine even for the time.

I didn't really like the default look of version 4. Oxygen had depressing colors, it lacked fineness. I always switched the theme to Fusion, or Cleanlooks, which imitated the Clearlooks GTK theme.

Version 5, with Breeze, is really good. Very elegant. By the way I also tend to find Gnome with the Breeze theme way nicer than with Adwaita (which is already fine).

The only DE I find almost as nice looking as Plasma with the default settings is macOS.

They are also constantly cleaning up the UI and making it simpler, bit by bit.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by walrus01 »

nice_byte wrote: post #112
JayGuerette wrote: post #85

I've used XFCE seemingly forever, at least 20 years. In recent years I've grown to dislike Thunar and a variety of other things that were mostly GTK issues and some XFCE issues. I was really frustrated with clicking on the system tray and having that click register as a click on the menu that popped up, that just so happened to be 'Quit', and closing the app. Then I upgraded my computer in a huge jump. Sure, games we…

> I love the polish of KDE this is really funny, because to me, KDE starting from ~4 is the gaudiest thing I've seen.

everything after kde2 is absurd. KDE literally twenty years ago was great.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by Blue111 »

Not sure when it came out but I'm already using it in Arch. I like to use Nemo file manager instead of Thunar though.

Re: XFCE 4.18

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Post by mhitza »

geek_at wrote: post #78

Can you finally resize windows with a larger grab area than 1pixel? That drove me nuts

Could probably be theme dependent, as I have what look like 3 pixels in there https://i.imgur.com/LD4BF4E.png :) (I use the Arc Dark theme)

I usually do right click on the title bar to resize the window. But that muscle memory might have been conditioned from having to deal with 1px corners in the past!

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