Ooooh... why did I say I'd use KDE for 2 weeks? Can I shorten that to one?
This is just adjustment pain talking, I know, but wow. I might love how #KDE looks, but actually working with it is not fun for me. Nothing works the way I expect it to.
But CO, don't you just mean "meh! nOt GnoMe! mE No LiKeY!"
I mean... yeah. That's what I mean. From the very first time I tried #Gnome 3 (like, ten or twelve years ago), everything about it has felt natural to me. The changes that have been made over the years leading up to Gnome 45 today have all more or less worked for me. The way it works just meshes with my brain somehow, and it's very comfortable to work in.
Plasma is none of that, and I don't know why I'm putting myself through this. Don't get me wrong: I adore the KDE project. It's a gorgeous, feature-packed, ultimately configurable #DesktopEnvironment. The problem for me personally is that I just don't need about 75% of those features, and the default setups don't function the way my brain does.
So in short, I might be cutting this experiment short, not because KDE is bad, but because Gnome feels like home.
Which is weird, because I hated Gnome 2, which I thought of as a more difficult to work with, less resource efficient version of #XFCE.
Oh, yeah, and #KaOS? It's fine. It's super-fine-tuned and dedicated to its mission of being a cutting edge KDE desktop. Which is great if that's what you want, but there's a fine line between dedication and obsession.
I prefer it to dealing with Arch, though, if I'm being honest - specifically because of that obsession. Everything official is tight, works together, and accomplishes the stated goal of the OS. Even the KCP repo is on board for the most part, and it all comes together. If someone did something like this for Gnome/GTK, it'd probably be my OS of choice.
#Github project from #Nix is encouraging to close stale issues although the issue still persists. However, nobody did seem to work on it within 3 months.
Although I understand that there needs to be some process of handling long-running issues that don´t get fixed, I'm not sure if this is a good thing. 🤔
As I slowly work on my own folder/image browser (to scratch my own itches) I always marvel at how hard it is to make a #GUI file manager like #Thunar (I'm on #FLOSS#Manjaro#XFCE). There are so many details, each a world on its own, like, selection, sorting, instant search, preview... innumerable mouse and keyboard interactions and shortcuts...
The poll is still open! Let us know what you want for our next edition!
Boost for visibility! Even if you don't use Ultramarine we want to hear from you! (maybe we can convince you to give us a try with one of these new editions)
Some think #FOSS is crap and anything open source is crap and badly written. Some think #Linux is hard to learn. In that case, my Father must be a supergenius for learning how to use #Debian at over 40 after years being away from technology and even not having a smartphone running #Android. The old PC we had at home could not run #Windows so I installed Debian on it and he has been using #LibreOffice, #Firefox the #XFCE desktop environment #Atril PDF reader and few other things for past 2 years.
Just listened to the latest BSD Now podcast, and I was thrilled to hear them discussing my recent blog post, "How to Create a FreeBSD Jail Hosting XRDP and XFCE for Remote Desktop Access." 😃 Always find BSD Now episodes so engaging!
Heya, folks! We want to start the new year off right, and what better way to do that than a new Solus release? That's right, Solus 4.5 Resilience is now available to everyone! A ton of work has gone into this release, including a new installer with #Calamares, and a new #XFCE Edition!
I really love late-90s productivity software aesthetics and usability. This is a screenshot of XFCE on Debian, using themes and tweaks from the Chicago95 package - "a rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux." Here's how it's done: https://jkdata.de/jka/docs/chicago-style.html
Hat jemand ein Idee, wie ich #systemd abgewöhnen kann, so unleserliche Farben anzuzeigen?
Ich hatte gehofft, mit TERM='xterm-16color' sei der Fall erledigt, weil ich da nur leserliche Farben definiert habe (siehe Einstellungen von xfce4-terminal im Screenshot). Aber leider weit gefehlt...
Das nervt mich jetzt schon länger... Habe keine Lust, deswegen meinen grauen Hintergrund mit schwarzer Schrift aufzugeben! Hätte gerne 16 Farben und sonst nix. #xfce#accessibility
💻 Frage zu Mint xfce: Schreibtisch-Programmstarter (für Flatpaks?) werden nicht richtig erstellt
Hallo zusammen,
ich selbst nutze kein #xfce, aber bin gerade ein Gerät am Einrichten (#LinuxMint 21.2 xfce). Die Programmstarter lassen sich bei xfce ja übers Menü über Rechtsklick > "zum Schreibtisch hinzufügen" erstellen. Das klappt aber bei einigen Programmen nicht. Wenn ich es richtig sehe, sind das die Flatpaks, bei den Systemapps funktioniert es wie erwartet.
Bei den #Flatpaks sieht es so aus (s.u. Freetube) und lässt sich auch nicht starten und nicht ausführbar machen:
Werden die gleichen Flatpak-Programme ebenfalls übers Whisker-Menü zur Leiste hinzugefügt, funktioniert es jedoch.
Habt Ihr ne Idee, woran das liegen könnte? Welche Option gibt es noch, außer die Starter dann manuell zu erstellen?