Comments on: Xfce and Thunar rants http://baboonlogic.com/2008/10/19/xfce-and-thunar-rants/ Baboon Logic - It's Godel proof! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Incorrigible Introvert http://baboonlogic.com/2008/10/19/xfce-and-thunar-rants/comment-page-1/#comment-51445 Incorrigible Introvert Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:51:59 +0000 http://baboonlogic.com/2008/10/19/xfce-and-thunar-rants/#comment-51445 I tried KDE 4.x, whatever the latest version was at the time of writing the post. Whatever little experience I have had before that, it was with Gnome (I hadn't been a power user or anything). And yes, shift+delete does the trick, but it erases the file entirely. But I am used to trashing to top directories, which somehow seems to be absent in spite of the promise made in the documentation! The Nautilus/Thunar scripts are useful for the odd tasks that you really don't do that often to remember them well. Say you want to convert a cue/bin image to iso and mount it in some folder. The terminal is the ideal way of doing it, but I guess I'm lazy and I prefer right-clicking and selecting the script which'll do the job for me :). And so on. And no, my excuse of laziness is not a defence against the shell, I actually do think that using the terminal is more useful, if not faster! Compiz and Pidgin are indispensable. :) I am waiting for the new XFCE too, they need to improve the usability of the desktop. I tried KDE 4.x, whatever the latest version was at the time of writing the post.

Whatever little experience I have had before that, it was with Gnome (I hadn’t been a power user or anything).

And yes, shift+delete does the trick, but it erases the file entirely. But I am used to trashing to top directories, which somehow seems to be absent in spite of the promise made in the documentation!

The Nautilus/Thunar scripts are useful for the odd tasks that you really don’t do that often to remember them well. Say you want to convert a cue/bin image to iso and mount it in some folder. The terminal is the ideal way of doing it, but I guess I’m lazy and I prefer right-clicking and selecting the script which’ll do the job for me :). And so on. And no, my excuse of laziness is not a defence against the shell, I actually do think that using the terminal is more useful, if not faster!

Compiz and Pidgin are indispensable. :) I am waiting for the new XFCE too, they need to improve the usability of the desktop.

]]> By: Ramnath R Iyer http://baboonlogic.com/2008/10/19/xfce-and-thunar-rants/comment-page-1/#comment-51159 Ramnath R Iyer Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:04:07 +0000 http://baboonlogic.com/2008/10/19/xfce-and-thunar-rants/#comment-51159 Just out of curiosity, which version of KDE did you try? I've been using 3.5 for a long time, and that has been stable, fast and comfortable. A few months ago, I upgraded to KDE 4, didn't like it all that much and subsequently switched to XFCE. XFCE seems pretty good so far. I've tried Fluxbox, but there was way too much configuration required before I could have a usable environment. Most of the problems I've faced with XFCE have been pretty trivial. (As far as trash is concerned, I've never cared - shift+delete does the trick.) What do you use Nautilus/Thunar scripts for?? It's more convenient to use the shell for almost everything. Here's what I call comfort - * Mutt for email, with a little bit of config hacking in the beginning, keyboard shortcuts to start it up, and a mail checker applet running in the background * Audacious for music, again with global shortcuts to do most tasks * Pidgin for IM * irssi or xchat for IRC * zsh as the default shell (way better than bash) * compiz-fusion for some great utilities that improve productivity (and also desktop effects, if you are so inclined) BTW, XFCE 4.6 is coming out in a month or so. Just out of curiosity, which version of KDE did you try? I’ve been using 3.5 for a long time, and that has been stable, fast and comfortable. A few months ago, I upgraded to KDE 4, didn’t like it all that much and subsequently switched to XFCE.

XFCE seems pretty good so far. I’ve tried Fluxbox, but there was way too much configuration required before I could have a usable environment. Most of the problems I’ve faced with XFCE have been pretty trivial. (As far as trash is concerned, I’ve never cared – shift+delete does the trick.) What do you use Nautilus/Thunar scripts for?? It’s more convenient to use the shell for almost everything. Here’s what I call comfort -
* Mutt for email, with a little bit of config hacking in the beginning, keyboard shortcuts to start it up, and a mail checker applet running in the background
* Audacious for music, again with global shortcuts to do most tasks
* Pidgin for IM
* irssi or xchat for IRC
* zsh as the default shell (way better than bash)
* compiz-fusion for some great utilities that improve productivity (and also desktop effects, if you are so inclined)
BTW, XFCE 4.6 is coming out in a month or so.

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