Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 00:52:21 +0100, Ivan wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:43:09 -0500 Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a call for opinions: if you use Arch, and you wanted to choose and stay with a desktop environment long-term, what would you choose - and why?
Xfce wins for me by far... It's simple, light and has many features
... but within a major release themes got broken, xfce4-terminal doesn't re-wrapp lines, if you resize the window. Thunar, the file manager doesn't allow to split the window and requires Gnome's virtual crap to provide mount functionality and so on and so forth. I recommend to take a look at openbox (jwm is also not bad) and to use it with roxterm, lxpanel or fbpanel, and spacefm, IOW instead of using a desktop environment, just use a window manager. 2 Cents, Ralf
Thunar, the file manager doesn't allow to split the window and requires Gnome's virtual crap to provide mount functionality and so on and so forth.
I can recommend using xfce with pcmanfm as the file manager instead of thunar. I prefer it for a variety of reasons, including its integration with file-roller. I also use udiskie to manage thumb drive mounts. --Sean
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:19:36 -0500, Sean Greenslade wrote:
Thunar, the file manager doesn't allow to split the window and requires Gnome's virtual crap to provide mount functionality and so on and so forth.
I can recommend using xfce with pcmanfm as the file manager instead of thunar. I prefer it for a variety of reasons, including its integration with file-roller. I also use udiskie to manage thumb drive mounts.
If I wouldn't use command line, then I would use engrampa instead of file-roller, since I like menus. FWIW AUR provides engrampa-thunar. However, I agree that spacefm is the better choice and even if I would use Xfce4, then I would use roxterm instead of xfce4-terminal.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 01:34:51AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
If I wouldn't use command line, then I would use engrampa instead of file-roller, since I like menus. FWIW AUR provides engrampa-thunar. However, I agree that spacefm is the better choice and even if I would use Xfce4, then I would use roxterm instead of xfce4-terminal.
File-roller is definitely a GUI application. I mentioned it because you can trigger it directly from pcmanfm (e.g. right-click -> Compress...). And I'm partial to termite for terminal emulator, but that's not really DE/WM specific. --Sean
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