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Thunar used to be a huge sore point but it has gotten better - the new tab support makes it a lot nicer to use, and I have gotten used to using Gigolo for managing SSH connections instead of the the file manager. My main concern at the moment is that I have no way of reliably generating video thumbnails with it - loading PCManFM will generate ones for MPEG files that Thunar will use but nothing seems to work for WebM - although this has more to do with tumbler being a pain than Thunar.
xfdesktop also used to be a huge pain as well but that has largely been resolved now that it saves the location of desktop icons and restores them on resolution changes. I also used to dislike the Xfce Terminal but after playing around with it I found out that this was misguided; it actually has some features that many of the others do not have, such as a very convenient toolbar. The fact that Xfce does not have a proper volume slider also used to be an annoyance, until I discovered pnmixer.
The main GNOME utilities I still rely on are gedit, thanks to its spell checker and better scripting support, gcalctool as none of the other calculators are as nice to use, file-roller archiver for the same reason, the GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer, and the GNOME disk utility which I use regularly to check the health of my hard drive. If anyone could suggest some non-DE tied or Xfce tailored solutions that work as well as any of these I would be willing to try them, but for now I still require their functionality. I also prefer the LXDE task manager over the Xfce one and to a certain extent Leafpad over Mousepad.
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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostThunar used to be a huge sore point but it has gotten better - the new tab support makes it a lot nicer to use, and I have gotten used to using Gigolo for managing SSH connections instead of the the file manager. My main concern at the moment is that I have no way of reliably generating video thumbnails with it - loading PCManFM will generate ones for MPEG files that Thunar will use but nothing seems to work for WebM - although this has more to do with tumbler being a pain than Thunar.
xfdesktop also used to be a huge pain as well but that has largely been resolved now that it saves the location of desktop icons and restores them on resolution changes. I also used to dislike the Xfce Terminal but after playing around with it I found out that this was misguided; it actually has some features that many of the others do not have, such as a very convenient toolbar. The fact that Xfce does not have a proper volume slider also used to be an annoyance, until I discovered pnmixer.
The main GNOME utilities I still rely on are gedit, thanks to its spell checker and better scripting support, gcalctool as none of the other calculators are as nice to use, file-roller archiver for the same reason, the GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer, and the GNOME disk utility which I use regularly to check the health of my hard drive. If anyone could suggest some non-DE tied or Xfce tailored solutions that work as well as any of these I would be willing to try them, but for now I still require their functionality. I also prefer the LXDE task manager over the Xfce one and to a certain extent Leafpad over Mousepad.
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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostThe main GNOME utilities I still rely on are gedit, thanks to its spell checker and better scripting support, gcalctool as none of the other calculators are as nice to use, file-roller archiver for the same reason, the GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer, and the GNOME disk utility which I use regularly to check the health of my hard drive. If anyone could suggest some non-DE tied or Xfce tailored solutions that work as well as any of these I would be willing to try them, but for now I still require their functionality. I also prefer the LXDE task manager over the Xfce one and to a certain extent Leafpad over Mousepad.
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Originally posted by mrugiero View PostAlright. So there should not be any "ridiculously simple" apps on Linux, or their users should feel embarrassed. It's good to know.
Seriously, if we are going to be elitist, the CLI is usually more powerful for any kind of complex file management. Thunar is supposed to just be a simple tool, and user friendly (this includes newbie friendly). I agree that the tabbed interface is almost a must have, though, but I find Nautilus to have superfluous features I never use, for example.
Thuar is more suitable for GNOME and nautilus is more suitable for XFCE, if you want to categorize them by the consistency of the complexity of the environments.
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