On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:14 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote: > > Just my thoughts... would love to hear from more folks on these... > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 10:05:23PM +0000, exDragon945 wrote: > > Description of problem: > > > > Default interface needs to be more usable. The following improvements > > should be made. > > > > 1) Change the default menu from Application Menu to the Whisker Menu with > > name showing. Whisker Menu Icon only is to small to click on. > > We do ship whisker menu, I don't know that I think it should replace the > default or not tho. Size might be due to hidpi? what sort of monitor do > you have? > > > 2) Set Whisper menu to open by default on Windows Key. Most people are > > use to that. > > Thats also the key for xfdashboard. > > > 3) Fedora logo for the Whisker menu would probably look nice as a default > > That runs into problems... remixes or the like would have to change it, > but it wouldn't be obvious or easy to change. >
It's not actually a problem, since the filename stays the same while the image changes. This is how it's handled for other variants too. When rebranding for a derivative spin/remix, the file's contents changes to whatever the logo will be. > > 4) Screen casting needs to be built in. Perhaps an implementation that > > can go on the XFCE4 menu as an icon that can be pressed to open a menu > > option. I am not aware of any casting solution in Linux that works on > > Fedora. > > gnome-network-displays works fine in gnome, but I am pretty sure it > doesn't work in Xfce. It needs wayland and pipewire. Yeah, though I believe there's a wlroots-based Xfce compositor in the works: https://github.com/adlocode/xfwm4/tree/wlroots It might be worth reaching out to folks upstream to find out what the progress on this is. > > > > 5) There needs to be a way to handle programs freezing up that doesn't > > lock up the interface. Right now, a program ran in Wine that freezes up > > will lock up the computer so you can't do anything. Alt+Tab does not work. > > Alt+Tab needs to work in no matter what program freezes up. > > Thats... really beyond what Xfce can do I think. That depends on much > deeper layers. > This requires systemd-based user sessions like what KDE Plasma and GNOME do. It's certainly a question for upstream Xfce whether they'll get support for it anytime soon. > > 6) Open Directory buttons in browsers need to actually open a directory > > and not open some search tool. > > Not sure what you mean on this one, can you elaborate? > I think this is about how it doesn't open Thunar when you tell it to open a file in the file manager from Chrome/Firefox. > > 7) Folders need to have a built in File search by default. The light > > weightness of XFCE needs to be maintained in this new file explorer. > > We have catfish... does that do what you want here? > > > 8) Consider having default tools installed so people more unfamiliar with > > Linux have some default they can use and learn things on. For example, > > have Gimp and Kdenlive installed by default. I don't know if those are > > the best defaults but that is an idea. > > The problem is, if we add more things to the default install, the larger > it gets and the more it has things that many people don't want or use. > > gnome-software works fine in Xfce, so you can easily use that to install > applications after the initial install. > > > > 9) It needs to come with an software manager that can handle the > > installation and updates of FlatPaks. > > gnome-software does so. > > > 10) DNFDragora should not have the default category label width so far > > apart that you can't see the fact that there are more then two categories > > describing a piece of software. > > Sounds like a dnfdragora bug/request. > > > > > 11) Transferring files should not lock up the interface. > > It shouldn't do that. > > kevin > _______________________________________________ > xfce mailing list -- xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to xfce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list -- xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to xfce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/xfce@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue