[Discuss] After many years with KDE, I am about to move on to XFCE

[Deryk Barker (Honorary Colleague)]

Murray, it looks as if TDE is not in the most recent ubuntu repos, not sure why.

If you want to try it: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/UbuntuInstall

deryk
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Deryk Barker, Faculty Emeritus
Computer Science Department
Camosun College, Victoria BC

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From: Murray Strome [wmstrome at shaw.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:58 AM
To: discuss at vlug.org; Deryk Barker (Honorary Colleague)
Subject: Re: [Discuss] After many years with KDE, I am about to move on to XFCE

I have been using KDE on one of my computers for years, and up until the
latest update, all worked very well for me. However, after the last
couple of updates to Ubuntu 18.04, the pop-ups in the tool bar no longer
work properly. The way they worked until a few days ago was VERY useful
for me. However, now I might as well not even have it since nothing
happens when I click on some of them.

For laptops, I find XFCE to be better. TDE does not seem to be in the
Ubuntu repositories (unless it is called something else).

Murray
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On 2018-06-11 12:42 PM, Deryk Barker (Honorary Colleague) wrote:
> Alan,
>   if you really liked the old KDE (which I've been using, off and on, since the second Beta of version 1), you might like to give TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) a try.
>
> I generally like XFCE but have had a few problems over the years. TDE is in the debian and ubuntu repositories, but it is the default desktop for Q4OS, a very lightweight distro which I put on my ancient (c2010?) netbook, where it runs very well.
>
> deryk
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> Deryk Barker, Faculty Emeritus
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Alwin W. Irwin wrote:
Sometimes human inertia is a bad thing, and this is one of those
instances.

I have known for years that KDE was not a very good fit for my simple
desktop needs.  For example, I use no desktop icons, I select some
appropriate picture for the virtual desktop backgrounds, and I use a
panel to launch a small number of my favourite apps and keep track of
all apps I have launched on various virtual desktops via a pager. But
otherwise I simply launch apps from the bash command line using some
terminal emulator such as xterm or konsole. Nevertheless, despite the
bad fit I stuck with KDE principally because KDE configuration was
relatively simple (say, compared to fvwm, my desktop before I switched
to KDE version 2 way back when), and KDE allowed me much more
configuration freedom than GNOME to conveniently arrange my simple
desktop just like I wanted it to be.

But over the course of many years my trust in KDE gradually eroded as
the KDE tax (all those KDE applications such as Akonadi being run in
the background to help implement the "semantic desktop") increased. I
don't use the semantic desktop because I prefer results from the
"locate" command or the powerful combination of "find" and "grep" from
the command line to do the same job in a much simpler way.  So again
this was an example of KDE being a bad fit for my needs.  But I
continued nevertheless until yesterday when the final straws that helped
to break the camel's back were the following: