Xfce Default Configuration

[ZukePrime]

I don't think there needs to be a change in the default configuration.  I
use Xubuntu almost exclusively, and I've got a set ritual I go through
every install to get it where I like it.

I recently installed Manjaro XFCE on an old laptop, and let me tell you
they really did a nice job with it.  Looks fantastic, but nothing you can't
do in a couple of minutes on any other distro.

I have to agree with the above poster about the menu locations.  Everything
to the noob (as I still consider myself) is all over the place.  To be
honest, it REALLY is confusing to a new linux user to have to dig around
for all the different settings, especially power control vs xscreensaver,
window manager, advanced window manager, etc.  You get the feeling that
setting one will override the other and cause conflicts.  Just an opinion
of course, I'm more than comfortable now and don't have major complaints.

As a non-programmer/developer, I ask if its really difficult to combine
settings where appropriate, to have everything under one "hood?"  Seems
like it could be something to streamline xfce to make it that "go to"
distro instead of unity, gnome, cinnamon.

BTW, I want to say great job to the devs.  I run XFCE (xubuntu) almost
exclusively, and only peek at other DEs when I get a little bored...always
back to XFCE though!


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, David <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/22/2013 3:25 PM, Wes Gregg wrote:
> > User installs a distro and either dislikes its DE or it mercilessly
> > tortures his/her hardware (Cinnamon), so the user asks about
> > alternatives - or complains and receives a suggestion to try a DE that
> > doesn't want accelerated graphics even to just display the desktop.
> > User, as directed, looks in Synaptic Package Manager (etc.), finds XFCE,
> > and installs it. But either the distro doesn't provide a "customized"
> > experience or else the user missed the meta-package that would have
> > provided it.
> >
> > Or maybe the user's friend set up the computer. User knows just enough
> > to run the distro's updater and run apps from the DE's menu. Then an
> > update changes his mountain landscape background to "an ugly-*** mouse,
> > and not even a real mouse, something that looks like it was used on a
> > computer 30 years ago" and calls me to rant. No big deal, and when I
> > finished laughing at his rather brutal - but, I suppose, brutally honest
> > (looks great as an icon-sized graphic, say, as a button to open the
> > menu, but increased in size enough to become the desktop's background?
> > Not so much, lol.) description, I was able to quickly explain how he
> > could get his preferred desktop background back. However, it might not
> > be a bad idea to consider adding some text beside the mouse that
> > explains how to change the image. Especially if future updates will also
> > have a chance of including whatever bug it was that changed people's
> > desktop backgrounds, lol. (To be fair, we're using Mint 14 XFCE - with
> > the XFCE 4.10 & 4.12 PPAs added to our sources list - around here, so it
> > could have been a Mint (Ubuntu?) bug that only annoyed a certain set of
> > XFCE users instead of, well, all of them. IDK.)
> >
> > Regarding changes to XFCE: I'm pretty happy with it and would generally
> > say it's the best "interface" I've encountered since first using
> > computers back in the days of Osbournes, Kaypros, and Commodore Pets.
> > But I realize that some might be less satisfied with the user experience
> > and clamor for change. All I ask is that you not follow the Firefox
> > developers' example - making changes that appear to be "just for the
> > sake of change" when they're not (apparently) actively trying to poleaxe
> > the app.
>
>
> My personal preference. Xubuntu, for me, is way to much 'eye candy'.
> Fedora Xfce is seriously 'plain jane' unless you go with the SIG
> Live-CD. Mageia is similar but, IMHO, the base Xfce is betterand the
> Sig Live-CD is even nicer.
>
> Which means what? Linux is about choice. Try one, or two, or all and
> then chose the one that you like the best. *Some*, not all, users get
> stuck with a distribution and they live with what that distrobution
> provides. That is a choice too.
> --
>
>   David
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