05-06-2020, 11:30 PM
Sorry for raising this thread from the dead, but I have a small point to add about KDE, given the "windows like" approach that Linux Lite takes.
There's a bug/feature, depends on how you see it, that makes Trash not work as expected for "external" drives/partitions - at least with the default mounting permissions. Essentially, "move to trash" for files on "external" drives, results in files being copied to ~/.local/share/Trash. Perhaps Linux Lite could either change the default mounting permissions to work around it, or change the plasma code itself. In any case, out of the box Trash will not work as expected in KDE, and someone "moving to trash" his/her media files, will result in lots of file copying, possibly even filling up /home or /.
See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76380
Don't get me wrong, I like KDE/Plasma. I've always loved the KDE set of apps; I love their depth when it comes to features/options. There's no perfect desktop, and one must be willing to make a compromise here and there (or build his oen?
). I became tired of Gnome and the constant "we know best, you don't need this feature anymore" approach, so after years of using vanilla Ubuntu, I looked around for something a bit different. The choice came down to KDE or XFCE. Linux Lite, being Ubuntu based, was a possible variant for me. I went for Kubuntu though, for a reason that Jerry noted at some point in this thread: the bigger devs team at KDE felt like the safer bet for the future.
But, later down the road, perhaps LinuxLite will be the right distro for me, if a KDE flavour is added.
There's a bug/feature, depends on how you see it, that makes Trash not work as expected for "external" drives/partitions - at least with the default mounting permissions. Essentially, "move to trash" for files on "external" drives, results in files being copied to ~/.local/share/Trash. Perhaps Linux Lite could either change the default mounting permissions to work around it, or change the plasma code itself. In any case, out of the box Trash will not work as expected in KDE, and someone "moving to trash" his/her media files, will result in lots of file copying, possibly even filling up /home or /.
See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76380
Don't get me wrong, I like KDE/Plasma. I've always loved the KDE set of apps; I love their depth when it comes to features/options. There's no perfect desktop, and one must be willing to make a compromise here and there (or build his oen?
). I became tired of Gnome and the constant "we know best, you don't need this feature anymore" approach, so after years of using vanilla Ubuntu, I looked around for something a bit different. The choice came down to KDE or XFCE. Linux Lite, being Ubuntu based, was a possible variant for me. I went for Kubuntu though, for a reason that Jerry noted at some point in this thread: the bigger devs team at KDE felt like the safer bet for the future. But, later down the road, perhaps LinuxLite will be the right distro for me, if a KDE flavour is added.