Linux Lite 4.0 Suggestions welcomed

[LL-user]

Suggestion: move ~/.conky folder as conky (non hidden) to ~/.config/
for the sake of keeping home clean and structured.


Thanks for your consideration

[Valtam]

Suggestion: move ~/.conky folder as conky (non hidden) to ~/.config/
for the sake of keeping home clean and structured.


Thanks for your consideration

Conky is being moved to the system directories and will have it's own package

[Vera]

About image viewer, I have 3 suggestions below. I had to look up CSD which apparently is something about the program not honoring the native window settings? That was a little beyond me as I wouldn't know how to tell just by looking if something has CSD or not, sorry for my lack of knowledge. Anyway though, I have been doing research on pic viewers that can handle very basic edits, and I do have suggestions below, along with my screenshots so that people can see them.

Like [member=6811]Oobuntus[/member] I also use gThumb (I set my images to default to open with it) but from what [member=2]Jerry[/member] said I completely understand it's not a viable option for LL 4.0.

I also tried GPicView that Jerry suggested, but I couldn't find a way to do crop or resize with it, although it can do rotation.

Here are the 3 options (one of these is Nomacs, which others have also suggested). I've included 2 pics for each: 1 pic showing the application "as is" and the other pic showing what users would click on to crop or resize. Please correct me if any have CSD; I don't know how to tell by looking.

My opinion: of these 3, I like Mirage by far the best, mainly because it's just what's needed from a simple viewer that can handle minor edits. I wasn't as keen on Nomacs or on Phototonic because a) the menus look old-style and b) they're able to do "too much" and then not only is it a slightly more confusing UX for new Windows users, but also then it gets closer into Pinta and Krita.  I feel that would be steering further away from minor edits and getting into something a little bit more complicated and closer to Gimp, which is not necessary. That was just my personal opinion though; I realize that this is subjective. Phototonic's crop tool is not very intuitive, so although it can technically crop, it's not as easy to use as the other two for that.

I also tried out Viewnior, but it can't handle resizing (or at least I couldn't figure out how to get it to do that).

The following are available in Synaptic (or at least, that's where I got them from):

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1. Mirage:

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2. Nomacs:

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3. Phototonic:





The black box on the top of the window is just me obscuring the full path of the image.

[napsix65]

MX Linux, and it's all said. do not look for more suggestions, check MX Linux and you will have millions of things to improve. ;D

[ptyerman]

Rubbish! Tried MX-17 only the other day and found it annoying at the least. It doesn't come even close to Linux Lite for aesthetics or usability, that task bar monstrosity is horrible! Each to their own though, not everyone likes the same things. I really hope Linux Lite doesn't become more like MX!

[Oobuntus]

Regarding the image viewer suggestion, I have reviewed all four alternatives to gThumb and agree with Vera that Mirage best satisfies the suggestion for inclusion in LL4. It does have one minor flaw, however. Although 'Use last chosen directory' is the default, the user must still click the 'Open Image' icon to open and display the last chosen directory. Perhaps the dev will do something about that before LL4 is released.
For non-Gimp activity, I shall continue to use gThumb or FastStone Image Viewer according to whim.

[Coastie]

Rubbish! Tried MX-17 only the other day and found it annoying at the least. It doesn't come even close to Linux Lite for aesthetics or usability, that task bar monstrosity is horrible! Each to their own though, not everyone likes the same things. I really hope Linux Lite doesn't become more like MX!

We are getting off topic here but in defense of my second favorite distro, MX-17, these complaints are easily modified in the settings. I do wonder why the default setting for the panel is Deskbar instead of horizontal on the bottom as most XFCE DE distros. Apparently they have complaints about the panel orientation enough the have a tweak tool in addition to XFCE setting to easily change it.

Of course Linux Lite is my favorite distro but I still customize the appearance to my taste rather than the way it comes out of the box. One of the advantages of the XFCE DE.  8)

[Ottawagrant]

This may end up being a Linux Lite series 5 Vs. series 4. I would like to see the swap partition replaced with a swap file. Solid state hard drives are becoming more common. If you have a 64gb. SSD and 16gb of RAM a Linux Lite installation will install a 16gb swap partition. Unless you edit 1080p blu-ray videos all day you don't need it. Ubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. distro's already use the swap file. A computer with 8gb of RAM usually gets a 2gb swap file. That's good enough.

[Valtam]

I believe Ubuntu is doing that in 18.04
In my install trials, I wasn't asked to create a swap partition.

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[newtusmaximus]

Re MX17.  This might be the only option for LL 32 bit members of LL after 2021 - Three years is not time at all.