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Lumina Desktop Environment
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Lumina changes (personal view) #405

Open George87ember opened 7 years ago

George87ember commented 7 years ago

Hi. As a Lumina Desktop and FreeBSD user, I would like to share my thoughts with you, to make Lumina even better. This is my personal opinion.

1) Insight File Manager Trash folder (File manager doesn't have Trash. Only Delete option) 2) Insight File Manager horizontal folders placement (Now is vertical. One folder under another) 3) Insight File Manager File System tree expander on the left as all the other File Managers 4) Panel Plugin for change languages (Now I use setxkbmap on .xinitrc) 5) Weather Plugins (Is already asked so I just mention it) 6) Lumina Terminal. Something with xfce4 feeling. 7) Lumina on Wayland 8) Calculator and Lumina Screenshots seems ugly. gnome and Xfce4-screenshoot seems most beautiful 9) Lumina window manager should leave Fluxbox 10) Lumina workspaces mini preview (No need to click icon button and the chose other workspace 11) Cycle Windows through all workspaces 12) Snap Windows on the edges of a screen like gnome3 13) On set wallpapers there is no zoom option. So a 1920x1080 wallpaper can't fit on 1920x1200 screen

Sorry for my bad English.

q5sys commented 7 years ago

1) This has come up before... with using ZFS we're not to keen on having a trash folder because it's just going to eat away at space, and with snapshots is effectively pointless. All you're doing is creating another copy of the file in the file system. 2) Ken and I have talked about redoing Insight, but there are other things that need to be dealt with first. I personally want a Folder Tree Widget as well. 3) See 2) 4) A Panel Plugin shouldn't be too hard to write, I believe this is also possible within lumina-config using fcitx and localization. 5) See: https://github.com/trueos/lumina/issues/268 6) Ken has been working on a Terminal already, but it's not complete. See: https://github.com/trueos/lumina/tree/master/src-qt5/desktop-utils/lumina-terminal 7) It's been talked about, but it's still a ways off. Ken wants to focus on the Window Manager replacement for Fluxbox first. 8) Different looks are available with different toolkits. Since we are using QT, we are somewhat limited in appearance options. Ken and I have dabbled with QML which allows for greater customize-ability, but there are some major performance concerns with QML. QML within Lumina is a skunkworks project at this point, and nothing will probably come of it anytime soon, considering all the other things that need to be done. 9) See 7) 10) Probably should wait until the Window Manager is done. 11) Needs to wait until the Window Manager is done. 12) Not possible with Fluxbox, waiting on the Window Manager. Ken and I have talked about this for well over a year. 13) I've wanted to make an application for better configuration of wallpapaers, but I haven't had the time to sit down and start working on it. It'll happen eventually.

q5sys commented 7 years ago

Regarding: 3# "Insight File Manager File System tree expander on the left as all the other File Managers"

This was implemented today, you'll have to build from the latest the latest sources.

ghost commented 7 years ago

If you allow me to add in two more:

  1. Insight File Manager with in line renaming, instead of opening a dialog. Like Dolphin does;
  2. Insight File Manager bulk rename support. Again like Dolphin, but also Thunar.
q5sys commented 7 years ago

14) I'm not sure about. I've been looking into changing the backend of the file manager, so that may make this possible. I wont know until I finally get it working.

15) We may end up making a utility like krename. That's one utility that I've wanted in Lumina for a while. I'll probably get frustrated enough sometime before the end of the year to write it myself. I've just really been wanting to avoid doing the regex logic.