On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 15:48 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: > The main issue I have seen is having to tweak startup prograns from a > session's > control panel to keep multiple copies of the desktop icons from being > displayed > by multiple file managers. I have MATE, GNOME, and Cinnamon installed and > can configure any one of them at a time to properly show the desktop, but not > seamlessly session switch without having to either start or kill a file > manager > from the alt-F2 dialog. So trivial for me I think little of it but yeah this > could > flummox a new user.
In my first reply I ignored the underlying WM, lets ignore it now, too, but handling of a "desktop", resp. the way ~/Desktop is displayed, is a serious issue for inexperienced users, let alone of e.g. panels that might be replaced after using a file manager of another desktop environment. Usually such issues don't happen, but very seldom, still way too often, they could happen. There are more geekish pitfalls, such as using a GTK based environment, such as e.g. Xfce, that by default does ship with GVFS, but also allow usage without GVFS. Once you e.g. run k3b, you could run into issues caused by the KDE replacement of GVFS, even while you explicitly use Xfce without GVFS, to avoid killing of external green drives. Desktop environments could ship with a lot of crap that even could damage hardware, like e.g. GVFS does, but users don't notice it. If you fix one WM and DE to your needs, it doesn't mean that just because you don't notice an issue while installing an additional WM and DE or even software that belongs to another DE, couldn't launch software that could be dangerous. Continually spinning down and up external green drives are caused by GVFS. If you are using Xfce, you could remove GVFS without a trick, to remove it for GNOME, Mate and Cinnamon, you at least need to build a dummy packge, that fakes to fulfill the completely unneeded dependency to GVFS. Once you launched a KDE app, some KDE thingy likely makes your external green drive spin down and up again and again. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel