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What do we have here. LXQT + IceWM ( Trisquel Theme ) + Picom. At the moment I am only with Qt applications I don't expect a very well integration with GTK3 apps, I will see.

After some research for alternatives the only one that I found quite close to Dolphin is Pcmanfm-qt. If each of the software is visually correct ( even if I had to fix icons issue on PcManfm-qt ) it is quite different when it comes to use and configure Pcmanfm-qt which is still being very far from Dolphin. ( Also note the issue in the arrangement of the folders in pcmanfm-qt ). A little bug however with Dolphin where 'minimize' and 'Maximize' are not available.

PCMANFM-QT

pcmanfm-qt

DOLPHIN

dolphin


I am far from being convinced by pcmanfm-qt and for now Dolphin wins the match.
Others remark like the connection via the network to an ftp server, which does not work on pcmanfm-qt and the inability to change the size of the icons on the fly.
Still a lot of work to be done on Pcmanfm-qt and at the speed at which development is going on we should reach a similar level in twenty years :D

Others files manager I have tested.

QTFM

qtfm

INDEX-FM

index-fm

I have to admit that has nothing to do with the beautiful screenshots from their website...

Anyway, in any case Dolphin wins the match.
Nice! Looks good to me.

So is your thought to replace KDE Plasma with a LXQT variant due to the whole KDE telemetry crud?

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techore wrote So is your thought to replace KDE Plasma with a LXQT variant due to the whole KDE telemetry crud?
More or less but not at 100% right now and the telemetry is alone not a good reason for my point of view. I had a talk with eric who seems to prefer to go in this direction. I agree with the fact that systemd is gaining more and more importance within this DE.

Another reason also comes from to maintain the pkgbuild without the telemetry, right now the number of software is not huge, but I'm afraid that in the futur more software will comes with telemetry.

I'll be honest, if I was paid to maintain an alternative without telemetry, I would even make sure to fork the software to remove the code at the root and more but all I'm doing from the beginning is on my free time, for free and I am very happy to do it. :)

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In my personal opinion, I'm thinking that an alternative to Qt and GTK would have a place in the desktop. Nucleon recently introduced me to a little-known language "nim" and I was able to find some UI library and GUI toolkit for nim and written in nim for a few of them.
If you decided to create a nim based spin that would be interesting. Wouldn't you have to essentially create core and common applications using it otherwise users would be dragging in gtk2/3 and qt5 for nim gaps? Not boo booing the idea so much imagining all the work it would entail to create a nim based distribution. It's an interesting idea.
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I don't want to derail this thread, and can start another one if necessary, but let's just say that I wanted to make and host an LXDE spin of Obarun on Gitlab, what exactly would be required?

I'm willing to do the legwork but could use a little guidance.

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@ ShalaMala

Hej, cześć !
I think I have done the file managers tour, Krusader is nice but not up2date, all others non Qt/GTK are a no.

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