xfce4 I had no working network even though Ethernet ip and mac address. did not investigate it. thunar not showing external drives but could not install plugins
yes, issue here, i'm currently searching the source of the permissions issue.
Please can you sort out mounting of external drives and android phones, spacefm mounts external drives, but not plugable android phones, gvfs plugins that is used in all gtk distros has no effect.
about external drives, i think is the same as network,it means permissions issue. spacefm use udevil to mount the drives. Unfortunately spacefm doesn't mount any mtp protocol. Personnaly i use android-file-transfer from aur. Anyway tried gvfs-mtp and gvfs-afc on fresh installation of xfce, thunar mount my phone with success.
At the end, on my personnal system e.g. networkmanager doesn't have issue about permissions, thunar mount external drives. On fresh installation the issue is here and reproductible. As said as before , i'm currently searching the issue, please, if you have any informations, observation, tell it :).
Many thanks for this feedback
EDIT: connman-gtk connmand doesn't have permissions issue. But the file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/connman-nmcompat.conf need tto be modified (bug here from upstream). use this command :
sed -i "s:<deny:<allow:g" /etc/dbus-1/system.d/connman-nmcompat.conf
with root privilegies. This is replace the <deny by <allow string.