Some ideas for MX Linux 25 KDE

[Dearth]

@Arnox

DId your MX23-KDE not have Strawberry? What was the default media library manager you got?

Hm? No, it did have it. I was saying I'd be open to it being replaced, but Strawberry seems to do a great job already for me personally, so the replacement would have to have feature parity.

IMHO it is better to have one app as a music player (Sayonara) and a second app that is a mp3tag equivalent (Puddletag).

Nevertheless, Sayonara has a tag editor built-in:
https://sayonara-player.com/features/

It is much more in the spirit of UNIX philosophy to have a "one app to do one job and do it well". So splitting playing and tagging between separate apps seems to be a good choice.

[Dearth]

Screenshot: Flameshot

Flameshot doesn't work well on Wayland
I had to move back to Spectacle (which works well, but needs some customizing if you're used to Flameshot)

You are right. Until a new, Wayland-compatible version of Flameshot is released, KDE's Spectacle seems to be the best option.

[Nokkaelaein]

You are right. Until a new, Wayland-compatible version of Flameshot is released, KDE's Spectacle seems to be the best option.

Shout out to ksnip as well. Nothing against other tools per se, it's just been really nifty in my own use ... I dig the specific editing/annotation tools offered, and it feels lightweight in a good way. I have it configured so that it doesn't dwell in the systray at all, and instead I can just invoke either an instantaneous screen grab (immediately dumps the screen the mouse cursor is currently on, to png, without any GUI) or, with another shortcut, a rectangular selection into the annotation-etc-editor. Subjectively, I prefer the selection tool style to any other I've seen.

[Arnox]

Ok, I lied. There is another program that I now think needs to be replaced. Ark. It takes too long opening archives for browsing. With regular small-sized archives, this is not normally much of an issue at all. Like a few seconds loading or so. But on large archives of 5 GB or more? It's bad. Now, in fairness to Ark, I THINK what it's doing is pre-extracting files (probably to RAM) when opening an archive. Which... I dunno. If so, not sure if that's really a great idea.

By the way, to give some frame of reference, I'm comparing the performance here to 7-Zip.

[asqwerth]

Ok, I lied. There is another program that I now think needs to be replaced. Ark. It takes too long opening archives for browsing. With regular small-sized archives, this is not normally much of an issue at all. Like a few seconds loading or so. But on large archives of 5 GB or more? It's bad. Now, in fairness to Ark, I THINK what it's doing is pre-extracting files (probably to RAM) when opening an archive. Which... I dunno. If so, not sure if that's really a great idea.

By the way, to give some frame of reference, I'm comparing the performance here to 7-Zip.

Like you, I don't like Ark at all. Performance is not great.

And those right click menu options to "extract to here (list of different file paths)"? They don't always work. I choose one path, the task appears to be done, I go to that folder, and find nothing!

I usually install Arqiver as well, which @Stevo recommended when the first MX-KDE was released [mx19]

[siamhie]

Ok, I lied. There is another program that I now think needs to be replaced. Ark. It takes too long opening archives for browsing. With regular small-sized archives, this is not normally much of an issue at all. Like a few seconds loading or so. But on large archives of 5 GB or more? It's bad. Now, in fairness to Ark, I THINK what it's doing is pre-extracting files (probably to RAM) when opening an archive. Which... I dunno. If so, not sure if that's really a great idea.

By the way, to give some frame of reference, I'm comparing the performance here to 7-Zip.

Like you, I don't like Ark at all. Performance is not great.

And those right click menu options to "extract to here (list of different file paths)"? They don't always work. I choose one path, the task appears to be done, I go to that folder, and find nothing!

I usually install Arqiver as well, which @Stevo recommended when the first MX-KDE was released [mx19]

I know with MXFB-25 we are switching from file-roller to xarchiver and @Stevo has updated it to the latest version 5.4.23. Might want to look at that one.

[asqwerth]

I think the preference for MX-KDE, though not set in stone, is for the programs to be Qt.

ArQiver is Qt.

[Dearth]

I think the preference for MX-KDE, though not set in stone, is for the programs to be Qt.

ArQiver is Qt.

That's a nice timing, because Arqiver has been released as version 1.0 not that long ago:
https://github.com/tsujan/Arqiver

There is also PeaZip which I find very good:
https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip

[Nokkaelaein]

There is PeaZip, which is QT (and alternatively GTK), open source, and just awesome when in need of a powerful do-it-all archiver thingy. Also works in Wayland these days, and does theme quite nicely. I've noticed using it more and more as my main default when interacting with archives on the desktop. It's probably a bit too much of a good thing, though, haha. As in, might be a bit overwhelming / "power-user-y" / hefty as a general default?

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-linux.html

[Nokkaelaein]

There is also PeaZip which I find very good:
https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip

Hah, ninja'd just as I was writing the above!