How install Dolphin on XFCE

[richb]

I have been using Dolphin for some time in MX. But I do install KDE full. The same advice applies regarding KDE system Settings as before mentioned. In theory you only need system settings But it alone does not fully populate without other libraries and apps. Rather than try to figure that out, I just do a full install.

[Stevo]

I've had Dolphin following the XFCE dark theme for years, but I think it's also necessary to use KDE's systemsettings5 to choose a KDE color layout for a dark theme, since you'll probably end up with dark on dark invisible text otherwise.

[sunrat]

If Xfce is still your main desktop, I would suggest kde-full is not necessary and kde-standard is total overkill. I have a Buster netinstall system which only has kde-plasma-desktop and it has full function in System Settings. Buster installs recommends by default afaik and systemsettings is a recommend of kde-plasma-desktop so in MX it would be preferable to do

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apt install --install-recommends kde-plasma-desktop

. Not sure if you can do that in MXPI; Synaptic can if set in Preferences.
Of course you could just install the systemsettings package by itself but it would pull in most of kde-plasma-desktop as dependencies anyway.

[Pjardas]

Sunrat, that worked wonderfully on my Mx 18.3! Thanks!