 So for most of the last month, I've spent my time in XFC now I'm on the record for the last two or three years saying the XFC is one of my favorite desktop environments But at the time I really hadn't spent a lot of time in it for a fairly long amount of time Like I had gone many years without actually using XFC for you know any amount of time So I spent some time in XFC and the original plan was two months, but then things happen So what I want to do today is kind of do a little bit of a wrap up But really what I want to talk about are the five things that I discovered over the course of my usage of XFC That I think that XFC could do better So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna talk about how XFC could improve with just five simple things So the first one is that the settings manager application, the settings manager settings application should be more prominent It should be something that they Pin to the start menu or make just easily accessible because one of the thing weird things that XFC does is that they split out all of their Settings panel into their own individual apps and then they have us like a central settings manager That takes you to those applications that also include some of those applications and they're not it's not always universal And it's a very confusing thing for new users in that all the settings while they are all in one place They are also in other places right and well They're not really in other places because it's all really considered just one thing But you can open up just let's just say you want to open up the display manager settings You could just open those up and you wouldn't have access to the rest of the settings if you wanted them It's just it's a confusing scenario to be in because the settings are in kind of two different places Even though they're not really if that makes any sense. So what I think XFC should do is just have the settings manager and then have your Menu system able to search through the settings manager to take you to certain places kind of like Katie plasma does so Katie has one central Settings panel settings application But if you wanted to search for display settings or power management settings or whatever you could do so in the kickoff menu And it would open up the settings manager to that position So you can change those settings Whereas with XFC if you were to search through the settings It would take you to the specific app for That setting that you wanted to change but you wouldn't get you wouldn't be taken to the settings manager So it's a little bit confusing because they're in two different places So I think that they should just make the settings manager the thing instead of breaking them all out into one different place now I know that's a little bit controversial because a lot of people like the way XFC splits out their settings and I'm kind of there too, I do like it but that's only because I'm used to it and I know that that's the way XFC does it if I didn't know that and I was putting myself into the shoes of a new user I'd find it pretty confusing. So that's the first one on the list The second one is probably the biggest one. So it should probably be going like the end But you know, whoever said I knew how to order these things. So the second one is I think they should make the whisker menu The default menu now in a lot of distributions The whisker menu is a separate package that you have to install explicitly or the distro maintainer has to install explicitly a lot of Distros do use the whisker menu as default. I think Kabuntu does I Think if you install XFC on Arch you probably do and if you install Arco, you probably do But on a lot of distributions if you install XFC say on like Fedora or something like that You're going to get a drop-down menu of categories and that's all you're gonna get. There's no search There's no nothing like that. It's just a drop-down menu of categories a la gunam, too and That's not a great menu and it's disappointing when you encounter a distro that uses that drop-down menu of categories Simply because you know that the whisker menu exists the whisker menu as you'll see in the b-roll is a Menu that is full-featured. It has search It has the ability to pin things to favorites It has all of these things that you can do with it just like a regular modern-day menu Unfortunately, it's not the default in every single distribution and it definitely should be because it's the best menu the XFC has to offer So that's number two on the list Number three on the list is one that I've been talking about in regards to XFC for ages And that's that the default version of XFC when you install it on a random distro And you just install the package of XFC and get all the stuff that goes along with it is but ugly It's really really bad. You can see it on the b-roll right now This is about as close to the default XFC as I could get it on Fedora And it's basically what it looks like has a little bar at the bottom It has the bar at the top and has a very ugly wallpaper all of the GTK applications look like they were built in the 1990s Even though they have other themes installed by default They could just use at Waita and it would look 10 times better. In fact, you'll see me in the b-roll right now Actually making exit XFC look better. It takes me two and a half seconds or something like that It does not take me very long to make it look just a little bit better. It makes it look more modern instead it looks like it was built in Windows 98 era and If you want people to use your desktop environment, which maybe the XFC guys don't care, which is, you know You know find it dandy But if you want people to not look at your just desktop environment and say wow that looks really old and outdated Maybe just put just a tiny bit more effort into making the default setup when you install it on like Arch or Fedora Whatever just look a little bit better. That's all I'm saying If you make it look a little bit more modern people will stop thinking that it's so old and outdated So the last two are going to be two that I think that they're probably working on now that they're going to be implementing Wayland But I wanted to mention them here and I can't show you any b-roll because I don't have any way of doing so So the first one is fractional scaling as it is right now I don't think the XFC has any ability to do this whatsoever. It's possible that you could use x-rander to do it I'm not sure but as of right now. I don't think that there's any fractional scaling in XFC. I could be wrong I don't have a monitor to test it So I can't really tell you for sure, but I'm pretty sure the XFC does not have fractional scaling Like I said, they'll probably something that they are able to implement one once they have Wayland But it's also possible that they have some Stopgap solution in there right now that it just doesn't show up for me because I don't have a monitor that needs it Fractional scaling probably something that they'll be working on here pretty soon The other one that I wanted to talk about and this one does apply to me But I can't really show you is multi monitor support and again It's probably something that will get way better once Wayland is implemented But multi monitor support in XFC is not the greatest. I will just say that it's not the worst I will I will say that as well, but it's not the greatest out of the box There are many different little tweaks that you have to make in order to get it to work properly Otherwise things move around all the time when the monitors wake back up and I had one hell of a time getting my monitors to go to sleep I never did during the entire month or so that I use XFC. I never did one time get my monitors to go to sleep I did manage to install X screensaver and get them to go blank Which is close enough even though that you can still see like the backlight It's better than nothing but still that was a third-party application So the power management stuff on XFC could really do better But it's also possible with that last one that that's just a me problem because every single desktop environment that I use has that problem So maybe it's just my weird hardware, but I don't have weird hardware All I have is you know an RX 580 and a Ryzen chip. It's not like I'm using some weird brand GPU or something. I don't know it doesn't it doesn't really matter But the point is is that I think that multi monitor support can get better on XFC and that's something they should look at So those are the five things that XFC should work on to get better the first three specifically I think are really important if they just made the whisker menu default and Made it prettier than it is by default Those two things would go miles on a way to making XFC maybe even the best new user desktop environment out there I think it's just really fantastic if they can also kind of put more emphasis on the settings manager application I think that would also go miles into making it just a little bit easier for noobs to use now There is one aspect that I need to kind of put out there XFC Maybe is not for new users and that's okay. Everything doesn't have to be for new users I know that my channel takes a tone that a lot of stuff should be good for new users But it's not true that everything has to be for new users So it's possible that the way XFCs does stuff right now kind of is just good enough for most people And that's just the way it is now I do think that a newer more modern theme for the vanilla version of XFC would make it so that even Long-time Linux users would look better upon XFC But you know they tend to they seem to have this aesthetic where they don't want to change things And that's okay because that's the kind of the idea behind XFC You don't want to you don't want it to be unstable or seem unstable and new new Highfalutin features could give the sense that oh my goodness things are gonna change the world is ending right? But here's the thing about that They are going to be implementing the biggest change in XFC history in the next version They're going to be implementing Wayland now I don't know whether or not this is going to be Wayland by default that they really haven't said yet But no matter what that's going to be a big change that would be a fantastic time to make some other changes to kind of go along with that and Probably the biggest one they could make is just make the default look and feel just a little bit more modern So those are my thoughts on XFC I honestly wish I was still using it to be honest with you because my three or four days with plasma while I after I switched to Redcore were not fantastic I mean the 5.26 experience was really good and then I updated 5.27 and everything just went to hell So plasma as is usually the the case hates my guts But XFC was really quite good as I expected it to be so so that's it for this video If you have thoughts on XFC or any of that stuff you can leave those in the comment section below I'd love to hear from you You can follow me on masses on Odyssey those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast link for libera pay and YouTube will be in the video description as well Thanks everybody who does support me on patreon and YouTube you guys are all absolutely amazing without you the challenge It's not be anywhere near where it is right now So thank you so very very very very very very very very much for your support. 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