xfe

After five months of using xfe I decided to revert to Thunar because, in descending order of importance • File association (open with) uses Windows style .ext rather than MIME type • Bookmarks: inconvenient to use being ordered by creation date and displayed with full paths. The workaround of using directory 0_shortcuts with symlinks resulted in paths including 0_shortcuts whereas Thunar's Places results in absolute paths • Custom shell scripts are less usable than Thunar's custom actions requiring select > menu > select whereas Thunar's requires select > menu. A 29 Nov 2024 feature request to be able to assign a key binding to run a script had not been acknowledged by the developer • Open terminal here: selecting a folder and pressing Ctrl+t started the terminal with the cwd being the folder's parent, not the folder. Less intuitive than Thunar's custom action which starts the terminal with that folder as cwd. • New file: does not work with templates • Toggle show hidden: no menus item found. Only way found was Ctrl+F5 for directories and Ctrl+F6 for files (nothing for both!) but those hotkeys were intercepted by Xfce to switch workspaces so would have to be customised • No key binding found to delete without sending to trash • Default file manager for apps: did not find a way to make Chromium, Firefox or LibreOffice use xfe • Help is not searchable