Budgie desktop context menu

Desktop Environments Budgie
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I can not drag n drop from the desktop, and the context menu is next to nothing compared to other DE s. Is this normal with Budgie?

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no drag and drop from desktop is possible in Budgie. Strobl had a long explanation of this somewhere at sometime ā€˜cause I read it.

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I personally LOVE the two-item Budgie context menu: system settings and budgie settings. the end. wallpaper, fonts, icon, themes. default apps etc etc etc at fingertips. seems limiting because they donā€™t spell it al out for you. they just send you to one of two settings menus.

Guess Iā€™ve gotten used to the simplicity and uniqueness. I also LOVE the absence of excess verbosity a typical right-click desktop gives.

[Openbox does this out of necessity since all settings are concentrated in that right-click. ]

TLDR: AFAIK all normal

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Isnā€™t TLDR normally put first? Just saying :wink: :sweat_smile:

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beats me. just know there is a long version and a short version and Iā€™m an equal opportunity guy and Iā€™ve seen the short version (ā€œtldrā€) at the bottom of plenty of replies and articles and at the top too.

Enjoy your misguided ridicule.

Spent a long time with Budgie, just trying to contextualize (my take at least) for the OP.

edit: typo

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I mean, for it to have the intended function, it should be be put first in an article or post. Otherwise, whatā€™s the point of it?

Those articles or posts that have it at the bottom make an erroneous use of it if I may express myself in the matter.

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Iā€™ve mostly seen it at the bottom of forum posts. Maybe itā€™s an ironic thing?

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Yes, me too. But to me, if it is going to have the intended function, namely getting the gist of a a rather long post or article, it would make more sense to have it in the beginning.

How would you know that there is a TLDR at all at the bottom if an article is more than one page long?

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I think this is accurate as far as me

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@sempterobit,
Iā€™ve been thinking about the context menu issue of Budgie desktop.
Thunar has its
Edit / Confirure custom options ... which is a context menu option.
You create a between folder on your desktop I call it ā€˜Tween Deckā€™ you can drag files from.
Make thunar your default file manager (instead of Nemo).

The command is like < your application > %f and Appearance Conditions should also be set.

Apart from context menu there are Hot corners which can make budgie desktop more usable .
Finally Window Shuffler applet has also some advantage.