[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#923796: Please recommend xdg-user-dirs-gtk, gnome-colors and numlockx

[Hartmut Buhrmester]

Package: lxde
Version: 10

The file manager from the LXDE desktop environment, PCManFM, nicely 
supports the user directories Desktop, Documents, Download, Music, 
Pictures, Public, Templates and Videos.

The attached screen shot pcmanfm-with-user-directories.png shows, that 
all these directories are displayed with their custom icons, if the icon 
set supports them. Here, the GNOME icon theme from the directory 
/usr/share/icons/gnome is used.

The standard LXDE icon theme /usr/share/icons/nuoveXT2 does NOT contain 
these custom icons, which is a bit disappointing.

The bookmarks file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks is surely supported as 
well, and the user directories are added to the sidebar and the 
bookmarks menu.

(see screenshot pcmanfm-with-bookmarks-menu.png)

All this also works with localized directories, e.g. German as shown in 
the screenshots. (The directory Desktop is not localized, because 
PCManFM was started first, before creating the user directories and the 
configuration files ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and user-dirs.locale.)

But this depends on the packages xdg-user-dirs and xdg-user-dirs-gtk, 
which are not installed by default, even if the task-lxde-desktop is 
installed with all its recommended packages.

Thus, I would suggest, that the package lxde should depend on (or 
recommend) the package xdg-user-dirs-gtk, which in turn depends on 
xdg-user-dirs.

This would be the same approach as used for Cinnamon: The package 
cinnamon-desktop-environment also depends on xdg-user-dirs-gtk.

You might also consider replacing the lxde-icon-theme with a more 
complete theme. I like the variations of gnome-colors a lot. The blue 
gnome-brave-icon-theme works well with the Clearlooks theme for GTK2 and 
the window manager, and there is also a clearlooks-phenix-theme for GTK3.

(see screenshot gnome-brave-icons-and-clearlooks.png)

This would be a "traditional OK" theme, as it is called in the MATE desktop.

Furthermore, I like to have the "num lock" key enabled by default. The 
display manager LightDM does not support this. Therefore, lxde should 
also recommend the package numlockx.

Regards,
Hartmut Buhrmester
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