When using KDE, would you also default to KDE apps such as the KDE image viewer? Even on my modern 64 bit machine it takes a while until gwenview is loaded from a SSD. I dislike environments providing apps for simple tasks that get loaded that slow from a SSD, as loading a program from a Commodore 1541 5,25" floppy drive needed in the 80s.
KDE has got something similar to GVFS, but I can't locate what to remove, to get rid of waking up external green HDDs, to avoid continuously spin downs and spin ups. Replacing GVFS by a dummy package for Xfce and any other environments that requires GVFS as a dependency, saves life of external green drives, without breaking functionality, apart from what GVFS provides by itself and easily could be replaced by other software, if users don't want to use command line. Even without using KDE, just running one time K3b and the issue starts and even doesn't stop after closing K3b. It's a well known issue, also for a few other apps, some coders at least are willing to fix it, e.g. https://github.com/lxde/libfm/commit/994a1e25ba0c3da80575fc002af17ab02ed5998b . This issue not only applies to external green drives, but also to several hard drive enclosure with regular HDDs, where the hard drive enclosure's controllers cause the stand by mode and where vendors don't provide alternative firmware. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
