Debian 13 templates (including standard, minimal, and Xfce versions) for Qubes OS 4.2 and 4.3 are now available for testing in the qubes-templates-itl-testing repositories for 4.2 and 4.3, respectively. Here’s the associated issue:
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the standardizing fonts issue that got fixed in fedora template releases still is an issue in debian-13-xfce:
the tools for attaching android phones to the computer ( gvfs-backendsmtp-tools) are not included in debian-13-xfce, altho they are included in fedora template releases like fedora-42-xfce. would help reduce the need for users needing to search & find guides such as : How to Connect To Android via USB
in general, it would be great to have more robust processes to ensure feature parity between fedora & debian templates - there are probably other examples to the above.
Regretfully this was upstream policy to do not include gvfs-backends and mtp-tools by default on XFCE and their official guides advises them to be manually installed.