Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Feb 2007 19:57 UTC, submitted by Dolores Parker
"The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project's name is an abbreviation of 'RISC OS on X'. The ROX Desktop's performance is reminiscent of IceWM, and it's noticeably faster opening programs than GNOME or KDE. However, its speed comes at the expense of a needlessly redundant default configuration, and some users may balk at some of the assumptions its design makes about how they prefer to work."
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2007-01-16
Has anyone tried to use Beryl with ROX?
Yes; I didn’t find it very nice. The Panel doesn’t work properly (it gets pushed out by its width, so there’s a gap between it and the edge of the screen). So on my laptop which can use Beryl I’m currently giving Beryl+ROX-Filer under Gnome a go. But I think I’ll go back to using Sawfish, because Beryl keeps giving the focus to the wrong window (I like focus-strictly-follows-mouse, and Beryl’s focus-follows-mouse mode keeps leaving the wrong window focussed).
I could give you a video if I knew how... (Do you just mean running my digital camera in video mode, or is there software that can take a video of it?) In all honesty, I’m not sure why you’d want one, it looks no different from anything else under Beryl.
As for the Filer’s general look, I actually have the toolbar completely disabled, and I have a dark picture as its background. I did this as a lark one day, but now I find that whenever I set up a new computer, I copy my theme across as almost the first thing I do because it helps me to see the windows and so forth. I’ve done something similar to GVim as well. Here’s a low-quality screenshot that illustrates it:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=384555919&size=l
(those filenames which appear to lack extensions ... actually lack extensions. ROX-Filer works out the filetype based on the contents).
When properly configured, I find my ROX desktop to be a very efficient desktop. The use of context menus to the exclusion of menubars makes it a lot quicker to get the menu and makes much better use of my small 1650x1050 and 1900x1200 lcd screens. Drag-and-drop saving means I only need to browse to a folder once & helps keep me organised. AppDirs make installing my important software easy when moving to a new computer. And the computer only does what I want it to! Still, it’s very different from Windows/Gnome/...
HTH