http://www.osnews.com/story/18744/_ROX-Filer_a_Lightweight_File_Manager_that_Rocks_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:55:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?277146 http://osnews.com/thread?277146 I don't see anything 'rocking' here. Nothing here not already available on other OSes. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Duffman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277148 http://osnews.com/thread?277148 For those who think that ROX is ugly (and its very ugly just after installation) little screenie showing configured ROX: http://vermaden.rox.pl/gfx/shots/vermaden-2007.09.12.png

Also ROX vs Thunar: http://vermaden.rox.pl/gfx/shots/vermaden-thunar-rox.png Edited 2007-10-09 13:32 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vermaden) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277164 http://osnews.com/thread?277164 I appologize this is off toppic but where did you get the 5th_element_milla pic? that one is awsome. also ROX is very customizable. it is rather nice once tweaked a little. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277170 http://osnews.com/thread?277170 most likely the image is a shot from the movie that has been post-processed to look like its a drawing. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hobgoblin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277173 http://osnews.com/thread?277173 I guess he found it at deviantART:

http://elmeo.deviantart.com/art/5th-Element-Milla-35154986 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (maarten) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277315 http://osnews.com/thread?277315 I recall using Risc OS on which this is based on at school during the early 90's, and remembering how easy it was not just to adapt to but also to use aswell.
It's just a shame that there aren't enough sister applications alongside it that adopt a similar approach to accomplishing tasks. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shahid) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277321 http://osnews.com/thread?277321 why does everyone implement a file manager as a 1 pane view? explorer, finder, and nearly every other file manager works alike. even the gods of interfaces got it wrong with finder. while everyone i know really likes the 2 pane view like norton commander/mc/total commander.

i really don't care about features like filter, a zillion different views and a build in commandline. the most common action is to move or copy files, for this a 2 pane view is ideal (no, opening 2 windows still sucks donkeyballs).

i still see people suffer each day because of the one pane view, so please developpers, support a 2 pane view, it can't be that hard. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renhoek) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277341 http://osnews.com/thread?277341 I've tried using two panes, but it's difficult. Maybe I nest things more deeply... I just get lost. Of course, I always have an address bar visible in my file managers. I type paths a lot more than clicking. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Spellcheck) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277368 http://osnews.com/thread?277368 "i really don't care about features like filter, a zillion different views and a build in commandline."

I don't care about a 2-pane view.

"so please developpers, support a 2 pane view, it can't be that hard."

ROX-Filer will most certainly never have a 2-pane view. Feel tree to use any of the Norton Commander clones (like Xnc) or code one yourself though. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277396 http://osnews.com/thread?277396 sorry for late response,

maarten found it properly, if you would like some other wallpapers, then get them here: http://vermaden.rox.pl/gfx/wallpapers Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vermaden) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277433 http://osnews.com/thread?277433 I still miss the filemanager from Windows 3.1; their last decent effort. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gavin.mccord) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277481 http://osnews.com/thread?277481 Two panes are limiting. With multiple one-pane windows, you can have 1...n panes open and drag-and-drop between them arbitrarily.

ROXFiler perfectly fits my own desktop style as a long-time OS/2 and classic MacOS user. If you don't like its approach, use another filemanager...

(I also use MC on the command line quite heavily, and that sort of filemanager is very useful in a console context, but that isn't the way I like to operate when in a mouse-centric UI). Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277484 http://osnews.com/thread?277484 I would like to add: in operating systems such as OS/2 that have a desktop with features like Workgroup folders, you can set up an arbitrary number of windows in fixed positions on your desktop and then open and close the entire group of windows concurrently with a single double-click.

Just create a controlling folder object, create shadows of the programs you want to control in that folder, click the "Workgroup" box in the folder settings, and then use that folder icon to open and close the entire application set as a group.

Those windows could be anything -- directory windows, text editors, other applications, etc.

Why Linux and other OSes still haven't duplicated this type of logical window/application grouping is still a puzzle to me. It's very useful.Edited 2007-10-10 15:22 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277522 http://osnews.com/thread?277522 It's fine; just set up some shortcuts. For example, on my ROX-Filer setup, pressing "n" duplicates the current window. Then +S does a vertical split (i.e. puts one window above the other), while +| puts them side-by-side.

The two split commands are provided by the WM (Ion 3 in my case). It's better to let the WM provide the layout/tabbing features than to have every program implement its own.

Of course, this also allows you to have as many windows or tabs as you want. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tom5) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277734 http://osnews.com/thread?277734 Open Konqueror, press Ctrl+Shift+L and WHAM! You have your 02 panels view. Awesome trick to use Konqueror as a FTP or SFTP/SCP client when using the fish:// KIOSlave.

When you're done, press Ctrl+Shift+R to remove one of the panels. You can't get any better than Konqueror as far as file managers are concerned... Edited 2007-10-11 20:31 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DeadFishMan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?277739 http://osnews.com/thread?277739 I have no problems with Finder, but File Manager in Windows 3.1 was better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Filemanager31.png

Microsoft really screwed up when they tried to "bake" IE into Windows giving us Windows Explorer. Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thomas2005) Comments