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'ROX Desktop Provides Light, Quirky Alternative to GNOME, KDE'

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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pretty good

by Zedicus on Wed 7th Feb 2007 20:33 UTC

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2005-12-05

i actually like the desktop of ROX but the file manager irratates me at best. for any one out there running linux and a non KDE or Gnome window manager you should really give Endeavour2 a try. i actually prefer it to the KDE and Gnome file managers.

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RE: pretty good

by Temcat on Thu 8th Feb 2007 07:05 in reply to "pretty good"

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2005-10-18

you should really give Endeavour2 a try

Now if it weren't GTK1 without any hope for porting it to GTK2...

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RE[2]: pretty good

by AlexandreAM on Thu 8th Feb 2007 13:08 in reply to "RE: pretty good"

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2006-02-06

You could always give Thunar a try, you know. It is the file manager for Xfce but, it is pretty slick and competent at file management and it is Gtk2 based.

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