ROX-Filer 2.0.0 has been released. This is a major upgrade to the core component of the ROX Desktop. Use of ROX is centred
around the file system, using the same program and interface to manage both applications and data. Originally
based on concepts in RISC OS, ROX takes and extends these GUI ideas and merges them with an underlying Unix or Linux system. The release notes have the full story, and the
guided tour and screenshots may be useful for new users.
ROX Desktop 2.0 Released
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I shall definitely checking this out. I still think RISC OS has the best file manager is the world.
It seems to me that the ROX website is still mostly waiting to be updated (screenshots, guided tour etc.) – after all the new version of ROX was only just released today.
I think its worth to upgrade.
Especially the pinboard looks much nicer now
Very nice to see. I would like to take this appotunity to point out a relatively new project called Rox OS. If you are interesting in reading up on it or contributing please take a look at our (very basic) website at:
http://roxos.sunsite.dk
but imho, rox-filer is still too hard to use… give me amiga dopus and clones anytime
This reminds me of OS9’s elegant application handling.
As site says, alot of the TM über speed people are used to from ROX 1.x are lost in 2.x due to the switch to GTK2, which is a shame, all apps that switch from GTK1 to GTK2 tend to look alot nicer and all but often the cost speed wise is pretty bad.
I hope GTK2 at one point will be OK speed wise for us with low-end systems, QT3 remained it’s nice speed on it’s QT2 to QT3 switch despite featuring all the extra stuff that I suspect cause the speed decrease for GTK2 over GTK1, so I still see light at the end of the tunnel that Owen & Co will do something to fix it somehow.
Mmm, nothing could be harder than click, click-drag, or click click-drag.
Is it possible to get the file manager without the whole desktop package? I’ve been doing quite a bit of ‘experimenting’ with Linux lately and if there’s one thing I know so far, it’s that I hate the default file managers that come with KDE and Gnome – both of them are WAY too slow and have ‘bells and whistles’ completely of the wrong type .. wondering if ROX-filer is any better and if so, if it can be used in place of Conkerer and Bloatilus.
I’m referring to what type of license is used for ROX.
GPL
“Is it possible to get the file manager without the whole desktop package?”
Very much so. I use it as a replacement for Nautilus myself.
On my system ROX 2.0 locks up the mouse input and windows are stuck under the pinboard when used with XFWM4. It was working fine with the 1.8 development releases of ROX.
You may try using the ROX-Session and create an auto launch AppDir for starting gnome-pannel or whatever other GNOME components you want.
I’m using xfwm4 with ROX-Filer here with no problems, and I know many other people are too. If windows are going behind the pinboard, that would certainly be an xfwm4 issue (the
window manager shouldn’t allow an application to do that even if it wants to).
What version of xfwm4 are you using? I’m using 4.0.0+cvs.20030421-1 (latest Debian/unstable version).
Please send bug reports to the mailing list… thanks.
http://rox.sourceforge.net/contact.html
I’m using it for many time on the computers of my job. I also did some modifications on others programs to use it with IceWM, and the result is my Linux looks like WindowsXP. You can see some nice screenshots and instrutions at this link http://www.direito.varginha.com.br/lxp