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Posted: April 19 2004,20:23 QUOTE

i just came across ROX since it would be pretty handy to be able to use more a convenient way of creating/using icons/drag&drop i thought it might be a good idea to use rox in the furure releases of dsl.
i havent tried it with dsl yet (not with the hdd install anyway) but rox+fluxbox would make a pretty nice alternative to ressource monsters like kde.

ps: my 1st post, so be cool  :cool:
ps2: props to the creators of dsl. Having used linux for 5 years, this lightweight distro has managed to get a permanent place on my hdd  :)
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Posted: April 19 2004,23:33 QUOTE

It's been suggested before and rejected due to size limitations.

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Posted: April 20 2004,00:25 QUOTE

Once upon a time, there was a script that would install Rox Filer from the Internet even if the user was running from the LiveCD.

That script is located here:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;hl=rox

It works fine with DSL versions 0.5.x, but it has not been tested on a DSL 0.6.x system yet.

You might want to try it and see if it still works.  I would suggest installing from LiveCD first so you won't hose a hard disk installation if it is screwed up.

Good Luck.

PS: I think that Rox is a very nice and fast GTK+ program that does the following functions:

Filemanager (Emelfm)
Thumbnail viewer (xzgv)
Desktop Icon system (xtdesktop)

Plus, it has an extremely powerful file "Search" function that works kinda like a SQL database engine.

However, Emelfm grows on you and now I prefer it to Rox Filer when I am browsing directories of files.

xzgv is also a full size image viewer, so it can do something that Rox can not.

xtdesktop is on a par with the Rox Filer "pinboard" mode, but xtdesktop double-click is more intuitive for ex-Windows users and the *.lnk files are very easy to auto-generate.  However, Rox has a really cool drag-and-drop feature where you can create a new desktop icon by grabbing a file from the file manager window and dragging it on to the desktop.

All are great programs, but they won't all fit on a 50MB size Business Card format CD-R disk.
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Posted: April 20 2004,19:32 QUOTE

Well, seems you all havn't tried LuitLinux. It is based on DSL and uses ROX filer. Has also other goodies like the XFCE4 Desktop manager, Abiword and Gimp
http://luitlinux.sarovar.org
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Posted: April 24 2004,23:27 QUOTE

Quote (paul27 @ April 20 2004,13:32)
Well, seems you all havn't tried LuitLinux. It is based on DSL and uses ROX filer. Has also other goodies like the XFCE4 Desktop manager, Abiword and Gimp
http://luitlinux.sarovar.org

Does it fit on a business card CD? No?  Then who cares? Really?  The whole trick to DSL is getting a functional desktop squeezed into 50Megs of compressed space. What differentiates Luit from Flonix or Morphix or any of the other DSL remasters?  Nothing that I can tell.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Undisputed champion in it's weight class and division.


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