asking your attention to ROX Filer
Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: asking your attention to ROX Filer
started by: zaheermk
Posted by zaheermk on Nov. 10 2004,10:37
Could you add ROX Filer file manager keeping or replacing emelFM (depending on other users needs)? Visit ROX homepage at < http://rox.sourceforge.net. > Please go through the ROX Desktop as well as the screenshots. 
Posted by ico2 on Nov. 10 2004,13:36
hmmmmm, i don't like rox that much, it looks like windows explorer, but apart from that i can see no advantages over emelfm. emelfm is more powerful and easy to use.use the mydsl if you really need rox, but i don't think many people would like it to replace emelfm.
Posted by clivesay on Nov. 10 2004,13:54
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| apart from that i can see no advantages over emelfm. emelfm is more powerful and easy to use. |
ico2 -
I am with you on this one. When I first tried DSL (coming from a windows environment) I was not impressed with emelfm but that opinion has changed drastically.
zaheermk -
I encourage you to give emelfm a chance. It may not be as pretty, but emelfm is HIGHLY configurable. You can look for files, launch apps, work from the commandline, etc. With the buttones and the right click menu, emelfm could almost be a do-it-all gui for anything you would like to do in a gui environment. Now that I have used it for awhile, I don't know what I would do without it!!
I actually have emelfm and rox in my remaster. Just load the rox.dsl file and have the best of both worlds!
Chris
Posted by ico2 on Nov. 10 2004,13:56
yeah, emelfm is the best, as i said, get the rox.dsl extension if you can't live with emelfm.
Posted by ke4nt1 on Nov. 10 2004,17:34
Find it here, click-n-run..< http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....rox.dsl >
73
ke4nt
Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 10 2004,18:41
I'm the guy that MADE the rox filer extension and now I don't use it because I find that emelfm is more efficient than rox for most operations.However, I still use Rox Filer on rare occasions when I need to do a complex file search operation.
Rox Filer has the best file search functionality that I am aware of. You can do really complex file searches with Rox Filer, almost like a simple SQL database query.
Posted by softgun on Nov. 15 2004,18:24
Is there a live cd with the rox desktop - not just the filer?
Posted by ico2 on Nov. 20 2004,23:40
there is a rox desktop? can someone post a screenie?
Posted by dk on Nov. 29 2004,13:35
Puppy Linux has Rox Filer only, also the pinboard to manage the desktop icons.< http://www.goose.com/puppy/ >
Posted by dk on Nov. 29 2004,13:41
Ha, ha, that should be< http://www.goosee.com/puppy/ >