DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: How about ROX as an icon manager
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 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 It's been suggested before and rejected due to size limitations.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.
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.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
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.Next Page...
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