Re: file manager

Paul Johnson wrote:
> Wow! TkDesk. Really?
> 
> That was the only workable gui file manager back in 1996, when I started 
> in linux, but I thought it had died about 2000.
> 
> I would bet that anything based on Tk will be somewhat slow and 
> graphically tedious if you are used to something like Windows Explorer.
> 
> It seems to me you should tell us what kind of file manager you like. 
> Unless you give us some hints, then we will keep coming up with more and 
> more programs you can test and waste your time on.
> 
> If you have a linux distro with Gnome, I would seriously suggest using 
> "nautilus" and just turn off its parts that conflict with WindowMaker.
> I can tell you exactly what is required.
> 
> If your linux has KDE, you could use their file manager.  To me, it 
> looks almost exactly like Windows 98.  Maybe that's just my memory 
> fooling me.
> 
> Many of the others people have suggested are OK and do run safely. Top 
> on this list, consider
> xfe
> 
> my favorite among the small file manager projects
> 
> Rox filer is quite nice.
> 
> And the file manager from the XFCE desktop, xffm, works OK too.
> 
> Only "nautilus" and the KDE file manager are likely to cause 
> configuration hassles.
> 
> There are RPMS or DEBs available for all of these, and so installing 
> them and testing should be easy.  Don't let yourself get drawn into the 
> hassle of trying to compile some cutting edge program unless you really 
> know what you are doing.  Quite often, I find myself spending an 
> afternoon compiling prerequisite support libraries and only later find 
> out that a program is still considered too unstable to use.  Any file 
> manager based on the Enlightenment development libraries, for example, 
> falls into that category.  Although you can get RPMS from Didier Case's 
> web site for the Enlightenment snapshots, you should be warned that 
> these are under heavy development.
> 
> Sean wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Right now I am trying out tkdesk.
>> See how I like it. Any tips on it?
>>
>> Someone else suggested Rox. I tried that some time ago, with a 
>> different wm but it really did not catch my attention.
>>
>> As to the other suggestions, I will look them over. Most I am not 
>> familiar.
>>
>>             Thanks All,
>>             Sean
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i have tried most of them and i found ROX to be the best one for myself.
  i would really suggest going through all its options and also very
good documentation to find out all it is capable of. i'm sure you'll be
quite surprised. at least i was. and still i am. :-))

martin

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