Re: ROX Desktop

Liam Proven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
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On 23 March 2013 17:13, Ben Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think a revamp with a different default desktop, one that nobody
>> else uses, would give Gobo more of an identity and make it stand out.
>>
>> My suggestions would be the ROX Desktop, because:
>> [1] I like it :¬)
>> [2] No other distro is based on ROX-Session (although a few use
>> ROX-Filer, the file manager, on its own)
>> [3] But mostly, because ROX natively understands and uses the
>> directory-as-a-whole-
>> application concept.
>>
>> http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/
>
>
> Liam's suggestion is excellent. ROX Desktop is sharp and totally fits with
> Gobo's revamped directory tree. Other distros have benefitted from
> distinctive hooks: LFS had a beautiful desktop for its LiveCD, DSL 3.3 put
> Conky on the desktop, and TinyCore used Wbar for great Mac-like effect.
>
> That's easy to suggest and hard to do, of course, but +1 anyway.

Thanks. :¬)

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