[ale] rox?

[Keith Hopkins]

stephen turner wrote:
> does rox need Xfree? or is it stand alone? or is it a replacement for X ?
> 

Yes.  No.  No.

There are a few "rox"es, all related.  rox-filer is the base, and it's a filemanager for your favorite window manager.
rox-desktop is a window manager (I think), and looks like it replaces Gnome or KDE or WindowMaker or [fill-in-the-name-of-your-fav-WM] (all which require X as a base).
There is also rox-session, a session manager like xdm/kdm/gdm.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox.php3

Introduction
Traditionally, Unix users have always based their activities around the file system. Just about everything that's anything appears as a file: regular files, hardware devices, and even processes on many systems (for example, inside the /proc filesystem on Linux).

However, recent desktop efforts (such as KDE and GNOME) seem to be following the Windows approach of trying to hide the filesystem and get users to do things via a Start-menu or similar. Modern desktop users, on Windows or Unix, often have no idea where their programs are installed, or even where their data files are saved. This leads to a feeling of not being in control, and a poor understanding of how the system works.

The ROX Desktop, however, is based around the file system. It's core component is ROX-Filer, a powerful graphical file manager which, in addition to being a pretty neat filer in its own right (IMHO!), provides a couple of extra features which allow it to solve the above problems.

see also: http://rox.sourceforge.net/guide.php3

dang it, I'm bleeding again.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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