On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:03:18 +0100 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> I installed roxterm and rox-filer. Both are just nice behaving. > roxterm doesn't seem to differ in apearence, configurability or > behaviour, from xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal. I too have used rox-filer (but not yet rox-session), and found it the kind of thing that you could learn to like. I learned of its existence thanks to Simon's roxterm recommendation, and I'm using rox-filer every once in a while, and starting to like it more. > > rox-filer is nice looking, but it needs some configuration. Here > are the two waek points I noticed > > - there is absolutely no application defined by default for any > file type; you must define them all - this is a miss in the packaging. With Void Linux some of the filetypes are predefined, but a lot aren't. > - there isn't a menu of possible applications for a given file > type. I like to be able to open an image with either a simple viewer > or with Gimp to edit it. Those menus are a double-edged sword. You maneuver thru the whole thing, don't find the executable you really want, and then have to furthergui to install an unlisted app. > > And here are some features I like: > > - If you left-click with the shift key pressed, you always open > the file with the application you have defined for raw text. This > allows to edit an html file instead of browsing it. Nice! Thanks for that tip! > > - files are open on single click (double click in Thunar), > though this is a personal preference. I wouldn't want that for Thunar, but somehow, in rox I like it :-) SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
