ROX-Filer 2.7.1

ROX-Filer 2.7.1 (the file manager at the core of the ROX desktop) has
been released.

You can install it by entering this URL into AddApp:

  http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer

To upgrade:

- Right click on the application and choose 'Versions...' from the menu.
- Click on 'Refresh all now'.
- Ensure 'Help test new versions' is selected.

For more information, including package downloads, see:

  http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-Filer

There are x86 and x86_64 binaries, both created by 0compile. The x86
ones come from a VirtualBox VM.

Changes since 2.7.1:

- Updated Chinese Translations (BabyfaiCheung)

- Fixed segfault on startup due to missing import. (Thomas Leonard)
  Recent versions of GTK import time.h for us, but older ones didn't,
  leading to a segfault in log_info_paths.

- Fixed check to ensure that the ROX theme is available. (Thomas
  Leonard) Before, we just checked that the postscript icon could

icewm and rox

I'm trying to track down some behavioral differences between using
various combinations of icewm and rox filer under slackware 12.0/kernel
2.6.21-7.  Note that I did not change my /etc/icewm/preferences,
/etc/icewm/winoptions, or icewm theme files for the following tests:

1) icewm 1.2.33 and rox 2.7.1:

- requires enabling the rox compatibility option "override window
manager control of pinboard and panels" to stop blinking rox window in
the task bar
- otherwise appears to be ok

2) icewm 1.2.35 and rox 2.7.1:

- no longer need to enable "override window manager control of pinboard
and panels" to stop blinking rox window in the task bar
- when invoked, rox filer is displayed underneath other application windows
- all rox dialogs (via right click menu) appear behind rox filer window
- other applications display their dialogs, as expected, above their
parent window
- when xpad 2.12 is in /etc/icewm/startup script, I sometimes (usually
the first time X is run after linux boot) get a small blank window (X
logo in task bar entry with no name) that cannot be closed; a
ctrl-alt-backspace is required to shut down xwindow (this also happened
with icewm 1.2.34, I cannot upgrade to xpad 2.14 at this time due to
dependency changes)

I know the blinking rox window in the task bar has been discussed
before, but I'm curious if any users are seeing the other
behavioral changes I'm seeing.

Fwd: rox-filler version 2.7.1

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kyle Sallee <kyle.sallee <at> gmail.com>
Date: 9 Jan 2008 16:45
Subject: rox-filler version 2.7.1

./configure  --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Megusto, porfavor.

For distros that still compile and install software
an easy method would be nice.

I tried:

        $ ROX-Filer/AppRun --compile
        $ su
        [ ingresa clave de root ]
        $ ./install.sh

desafortunalmente

checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.4.0) is installed... yes
checking that libxml-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is installed... yes
checking that libglade-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is installed... yes
checking that  (version >= 0.14) is installed... no
configure: error: Package is not installed

However what is installed is:

Fwd: new distribution using rox-filer

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Bischof
Date: 15 Jan 2008 13:38
Subject: new distribution using rox-filer

Sir,

I want to bring to your attention a new kind of ,,private distribution'' which
is based on rox-filer. ,,Private'' means it was developed by a
non-professional guy named Flux and is distributed free without advertisents.
Its basis is Pclinuxos and the windowmanager flux, which is kind of
controlled via rox-filer. It is incredibly quick and looks quite good. But:
it is all in German language as it was made for nomal people, occassional
PC-users and not for geeks.

http://fluxflux.net/download/isos/2008/fluxflux-pre2008-080114.iso
http://fluxflux.net/download/isos/2008/fluxflux-pre2008-080114.md5

The German pclinuxos-Forum has estabished an own corner for it:
http://www.pclinuxos.de/smf/index.php?board=40.0

In case you have German friends/co-workers it would be nice to obtain some
feed back from you, as I gave to you sometimes.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Bischof

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Re: ROX-Filer on Ubuntu PPC

On 17/01/2008, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> first and foremost, thanks for ROX-Filer; I have been a quite regular user
> for a few years already, and managed to get it running on all systems I
> worked with (Linux gentoo, ubuntu, debian, mandriva, fedora), usually under
> Gnome.
>
> However, I had a bit of a hard time to install and run it on a iBook (ubuntu
> gutsy ppc), finding out that 0launch couldn't find any binary (no kidding)
> and the ubuntu version is 2.5. 0launch was also unable to load the
> requirements for compilation from source, so I ended up installing one by
> one the necessary -dev debs, compile ROX-Filer from source ( 2.7.1), and
> added a local feed to zero-install. Is that the way it should be done? Or is
> there a better way?

Yes, it's normal to have to install a few -dev packages first, and you
have to compile the GLib-headers too (which you can do using
0compile).

Please publish the feeds you created for GLib-dev and ROX-Filer so
it's easier for others in future. Click on the Publish button in the
compile boxes, which should get you .tar.bz2 files for GLib-dev and
ROX-Filer, and some XML files for them.

> I now have a zero-install based system, for which some of the thumbnailers
> for ROX are downloaded from source (I used RAWThumbnail to do an
> OOThumbnail, Rox-Gnome-Thumbnailer, etc...). Sadly, they don't work because
> findrox.py is unable to find the zero-installed ROX-Lib2. I fixed
> findrox.py, so it now does work; however I now need to modify the findrox.py
> in all thumbnailers, even the ones that are zero-installed (since the
> .config/rox/Mime-thumbnail/link points to the .cache implementation, of
> course).

RAWThumbnail doesn't appear to have a Zero Install feed, so it won't
find it (Zero Install software shouldn't interfere with non-Zero
Install software).

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Re: ROX-Filer on Ubuntu PPC

On 17/01/2008, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/17, Thomas Leonard <talex5 <at> gmail.com>:
> > Yes, it's normal to have to install a few -dev packages first, and you
> > have to compile the GLib-headers too (which you can do using
> > 0compile).
>
> Hum, the -dev packages  of ubuntu took care of everything, so no GLib either
> (I couldn't get the zero install system to compile, so I went the old way)

What happened when you tried to compile? Did you get an error?

We don't use the distribution-provided GLib headers because they tend
to be quite new, and compiling against new headers creates a binary
that doesn't work on older systems.

> > Please publish the feeds you created for GLib-dev and ROX-Filer so
> > it's easier for others in future. Click on the Publish button in the
> > compile boxes, which should get you .tar.bz2 files for GLib-dev and
> > ROX-Filer, and some XML files for them.
>
> I'll need someone to host the files for me to be able to do that.

Sure, we can do that. Click on Publish after compiling. When it asks
you for the download directory, use

"http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/rox" for ROX-Filer and
"http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zero-install" for GLib-dev

It doesn't matter too much if you enter the wrong thing, though; it
only affects the XML file generated.

> > RAWThumbnail doesn't appear to have a Zero Install feed, so it won't
> > find it (Zero Install software shouldn't interfere with non-Zero
> > Install software).
>
> Well, all thumbnailers are in the same case, for me. On both my systems (at
> work and the iBook), if ROX-Lib2 is only installed by zero-install,
> thumbnailers like VideoThumbnail (installed by zero-install too) are unable
> to find ROX-Lib2. A small change to findrox.py solves the problem.

That reminded me I was planning to write a blog article about why I
created findrox and why I'm now trying to get rid of it! Hopefully
this will clarify things a bit:

  http://roscidus.com/desktop/node/903

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Re: WorkspaceList 1.0 - displays workspaces in a list

On 14/12/2007, Lennon Cook <lennon <at> riscque.net> wrote:
> Lennon Cook <lennon <at> riscque.net> wrote:
> > or create a new one by typing a name
> > that isn't in the list - however, on my system at least, it doesn't
> > appear to be able to get keyboard focus.
> I've been told that this is a known problem with the panel.

The panel explicitly asks the window manager not to give it the focus.
I'm not sure what happens if your applet request the focus directly.
How about popping up a (small) override-redirect window for the user
to type into?

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