On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:03:18 +0100
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> 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
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