Comments on: FOX Desktop and some graphical apps

By: LM

LM — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:04:20 +0000

I’ve tried out Fox Desktop and checked into what software would run when built with the Fox Toolkit GUI. Seems like the FLTK GUI has more software options than the Fox Toolkit GUI. I did like the look of the Fox Desktop (sort of reminded me of a Windows machine), but somehow was more comfortable with just Fluxbox or Openbox. Several sample programs comes with the Fox Toolkit GUI library including ones you mentioned, shutterbug and adie. Pathfinder also comes with it and is a file manager. XFE is a separate file manager project based on Fox Toolkit and I personally like it a lot. Again, it reminded me of Windows. By the way, Fox Toolkit is a cross-platform GUI and the sample programs that come with it work on both POSIX machines and Windows. The only other useful programs I was able to dig up for Fox Toolkit were Goggles (an Ogle DVD player front end) and rezound (for audio editing). Not quite enough applications to make up a whole system using Fox Toolkit as the only GUI library, but still some nice programs.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:06:52 +0000

Predved Medved!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:08:53 +0000

Ooh, now I can say something in Russian. Sort of.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:18:10 +0000

This FOX desktop is strangely reminscent of XFCE sans GTK.

I tried the aps like Adie in tinycore, didn’t know there was a full desktop though.

By: fuxter

fuxter — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:41:30 +0000

qutim messenger is very popular among russian linux users. the name sounds very similar to “we’re chatting” in russian.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:59:06 +0000

Hey, that’s great to see. I’m glad someone picked up Beaver and kept it going. That’s a fun little editor. Cheers and thanks for the link.

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[...] FOX Desktop and some graphical apps Before I show you another one like that, here are a few applications that are — and some that aren’t — inter-related. [...]

By: Higor Eurípedes

Higor Eurípedes — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:24:13 +0000

Sorry, forgot to post the website:
http://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/

By: Higor Eurípedes

Higor Eurípedes — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:23:15 +0000

Hello Kmandla, i’ve been watching your
blog for some time now (one or two years)
and i really like the stuff you write here.

You mentioned Beaver and i would like to
say that it is still alive (latest release
is 0.4.1), although not based on the Gtk+
1.x series anymore.

Greetings from Brazil.