ROX Desktop

The ROX Desktop is a desktop environment, a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE based on the ROX-Filer file manager. It is inspired by the user interface of RISC OS.

The interface revolves around the file manager, or filer, following the traditional Unix view that 'everything is a file' rather than trying to hide the filesystem beneath start menus, wizards, or druids. The aim is to make a system that is well designed and clearly presented.

The ROX style favours using several small programs together instead of creating all-in-one mammoth-applications.

ROX Desktop

Price Free to download Size Latest versions are updated over the net License GNU GPL, LGPL, BSD style Developer Hundreds of developers Website roscidus.com/desktop System Requirements Dependent on standalone application Support Sites: The ROX Guidebook, FAQ, ROX-Filer manual, Ubuntu Integration Selected Reviews: Linux.com

Software included:

• ROX-Filer - a fast and powerful graphical file manager for the X Window System
• OroboROX - a lightweight window manager for the ROX Desktop
• Archive - an easy to use program for creating and extracting file archives
• ROX-Session - a simple session manager
• ROX-Lib - contains shared code used by other ROX applications
• Edit - a simple text editor with:
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Interactive searching
• Powerful search and replace, with full regular expression support
• Syntax highlighting
• Spell checking
• Show changes from saved version, or from a previous backup
• Bookmarks
• Word wrap
• Drag-and-drop saving
• Supports UTF-8, allowing free use of characters from all languages
• ROX-All - a single archive containing launchers for most of the ROX applications
• AddApp - allows additional applications to be easily installed

• Beluga - a wireless connection manager
• DownloadManager - download manager for Fetch, limiting the number of simultaneous downloads
• Fetch - acts as a download handler for ROX-Filer
• ROX-Samba - uses fusesmb to mount Samba shares as local directories and browse them with ROX-Filer
• Ratatosk - a simple Jabber client
• Postal - an applet that checks multiple accounts for mail
• WiFi - a wireless quality monitor applet
• Launch - provides facilities for launching URLs
• Mail - applet which provides mail/no mail notification by its icon and also serves as a launcher for your prefered mail client

• RAWThumbnail - ROX-Filer helper to generate thumbnails for the Canon RAW files (*.crw, *.cr2) from a Canon digital camera
• Picky - an image viewer which displays PNG, JPEG and GIF images
• ComicThumb - generates thumbnails for comix archives (cbr, cbz, cbt)

• AlgoScore - a graphical environment for algorithmic composition, where music is constructed directly in an interactive graphical score
• Jammin - MPD playlist randomizer
• mplayer-rox - wrapper around mplayer
• Mp3Ogg2Wav - a small rox utility to convert .ogg and .mp3 files to .wav files
• Ripper - a CD Ripper/Encoder
• FreeDB/CDDB access
• Editable track, title, genre, etc., even after CDDB fetching
• Simultaneous rip and encode
• Supports many command-line ripper and encoder programs (e.g. cdda2wav, cdparanoia, lame, oggenc, etc.)
• Allows album art to be saved as .DirIcon
• Configurable library (file and directory) patterns
• Volume - a Panel Applet that puts a popup volume control in your panel. It also functions as a Mixer application
• MusicBox - a Music Player which features:
• MP3, OGG, Flac, WAV support.
• ESD, Alsa, OSS support.
• Album Art display
• Drag and Drop adding of Songs, Directories of songs, and Playlists (m3u, pls and xml)
• Shuffle play (with cache so you don't replay songs too frequently).
• Seek control bar to zip to specific parts of any song.
• Volume Control
• Playlist filtering
• Translations: de, fr, it, es, pt_BR
• VideoThumbnail - a helper program for ROX-Filer which provides images for video files
• Album - converts collections of MP3 files into an application directory that will play the files using xmms

• SysBars - show CPU load etc in bars on the panel
• WiFi - a wireless quality monitor applet
• HddTemp - a front end to "hddtemp" daemon showing temperature of hard drives
• Lithium - a battery status monitor applet
• System - process and disk monitor
• NetStat - applet displays the current network activity
• Mem - applet displays the current memory usage and the current swap space usage
• Load - applet displays the load average of your system
• Tail - displays the contents of a text file, updating as the text file is updated
• FreeFS - monitor free space on a file system

• XDGSupport - creates SendTo items for .desktop files
• ROX-Trasher - Trashcan application for the ROX Filer and Desktop
• Thumbs - simple thumbnail manager
• XAttr - view or edit extended file attributes
• Execute - GUI to run programs by command / run programs as different user
• roxunzip.sh - shell script that unpacks lots of archives
• Trashcan - a trashcan that complies with the freedesktop-trash-spec
• ROXTerm - like gnome-terminal without Gnome baggage
• Depend - utility for checking dependencies of other ROX utilities.
• Rubbish - a very simple rubbish bin.
• Trash - a unified trashcan application for ROX.
• ROX-thumbnailers - generates thumbnails for ROX-Filer using various thumbnailers
• RoxISO - create and burn data CD images
• Memo - alarm clock and reminder list
• Contacts - a Personal Information Manager
• AppFactory - automates the creation of ROX wrappers for non-ROX programs

• Screensaver - control screensaver settings with ROX-Session
• XDGStart - edits XDG autostart entries
• Autostart - Freedesktop.org autostart manager
• Font - font selection and smoothing configuration
• Appearance - GTK and Icon theme configuration
• Time - sets time and date
• XPlanet - pinboard backdrop application
• Resolution - change screen resolution dynamically
• Mouse - mouse configuration applet
• Keyboard - keyboard configuration applet
• Gamma - set the gamma correction for your screen
• MIME-Editor - change the rules for guessing a file's type
• Wallpaper - can be used to place an image on your desktop background

• Zero2Bundle - create self-contained bundles from a Zero Install feed

• Reinteract-ROX - a system for interactive experimentation with python

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Last Updated Sunday, April 03 2011 @ 04:01 PM EDT