Discovered a new browser...
Tom Huppi
thuppi at huppi.com
Sun Jan 23 18:23:32 PST 2005
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Herbert Feutl wrote:
> what do you say to this filemanager
> http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/
Hmmm...another 'fox' project. On an aside, I recently became
familiar with this project because a certain GUI for my Ten-Tec
shortwave radio was written under it. It seems to use the
'xclass' toolkit which was removed from the ports tree for lack of
love I guess. I had to build it from scratch. Maybe this is a
different 'fox' project, or maybe they switched toolkits because I
didn't see any reference to 'xclass' on their site. I thought the
Fox project was dead becaue the link on the xclass site seemed
dead.
I've always used 'filerunner'. Again, it's one of those things
that I started out with and had no reason to change. I choose it
initially because of it's FTP ability which is no longer very
important to me. It's not at all a Windows Explorer
look/work-alike, and after a short time I found it quite a lot
more usable and powerful than Explorer.
http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
It's a tcl/tk thingy. Is it 'lightweight'? I dunno. Here's
from 'top':
70161 thuppi 96 0 5268K 4080K select 0:01 0.05% 0.05%
wish8.2
> thanks for the links - i will test it
> sylpheed is installed anyway :-D
I use 'sylpheed-claws' for usenet. (Always go back to 'pine' for
mail, and do it remotely anyway.) I never could get happy with a
terminal-mode newsreader for some reason. Nothing threaded to my
satisfaction. Sylpheed was the only graphical client I found
which I could make allow me to use an external editor (vim.)
Pretty good software also, but the older version I was using was a
wee bit unstable.
<snip>
Thanks,
- Tom
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