SystemG Liberated!
Sunday, 1. October 2006, 10:17:01
For years I was a big fan of the xftree file manager from the xfce project, however it went through a dramatic metamorphosis between the 3.x and 4.x branches. While it was still a nice piece of software, it no longer suited me and unfortunately development on the 3.x branch gradually stagnated. I still used it for a long time, and maintained a few patches for bugs I had run across over the years.
About 18 months ago I ran across SystemG, an awesome graphical file manager. It was simple, well designed and powerful. Just one problem, it was proprietary, making me feel a little guilty using it. I just noticed today that the awesome guys at newplanet software have released SystemG and the underlying JX application framework under free software compatible licenses, this is excellent news! I'll begin packaging their software into portage later today, and hopefully expose a few more users to this excellent (and free!) file manager.
(oh, and from the online documentation it sounds like the developers are fvwm users as well!
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About 18 months ago I ran across SystemG, an awesome graphical file manager. It was simple, well designed and powerful. Just one problem, it was proprietary, making me feel a little guilty using it. I just noticed today that the awesome guys at newplanet software have released SystemG and the underlying JX application framework under free software compatible licenses, this is excellent news! I'll begin packaging their software into portage later today, and hopefully expose a few more users to this excellent (and free!) file manager.
(oh, and from the online documentation it sounds like the developers are fvwm users as well!
)
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 1. October 2006, 13:11
Hi
I used emelfm2, but since two or more days, the filemanager isn't in the portage anymore.
Why that? It was a nice GTK+ 2 filemanager with many features.
But there aren't any good alternatives, maybe the linux user don't need a graphical filemanager because cd, ls, rm does the job. That's true, but when I use a wm, why shouldn't I use a filemanager, makes the life a little bit easier?! ;-)
Anonymous # 1. October 2006, 16:06
Are you serious about that filemanager?
Judging from the screenshots the application looks like from the 70s. It's ugly as hell!
Anonymous # 1. October 2006, 17:19
it looks like any other gtk2 apps. You can change it with gtk 2 themes.
any other filemanager recommondations?
Anonymous # 1. October 2006, 23:12
I meant SystemG, not emelfm2, sorry.
emelfm2 looks pretty nice. SystemG, however, looks like a very old app.
taviso # 2. October 2006, 10:11