From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 02:23:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B3616A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:23:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nuumen.pair.com (nuumen.pair.com [209.68.1.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C01943D31 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thuppi@nuumen.pair.com) Received: (qmail 78068 invoked by uid 55300); 24 Jan 2005 02:23:29 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:23:25 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Huppi X-X-Sender: thuppi@nuumen.pair.com To: Herbert Feutl In-Reply-To: <41F37A75.9020208@gmx.at> Message-ID: References: <41F273B1.8080108@gmx.at> <41F37A75.9020208@gmx.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discovered a new browser... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:23:32 -0000 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. Thanks, - Tom