Bug 1747

Summary:	xfe, a superfast and lightweight file manager
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dick Gevers <dvgevers>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, nikos769, pmdenielou
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/
Whiteboard:	Mdv
Source RPM:	xfe	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dick Gevers 2011-06-11 11:55:28 CEST

Description of problem:
The Mandriva package installs cleanly (with lib64fox1.6_0), but is hopelessly outdated (1.19.2-3mdv): said URL provides 1.32.4 released 20110605 !

Quoting the progs homepage: X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander, originally developed by Maxim Baranov.
Xfe is developed since 2002 by Roland Baudin, a french Linux enthusiast.

Xfe aims to be the file manager of choice for all light thinking Unix addicts!
Why yet another file browser?

Yes, it's a good question. Why another file manager when many excellent choices exist already? Why not use a full-blown, animated, bells-and-whistles file manager like Konqueror, Nautilus or Rox? The answer is quite simple: Although all these file managers are feature rich and cleverly designed, let's face it, they are huge! If you're a console addict, light desktop user or have an older system, resource hogging file managers just aren't the way to go. Especially since most file managers are Desktop dependent (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.), requiring you to load all kinds of unwanted bloat onto your system.

So why XFE? Xfe is small, very fast and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands.....

Comment 1 nikos papadopoulos 2011-09-22 13:25:18 CEST

I, too want to make the same reguest...


"Xfe" and "Fox" 

Xfe is a superfast, and lightweight file manager, 
with many advanced features.
It dependes on the Fox toolkit.

I've been using it, for a long time, now (since Mandriva),
installed by their own generic rpm packages.
I think is just a matter of adapting these rpms...

 xfe-1.xx.x-x.i386.rpm
 fox-1.6.xx-x.i386.rpm

Some other Fox rpms, like libfox, don't seem to work right.

You can find the rpms here...

 http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfe/files/xfe/ 
 http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/data/

CC: (none) => nikos569

Marja Van Waes 2011-11-30 19:59:20 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Summary: Mageia may want to import xfe => xfe, a superfast and lightweight file manager
Source RPM: (none) => xfe
Whiteboard: (none) => Mdv

Comment 2 Malo Deniélou 2012-02-03 11:54:35 CET

fox and xfe are now in Cauldron and will be in Mageia 2. Thanks for your report.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => malo
Resolution: (none) => FIXED