Description of problem: The Mandriva package installs cleanly (with lib64fox1.6_0), but is hopelessly outdated (1.19.2-3mdv): said URL provides 1.32.4 released 20110605 !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.....
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
CC: (none) => marja11Summary: Mageia may want to import xfe => xfe, a superfast and lightweight file managerSource RPM: (none) => xfeWhiteboard: (none) => Mdv
fox and xfe are now in Cauldron and will be in Mageia 2. Thanks for your report.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => maloResolution: (none) => FIXED