[Techtalk] recommendations for distros wanted

[Miriam English]

Yes, that's one of the reasons I was interested in finding out if any 
other operating systems and file managers recognise and use the .DirIcon 
and AppDir files.

Cheers,

     - Miriam


Billie Walsh wrote:
> Looking at
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/rox/files/rox/
>
> It appears that there hasn't been anything done with Rox since 2013. 
> and that appears to be a modification to a much older version. The 
> highest version number is dated 2011.
>
>
>
> On 03/23/2019 06:13 AM, Miriam English wrote:
>> That is an excellent suggestion. It hadn't occurred to me that the 
>> Ubuntu folks might have fixed Rox. I'll check that out.
>>
>> Incidentally, it is remarkably easy to replace Rox because it comes 
>> as an AppDir -- just rename the old folder and copy the new one. (Has 
>> to be done in the terminal of course, as GUI file management is 
>> handled by Rox itself.)
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>     - Miriam
>>
>>
>> A. Mani wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:28 AM Miriam 
>>> English<mim at miriam-english.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> , however Rox, its preferred file manager, has not
>>>> been updated for several years and the most recent version has a very
>>>> inconvenient bug, so I've been looking at perhaps moving to another
>>>> distro. (I doubt my programming abilities are sufficient to fix it.)
>>> Why don't you purge the package and install rox from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> A Mani
>>>
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>>
>

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