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One of my favourite bits of linux software was updated on friday. ROX Filer is a great little file manager and works very well with enlightenment as well as the more minimal window managers. While it probably wouldn’t get used with KDE or Gnome I’m sure it would fit in just fine. The only real dependecies are GTK2, which isn’t really a dependency unless you don’t have Gnome installed, and lets face it, who wouldn’t install Gnome :)

Enlightenment now has it’s own OSX style dock for people to play with. I’m not sure who wrote it but you can find a video demo of Engage at Xcomputerman while the soure is downloadable from the files section of the same site. The mpeg didn’t work too well on my Windows machine but you’ll also find screenshots of Engage there as well.

It needs a couple of E17 core libraries to work if I recall from the readme and is something I’ll get round to installing in the near future.

One of the good things about docks, assuming they allow you to add icons, is that they can be a substitute for desktop icons. Most window managers don’t have the ability to put icons onto the desktop. It’s not their job. This may be a way round it though, and it’s always nice to have options.

I also stumbled across a linux screenshot site the other day. Lynucs.org has screenshots of various windowmanagers, app and other bits and pieces and being the sucker for eye candy that I am thought it was great. In some ways it’s the site I always wanted monkiboi dot net to be but just never got there. Did it actually start?