Circa Sun. Oct. 13, 2002 at 11:56:59 -0700 , a lone cry was heard from
Tim Hanson
I'm frustrated about file managers. I am neither a GNOME nor KDE user. My old familiar, TkDesk, the most comfy, useful day-to-day.program I've ever had for Linux,
Yes, I tried all of them, but I always run back to Tkdesk. The default setup is rather ugly , but once you retheme it , it looks fine.
errors out because of missing "libitc.13.3.so"
Just download the source from http://tkdesk.sourceforge.net/index.html and compile it yourself to link it to whatever TCL/TK, ITCL, and BLT you have on your system. Also don't forget to download all the patches and applied it. Hint: exit-save-dd.diff needs to be apply before compiling. The rest should be applied afterwards in your Tkdesk lib directory.
That's okay, I guess. The MIME types were wired in and outdated, and it's not being maintained anymore.
Hum. Tkdesk doesn't use MIME types. Program associations are defined in the ~/.tkdesk/Popups file. All configuration files can be access through Tkdesk=>Configure menu or just through any text editor. Once you learn the syntax, you can do things with it that you can't do with the current crop of file managers because of its rich set of shortcuts (vid. User Guide, section 9.3), the Tkdesk API (section 9.2) and the Tkdesk server (section 8).
and it's not being maintained anymore.
This I am not too sure about, most users are happy with the way it is, although a NeXT style shelf, icon view, vfs, and xdnd support will be welcomed. There is a roadmap though since J. Chris Coppick took over, but there is no movement. One of these days I'll dive in and correct the problems, and update it to GTK. I am not too sure whether porting to gtk is such a good idea. Part of the charm of Tkdesk is it's tight integration with TCL/TK, thus it is really easy to extend locally through TCL/TK and any external program you can think of.
I tried Nautilus; it's okay if a person doesn't mind having all of GNOME load with it, destroying xphoon and plopping a bunch of useless icons all over. Does anyone know how to fix this?
There is a configuration option in Nautilus to do that. Just set it to not taking over your desktop.
Does anyone have any ideas about where to go from here?
My suggestion is to stick with Tkdesk. If you need any help with compiling and setting it up, please feel free to email me. Charles -- "Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night hacking (and/or conversations with God)." (By Matt Welsh)