ROX is an attempt to bring some of the metaphors which stood RISC OS above the crowd to Unix-like systems. Here are some programs/patches I've written to go improve it.
Mozilla drag and drop
These patches are now included in the Filer, as of January 2004 and April 2004
gtk2-wget
A minimalist GTK+ 2.0 front end for wget - basically just providing a progress bar and log information. If set as the download handler in the latest versions of ROX-Filer, improves the ROX desktop experience by providing a much better interface whilst links dragged from Mozilla are saved.
![[Screenshot of gtk2-wget]](gtk2-wget.png)
Requires libgtk2-perl and wget
gtk2-wget | Pretty-printed source
Gaim
A complete packaging and ROX-ification of Gaim - an instant messaging client. Patches include changing the menubars to popup, context-sensitive menus, using CHOICESPATH and being relocatable.
Gaim.tar.bz2 (source, 5.2MB) |
Gaim-Linux-ix86.tar.bz2 (x86 binary, 7.9MB) |
![[Gaim]](gaim.png){kind=small}