Reviving ROLF or ROX

@ Peter H.

Though if you would like to follow the changes, its repository is her

Thanks a lot for the pointers and clarification Peter and if I can help you in any way please let me know, that would be a great addition to my PrometheOS operating system to have a RISC OS UI for it! :D

And also thanks for the Acorn brand actual real protection!

Would it be possible to pair this up with Gerph’s Pyromaniac project (which although advanced, is lacking a GUI)?

Charlotte wrote:

Would it be possible to pair this up with Gerph’s Pyromaniac project (which although advanced, is lacking a GUI)?

I’m afraid I don’t know what would be involved in doing that, even if I did I think I’d leave it as an exercise for someone else to do. I’ve made more than enough work for myself :)

Possibly relevant to the original topic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsHU-dDwAk

That’s very impressive! I noticed that the JWM site recommends ROX-Filer as a file manager to be used with their window manager. Is that what you’re using in the video?

I had a go at running the ROX Desktop on my Raspberry Pi, but was met with an unsupported CPU error. The Filer works fine. I suspect that resurrecting the Desktop would involve porting some of the code to work on ARM as well as updates to Mimetypes and whatever else needs a bit of a refresh. Perhaps a fresh fork of a still widely used window manager would be a better approach…

Andrew wrote:

That’s very impressive! I noticed that the JWM site recommends ROX-Filer as a file manager to be used with their window manager. Is that what you’re using in the video?

I’m not using a file manager at all in the video …

I’d rejected ROX filer on debian/ubuntu as my most recent experience in using it was that it tried to 0install the rest of the ROX desktop without asking, and overwrote the window manager settings … this isn’t how linux packages are meant to be installed.

The file manager I’d been considering using is ‘caja’, the file manager from the Mate desktop (the continuation of Gnome 2), as it has a ‘spatial’ mode like risc os/rox.

Perhaps a fresh fork of a still widely used window manager would be a better approach…

I forked JWM, because the code is surprisingly full featured, whilst still being small enough for one person to be able to make headway with.

My most recent changes have been non-windowmanager related though, I’ve been creating ‘risc os’ icon sets and gtk3 themes that make the apps running look a bit more integrated.