(Answer) (Category) Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : (Category) Wish List :
Is there a Macintosh like File browser?
This would be really cool! With mac-type icons and mac os looking 
windows. There are already file managers out there that could
be modified to do this. The code for some of these can be found
at mkarchive or in  X11 Applications.
Tkdesk or xfm might be good places to start.
jcarr@linuxppc.org
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Take a look at  http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/member/tak/mlvwm.html , while it's
not a 'real' Mac look and feel it is close
 
Ralph
rlindber@telebyte.com


There is a cool new desktop file manager that is very close to the 
Macintosh Finder. You can drag files out of windows and place them on the
desktop, drag files to the trash, copy and move files between windows, 
change permissions, make aliases and customize the icons. You can get the
source at http://www-c.informatik.uni-hannover.de/~kaiser/dfm/dfm.html or 
a precompiled binary with custom icons at the MkArchive under /X11/File
Managers.

Scott Sams
sbsams@eos.ncsu.edu
jcarr@linuxppc.org, rlindber@telebyte.com, sbsams@eos.ncsu.edu
KFM (K File Manager) is an integral part of KDE ("K" Desktop Environment), which is the default window-manager/desktop-thingy for pre-DR3. It can be set up to look pretty Mac-like or even Windows Explorer-like. I didn't like KDE at first, but you should really give it a shot - I'm really impressed now.
hollis@andrew.cmu.edu
Also, if you are using GNOME (or at least have GNOME-libs installed), there is the GNOME Midnight Commander, which is based on top of the one of the classic file browser programs -- midnight commander.
This File browser is even more Mac-like then the KDE one, which treats directories like they were web pages (you single click things to open them).
Old versions of GNOME Midnight Commander had many technical problems with it (core dumps being littered all over your hard drive, or putting files on your drive with no data that look like *%$!!@%!). So if you are having problems with this, get the lastest version of Midnight Commander from the GNOME FTP Site (ftp.gnome.org or ftp.linuxburg.com/pub/GNOME/).
arthur99@global2000.net
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