
   fb 2.0

   (c) Vladimir Dergachev
 
   vdergach@math.upenn.edu


   Free for personal enjoyment ;)



  WHAT IS IT FOR :
  
  You can use it as a graphical menu. Given a directory it will make a window
  full of icons corresponding to files.
  
  Great for browsing big directories and collections of xpm images.

  A nice example are a ".jig" files : it's gif files that is named jig.
  fb lauches xjig (x jigsaw puzzle) automatically when you click on 
  an icon of this file. Thus one can make a directory put all your gif's
  (renamed to have extension .jig) in it and point and click to run
  the puzzle. Much better than start it from command line.


  WHAT IS IT NOT FOR :
  
  It is not a "Windows Explorer" stuff.. No drag and drop and similar things.
  If you want to do stuff with lots' of different files open xterm and use
  bash.. It's much better !

  To refresh click on the "." directory icon.

  REMARKS :

  The reason I made version 1.0 is
    1) I need something to browse the fvwm95's xpms
       and I am too lazy to start sxpm for each of them.
    2) I don't have much harddrive space so I didn't 
       bother installing gimp.

  You can consider it an xpm analog of xmessage

  The reason I made version 2.0 is 

    My harddrive is bigger and I have gimp.. It still cannot
    browse xpms.
    
    I did need something to browse files and /sometimes/ delete 
    extra ones.       

   Now it's more like a graphical menu..

  FEATURES :

    fb [dir]

    Let's you grafically browse the directory.
    Each file -one button.
    
    You can rightclick on a button to display properties
    sheet which tells you the size of the file and lets
    you delete it or change it name
    
    Deleted files are moved to ~/.fb/trash
    
    Type of file is determined by regular matching of it's name.
    The data is kept in ~/.fb/exts
    
    (Example file is exts)
    
  BUGS :
    
    uses stat call for checking if something is a folder,
    could be a little too slow if you have a lot of them
    
    lot's of xpms does make it slow.

    if some of xpm files are corrupt it will complain on
    stderr. I should've configured the quiet flag in, but
    was too lazy. maybe in version 2.0+ ;) You can use
    > and >& to separate them though.

  NOTES :

    the default geometry (see above) is 350x450

    Probably half the libraries in the Makefile are
    not needed.

    I tested it with fvwm95 and Xaw95. 

    It will take it a long time to startup if you have a lot
    of folders (making stat call) or xpm's (loading them) in
    the directory
    
  INSTALLATION :
  
     type "make" as root (or ignore the error and then move
     xpmbrowser file to /usr/local/fb yourself)  
     
     you'll need to create ~/.fb and ~/.fb/trash directories
     and copy file exts into ~/.fb
     
     File exts assumes that you have downloaded 3dpixmaps archive
     from,say, sunsite and installed it in /usr/local/3dpixmaps
       
     
   HAPPY BROWSING !:)
   
                        Vladimir Dergachev
                        
