Cool xfce apps

[David O'Shaughnessy]

My XFce4 has xfdiff4 and xfglob4. xfdiff can be found by right-clicking
on a file -> tools -> differences. xfglob4 is the search feature in xffm
I think.

Dave.

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:13:55 -0700
"bob.snyder" <bob.snyder at cox.net> wrote:

> Some of the newer users of xfce, who never ran xfce3, may not be aware
> of some really nice apps that came with it.
> 
> xfdiff is a gui file comparison program that shows two text files side
> by side and highlights the differences in a very intelligent way. It
> can create diffs too.
> 
> xfglob is a gui file search program that is a graphical front end to 
> glob. Very nice.
> 
> xfclock combines a clock and calendar.
> 
> Probably others that I've forgotten.
> 
> These programs came with xfce3 but are not included with xfce4. Of 
> course if you have xfce3 on your machine, you can still run them, add 
> them to an xfce4 menu, etc. My guess is that when xfce4 came out the 
> people that used them didn't need them to be included as they already 
> had them.
> 
> I suggest that they be added to the extras that come with xfce4. Even 
> though people can still get them from the xfce3 distibution, they
> won't know about them unless they are made available in the new
> version.
> 
> Bob S.
> 
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