Endeavour to Manage Your Files
When it comes to saving files, I tend to be a pack rat. Managing the
gigabytes of data I have located on various disks is harder than
cleaning off my desk, which is I'm always on the lookout for tools to
help manage my files.
With the latest Linux distributions, you'll find Nautilus, the very
graphical file manager from the now sadly defunct Eazel. Nautilus'
heavy graphical overhead, though, may not be for everyone. That's where
Endeavour may help.
Endeavour Mark II is a handy Linux file manager application with a
default, split-pane Windows Explorer-like view of directories on the
left and files on the right. (You can customize the program, though.)
As a file manager, Endeavour Mark II includes a recycle bin, where you
can recover files you deleted with Endeavour, and a built-in image
viewer that displays image thumbnails as well as full-size images.
I like the split pane approach that displays image file thumbnails
along with a full image. With Nautilus, at least based on my current
usage, you see either the thumbnails or the image itself (or open the
image in a new window). Endeavour Mark II displays everything at once
within the main window. I like this better as I often am not sure about
which image I want, for example.
I also like the focus on supporting multiple desktops. Endeavour Mark
II supports both GNOME and KDE drag-and-drop. I know that both the KDE
and GNOME desktop developers aim for interoperability, but I prefer
that application developers support as many Linux users as possible.
This is just a nice touch.
Endeavour Mark II comes from Wolfpack Entertainment
(http://wolfpack.twu.net/about.html), a group of developers and
graphics artists making neat software for Linux. They also provide the
game XShipWars (http://wolfpack.twu.net/ShipWars/XShipWars and
http://www.battlefieldlinux.com) as well as ManEdit -- a UNIX/Linux
manual page editor available at http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/.
You can find out more and download Endeavour Mark II from
http://wolfpack.twu.net/Endeavour2. Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) for
Mandrake Linux and compressed tar file (with gzip or bz2) distributions
are available at the site.
The Mark II stems from this product being the second in a series. The
developers enhanced the original Endeavour, described at
http://wolfpack.twu.net/Endeavour, to make the Mark II application.
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