Slingshot provides rectangles (like the Xt Intrinsics' RectObj gadget),
drag-and-drop support, images, icons and text, trees, lines, arrows...
You can look at the documentation for the details, but here's a few
teasers: there are new objects (clock, bag, box). The grip and the
drawarea have had a few interesting features added. The documentation
has been improved dramatically. The drawtext can now be editible.
CAVEATS
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This is NOT an official or supported product of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This software has been developed to leverage other efforts, and it is
being released because it is hoped others can get benefits from it too.
However, there ARE bugs in this software which may never be fixed, and
there is no guarantee of compatibility between releases.
XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations)
is a user-interface toolkit to support interactive, graphics-based
applications running under the X Window System. XView provides a set of
pre-built, user-interface objects such as canvases, scrollbars, menus, and
control panels. The appearance and functionality of these objects follow
the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI) specification. XView features
an object-oriented style Application Programmer's Interface (API) that is
straightforward and easy to learn.
This package contains all the configurations files needed for use of
the XView libraries and applications.
This package contains the libraries, headers and support files
necessary to build XView applications.
Source Notes
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This version of the XView source corresponds to that provided with
OpenWindows Version 3.2 from SunSoft Inc. Libraries generated with this
source should be interchangeable with those from the OpenWindows Version 3.2
release.
XMascot displays a moving mascot on your X11 screen. XMascot has the
following options:
- Moving pretty mascot moving
- Stretch stretch it as you like
- Talking mascot talks with extract command and data
- Alarm mascot may make some actions at defined time
- BIFF mascot may let you know arriving a mail
XMascot supports these image formats:
- MAG (*.mag) 16 colors and 256 colors
- TIFF (*.tif) 16 colors and 256 colors, in raw or lzw
- PPM (*.ppm) 256 level color, in raw
- PGM (*.pgm) 256 level gray scale, in raw
- PBM (*.pbm) 2 level monochrome, in raw
- PNM (*.pnm) PPM, PGM, or PBM
XMascot distinguishes images from their suffix and can load other image
formats when corresponding *topnm, *topgm, or *topbm commands are found
in your system.
atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar,
tar+gzip, zip, etc.). It provides the following commands:
* aunpack: extract an archive, avoiding tar bombs
* als: list the contents of an archive
* acat: extract files to the standard output
* apack: create an archive
Optional dependencies: lbzip2 or pbzip2, lzip, plzip, lzop, lzma, zip,
unzip, unrar, lha, unace, arj, arc, nomarch, p7zip, unalz.
Archive::Tar provides an object oriented mechanism for handling tar files. It
provides class methods for quick and easy files handling while also allowing
for the creation of tar file objects for custom manipulation. If you have the
IO::Zlib module installed, Archive::Tar will also support compressed or gzipped
tar files.
An object of class Archive::Tar represents a .tar(.gz) archive full of files
and things.
Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com>
LZF is an extremely fast (not that much slower than a pure memcpy)
compression algorithm. It is ideal for applications where you want to
save some space but not at the cost of speed. It is ideal for
repetitive data as well. The module is self-contained and very small
(no large library to be pulled in). It is also free, so there should
be no problems incorporating this module into commercial programs.
[excerpt from borgbackup web site]
BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it
supports compression and authenticated encryption.
The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data.
The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups
since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it
suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.
Lhasa is a command line tool and library for parsing LHA archives.
Currently it is only possible to decompress archives. Compressing
LHA archives may be an enhancement for future versions. The aim is
to be compatible with as many different variants of the LHA file
format as possible, including LArc (.lzs) and PMarc (.pma).
The command line tool aims to be interface-compatible with Unix LHA
tool (command line syntax and output), for backwards compatibility
with tools that expect particular output.
Archive::Tar::Minitar is a pure-Ruby library and command-line utility that
provides the ability to deal with POSIX tar(1) archive files. The
implementation is based heavily on Mauricio Fernandez's implementation
in rpa-base, but has been reorganised to promote reuse in other projects.
The library can only handle files and directories at this point.
The command line utility, minitar, can only create archives, extract from
archives, and list archive contents.
Ark is a program for managing various archive formats within the KDE
environment.
Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within
Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2,
zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are
installed). Ark can work closely with Konqueror in the KDE
environment to handle archives, if you install the Konqueror
Integration plugin available in the kdeaddons package.