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FE --- a *REALLY OPEN* Open Source system --- all executables are scripts --- for all to see

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FREEDOM-EYES --- that is, Freedom-ize!!!

SUBSYSTEM 1.

With this Freedom Environment subsystem installed,
you will be able to 'drill-down'
into your Linux/Unix (or Mac?) machine, with mouse clicks,
to see what's there and what's happening
(files, helps, executables, processes, etc.)
--- to depths and breadths never-before-plumbed so easily.

In addition, you can easily do
many kinds of batch file conversions (media files and text files),
many kinds of batch file renaming
(general files, and special renaming of media files),
many kinds of media file editing ... and creation ... and listening/viewing
--- with a small set of mouse clicks ...

... where 'media' refers to

  • audio-only files
  • image/photo files
  • movie files (video-only or video-plus-audio)
  • 3D model files

I'm talking about 'FE Nautilus Scripts'.       videos

(and 'FE Handy Tools' --- an alternative and
enhanced subsystem, which is also evolving)

SUBSYSTEM 2.

Browse text files with the GUI text browser
which has a unique 'Show-All-Match-Lines' capability
that will blow you away with your search-efficiency gains ---
especially on huge text files such as log files, large config files,
large source code files, long lists, etc. etc. etc. ... even binary files.

I'm talking about 'FE xpg'.       videos

The 'xpg' utility makes the 'feNautilusScripts' and
'feHandyTools' subsystems more powerful.

SUBSYSTEM 3.

Arrange your applications into category menus of your own choosing and
into menu sort orders or item groupings of your own choosing
--- with complete and total access to the
configuration files and scripts that are running the menu system.

I'm talking about 'FE AppMenus'.       videos

And if you mess up the configuration of any of these subsystems
and can't figure out how to make it good again,
these are relatively small, non-scattered systems,
easy to delete and re-install --- quickly.

No pain, no strain. To infinity and beyond.

Great for 'newbies' --- great for system-administrators
(even those long-in-the-tooth --- near retirement or retired).

Great for everyone in-between.

It's FREEDOM E. --- that is, Freedom-y. Like Truth-y.

We need both --- Freedomy-ness and Truthy-ness ---
on our computers and in our world.

(Acknowledgments to Stephen Colbert or his writers for the new word 'truthiness'.)

How to remember this web site: It's FreedomEnvy without the 'y' --- dot com.

freedomenv.com

Jimi said it well
Freedom, that's what I want now ... Freedom, that's what I need now.
Freedom .. to live ... Freedom so I can give.

(Before or while playing this audio snippet, adjust speaker volume.)
(This is a link to a '.m3u' playlist file --- m3u = mpeg3-URL.)

If your browser supports HTML5,
here is an alternative --- an HTML5 'audio' tag to play the audio.

Here is a web page giving an OVERVIEW of the FE subsystems.

Here is a web page guiding you to SCREENSHOTS of the FE subsystems.

Here is a web page of VIDEOS of installs and demos of the FE subsystems.

Here is a web page guiding you to DOWNLOADS of the FE subsystems.

Foundation of FE :

The 'FE Nautilus Scripts' sub-system is founded on Linux/Unix shell scripts --- and uses the 'zenity' utility to provide GUI prompts for user-input, when needed.

The FE 'xpg' and 'AppMenus' and 'HandyTools' sub-systems are founded on Linux/Unix shell scripts and the Tcl-Tk scripting language, using the Tcl-Tk language to generate windows-with-widgets GUIs.

Many Linux 'distros' have the Tcl-Tk system installed [including its 'wish' (window shell) interpreter], because there are utilities in the distro that use Tcl-Tk scripting. So, in many cases, you will not need to download a Tcl-Tk package and install it.

If you don't have the Tcl-Tk environment (with the 'wish' interpreter) on your machine, it is probably a few mouse clicks away. Tcl-Tk was not included in my initial install of Ubuntu 9.10, but, in the 'Ubuntu Software Center', I found the TkDiff utility. I installed it in a few clicks, and the install brought along the required Tcl-Tk interpreter environment.

    It turned out that the Tcl-Tk 8.4 'wish' interpreter was installed instead of 8.5. To get nicer anti-aliased fonts in Tk GUIs, one needs 8.5. The 'Xft' system for font anti-aliasing was incorporated in Tk 8.5, but not 8.4.

    Here is a web page that shows how to install the Tcl-Tk 8.5 'wish' interpreter.

Tk GUIs :

To see the kinds of things possible with Tcl-Tk scripting, click here for some samples of "tkGUIs" that have been devised, in the 1985 to 2008 timeframe, for various applications.

And here is a slideshow of those sample tkGUIs.

And here is a ALTERNATIVE slideshow of those sample tkGUIs --- which initially fits each image to the size of your browser window.

As components of the FE system are released, you will see more tkGUI examples via the 'Screenshots' link above.

You say you don't like this background image?

Choose a background image:

You say you would prefer a solid background color?

Choose a background color:

You say you would prefer a different font?

Choose a font family:

NOTE :
Your choice of background (or font) is not saved for when you return to this page. It could be, by using a "cookie", a small file on your computer --- ugh.

When you (re)load this page or return to this page, the background is set according to the hour of the day. Hence it changes every hour --- for some variety.

The fonts may or may not work depending on what your browser knows is available and depending on the fonts available on your machine.

Color table (hex-codes and colors, at techbomb.com)

An alternative Color table, and description (in case the link above goes dead)

Let me know if you think some colors on this page should be changed, for backgrounds, borders, links, visited-links, titles, body-text, paragraph-text, or other text elements --- for readability or whatever.

The drop-down menus of image-tiles and background colors could be added-to or changed also. Do you have a beautiful tile to contribute?

I'm looking for a good F.E. (effie) logo. Anyone want to design one and donate it?

Actually, why have one logo? There could be many. (There are thousands of Ubuntu logos --- or 'takes' on 'the' Ubuntu logo.)

Consider 3D effects and animated GIFs. No Flash please. Let's keep it basic --- jpg's and/or animated gif's.

I have started collecting some candidates (of my own making or made by others) on an 'FE logos' web page.

For Contact information, see the 'Contact' page.

These pages are maintained on Linux using a text editor, like 'gedit' or 'gscite'.
But I may switch to a different Debian-based Linux 'distro' as explained on the Contact page.

- NOTE -
The style of the font for the text in these web pages is not hard-coded.
This allows you to change the font style via a 'preferences' or 'tools' option in your web browser.
For example, in Seamonkey, use 'Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts' and,
in the 'Fonts' panel, you can choose to change 'Proportional:' from 'Serif' to 'Sans Serif'.

You are given the Freedom to change the font for most of the text.

Neil knows.
We need a free(dom) world in which to keep rockin'.

(Before or while playing this audio snippet, adjust speaker volume.)
(This is a link to a '.m3u' playlist file --- m3u = mpeg3-URL.)

If your browser supports HTML5,
here is an alternative --- an HTML5 'audio' tag to play the audio.

Page was created 2008 Apr 11. Changed 2011 Dec 30.