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Eagle Mode is an advanced solution for a futuristic style of man-machine communication in which the user can visit almost everything simply by zooming in. It has a professional file manager, file viewers and players for most of the common file types, a chess game, a 3D mines game, a multi-function clock and some fractal fun, all integrated in a virtual cosmos. Besides, that cosmos also provides a Linux kernel configurator in form of a kernel patch.

By featuring a separate popup-zoomed control view, help texts in the things they are describing, editable bookmarks, multiple input methods, fast anti-aliased graphics, a virtually unlimited depth of panel tree, and by its portable C++ API, Eagle Mode aims to be a cutting edge of zoomable user interfaces.

Eagle Mode is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.

How useful is it?
Eagle Mode is surely at least a nice ZUI demo and fun application. But it can be more. For me, the developer, it is naturally the most efficient file manager in the world, and that even since the source code had just an eighth of the present extent. Some users also reported great satisfaction. If you want to find out whether Eagle Mode could improve your life too, then you will probably have to go the cumbersome way of studying the whole user documentation, reading all the in-button help texts, and practicing all the mouse functions for some hours.

However, Windows users should know that the Windows port of Eagle Mode is just a light version. It has less plugins, less commands, and the commands can handle less files at once. This comes from some programming problems.

How stable and safe is it?
Each new release is well tested, and it is verified by a careful review of every new source code line. The xine library is only accessed through multiprocessing in a way that the stability of Eagle Mode as a whole does not depend on the stability of that library. None of the file manager command buttons changes the file system without popping up a window that asks something, but there is no undo function and no trash can. On UNIX/Linux, archive files are not unpacked if they seem to contain absolute or up-going paths (this feature does not concern Windows, but there we do not have the temporary unpacking by zooming in).