Rodent Beta

Rodent is fast, small and powerful file manager for the GNU operating system (but it also works in BSD). That\'s one way to look at it. Another way is to call it a graphic shell (that\'s probably more accurate).

* Rodent wastes no space on menus or function buttons (display real estate is too valuable).
* All functionality is available through popup menu or keyboard action.
* Popup menu is context sensitive.
* Full lpterminal is available from keyboard.
* Functionality is extendible via plugin tecnology.

This is a bug fix release with many optimizations and new features added.

The most important fix is a race which caused a dbh file corruption with a 1/25 probability on virgin startups. It would only affect the user who had the corrupt dbh file. The corrupt file could be removed with a rm -rf `find ~ -name \"rfm*\"`.

Anyways, the race condition is fixed in 4.6.4, but if you were unlucky enough with 4.6.2, just remove the rfm directories \"~/.cache/rfm\", \"~/.local/share/rfm\" and \"~/.config/rfm\". This will leave your directory as good as new.

The most important features added to 4.6.4 are:

1) New touch frontend: all GNU touch options are now available. Special thanks to
Paul Rubin
Arnold Robbins
Jim Kingdon
David MacKenzie
Randy Smith
for the creation of such a powerful and bug free backend to rodent touch.

2) Rendering is now done with cairo. This makes for prettier graphics and optimized routines.

3) Rubberband selection now does up and down scrolling and will select/unselect on the fly.

4) Updated translations: we now have the greater part of the world population covered.

5) Remove, find, settings, touch dialogs now run in their own threads.

6) Added RTFM and Help buttons for cp, mv, ln, shred and fgr.

7) Added a conventional \"About\" dialog.

8) Migrated pasteboard from server-base to thread-safe client-base.

9) Variable icon/thumbnail size (per directory memory) via a zoom-in/zoom-out button.