Rodent filemanager

Rodent Gamma release 4 is now yours to enjoy! Several segfault bugs were fixed from previous Gamma releases as well a enhancements to the applications menu and applications plugin. Rodent Gamma release 4 (4.7.4, or build 5248) now includes the following new features: * Inline and online User's Manual (alas! documentation!). * Rodent icon theme is now XDG spec and includes many new icons. This means you can use the Xfce native Rodent icon theme with your favorite desktop. You can also use any other desktop icon theme with Rodent Filemanager (if this is to your liking). Much appreciation is due to Pablo Morales Romero <pg.morales.romero@gmail.com> and the resources at Freedesktop.org for making this possible. * Bash completion is now enabled in the lp-terminal command line and all input dialogs (where applicable). This complements the history autocompletion which was already enabled. * Rodent-fgr find tool stand alone application. * New rodent-ps plugin. This allows you to monitor all running processes and send signals with point and click ease. Easy access to all processes makes process control much quicker (for those who know what pid and signals are, of course). * New rodent-dotdesktop plugin. This allows Rodent filemanager to process dot desktop files (or launchers) adding the following functionalities: ** Applications menu. This appears in the top level menu and includes all installed programs grouped in the conventional desktop categories. So if you are stuck with a gnome panel you don't want just to have the menu, or are tired of waiting for an independent application to generate a menu, here's the small and quick solution. ** Top level Applications launcher folder which contains folders for every category claimed by an installed applications. (Other filemanagers consider the user too stupid to list each and every category... no wait. No other filemanager handles categories the way Rodent does. Rodent's way of handling applications categories is the CDE way, which takes us back to Xfce core roots. Not everything has to emulate Micro$oft these days.) ** Automatic mimetype-application association. If an installed application claims it can open files of this-or-that mimetype, then the popup menu for icons of this-or-that mimetype will have the command enabled (with the correct icon, of course). * Complete translations to French, German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and many more languages (af ar as ast az be@latin be bg bn br bs ca ca@valencia crh csb cs cy da de dz el en_CA en_GB eo es et eu fa fi fr fy ga gl gu he hi hne hr hsb hu hy ia id is it ja ka kg km kn ko ku lt lv mai mk ml mr ms nb nds ne nl nn oc or pa pl ps pt_BR pt ro ru si sk sl sq sr@ijekavianlatin sr@ijekavian sr@ije sr@latin sr sv ta te tg th tk tr ug uk uz@cyrillic uz vi wa xh zh_CN zh_HK zh zh_TW.Big5 zh_TW). * Content folder icons. This features puts a small icon on top of each folder to show the user what type of files the folder contains. * A lot of other enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes I cannot remember at this point. ChangeLog for full details. * Following the spirit of Free Software, this project feeds on the collaboration of virtually thousands of Open Source programmers, artists and translators. As is proper in an educated environment, due credit to every contributor is acknowledged. If by any chance you notice that a contribution you have made has not been recognized in the "About" dialog, please file a bug report at http://bugs.xffm.org. If you have trouble compiling from source, please see the Notes section at the bottom of this document. What is Rodent? =============== 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). What Rodent is not? =================== Rodent is *not* a filemanager for dummies. Emphasis is on ease of use for the advanced user, not the computer illiterate. Rodent is a cross between a command line terminal and an iconview filemanager: the centaur of open source filemanagers. Why is Rodent easy to use? ========================== Rodent is not only a point and click application, a fully functional console terminal is also an integral part. In other words, you can type any command from the keyboard and Rodent will have a controlling thread ready and active. Why is Rodent fast? =================== Rodent is fast because it uses multithread mechanisms to perform operations in parallel processing. This is the fastest way to work with modern multicore processors. If your processor is not multicore, you may not notice this. Readable image previews of text, image and pdf files pop up by mouse movement, greatly reducing the time required to browse through a directory of unknown files. Why is Rodent small? ==================== Rodent is small because it adds no unnecesary code. Rodent acts as a graphic front end for "cp", "mv", "ln", "mount", "file", "convert", "diff" and your shell of choice. Some of the developers responsible for the widespread and excellent code used by Rodent are: * Richard M. Stallman * Torbjörn Granlund * David MacKenzie * Jim Meyering * Mike Parker * Paul Rubin * Paul Eggert * Mike Haertel * David Hayes * Len Tower Why is Rodent powerful? ======================= Transparent access to powerful commands such as "sudo" and "convert" allow the user to go beyond the scope of ordinary filemanagers. If the user types "sudo rm -rf *", Rodent will attempt to do just that. As mentioned previously, Rodent is *not* for dummies. Required packages ================= Rodent depends on the following packages: - libzip-0.9 or above (optional, for opendocument thumbnails) - libXML-2.4.0 or above - Glib 2.20.5 or above - GTK+ 2.20.0 or above - intltool 0.40 or above - libmagic (comes with the "file" utility) - gawk (for building from source) Rodent uses the following programs: - cp - mv - ln - rm - touch - grep Included software: ================== The following libraries are included with Rodent: - tubo-4.7.0 - dbh-4.7.0 - rodent-icon-theme-4.7.0 The following software is included with Rodent: - fgr - rodent-fgr - rodent-diff - rodent-root - rodent-mime - rodent-desk - rodent Installation ============ The file 'INSTALL' contains generic installation instructions. For a complete system build: ./configure && make && sudo make install If you do not have a "./configure" script, use "./autogen.sh" to generate it. A full set of autotools is required for this. Please note that for a complete build from source tarballs, you will require a full set of autotools and library development headers and m4 macros: - libtool-2.2.6 or better - automake-1.10 or better - autoconf-2.62 or better - intltool 0.41.1 or better - headers for glib-2.20.5 - headers for gtk+-2.20.6 Optional programs: ================== Rodent can optionally use the following programs: - tar, compress, zip, gzip, bzip2 - shred, mount, sudo, file, imagemagick - sh, bash, csh, ksh, tsh - xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, Terminal - xpdf, sox, mpg123, mplayer - gv, gvim, gimp, lyx - cdrecord, dvips, gedit, cdplay, dia - gkrellm, xkill, abiword - rpm, dpkg, pkg_add, pkg_info, pkg_update - openoffice - gqview - dillo - anything else you like. Debugging Support ================= Rodent currently supports three levels of debugging support, which can be setup using the configure flags `--with-debug´ or `--with-trace´ (check the output of `configure --help´): trace: This is extremely verbose output and is not recommended unless tracking a particularly hard to trace bug. debug: This should be the default for developer builds, and presents verbose output which must be filtered with "grep" in order to be of any real use. none: This is the default for release builds, and presents the recommended behaviour for end users. Standards compliance ==================== Rodent supports the following standards/specifications: * POSIX.1-2001. How to report bugs? =================== Bugs should be reported to edscott@xfce.org. Suggestions and feature requests are also welcome. Additional information ====================== Rodent is provided "as is" in the hope that the package is as useful to you as it is to me, but with no garantee, as put forth in the GPL-v3 license. Notes ===== Note: Don't forget to run "ldconfig" as root after the "make install" so that the dynamic libraries may be loaded at run time. Note: To enable translations, you must add locale to clib (this is usually done by integrated environments): sudo localedef -i zh_CN -f /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8 zh_CN then set environment variables LANG and LC_ALL to zh_CN (for Chinese China) Note: FreeBSD users, use gmake in lieu of make, otherwise po directory build will fail. GNU's not Unix, but Unix is a beast; its plural form is Unixen. Enjoy!