Rodent Beta-2 (aka xffm-4.6.4 ) is now yours!

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

Hello Xfce crowd!

Rodent Beta release 2 (aka xffm-4.6.4) has now been released and is yours!

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. For
the creation of such a powerful and bug free backend to rodent touch,
special thanks to
   Paul Rubin
   Arnold Robbins
   Jim Kingdon
   David MacKenzie
   Randy Smith

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.


New requirements:
    bash (Ubuntu's use of dash is not adequate)
    librsvg >= 2.26.0
    cairo >= 1.8.10

Requirements which are now optional:
    libzip

A list of reported bugs fixed can be found at http://bugs.xffm.org and
unlisted bugs which were also fixed can be found at the ChangeLog
file: http://svn.foo-projects.org/svn/xffm/CURRENT/rodent/ChangeLog .

Source tarball can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xffm/files/4.6.4/
You will also find debian i386/amd64 packages (build on squeeze) at
this site.

PPA files for Ubuntu are not yet available, but we will try to get
them online. Meanwhile, you should be able to use the source tarball
or debian packages.

Build has been tested successfully on Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu,
ArchLinux and FreeBSD. It should be fine on other Linux distributions too.

Enjoy!

Rodent homepage (hosted at foo-projects.org): http://rodent.xffm.org


BTW: The only big difference between an advanced user and a dummy, is
that the first will RTFM. As such, Rodent's FM will appear shortly at
http://xffm.org. Stay tuned.


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cheers!

Edscott