Rodent data manager tries to score with additional features
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Conclusion
Rodent polarizes users into camps much like its ancestor Xffm – until Thunar took over as a more intuitive central tool. Although Rodent almost disappeared from the scene, development is still proceeding actively. Unfortunately, only very few distributions, if any, have current packages on board.
Nevertheless, if a terminal is part of your daily requirements, if you're not bothered with the somewhat unconventional and sometimes oblique and idiosyncratic behavior of its file manager, and if you aren't daunted by its sharp learning curve, you should take a look at Rodent. You can decide for yourself, is it a bug or is it feature? Perhaps Rodent will develop into just the right tool and satisfy your cravings.
Infos
- Rodent: http://xffm.org
- Xffm: http://xffm.sourceforge.net/xffm-filemanager.html
- GVim: http://www.vim.org
- PPA for Rodent: https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/ubuntu/rodent
- Source code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xffm/files/
- RPM spec: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rodent.git/plain/rodent.spec
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