Uhm, what?
I am pleased to announce a new file manager, but a the same time I would like to apologize for the stupid name and the icon which is perhaps a little too cute. It was a codename which I quickly grew attached to and couldn't come up with a better one for the release. However, it's not as meaningless as it seems -- with this application you can accumulate bucketloads of files in the clipboard and have multiple file operations going on at the same time, just like a hamster hoarding tremendous amount of food.

How does it look like?





What does it do?

• Copy, move, link and delete files and folders, including root privileges (restart required)
• Parallel file operations with logging -- do many things at the same time and browse the history (Ctrl+O)
• FileBox-like clipboard (Ctrl+P) with configurable behavior
• Location bar with buttons and path editor (Ctrl+L or press and hold one of the buttons)
• Opening files with default or user-defined applications (enter "application-name %s" in the command field)
• Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)
• Customizable view: hidden files (Ctrl+H), grid/list view (Ctrl+G), a (currently quite limited) choice of file details to show, fullscreen view, location bar that can be hidden
• Displaying thumbnails, MIME icons
• Creating empty files and folders
• Sending files via Bluetooth and email
• Multi-selection (Ctrl+S)

There are a few more keyboard shortcuts, like Left end Right to go up/down the filesystem hierarchy when in the list view, Ctrl+A to select all, and maybe others which I forgot to mention. If you don't want to pull out the keyboard, filter box can be shown by swiping up from the very bottom of the screen.

There is a page in the wiki dedicated to this application: http://wiki.maemo.org/HamsterFiler.