2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
8 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
12 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
13 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
17 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
22 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
26 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
27 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
28 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
29 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
31 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
36 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
37 the old one (Stephen Watson).
38 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
39 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
40 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
44 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
49 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
51 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
53 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
57 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
58 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
60 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
62 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
63 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
64 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
65 reported by Lewis Denizen).
69 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
73 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
74 the binary (Stephen Watson).
78 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
82 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
83 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
84 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
88 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
91 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
93 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
94 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
95 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
96 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
97 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
101 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
105 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
106 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
110 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
114 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
115 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
116 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
118 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
119 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
121 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
122 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
123 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
124 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
128 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
129 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
133 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
134 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
135 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
136 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
141 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
142 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
146 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
147 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
148 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
152 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
153 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
154 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
158 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
162 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
163 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
167 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
168 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
172 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
176 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
177 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
182 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
183 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
187 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
191 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
192 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
193 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
194 when changing to a parent directory.
195 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
199 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
203 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
207 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
209 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
211 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
215 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
217 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
221 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
223 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
227 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
231 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
232 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
233 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
234 reported by Anthony DiSante).
238 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
242 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
246 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
247 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
248 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
249 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
250 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
254 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
255 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
259 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
260 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
265 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
266 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
271 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
272 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
276 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
277 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
281 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
282 (reported by Tony Houghton).
286 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
288 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
289 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
293 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
294 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
298 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
302 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
306 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
310 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
311 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
312 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
316 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
320 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
325 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
329 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
331 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
333 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
337 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
338 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
339 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
341 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
345 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
346 print a warning and then crash.
350 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
351 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
352 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
357 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
361 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
366 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
370 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
374 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
376 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
381 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
382 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
383 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
388 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
389 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
394 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
396 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
397 anyway, and noone had complained).
398 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
399 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
403 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
404 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
405 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
409 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
413 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
414 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
418 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
419 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
420 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
424 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
425 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
426 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
428 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
429 by Simon Templer and others).
433 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
434 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
435 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
439 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
443 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
447 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
448 version number again (Stephen Watson).
452 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
453 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
457 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
461 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
462 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
463 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
464 anyway (Stephen Watson).
468 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
472 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
476 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
478 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
480 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
484 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
485 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
486 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
490 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
491 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
496 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
497 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
498 impossible to change shortcuts.
499 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
500 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
504 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
505 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
510 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
511 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
512 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
516 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
517 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
518 to the functions being missing.
522 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
526 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
530 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
534 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
538 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
539 worries people for no reason.
543 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
547 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
548 files selected (Peter Geer).
552 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
553 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
557 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
561 Added 'Select by Name'.
565 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
569 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
574 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
578 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
580 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
582 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
583 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
587 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
591 Misc changes for next release.
595 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
596 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
600 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
601 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
602 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
603 Watson, reported on #rox).
607 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
608 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
612 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
613 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
617 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
618 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
622 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
623 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
628 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
632 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
634 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
639 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
643 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
644 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
648 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
649 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
653 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
657 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
662 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
663 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
665 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
666 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
670 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
671 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
675 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
680 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
681 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
685 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
686 support not being detected (igla).
690 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
694 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
695 dialog (Stephen Watson).
699 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
703 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
704 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
705 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
706 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
709 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
711 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
712 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
716 New icon for selection ops.
720 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
724 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
728 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
732 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
733 Added icon theme selector.
737 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
741 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
745 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
746 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
750 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
751 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
752 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
756 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
757 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
761 Allow ejecting mounted media.
765 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
766 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
767 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
771 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
775 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
776 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
781 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
782 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
786 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
787 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
791 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
792 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
796 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
800 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
801 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
802 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
806 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
810 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
811 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
812 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
813 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
817 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
818 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
820 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
824 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
828 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
829 bits (Stephen Watson).
833 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
837 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
841 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
842 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
846 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
850 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
851 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
856 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
857 forward them explicitly.
861 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
862 help from Götz Waschk).
866 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
867 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
868 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
872 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
876 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
880 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
884 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
885 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
887 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
889 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
893 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
895 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
897 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
901 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
902 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
903 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
904 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
908 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
912 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
916 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
920 Minor updates to the manual.
921 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
922 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
926 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
927 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
929 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
931 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
932 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
936 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
937 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
938 reduce flickering effect.
942 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
946 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
948 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
952 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
953 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
954 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
955 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
956 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
960 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
961 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
965 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
969 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
974 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
975 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
979 Winking now works in List view.
983 Lasso selections now work in List view.
987 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
988 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
992 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
993 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
995 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
997 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1001 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1005 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1006 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1008 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1012 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1013 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1017 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1019 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1023 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1024 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1028 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1030 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1034 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1038 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1039 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1044 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1045 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1047 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1049 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1051 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1055 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1059 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1060 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1064 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1069 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1070 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1074 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1076 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1078 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1079 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1084 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1088 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1089 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1090 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1091 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1092 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1093 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1094 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1096 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1100 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1105 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1106 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1110 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1111 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1112 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1113 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1118 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1119 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1120 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1121 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1122 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1123 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1124 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1125 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1126 talent can do something better?
1127 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1128 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1132 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1133 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1134 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1139 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1141 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1142 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1143 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1144 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1145 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1146 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1147 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1148 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1149 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1150 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1151 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1152 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1153 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1157 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1158 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1159 allow fine repositioning.
1160 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1161 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1162 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1163 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1165 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1166 changing the aspect ratio.
1170 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1174 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1178 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1179 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1180 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1184 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1188 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1193 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1194 make sharing icons easier.
1195 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1199 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1200 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1204 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1208 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1210 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1214 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1219 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1224 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1225 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1227 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1228 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1229 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1230 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1234 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1235 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1239 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1243 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1245 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1246 Brian Langenberger).
1250 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1251 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1253 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1257 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1258 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1260 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1262 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1266 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1267 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1272 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1276 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1277 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1278 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1282 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1283 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1287 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1291 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1292 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1296 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1297 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1298 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1302 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1306 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1307 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1308 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1309 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1311 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1312 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1316 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1317 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1321 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1326 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1327 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1331 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1335 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1336 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1337 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1338 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1343 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1344 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1345 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1349 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1353 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1354 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1358 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1359 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1360 since it didn't include the contents.
1361 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1362 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1366 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1370 Style improvements to options window.
1374 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1378 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1380 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1382 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1387 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1388 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1389 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1390 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1394 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1398 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1402 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1403 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1407 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1409 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1414 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1418 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1419 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1420 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1425 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1429 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1433 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1437 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1441 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1442 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1443 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1447 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1448 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1452 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1453 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1458 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1462 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1466 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1471 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1472 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1476 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1477 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1482 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1483 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1487 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1488 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1489 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1493 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1497 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1498 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1499 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1500 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1501 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1505 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1506 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1510 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1511 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1515 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1519 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1520 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1521 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1522 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1523 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1524 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1528 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1529 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1530 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1534 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1535 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1540 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1544 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1546 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1548 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1553 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1557 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1561 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1562 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1567 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1571 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1575 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1576 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1577 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1581 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1585 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1590 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1594 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1595 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1596 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1597 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1601 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1605 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1606 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1610 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1611 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1612 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1616 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1620 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1624 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1625 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1626 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1627 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1628 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1629 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1633 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1634 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1638 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1639 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1640 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1644 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1645 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1649 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1653 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1654 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1655 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1656 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1658 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1660 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1664 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1665 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1666 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1670 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1674 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1675 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1680 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1684 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1688 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1689 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1693 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1694 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1695 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1699 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1700 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1704 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1705 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1709 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1710 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1714 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1718 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1719 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1723 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1725 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1727 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1731 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1735 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1736 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1740 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1744 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1748 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1749 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1750 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1751 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1752 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1753 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1757 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1761 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1763 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1764 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1768 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1769 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1773 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1777 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1778 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1779 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1780 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1782 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1784 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1788 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1789 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1793 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1794 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1795 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1799 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1800 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1801 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1802 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1803 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1804 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1805 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1809 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1810 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1814 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1818 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1822 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1827 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1831 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1832 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1833 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1837 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1838 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1839 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1843 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1844 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1845 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1849 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1850 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1854 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1859 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1860 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1861 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1862 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1863 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1865 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1866 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1870 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1874 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1875 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1876 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1877 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1881 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1882 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1883 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1884 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1885 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1886 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1890 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1894 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1895 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1899 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1900 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1901 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1902 restart (Olli Helenius).
1906 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1910 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1911 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1912 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1917 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1922 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1923 Small and Large sizes.
1927 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1931 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1932 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1936 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1937 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1938 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1939 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1943 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1944 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1945 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1950 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1955 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1956 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1960 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1961 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1966 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1968 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1970 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1974 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1978 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1980 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1982 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1986 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1988 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1989 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1993 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1994 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1998 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1999 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2003 Various speed improvements.
2004 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2008 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2009 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2013 Slight speed increase when starting.
2017 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2021 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2022 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2023 button is no longer supported.
2027 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2031 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2035 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2040 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2041 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2045 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2046 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2047 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2051 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2052 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2053 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2054 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2058 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2059 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2060 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2062 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2067 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2068 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2073 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2077 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2078 and converted to new dialog style.
2082 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2083 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2087 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2088 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2092 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2096 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2098 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2102 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2106 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2107 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2108 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2112 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2113 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2117 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2122 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2126 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2127 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2131 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2132 and Cancel is now Revert.
2133 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2134 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2138 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2142 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2143 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2145 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2146 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2147 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2148 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2152 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2154 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2155 labels display them.
2156 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2159 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2163 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2165 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2169 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2170 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2171 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2175 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2176 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2178 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2180 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2184 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2185 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2189 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2190 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2191 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2192 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2196 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2200 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2201 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2205 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2206 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2211 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2212 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2216 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2217 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2218 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2222 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2223 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2227 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2228 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2229 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2230 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2232 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2237 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2238 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2240 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2242 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2246 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2247 any image (saves time).
2248 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2249 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2250 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2251 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2253 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2254 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2258 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2259 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2261 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2262 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2264 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2269 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2270 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2271 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2272 has stopped accepting STRING.
2276 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2277 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2281 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2286 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2287 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2289 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2290 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2291 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2295 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2296 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2297 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2298 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2299 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2300 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2304 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2305 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2306 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2307 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2308 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2309 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2314 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2315 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2316 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2317 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2322 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2323 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2327 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2328 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2330 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2332 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2333 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2334 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2338 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2339 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2340 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2344 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2345 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2349 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2350 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2354 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2356 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2361 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2362 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2366 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2367 their menus correctly.
2368 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2373 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2374 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2375 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2379 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2380 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2384 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2388 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2391 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2393 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2394 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2395 the toggle menu items from working!
2399 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2401 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2407 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2408 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2412 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2413 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2414 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2415 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2416 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2417 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2421 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2425 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2426 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2430 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2431 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2432 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2436 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2437 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2442 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2444 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2448 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2449 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2450 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2451 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2455 Improved error reporting.
2456 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2460 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2461 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2462 check box and does 'Yes'.
2466 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2467 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2468 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2469 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2474 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2476 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2477 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2479 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2481 Internal changes to options system:
2482 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2483 filer is fully initialised).
2484 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2486 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2488 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2489 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2490 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2491 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2495 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2496 now reclaims the selection.
2497 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2498 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2503 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2504 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2505 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2506 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2507 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2511 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2512 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2514 Code tidying in various places.
2518 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2519 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2524 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2525 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2529 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2530 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2531 edit the file, not the file itself!
2532 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2536 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2537 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2538 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2539 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2540 of the SOAP working draft.
2541 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2542 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2543 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2548 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2549 it was in the displayed area before.
2551 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2554 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2555 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2559 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2560 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2561 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2563 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2564 selection (Andras Mohari).
2568 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2572 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2576 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2577 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2578 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2582 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2586 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2588 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2589 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2590 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2594 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2595 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2600 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2601 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2602 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2606 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2610 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2614 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2615 replaced by a Restart button.
2619 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2620 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2624 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2628 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2632 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2633 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2634 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2638 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2639 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2641 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2642 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2643 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2647 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2648 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2653 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2655 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2656 (requested by Graham Borland).
2657 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2658 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2659 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2663 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2664 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2665 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2666 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2670 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2671 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2672 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2673 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2674 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2675 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2676 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2677 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2678 - Lots of code tidying.
2683 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2684 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2688 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2690 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2692 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2696 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2697 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2701 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2702 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2706 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2707 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2711 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2712 option to access it directly.
2716 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2717 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2718 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2722 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2723 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2724 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2725 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2726 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2727 when the filer is run.
2731 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2732 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2733 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2738 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2742 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2743 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2747 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2749 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2753 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2757 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2758 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2759 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2764 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2765 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2766 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2767 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2768 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2769 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2770 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2774 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2778 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2779 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2783 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2784 of possible actions (Taras).
2785 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2787 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2788 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2792 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2797 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2801 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2804 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2805 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2809 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2810 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2812 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2814 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2815 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2816 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2817 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2821 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2825 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2829 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2833 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2838 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2839 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2840 the first one found.
2841 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2845 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2849 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2850 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2851 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2855 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2856 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2857 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2862 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2863 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2864 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2868 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2870 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2875 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2880 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2884 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2885 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2889 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2891 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2892 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2896 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2900 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2901 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2905 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2906 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2910 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2911 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2913 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2915 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2919 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2923 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2924 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2928 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2932 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2937 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2938 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2942 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2946 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2950 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2952 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2953 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2957 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2958 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2962 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2963 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2964 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2968 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2969 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2973 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2974 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2976 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2978 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2982 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2983 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2984 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2986 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2987 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2989 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2991 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2992 and the default size with no details.
2996 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2997 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3001 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3006 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3011 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3015 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3020 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3021 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3025 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3029 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3030 the button to run it does.
3031 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3032 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3033 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3037 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3038 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3039 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3043 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3047 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3048 and panels into icon.c.
3052 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3053 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3054 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3055 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3059 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3061 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3063 Updated the documentation.
3067 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3068 up if they're too small.
3072 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3074 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3075 (Christopher Arndt).
3076 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3081 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3082 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3086 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3087 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3091 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3092 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3093 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3098 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3103 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3107 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3108 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3113 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3118 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3119 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3123 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3124 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3128 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3132 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3136 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3140 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3141 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3144 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3145 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3150 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3151 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3152 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3153 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3158 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3159 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3161 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3163 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3164 for non-applications.
3168 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3169 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3174 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3178 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3179 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3181 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3185 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3186 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3190 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3191 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3195 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3196 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3200 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3201 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3203 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3204 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3208 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3209 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3211 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3215 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3216 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3219 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3223 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3224 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3228 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3232 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3233 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3236 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3237 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3241 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3245 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3250 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3254 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3255 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3260 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3265 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3269 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3271 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3273 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3274 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3276 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3278 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3279 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3283 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3284 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3285 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3287 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3288 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3292 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3296 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3297 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3301 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3305 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3306 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3308 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3311 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3312 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3313 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3317 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3318 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3323 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3328 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3330 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3333 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3335 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3336 sensible shape itself now.
3338 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3339 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3340 file at all, just a reused inode!
3341 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3342 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3343 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3347 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3351 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3352 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3357 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3358 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3362 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3366 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3367 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3371 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3376 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3380 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3381 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3385 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3386 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3387 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3388 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3389 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3393 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3394 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3395 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3396 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3397 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3401 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3402 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3403 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3407 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3409 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3410 python's portable system.
3411 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3412 set the LANG variable.
3416 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3417 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3419 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3421 Made a few updates to the manual.
3425 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3426 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3428 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3430 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3431 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3435 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3436 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3440 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3441 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3446 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3447 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3448 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3452 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3453 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3457 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3458 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3462 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3463 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3465 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3466 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3467 open... (Denis Manente).
3471 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3475 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3477 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3478 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3479 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3481 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3483 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3485 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3486 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3491 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3492 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3493 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3497 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3498 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3502 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3506 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3510 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3511 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3512 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3516 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3517 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3518 between pinboards...
3520 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3521 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3522 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3526 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3529 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3530 window (Denis Manente).
3532 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3533 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3537 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3538 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3539 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3543 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3546 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3547 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3549 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3554 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3555 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3557 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3561 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3562 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3564 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3566 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3571 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3572 the icon points to as well as its name.
3574 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3575 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3579 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3580 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3581 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3582 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3586 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3590 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3591 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3592 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3596 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3597 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3599 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3600 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3603 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3604 the item after the drag.
3606 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3607 showing where the file really is.
3611 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3612 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3617 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3618 warning is displayed if so.
3620 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3624 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3625 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3626 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3627 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3630 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3631 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3632 works like the panels.
3636 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3637 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3638 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3639 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3640 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3644 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3645 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3646 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3647 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3649 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3654 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3658 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3659 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3662 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3663 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3665 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3668 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3669 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3670 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3671 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3673 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3675 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3676 slightly. Updated the manual.
3678 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3679 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3682 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3683 or bottom panel to make room.
3687 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3692 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3693 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3694 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3695 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3696 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3700 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3702 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3703 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3705 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3709 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3710 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3714 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3718 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3720 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3725 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3726 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3728 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3732 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3733 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3734 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3738 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3739 rewriting the panel system.
3743 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3746 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3747 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3751 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3752 (suggested by James Kermode).
3756 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3757 than as a full path.
3759 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3761 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3762 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3763 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3767 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3768 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3772 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3773 rename something onto another filesystem.
3777 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3779 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3780 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3784 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3788 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3791 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3792 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3794 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3797 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3802 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3803 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3804 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3806 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3807 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3809 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3810 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3815 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3816 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3821 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3822 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3823 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3825 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3826 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3827 of the 'missing image' image.
3831 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3833 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3835 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3840 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3841 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3842 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3843 its name into another program.
3845 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3849 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3851 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3852 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3853 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3855 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3856 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3857 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3860 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3861 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3865 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3866 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3867 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3871 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3872 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3873 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3877 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3878 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3879 and position the icons directly.
3883 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3888 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3889 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3890 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3894 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3898 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3899 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3903 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3908 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3912 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3913 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3914 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3915 some versions of GTK+.
3919 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3924 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3925 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3926 from a sub-sub-menu.
3928 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3929 drawn on a log scale.
3933 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3934 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3935 happy with the UI yet though...
3937 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3938 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3939 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3943 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3944 by Stephen Harrison).
3946 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3948 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3949 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3950 standard types are in Choices.
3951 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3953 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3954 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3955 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3960 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3961 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3962 shell command minibuffer.
3966 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3967 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3968 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3969 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3970 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3972 Default search path for Choices is now:
3973 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3975 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3976 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3977 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3981 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3982 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3986 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3987 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3988 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3993 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3994 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3995 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3998 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4000 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4001 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4002 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4004 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4005 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4009 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4010 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4011 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4012 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4017 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4018 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4019 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4021 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4023 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4024 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4028 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4029 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4030 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4035 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4036 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4039 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4041 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4046 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4051 Added GNU gettext support.
4052 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4056 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4058 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4060 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4065 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4069 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4070 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4072 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4073 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4078 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4079 onto the directory and winks the file.
4083 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4084 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4085 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4087 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4088 instead of random values.
4089 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4091 Applied Bernard's patch:
4092 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4093 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4094 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4095 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4096 it the RISC OS way...
4097 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4098 alignment corrected.
4099 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4104 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4108 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4109 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4113 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4114 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4115 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4116 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4117 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4118 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4119 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4120 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4121 in the file(1) says... box).
4124 Before the Changes file
4125 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4126 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4128 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4129 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4130 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4131 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4132 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD