2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 The monospace font for the list view is now configurable via
8 a ViewDetails::mono-font gtkrc entry (Stephen Watson).
12 When iconfiying a window, try to find space on the pinboard of the current
13 screen first (Tony Houghton).
17 Make sure all the help message is translatable (Stephen Watson, reported
22 Use a monospace font for the size and permissions columsn in the list view
25 30-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4.1)
27 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
31 Some .desktop files put ".png" after the icon name, which prevents the icon
32 from being found. Ignore it (Thomass Leonard; reported by Peter).
36 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
40 If we can't find libc.so.6 for xattr support, try libc.so in case we only have
41 uClib (Lucas Correia Villa Real).
45 Allow .desktop files to be used as run actions (Thomas Leonard).
49 Bugfix: New detail crashes cleanice theme (reported by Andras Mohari; reported
50 as CleanIce bug #1383457). Try another value...
54 Highlight icons using the theme's preferred colour instead of always using
56 Bugfix: Don't set style detail to "base" when highlighting items in a
57 Collection, as it confuses GTK's lighthouseblue theme engine
62 Bugfix: Changing the display style crashes the filer with GTK >= 2.8.9 because
63 it sends a selection changed event before the view has finished
64 initialising (Thomas Leonard; reported by Tobias Kieslich).
65 Removed some done entries from the TODO file (Stephen Watson).
67 13-Dec-2005 (Release 2.4)
69 Updated Chinese translations (Babyfai Cheung).
73 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
74 Make Path optional in PanelRemove SOAP call, allowing removal of items based
75 only on their label (Jonatan Liljedahl).
76 Bugfix: The install script failed to compile ROX-Filer on Debian systems, due
77 to a bug in recent versions of xterm (Vincent Lefèvre). Added a
79 Bugfix: On 64-bit systems communication between ROX-Filer processes didn't
80 work, because GDK uses sizeof(long) bytes (not always 4 bytes) to store
81 a 32 bit property (Lucas Hazel).
85 Removed 'Open AVFS' from menu. It doesn't do anything on most systems, and you
86 can always add it with 'Customise menu...' if you want it (Thomas Leonard).
87 Better support for old GNOME themes with GNOME-specific MIME names (Dennis
92 Bugfix: Let -R work again (Stephen Watson).
96 Added initial support for .desktop files (Thomas Leonard). They are now shown
97 as executable, with the appropriate icons, and clicking on them runs the
99 Bugfix: If stdin wasn't set when ROX-Filer was started it could get used for
100 the X connection, before ROX-Filer got around to replacing it with
101 /dev/null (Thomas Leonard).
105 Added Hungarian translation for the <About> section in AppInfo.xml
110 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
114 In details mode, clicking on an item while the keyboard focus is visible
115 moves the focus to the item clicked on (suggested by Anthony DiSante).
119 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
123 Updated Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
124 Bugfix: An (extremely unlikely to occur) error message was missing some
125 arguments (Thomas Leonard; spotted by Andras Mohari).
129 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
133 Make all option menus into the options box wide enough for the widest item
134 to avoid resizing when the item is changed (Andras Mohari).
138 Only require shared-mime-database 0.14, not 0.16. Add the missing subclasses
139 manually (Thomas Leonard).
143 Allow some labels used to display file names to wrap over more than one line,
144 improving display of very long file names (Stephen Watson).
145 Show progress bar from start when an action is on more than one item
150 Bugfix: The refresh feature was accidentally broken during the upgrade to the
151 new MIME system (Thomas Leonard; reported by Frantisek Fuka).
155 Bugfix: If you editing the target of a symlink in the properties box, and then
156 unfocussed the entry when the symlink no longer existed, the filer
157 would crash trying to display the error message. Added work-around
158 (Thomas Leonard; reported as GTK bug #315229).
162 When using 'From LANG', check for translations with and with the territory
163 part (seventh guardian). Also do this when loading the manual or finding
164 a summary in AppInfo.xml (Thomas Leonard).
168 Marked some titlebar flags as translatable (reported by seventh guardian).
172 Updated install.sh with the current shared-mime-info URL (Stephen Watson).
176 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
177 Bugfix: Fix typo in the Solaris xattr implementation (Stephen Watson).
181 Bugfix: When doing Tab completion, part of the code was still case sensitive,
182 causing it to sometimes fail to notice multiple matched (Keith Warno;
183 reported by Tristan McLeay).
187 Added ROX-Filer.xml file, giving details of the current version. This can be
188 used to register a CVS version of the filer with the injector easily (Thomas
190 Renamed 'Xterm Here' to 'Terminal Here' (suggested by seventh guardian).
194 Removed GNOME-VFS from --version output; we never use it now (Thomas Leonard).
195 Failure to create a usable default icon theme can be due to a broken link, so
196 inform the user and show ~/.icons (Stephen Watson).
197 Extended attribute support more general, not just types (Stephen Watson).
201 Updated Polish translation (Wit Wiliński).
202 Added Portuguese (for Portugal) translation (Renato Caldas).
204 09-Aug-2005 (Release 2.3)
206 Opening the menu with the menu key had broken. Also fixed a few minor leaks
211 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
212 Fixed memory leak in new SOAP RPC calls (Thomas Leonard).
213 Provide alternate to_html.xsl file for different location of Docbook
214 stylesheets (Stephen Watson).
215 GTK bug #152151 also causes BadDrawable errors so ignore them as well
220 Bugfix: Ultimate++ could crash the filer when its window was iconified
225 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
229 Added a button for configuring video thumbnails (with Stephen Watson's
230 VideoThumbnail application) to the Options window (Thomas Leonard).
232 Right-clicking on a launcher button shows available versions (Thomas Leonard).
233 Bugfix: Added some missing gdk_event_free() calls (Thomas Leonard).
234 Bugfix: In vertical ordering mode, the blank space after all the items
235 acted as if there were icons there (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
239 Don't abort on BadWindow errors. GTK bug #152151 is still not fixed after
240 nearly a year, so give up trying to fix it and just ignore it (Thomas Leonard).
241 Don't show Help menu item for applications with no Help subdirectory (Thomas
246 Added option to only show iconified windows belonging to the current workspace
248 Added option to allow vertical ordering when laying out the icon view
253 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
257 Renamed Python MIME icon to keep up with freedesktop.org's current thinking in
258 the endless text vs application war (Thomas Leonard).
262 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
263 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
264 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
268 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
272 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
273 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
274 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
275 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
276 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
280 Added icon for messages/* MIME types (Thomas Leonard).
281 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
282 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
284 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
285 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
286 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
287 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
288 though they may be valid UTF-8.
289 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
291 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
292 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
293 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
294 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
295 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
301 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
302 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
304 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
305 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
310 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
311 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
315 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
316 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
321 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
322 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
323 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
324 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
325 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
326 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
328 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
330 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
331 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
332 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
336 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
337 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
341 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
342 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
346 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
347 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
348 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
349 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
353 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
357 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
358 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
362 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
364 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
365 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
366 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
371 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
372 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
373 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
374 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
378 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
380 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
381 function address (Tony Houghton).
385 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
386 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
391 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
395 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
396 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
400 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
401 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
402 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
406 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
410 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
411 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
412 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
413 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
414 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
419 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
424 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
428 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
429 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
433 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
434 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
438 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
442 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
443 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
445 Make tab completion in the minibuffer case insensitive (Jonatan Liljedahl).
449 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
450 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
454 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
455 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
456 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
458 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
460 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
465 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
466 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
470 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
475 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
479 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
480 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
481 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
482 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
484 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
489 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
490 the old one (Stephen Watson).
491 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
492 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
493 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
497 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
502 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
504 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
506 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
507 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
511 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
512 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
514 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
516 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
517 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
518 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
519 reported by Lewis Denizen).
523 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
527 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
528 the binary (Stephen Watson).
532 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
536 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
537 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
538 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
542 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
545 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
547 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
548 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
549 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
550 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
551 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
555 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
559 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
560 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
564 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
568 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
569 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
570 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
572 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
573 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
575 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
576 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
577 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
578 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
582 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
583 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
587 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
588 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
589 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
590 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
595 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
596 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
600 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
601 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
602 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
606 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
607 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
608 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
612 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
616 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
617 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
621 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
622 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
626 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
630 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
631 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
636 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
637 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
641 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
645 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
646 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
647 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
648 when changing to a parent directory.
649 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
653 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
657 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
661 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
663 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
665 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
669 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
671 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
675 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
677 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
681 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
685 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
686 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
687 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
688 reported by Anthony DiSante).
692 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
696 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
700 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
701 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
702 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
703 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
704 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
708 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
709 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
713 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
714 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
719 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
720 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
725 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
726 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
730 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
731 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
735 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
736 (reported by Tony Houghton).
740 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
742 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
743 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
747 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
748 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
752 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
756 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
760 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
764 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
765 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
766 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
770 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
774 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
779 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
783 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
785 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
787 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
791 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
792 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
793 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
795 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
799 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
800 print a warning and then crash.
804 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
805 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
806 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
811 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
815 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
820 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
824 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
828 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
830 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
835 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
836 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
837 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
842 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
843 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
848 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
850 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
851 anyway, and noone had complained).
852 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
853 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
857 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
858 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
859 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
863 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
867 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
868 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
872 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
873 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
874 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
878 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
879 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
880 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
882 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
883 by Simon Templer and others).
887 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
888 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
889 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
893 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
897 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
901 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
902 version number again (Stephen Watson).
906 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
907 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
911 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
915 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
916 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
917 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
918 anyway (Stephen Watson).
922 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
926 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
930 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
932 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
934 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
938 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
939 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
940 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
944 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
945 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
950 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
951 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
952 impossible to change shortcuts.
953 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
954 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
958 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
959 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
964 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
965 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
966 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
970 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
971 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
972 to the functions being missing.
976 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
980 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
984 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
988 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
992 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
993 worries people for no reason.
997 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
1001 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
1002 files selected (Peter Geer).
1006 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
1007 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
1011 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
1015 Added 'Select by Name'.
1019 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
1023 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
1028 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
1032 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1034 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
1036 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1037 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1041 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1045 Misc changes for next release.
1049 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
1050 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
1054 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
1055 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
1056 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
1057 Watson, reported on #rox).
1061 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
1062 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
1066 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
1067 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
1071 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
1072 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
1076 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
1077 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
1082 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
1086 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
1088 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
1093 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
1097 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
1098 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
1102 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
1103 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
1107 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
1111 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
1116 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
1117 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
1118 for the same reason.
1119 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
1120 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
1124 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1125 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
1129 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
1134 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
1135 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
1139 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
1140 support not being detected (igla).
1144 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
1148 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
1149 dialog (Stephen Watson).
1153 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
1157 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1158 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1159 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1160 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
1163 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
1165 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1166 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
1170 New icon for selection ops.
1174 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1178 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
1182 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
1186 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
1187 Added icon theme selector.
1191 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
1195 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
1199 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
1200 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
1204 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
1205 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
1206 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
1210 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
1211 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
1215 Allow ejecting mounted media.
1219 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
1220 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
1221 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
1225 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
1229 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
1230 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
1235 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
1236 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
1240 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
1241 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
1245 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
1246 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
1250 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1254 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
1255 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
1256 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1260 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1264 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1265 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1266 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1267 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1271 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1272 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1274 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1278 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1282 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1283 bits (Stephen Watson).
1287 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1291 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1295 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1296 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1300 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1304 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1305 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1310 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1311 forward them explicitly.
1315 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1316 help from Götz Waschk).
1320 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1321 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1322 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1326 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1330 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1334 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1338 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1339 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1341 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1343 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1347 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1349 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1351 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1355 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1356 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1357 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1358 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1362 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1366 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1370 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1374 Minor updates to the manual.
1375 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1376 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1380 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1381 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1383 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1385 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1386 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1390 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1391 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1392 reduce flickering effect.
1396 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1400 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1402 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1406 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1407 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1408 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1409 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1410 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1414 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1415 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1419 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1423 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1428 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1429 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1433 Winking now works in List view.
1437 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1441 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1442 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1446 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1447 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1449 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1451 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1455 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1459 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1460 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1462 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1466 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1467 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1471 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1473 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1477 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1478 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1482 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1484 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1488 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1492 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1493 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1498 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1499 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1501 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1503 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1505 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1509 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1513 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1514 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1518 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1523 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1524 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1528 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1530 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1532 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1533 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1538 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1542 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1543 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1544 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1545 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1546 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1547 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1548 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1550 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1554 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1559 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1560 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1564 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1565 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1566 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1567 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1572 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1573 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1574 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1575 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1576 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1577 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1578 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1579 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1580 talent can do something better?
1581 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1582 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1586 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1587 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1588 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1593 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1595 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1596 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1597 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1598 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1599 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1600 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1601 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1602 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1603 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1604 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1605 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1606 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1607 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1611 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1612 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1613 allow fine repositioning.
1614 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1615 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1616 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1617 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1619 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1620 changing the aspect ratio.
1624 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1628 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1632 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1633 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1634 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1638 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1642 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1647 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1648 make sharing icons easier.
1649 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1653 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1654 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1658 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1662 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1664 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1668 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1673 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1678 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1679 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1681 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1682 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1683 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1684 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1688 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1689 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1693 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1697 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1699 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1700 Brian Langenberger).
1704 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1705 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1707 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1711 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1712 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1714 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1716 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1720 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1721 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1726 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1730 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1731 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1732 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1736 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1737 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1741 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1745 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1746 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1750 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1751 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1752 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1756 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1760 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1761 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1762 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1763 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1765 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1766 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1770 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1771 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1775 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1780 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1781 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1785 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1789 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1790 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1791 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1792 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1797 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1798 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1799 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1803 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1807 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1808 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1812 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1813 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1814 since it didn't include the contents.
1815 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1816 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1820 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1824 Style improvements to options window.
1828 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1832 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1834 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1836 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1841 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1842 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1843 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1844 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1848 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1852 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1856 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1857 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1861 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1863 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1868 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1872 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1873 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1874 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1879 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1883 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1887 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1891 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1895 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1896 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1897 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1901 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1902 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1906 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1907 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1912 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1916 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1920 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1925 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1926 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1930 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1931 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1936 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1937 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1941 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1942 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1943 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1947 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1951 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1952 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1953 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1954 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1955 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1959 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1960 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1964 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1965 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1969 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1973 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1974 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1975 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1976 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1977 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1978 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1982 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1983 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1984 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1988 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1989 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1994 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1998 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2000 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
2002 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
2007 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
2011 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
2015 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
2016 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
2021 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
2025 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2029 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
2030 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
2031 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2035 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2039 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
2044 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2048 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
2049 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
2050 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
2051 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2055 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
2059 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2060 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
2064 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
2065 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
2066 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
2070 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
2074 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
2078 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
2079 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
2080 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
2081 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
2082 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
2083 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
2087 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
2088 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
2092 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
2093 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
2094 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
2098 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
2099 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
2103 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
2107 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2108 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2109 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
2110 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
2112 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
2114 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
2118 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
2119 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
2120 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2124 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
2128 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
2129 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
2134 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
2138 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
2142 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
2143 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2147 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2148 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
2149 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
2153 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
2154 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
2158 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
2159 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
2163 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
2164 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
2168 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
2172 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
2173 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
2177 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
2179 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
2181 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2185 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
2189 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
2190 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
2194 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
2198 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
2202 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
2203 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
2204 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
2205 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
2206 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
2207 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2211 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2215 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
2217 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
2218 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
2222 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
2223 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
2227 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2231 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
2232 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
2233 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
2234 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
2236 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
2238 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
2242 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
2243 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
2247 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
2248 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
2249 disappeared at the wrong moment.
2253 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
2254 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
2255 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
2256 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2257 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2258 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2259 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2263 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2264 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2268 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2272 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2276 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2281 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2285 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2286 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2287 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2291 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2292 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2293 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2297 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2298 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2299 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2303 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2304 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2308 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2313 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2314 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2315 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2316 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2317 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2319 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2320 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2324 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2328 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2329 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2330 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2331 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2335 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2336 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2337 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2338 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2339 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2340 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2344 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2348 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2349 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2353 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2354 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2355 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2356 restart (Olli Helenius).
2360 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2364 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2365 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2366 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2371 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2376 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2377 Small and Large sizes.
2381 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2385 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2386 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2390 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2391 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2392 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2393 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2397 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2398 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2399 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2404 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2409 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2410 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2414 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2415 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2420 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2422 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2424 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2428 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2432 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2434 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2436 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2440 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2442 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2443 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2447 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2448 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2452 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2453 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2457 Various speed improvements.
2458 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2462 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2463 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2467 Slight speed increase when starting.
2471 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2475 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2476 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2477 button is no longer supported.
2481 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2485 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2489 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2494 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2495 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2499 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2500 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2501 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2505 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2506 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2507 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2508 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2512 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2513 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2514 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2516 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2521 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2522 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2527 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2531 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2532 and converted to new dialog style.
2536 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2537 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2541 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2542 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2546 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2550 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2552 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2556 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2560 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2561 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2562 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2566 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2567 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2571 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2576 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2580 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2581 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2585 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2586 and Cancel is now Revert.
2587 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2588 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2592 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2596 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2597 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2599 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2600 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2601 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2602 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2606 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2608 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2609 labels display them.
2610 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2613 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2617 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2619 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2623 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2624 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2625 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2629 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2630 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2632 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2634 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2638 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2639 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2643 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2644 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2645 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2646 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2650 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2654 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2655 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2659 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2660 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2665 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2666 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2670 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2671 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2672 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2676 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2677 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2681 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2682 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2683 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2684 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2686 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2691 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2692 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2694 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2696 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2700 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2701 any image (saves time).
2702 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2703 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2704 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2705 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2707 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2708 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2712 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2713 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2715 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2716 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2718 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2723 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2724 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2725 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2726 has stopped accepting STRING.
2730 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2731 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2735 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2740 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2741 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2743 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2744 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2745 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2749 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2750 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2751 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2752 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2753 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2754 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2758 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2759 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2760 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2761 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2762 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2763 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2768 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2769 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2770 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2771 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2776 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2777 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2781 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2782 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2784 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2786 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2787 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2788 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2792 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2793 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2794 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2798 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2799 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2803 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2804 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2808 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2810 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2815 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2816 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2820 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2821 their menus correctly.
2822 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2827 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2828 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2829 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2833 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2834 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2838 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2842 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2845 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2847 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2848 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2849 the toggle menu items from working!
2853 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2855 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2861 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2862 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2866 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2867 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2868 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2869 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2870 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2871 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2875 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2879 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2880 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2884 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2885 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2886 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2890 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2891 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2896 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2898 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2902 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2903 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2904 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2905 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2909 Improved error reporting.
2910 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2914 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2915 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2916 check box and does 'Yes'.
2920 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2921 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2922 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2923 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2928 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2930 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2931 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2933 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2935 Internal changes to options system:
2936 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2937 filer is fully initialised).
2938 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2940 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2942 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2943 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2944 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2945 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2949 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2950 now reclaims the selection.
2951 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2952 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2957 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2958 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2959 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2960 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2961 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2965 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2966 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2968 Code tidying in various places.
2972 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2973 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2978 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2979 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2983 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2984 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2985 edit the file, not the file itself!
2986 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2990 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2991 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2992 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2993 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2994 of the SOAP working draft.
2995 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2996 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2997 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
3002 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
3003 it was in the displayed area before.
3005 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
3008 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
3009 winking effect until the window actually appears.
3013 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
3014 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
3015 Kristian A. Rink and others).
3017 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
3018 selection (Andras Mohari).
3022 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
3026 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
3030 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
3031 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
3032 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
3036 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
3040 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
3042 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
3043 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
3044 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
3048 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
3049 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
3054 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
3055 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
3056 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
3060 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
3064 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
3068 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
3069 replaced by a Restart button.
3073 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
3074 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
3078 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
3082 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
3086 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
3087 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
3088 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
3092 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
3093 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
3095 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
3096 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
3097 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
3101 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
3102 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
3107 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
3109 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
3110 (requested by Graham Borland).
3111 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
3112 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
3113 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
3117 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
3118 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
3119 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
3120 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
3124 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
3125 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
3126 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
3127 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
3128 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
3129 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
3130 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
3131 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
3132 - Lots of code tidying.
3137 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
3138 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3142 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3144 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
3146 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
3150 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
3151 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
3155 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
3156 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3160 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
3161 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
3165 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
3166 option to access it directly.
3170 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
3171 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
3172 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
3176 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
3177 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
3178 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
3179 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
3180 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
3181 when the filer is run.
3185 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
3186 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
3187 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
3192 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
3196 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
3197 title bar (Stephen Watson).
3201 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
3203 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
3207 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
3211 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
3212 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
3213 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
3218 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3219 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
3220 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
3221 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
3222 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
3223 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
3224 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
3228 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
3232 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
3233 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
3237 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
3238 of possible actions (Taras).
3239 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
3241 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
3242 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
3246 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
3251 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
3255 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3258 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3259 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3263 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3264 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3266 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3268 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3269 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3270 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3271 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3275 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3279 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3283 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3287 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3292 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3293 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3294 the first one found.
3295 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3299 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3303 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3304 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3305 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3309 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3310 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3311 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3316 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3317 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3318 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3322 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3324 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3329 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3334 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3338 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3339 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3343 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3345 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3346 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3350 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3354 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3355 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3359 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3360 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3364 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3365 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3367 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3369 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3373 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3377 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3378 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3382 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3386 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3391 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3392 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3396 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3400 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3404 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3406 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3407 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3411 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3412 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3416 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3417 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3418 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3422 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3423 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3427 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3428 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3430 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3432 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3436 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3437 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3438 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3440 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3441 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3443 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3445 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3446 and the default size with no details.
3450 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3451 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3455 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3460 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3465 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3469 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3474 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3475 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3479 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3483 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3484 the button to run it does.
3485 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3486 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3487 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3491 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3492 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3493 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3497 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3501 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3502 and panels into icon.c.
3506 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3507 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3508 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3509 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3513 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3515 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3517 Updated the documentation.
3521 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3522 up if they're too small.
3526 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3528 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3529 (Christopher Arndt).
3530 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3535 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3536 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3540 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3541 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3545 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3546 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3547 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3552 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3557 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3561 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3562 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3567 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3572 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3573 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3577 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3578 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3582 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3586 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3590 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3594 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3595 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3598 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3599 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3604 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3605 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3606 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3607 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3612 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3613 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3615 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3617 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3618 for non-applications.
3622 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3623 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3628 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3632 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3633 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3635 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3639 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3640 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3644 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3645 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3649 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3650 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3654 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3655 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3657 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3658 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3662 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3663 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3665 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3669 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3670 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3673 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3677 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3678 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3682 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3686 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3687 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3690 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3691 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3695 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3699 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3704 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3708 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3709 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3714 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3719 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3723 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3725 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3727 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3728 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3730 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3732 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3733 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3737 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3738 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3739 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3741 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3742 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3746 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3750 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3751 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3755 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3759 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3760 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3762 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3765 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3766 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3767 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3771 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3772 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3777 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3782 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3784 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3787 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3789 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3790 sensible shape itself now.
3792 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3793 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3794 file at all, just a reused inode!
3795 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3796 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3797 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3801 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3805 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3806 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3811 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3812 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3816 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3820 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3821 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3825 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3830 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3834 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3835 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3839 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3840 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3841 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3842 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3843 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3847 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3848 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3849 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3850 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3851 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3855 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3856 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3857 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3861 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3863 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3864 python's portable system.
3865 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3866 set the LANG variable.
3870 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3871 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3873 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3875 Made a few updates to the manual.
3879 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3880 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3882 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3884 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3885 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3889 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3890 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3894 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3895 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3900 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3901 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3902 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3906 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3907 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3911 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3912 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3916 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3917 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3919 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3920 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3921 open... (Denis Manente).
3925 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3929 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3931 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3932 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3933 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3935 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3937 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3939 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3940 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3945 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3946 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3947 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3951 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3952 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3956 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3960 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3964 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3965 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3966 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3970 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3971 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3972 between pinboards...
3974 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3975 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3976 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3980 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3983 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3984 window (Denis Manente).
3986 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3987 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3991 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3992 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3993 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3997 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
4000 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
4001 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
4003 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
4008 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
4009 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
4011 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
4015 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
4016 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
4018 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
4020 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
4025 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
4026 the icon points to as well as its name.
4028 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
4029 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
4033 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
4034 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
4035 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
4036 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
4040 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4044 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
4045 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
4046 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
4050 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
4051 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
4053 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
4054 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
4057 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
4058 the item after the drag.
4060 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
4061 showing where the file really is.
4065 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
4066 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
4071 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
4072 warning is displayed if so.
4074 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
4078 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
4079 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
4080 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
4081 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
4084 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
4085 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
4086 works like the panels.
4090 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
4091 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
4092 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
4093 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
4094 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
4098 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
4099 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
4100 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
4101 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
4103 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
4108 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
4112 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
4113 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
4116 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
4117 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
4119 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
4122 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
4123 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
4124 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
4125 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4127 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
4129 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
4130 slightly. Updated the manual.
4132 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
4133 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
4136 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
4137 or bottom panel to make room.
4141 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
4146 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
4147 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
4148 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
4149 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
4150 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
4154 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
4156 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
4157 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
4159 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
4163 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
4164 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
4168 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
4172 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
4174 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
4179 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
4180 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
4182 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
4186 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
4187 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
4188 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
4192 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
4193 rewriting the panel system.
4197 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
4200 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
4201 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
4205 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
4206 (suggested by James Kermode).
4210 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
4211 than as a full path.
4213 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
4215 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
4216 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
4217 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
4221 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
4222 mounted/unmounted state changed.
4226 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
4227 rename something onto another filesystem.
4231 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
4233 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
4234 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
4238 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
4242 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
4245 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
4246 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
4248 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
4251 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
4256 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4257 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4258 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4260 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4261 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4263 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4264 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4269 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4270 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4275 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4276 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4277 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4279 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4280 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4281 of the 'missing image' image.
4285 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4287 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4289 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4294 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4295 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4296 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4297 its name into another program.
4299 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4303 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4305 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4306 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4307 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4309 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4310 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4311 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4314 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4315 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4319 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4320 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4321 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4325 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4326 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4327 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4331 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4332 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4333 and position the icons directly.
4337 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4342 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4343 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4344 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4348 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4352 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4353 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4357 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4362 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4366 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4367 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4368 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4369 some versions of GTK+.
4373 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4378 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4379 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4380 from a sub-sub-menu.
4382 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4383 drawn on a log scale.
4387 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4388 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4389 happy with the UI yet though...
4391 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4392 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4393 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4397 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4398 by Stephen Harrison).
4400 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4402 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4403 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4404 standard types are in Choices.
4405 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4407 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4408 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4409 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4414 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4415 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4416 shell command minibuffer.
4420 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4421 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4422 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4423 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4424 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4426 Default search path for Choices is now:
4427 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4429 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4430 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4431 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4435 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4436 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4440 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4441 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4442 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4447 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4448 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4449 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4452 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4454 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4455 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4456 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4458 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4459 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4463 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4464 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4465 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4466 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4471 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4472 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4473 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4475 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4477 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4478 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4482 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4483 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4484 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4489 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4490 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4493 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4495 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4500 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4505 Added GNU gettext support.
4506 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4510 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4512 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4514 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4519 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4523 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4524 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4526 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4527 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4532 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4533 onto the directory and winks the file.
4537 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4538 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4539 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4541 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4542 instead of random values.
4543 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4545 Applied Bernard's patch:
4546 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4547 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4548 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4549 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4550 it the RISC OS way...
4551 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4552 alignment corrected.
4553 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4558 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4562 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4563 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4567 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4568 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4569 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4570 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4571 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4572 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4573 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4574 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4575 in the file(1) says... box).
4578 Before the Changes file
4579 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4580 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4582 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4583 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4584 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4585 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4586 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD