2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
11 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
12 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
13 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
14 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
15 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
19 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
24 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
25 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiew).
29 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
33 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
34 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
35 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
36 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
37 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
38 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
42 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
43 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
44 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
48 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
49 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
54 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
58 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
60 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
62 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
67 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
71 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
75 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
76 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
81 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
85 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
89 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
90 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
91 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
95 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
99 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
104 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
108 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
109 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
110 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
111 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
115 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
119 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
120 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
124 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
125 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
126 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
130 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
134 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
138 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
139 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
140 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
141 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
142 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
143 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
147 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
148 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
152 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
153 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
154 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
158 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
159 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
163 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
167 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
168 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
169 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
170 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
172 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
174 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
178 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
179 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
180 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
184 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
188 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
189 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
194 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
198 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
202 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
203 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
207 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
208 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
209 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
213 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
214 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
218 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
219 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
223 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
224 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
228 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
232 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
233 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
237 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
239 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
241 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
245 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
249 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
250 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
254 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
258 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
262 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
263 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
264 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
265 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
266 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
267 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
271 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
275 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
277 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
278 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
282 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
283 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
287 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
291 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
292 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
293 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
294 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
296 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
298 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
302 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
303 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
307 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
308 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
309 disappeared at the wrong moment.
313 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
314 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
315 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
316 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
317 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
318 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
319 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
323 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
324 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
328 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
332 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
336 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
341 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
345 Options to set iconification layout policy.
346 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
347 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
351 Pinboard background colour option works again.
352 Position iconified windows sensibly.
353 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
357 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
358 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
359 (requested by Ryan Harris).
363 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
364 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
368 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
373 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
374 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
375 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
376 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
377 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
379 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
380 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
384 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
388 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
389 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
390 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
391 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
395 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
396 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
397 Many improvements to the pinboard:
398 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
399 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
400 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
404 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
408 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
409 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
413 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
414 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
415 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
416 restart (Olli Helenius).
420 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
424 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
425 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
426 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
431 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
436 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
437 Small and Large sizes.
441 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
445 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
446 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
450 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
451 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
452 (requested by Gregory Spath).
453 Don't quit while Options window is open.
457 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
458 the window (requested by Ashwin).
459 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
464 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
469 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
470 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
474 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
475 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
480 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
482 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
484 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
488 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
492 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
494 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
496 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
500 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
502 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
503 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
507 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
508 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
512 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
513 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
517 Various speed improvements.
518 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
522 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
523 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
527 Slight speed increase when starting.
531 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
535 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
536 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
537 button is no longer supported.
541 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
545 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
549 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
554 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
555 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
559 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
560 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
561 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
565 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
566 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
567 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
568 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
572 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
573 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
574 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
576 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
581 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
582 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
587 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
591 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
592 and converted to new dialog style.
596 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
597 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
601 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
602 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
606 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
610 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
612 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
616 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
620 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
621 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
622 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
626 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
627 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
631 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
636 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
640 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
641 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
645 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
646 and Cancel is now Revert.
647 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
648 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
652 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
656 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
657 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
659 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
660 (reported by Serban Udrea).
661 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
662 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
666 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
668 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
670 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
673 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
677 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
679 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
683 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
684 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
685 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
689 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
690 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
692 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
694 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
698 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
699 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
703 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
704 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
705 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
706 (requested by Andras Mohari).
710 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
714 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
715 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
719 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
720 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
725 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
726 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
730 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
731 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
732 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
736 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
737 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
741 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
742 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
743 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
744 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
746 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
751 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
752 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
754 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
756 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
760 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
761 any image (saves time).
762 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
763 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
764 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
765 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
767 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
768 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
772 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
773 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
775 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
776 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
778 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
783 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
784 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
785 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
786 has stopped accepting STRING.
790 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
791 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
795 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
800 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
801 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
803 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
804 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
805 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
809 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
810 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
811 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
812 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
813 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
814 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
818 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
819 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
820 Allow '~' in globicons file.
821 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
822 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
823 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
828 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
829 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
830 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
831 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
836 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
837 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
841 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
842 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
844 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
846 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
847 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
848 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
852 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
853 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
854 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
858 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
859 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
863 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
864 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
868 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
870 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
875 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
876 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
880 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
881 their menus correctly.
882 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
887 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
888 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
889 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
893 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
894 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
898 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
902 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
905 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
907 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
908 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
909 the toggle menu items from working!
913 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
915 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
921 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
922 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
926 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
927 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
928 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
929 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
930 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
931 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
935 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
939 File groups are now saved (automatically).
940 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
944 Added Version SOAP RPC.
945 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
946 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
950 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
951 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
956 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
958 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
962 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
963 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
964 bar is displayed in the filer window.
965 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
969 Improved error reporting.
970 Improved sizing code when details are on.
974 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
975 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
976 check box and does 'Yes'.
980 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
981 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
982 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
983 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
988 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
990 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
991 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
993 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
995 Internal changes to options system:
996 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
997 filer is fully initialised).
998 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1000 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1002 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1003 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1004 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1005 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1009 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1010 now reclaims the selection.
1011 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1012 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1017 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1018 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1019 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1020 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1021 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1025 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1026 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1028 Code tidying in various places.
1032 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1033 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1038 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1039 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1043 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1044 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1045 edit the file, not the file itself!
1046 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1050 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1051 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1052 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1053 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1054 of the SOAP working draft.
1055 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1056 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1057 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1062 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1063 it was in the displayed area before.
1065 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1068 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1069 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1073 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1074 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1075 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1077 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1078 selection (Andras Mohari).
1082 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1086 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1090 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1091 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1092 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1096 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1100 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1102 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1103 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1104 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1108 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1109 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1114 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1115 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1116 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1120 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1124 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1128 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1129 replaced by a Restart button.
1133 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1134 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1138 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1142 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1146 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1147 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1148 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1152 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1153 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1155 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1156 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1157 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1161 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1162 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1167 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1169 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1170 (requested by Graham Borland).
1171 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1172 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1173 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1177 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1178 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1179 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1180 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1184 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1185 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1186 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1187 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1188 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1189 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1190 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1191 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1192 - Lots of code tidying.
1197 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1198 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1202 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1204 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1206 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1210 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1211 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1215 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1216 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1220 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1221 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1225 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1226 option to access it directly.
1230 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1231 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1232 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1236 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1237 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1238 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1239 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1240 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1241 when the filer is run.
1245 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1246 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1247 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1252 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1256 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1257 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1261 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1263 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1267 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1271 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1272 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1273 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1278 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1279 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1280 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1281 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1282 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1283 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1284 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1288 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1292 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1293 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1297 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1298 of possible actions (Taras).
1299 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1301 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1302 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1306 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1311 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1315 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1318 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1319 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1323 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1324 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1326 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1328 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1329 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1330 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1331 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1335 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1339 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1343 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1347 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1352 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1353 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1354 the first one found.
1355 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1359 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1363 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1364 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1365 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1369 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1370 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1371 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1376 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1377 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1378 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1382 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1384 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1389 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1394 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1398 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1399 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1403 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1405 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1406 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1410 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1414 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1415 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1419 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1420 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1424 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1425 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1427 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1429 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1433 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1437 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1438 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1442 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1446 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1451 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1452 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1456 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1460 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1464 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1466 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1467 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1471 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1472 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1476 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1477 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1478 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1482 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1483 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1487 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1488 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1490 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1492 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1496 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1497 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1498 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1500 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1501 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1503 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1505 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1506 and the default size with no details.
1510 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1511 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1515 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1520 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1525 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1529 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1534 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1535 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1539 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1543 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1544 the button to run it does.
1545 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1546 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1547 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1551 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1552 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1553 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1557 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1561 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1562 and panels into icon.c.
1566 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1567 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1568 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1569 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1573 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1575 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1577 Updated the documentation.
1581 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1582 up if they're too small.
1586 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1588 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1589 (Christopher Arndt).
1590 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1595 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1596 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1600 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1601 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1605 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1606 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1607 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1612 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1617 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1621 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1622 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1627 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1632 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1633 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1637 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1638 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1642 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1646 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1650 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1654 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1655 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1658 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1659 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1664 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1665 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1666 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1667 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1672 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1673 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1675 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1677 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1678 for non-applications.
1682 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1683 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1688 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1692 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1693 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1695 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1699 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1700 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1704 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1705 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1709 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1710 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1714 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1715 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1717 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1718 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1722 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1723 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1725 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1729 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1730 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1733 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1737 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1738 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1742 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1746 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1747 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1750 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1751 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1755 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1759 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1764 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1768 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1769 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1774 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1779 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1783 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1785 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1787 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1788 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1790 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1792 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1793 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1797 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1798 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1799 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1801 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1802 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1806 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1810 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1811 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1815 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1819 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1820 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1822 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1825 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1826 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1827 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1831 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1832 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1837 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1842 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1844 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1847 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1849 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1850 sensible shape itself now.
1852 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1853 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1854 file at all, just a reused inode!
1855 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1856 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1857 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1861 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1865 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1866 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1871 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1872 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1876 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1880 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1881 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1885 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1890 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1894 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1895 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1899 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1900 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1901 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1902 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1903 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1907 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1908 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1909 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1910 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1911 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1915 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1916 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1917 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1921 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1923 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1924 python's portable system.
1925 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1926 set the LANG variable.
1930 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1931 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1933 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1935 Made a few updates to the manual.
1939 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1940 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1942 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1944 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1945 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1949 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1950 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1954 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1955 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1960 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1961 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1962 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1966 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1967 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1971 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1972 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1976 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1977 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1979 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1980 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1981 open... (Denis Manente).
1985 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1989 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1991 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1992 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1993 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1995 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1997 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1999 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2000 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2005 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2006 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2007 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2011 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2012 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2016 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2020 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2024 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2025 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2026 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2030 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2031 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2032 between pinboards...
2034 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2035 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2036 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2040 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2043 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2044 window (Denis Manente).
2046 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2047 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2051 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2052 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2053 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2057 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2060 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2061 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2063 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2068 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2069 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2071 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2075 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2076 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2078 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2080 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2085 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2086 the icon points to as well as its name.
2088 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2089 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2093 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2094 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2095 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2096 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2100 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2104 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2105 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2106 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2110 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2111 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2113 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2114 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2117 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2118 the item after the drag.
2120 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2121 showing where the file really is.
2125 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2126 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2131 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2132 warning is displayed if so.
2134 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2138 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2139 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2140 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2141 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2144 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2145 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2146 works like the panels.
2150 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2151 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2152 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2153 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2154 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2158 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2159 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2160 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2161 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2163 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2168 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2172 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2173 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2176 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2177 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2179 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2182 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2183 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2184 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2185 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2187 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2189 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2190 slightly. Updated the manual.
2192 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2193 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2196 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2197 or bottom panel to make room.
2201 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2206 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2207 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2208 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2209 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2210 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2214 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2216 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2217 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2219 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2223 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2224 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2228 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2232 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2234 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2239 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2240 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2242 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2246 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2247 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2248 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2252 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2253 rewriting the panel system.
2257 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2260 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2261 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2265 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2266 (suggested by James Kermode).
2270 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2271 than as a full path.
2273 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2275 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2276 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2277 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2281 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2282 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2286 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2287 rename something onto another filesystem.
2291 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2293 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2294 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2298 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2302 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2305 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2306 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2308 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2311 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2316 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2317 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2318 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2320 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2321 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2323 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2324 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2329 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2330 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2335 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2336 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2337 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2339 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2340 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2341 of the 'missing image' image.
2345 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2347 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2349 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2354 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2355 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2356 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2357 its name into another program.
2359 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2363 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2365 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2366 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2367 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2369 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2370 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2371 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2374 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2375 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2379 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2380 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2381 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2385 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2386 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2387 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2391 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2392 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2393 and position the icons directly.
2397 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2402 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2403 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2404 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2408 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2412 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2413 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2417 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2422 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2426 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2427 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2428 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2429 some versions of GTK+.
2433 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2438 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2439 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2440 from a sub-sub-menu.
2442 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2443 drawn on a log scale.
2447 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2448 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2449 happy with the UI yet though...
2451 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2452 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2453 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2457 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2458 by Stephen Harrison).
2460 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2462 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2463 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2464 standard types are in Choices.
2465 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2467 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2468 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2469 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2474 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2475 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2476 shell command minibuffer.
2480 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2481 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2482 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2483 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2484 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2486 Default search path for Choices is now:
2487 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2489 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2490 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2491 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2495 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2496 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2500 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2501 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2502 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2507 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2508 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2509 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2512 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2514 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2515 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2516 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2518 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2519 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2523 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2524 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2525 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2526 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2531 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2532 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2533 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2535 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2537 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2538 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2542 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2543 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2544 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2549 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2550 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2553 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2555 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2560 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2565 Added GNU gettext support.
2566 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2570 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2572 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2574 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2579 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2583 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2584 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2586 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2587 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2592 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2593 onto the directory and winks the file.
2597 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2598 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2599 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2601 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2602 instead of random values.
2603 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2605 Applied Bernard's patch:
2606 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2607 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2608 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2609 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2610 it the RISC OS way...
2611 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2612 alignment corrected.
2613 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2618 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2622 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2623 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2627 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2628 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2629 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2630 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2631 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2632 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2633 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2634 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2635 in the file(1) says... box).
2638 Before the Changes file
2639 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2640 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2642 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2643 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2644 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2645 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2646 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD