2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
11 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
15 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
16 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
20 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
21 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
22 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
26 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
27 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
31 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
32 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
36 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
40 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
41 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
45 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
47 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
49 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
53 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
57 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
58 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
62 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
66 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
70 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
71 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
72 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
73 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
74 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
75 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
79 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
83 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
85 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
86 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
90 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
91 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
95 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
99 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
100 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
101 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
102 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
104 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
106 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
110 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
111 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
115 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
116 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
117 disappeared at the wrong moment.
121 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
122 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
123 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
124 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
125 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
126 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
127 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
131 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
132 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
136 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
140 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
144 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
149 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
153 Options to set iconification layout policy.
154 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
155 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
159 Pinboard background colour option works again.
160 Position iconified windows sensibly.
161 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
165 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
166 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
167 (requested by Ryan Harris).
171 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
172 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
176 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
181 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
182 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
183 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
184 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
185 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
187 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
188 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
192 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
196 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
197 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
198 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
199 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
203 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
204 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
205 Many improvements to the pinboard:
206 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
207 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
208 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
212 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
216 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
217 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
221 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
222 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
223 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
224 restart (Olli Helenius).
228 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
232 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
233 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
234 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
239 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
244 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
245 Small and Large sizes.
249 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
253 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
254 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
258 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
259 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
260 (requested by Gregory Spath).
261 Don't quit while Options window is open.
265 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
266 the window (requested by Ashwin).
267 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
272 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
277 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
278 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
282 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
283 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
288 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
290 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
292 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
296 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
300 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
302 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
304 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
308 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
310 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
311 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
315 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
316 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
320 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
321 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
325 Various speed improvements.
326 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
330 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
331 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
335 Slight speed increase when starting.
339 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
343 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
344 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
345 button is no longer supported.
349 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
353 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
357 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
362 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
363 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
367 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
368 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
369 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
373 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
374 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
375 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
376 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
380 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
381 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
382 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
384 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
389 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
390 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
395 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
399 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
400 and converted to new dialog style.
404 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
405 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
409 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
410 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
414 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
418 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
420 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
424 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
428 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
429 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
430 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
434 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
435 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
439 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
444 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
448 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
449 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
453 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
454 and Cancel is now Revert.
455 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
456 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
460 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
464 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
465 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
467 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
468 (reported by Serban Udrea).
469 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
470 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
474 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
476 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
478 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
481 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
485 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
487 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
491 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
492 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
493 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
497 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
498 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
500 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
502 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
506 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
507 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
511 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
512 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
513 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
514 (requested by Andras Mohari).
518 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
522 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
523 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
527 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
528 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
533 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
534 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
538 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
539 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
540 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
544 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
545 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
549 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
550 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
551 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
552 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
554 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
559 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
560 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
562 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
564 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
568 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
569 any image (saves time).
570 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
571 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
572 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
573 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
575 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
576 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
580 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
581 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
583 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
584 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
586 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
591 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
592 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
593 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
594 has stopped accepting STRING.
598 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
599 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
603 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
608 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
609 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
611 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
612 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
613 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
617 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
618 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
619 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
620 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
621 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
622 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
626 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
627 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
628 Allow '~' in globicons file.
629 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
630 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
631 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
636 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
637 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
638 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
639 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
644 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
645 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
649 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
650 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
652 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
654 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
655 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
656 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
660 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
661 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
662 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
666 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
667 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
671 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
672 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
676 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
678 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
683 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
684 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
688 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
689 their menus correctly.
690 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
695 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
696 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
697 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
701 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
702 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
706 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
710 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
713 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
715 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
716 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
717 the toggle menu items from working!
721 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
723 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
729 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
730 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
734 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
735 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
736 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
737 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
738 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
739 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
743 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
747 File groups are now saved (automatically).
748 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
752 Added Version SOAP RPC.
753 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
754 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
758 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
759 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
764 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
766 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
770 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
771 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
772 bar is displayed in the filer window.
773 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
777 Improved error reporting.
778 Improved sizing code when details are on.
782 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
783 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
784 check box and does 'Yes'.
788 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
789 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
790 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
791 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
796 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
798 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
799 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
801 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
803 Internal changes to options system:
804 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
805 filer is fully initialised).
806 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
808 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
810 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
811 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
812 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
813 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
817 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
818 now reclaims the selection.
819 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
820 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
825 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
826 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
827 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
828 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
829 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
833 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
834 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
836 Code tidying in various places.
840 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
841 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
846 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
847 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
851 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
852 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
853 edit the file, not the file itself!
854 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
858 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
859 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
860 (recommended by Jens Finke).
861 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
862 of the SOAP working draft.
863 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
864 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
865 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
870 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
871 it was in the displayed area before.
873 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
876 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
877 winking effect until the window actually appears.
881 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
882 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
883 Kristian A. Rink and others).
885 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
886 selection (Andras Mohari).
890 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
894 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
898 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
899 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
900 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
904 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
908 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
910 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
911 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
912 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
916 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
917 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
922 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
923 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
924 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
928 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
932 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
936 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
937 replaced by a Restart button.
941 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
942 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
946 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
950 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
954 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
955 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
956 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
960 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
961 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
963 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
964 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
965 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
969 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
970 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
975 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
977 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
978 (requested by Graham Borland).
979 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
980 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
981 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
985 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
986 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
987 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
988 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
992 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
993 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
994 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
995 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
996 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
997 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
998 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
999 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1000 - Lots of code tidying.
1005 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1006 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1010 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1012 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1014 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1018 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1019 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1023 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1024 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1028 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1029 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1033 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1034 option to access it directly.
1038 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1039 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1040 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1044 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1045 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1046 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1047 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1048 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1049 when the filer is run.
1053 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1054 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1055 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1060 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1064 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1065 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1069 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1071 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1075 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1079 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1080 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1081 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1086 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1087 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1088 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1089 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1090 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1091 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1092 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1096 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1100 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1101 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1105 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1106 of possible actions (Taras).
1107 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1109 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1110 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1114 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1119 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1123 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1126 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1127 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1131 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1132 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1134 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1136 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1137 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1138 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1139 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1143 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1147 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1151 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1155 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1160 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1161 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1162 the first one found.
1163 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1167 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1171 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1172 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1173 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1177 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1178 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1179 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1184 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1185 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1186 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1190 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1192 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1197 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1202 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1206 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1207 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1211 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1213 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1214 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1218 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1222 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1223 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1227 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1228 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1232 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1233 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1235 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1237 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1241 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1245 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1246 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1250 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1254 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1259 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1260 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1264 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1268 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1272 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1274 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1275 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1279 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1280 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1284 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1285 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1286 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1290 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1291 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1295 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1296 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1298 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1300 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1304 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1305 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1306 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1308 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1309 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1311 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1313 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1314 and the default size with no details.
1318 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1319 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1323 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1328 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1333 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1337 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1342 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1343 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1347 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1351 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1352 the button to run it does.
1353 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1354 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1355 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1359 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1360 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1361 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1365 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1369 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1370 and panels into icon.c.
1374 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1375 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1376 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1377 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1381 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1383 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1385 Updated the documentation.
1389 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1390 up if they're too small.
1394 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1396 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1397 (Christopher Arndt).
1398 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1403 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1404 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1408 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1409 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1413 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1414 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1415 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1420 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1425 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1429 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1430 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1435 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1440 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1441 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1445 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1446 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1450 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1454 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1458 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1462 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1463 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1466 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1467 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1472 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1473 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1474 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1475 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1480 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1481 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1483 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1485 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1486 for non-applications.
1490 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1491 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1496 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1500 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1501 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1503 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1507 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1508 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1512 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1513 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1517 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1518 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1522 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1523 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1525 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1526 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1530 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1531 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1533 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1537 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1538 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1541 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1545 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1546 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1550 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1554 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1555 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1558 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1559 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1563 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1567 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1572 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1576 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1577 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1582 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1587 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1591 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1593 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1595 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1596 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1598 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1600 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1601 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1605 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1606 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1607 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1609 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1610 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1614 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1618 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1619 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1623 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1627 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1628 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1630 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1633 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1634 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1635 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1639 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1640 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1645 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1650 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1652 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1655 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1657 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1658 sensible shape itself now.
1660 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1661 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1662 file at all, just a reused inode!
1663 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1664 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1665 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1669 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1673 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1674 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1679 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1680 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1684 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1688 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1689 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1693 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1698 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1702 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1703 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1707 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1708 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1709 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1710 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1711 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1715 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1716 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1717 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1718 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1719 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1723 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1724 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1725 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1729 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1731 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1732 python's portable system.
1733 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1734 set the LANG variable.
1738 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1739 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1741 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1743 Made a few updates to the manual.
1747 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1748 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1750 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1752 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1753 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1757 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1758 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1762 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1763 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1768 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1769 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1770 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1774 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1775 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1779 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1780 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1784 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1785 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1787 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1788 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1789 open... (Denis Manente).
1793 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1797 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1799 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1800 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1801 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1803 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1805 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1807 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1808 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1813 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1814 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1815 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1819 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1820 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1824 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1828 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1832 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1833 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1834 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1838 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1839 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1840 between pinboards...
1842 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1843 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1844 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1848 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1851 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1852 window (Denis Manente).
1854 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1855 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1859 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1860 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1861 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1865 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1868 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1869 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1871 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1876 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1877 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1879 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1883 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1884 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1886 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1888 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1893 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1894 the icon points to as well as its name.
1896 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1897 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1901 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1902 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1903 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1904 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1908 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1912 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1913 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1914 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1918 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1919 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1921 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1922 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1925 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1926 the item after the drag.
1928 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1929 showing where the file really is.
1933 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1934 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1939 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1940 warning is displayed if so.
1942 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1946 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1947 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1948 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1949 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1952 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1953 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1954 works like the panels.
1958 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1959 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1960 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1961 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1962 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1966 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1967 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1968 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1969 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1971 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1976 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1980 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1981 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1984 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1985 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1987 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1990 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1991 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1992 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1993 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1995 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1997 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1998 slightly. Updated the manual.
2000 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2001 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2004 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2005 or bottom panel to make room.
2009 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2014 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2015 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2016 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2017 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2018 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2022 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2024 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2025 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2027 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2031 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2032 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2036 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2040 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2042 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2047 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2048 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2050 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2054 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2055 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2056 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2060 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2061 rewriting the panel system.
2065 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2068 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2069 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2073 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2074 (suggested by James Kermode).
2078 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2079 than as a full path.
2081 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2083 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2084 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2085 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2089 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2090 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2094 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2095 rename something onto another filesystem.
2099 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2101 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2102 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2106 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2110 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2113 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2114 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2116 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2119 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2124 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2125 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2126 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2128 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2129 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2131 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2132 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2137 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2138 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2143 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2144 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2145 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2147 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2148 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2149 of the 'missing image' image.
2153 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2155 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2157 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2162 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2163 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2164 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2165 its name into another program.
2167 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2171 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2173 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2174 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2175 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2177 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2178 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2179 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2182 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2183 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2187 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2188 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2189 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2193 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2194 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2195 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2199 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2200 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2201 and position the icons directly.
2205 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2210 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2211 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2212 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2216 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2220 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2221 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2225 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2230 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2234 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2235 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2236 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2237 some versions of GTK+.
2241 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2246 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2247 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2248 from a sub-sub-menu.
2250 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2251 drawn on a log scale.
2255 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2256 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2257 happy with the UI yet though...
2259 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2260 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2261 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2265 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2266 by Stephen Harrison).
2268 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2270 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2271 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2272 standard types are in Choices.
2273 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2275 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2276 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2277 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2282 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2283 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2284 shell command minibuffer.
2288 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2289 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2290 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2291 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2292 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2294 Default search path for Choices is now:
2295 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2297 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2298 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2299 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2303 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2304 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2308 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2309 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2310 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2315 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2316 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2317 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2320 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2322 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2323 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2324 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2326 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2327 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2331 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2332 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2333 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2334 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2339 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2340 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2341 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2343 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2345 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2346 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2350 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2351 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2352 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2357 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2358 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2361 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2363 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2368 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2373 Added GNU gettext support.
2374 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2378 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2380 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2382 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2387 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2391 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2392 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2394 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2395 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2400 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2401 onto the directory and winks the file.
2405 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2406 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2407 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2409 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2410 instead of random values.
2411 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2413 Applied Bernard's patch:
2414 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2415 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2416 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2417 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2418 it the RISC OS way...
2419 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2420 alignment corrected.
2421 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2426 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2430 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2431 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2435 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2436 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2437 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2438 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2439 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2440 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2441 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2442 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2443 in the file(1) says... box).
2446 Before the Changes file
2447 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2448 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2450 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2451 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2452 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2453 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2454 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD