2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Removed custom platform detection (which was designed to allow a single
8 copy of ROX-Filer to contain binaries for multiple platforms). Let the
9 packaging system deal with it (Thomas Leonard).
13 Check for shared-mime-info 0.16 when building (Stephen Watson).
17 An executable text file of unknown type is marked as executable if its name
18 doesn't contain a '.'. This is so that 'readme.txt' on a filesystem with
19 all execute bits set is seen as text, but a shell script with no extension
20 or interpreter header still shows up as an executable on Solaris (Thomas
21 Leonard; requested by Stephen Watson).
25 Added icon for messages (Thomas Leonard).
26 Improvements for file type guessing (Thomas Leonard):
27 - When getting the type for a symlink, we need the absolute path now that we
29 - Also check for extended attributes for the symlink target.
30 - Removed all of our code for guessing types from file names, since it
31 duplicates the new xdgmime code.
32 - Files with control characters are now considered to be binary, even
33 though they may be valid UTF-8.
34 - Executable files of unknown type are now marked as executable, not
36 - When complaining that there is no run action for an executable type,
37 give the user a hint about setting the execute permission.
38 - Refreshing the MIME system also refreshes xdgmime.
39 - Added MIME rules to say that Python, PERL and Ruby are executable, as
40 old versions of the MIME database don't have these rules (reported by
46 At install time, add a rule to the MIME database that shell scripts are
47 executable, as the defaults are missing this (Thomas Leonard; reported by
49 In the properties box, don't say that the run action is executable just
50 because the MIME type is executable. The execute bit must be set too
55 Replaced the text the Options box telling people to download and run
56 MIME-Editor with a button that actually does it (Thomas Leonard).
60 Bugfix: Opening a new filer window with a key press warped the pointer
61 to the top-left of the screen (Matthew Weier O'Phinney and Thomas
66 Detect GCC 4 and disable pointer signedness warnings (Thomas Leonard).
67 Mark files as executable if their MIME type is a subclass of
68 application/x-executable (Thomas Leonard).
69 Removed the option for choosing panel side for -S, since we can use the new
70 method of choosing the panel side indead (Thomas Leonard).
71 Split Mount SOAP operation into separate Mount and Unmount operations
73 Bugfix: The path entry buffer didn't work in /, due to recent changes
75 Bugfix: Clicking on a directory which was mounted but shown as unmounted,
76 due to the display being out-of-date, tried to unmount it.
77 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Mephistopheles Jones as bug #1007402).
81 Copied xdgmime library into the filer, so we don't need gnomevfs just
82 to do MIME guessing from file contents (Guido Schimmels).
86 Renamed the 'ROX Session' section in options to 'Desktop' as it could be
87 used by any session manager (Stephen Watson).
91 Panel side is now stored with the panel file, and is reused on start-up if
92 you use --border in place of the old --top, --bottom, --left and --right
93 (which still work). The panel menu has a new 'Panel Options...' choice to let
94 you change which edge to use (Thomas Leonard).
98 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
102 Removed AC_PATH_X, which stopped configure working on Mac OS X (Thomas Leonard;
103 reported by Tristan McLeay). We already had AC_PATH_XTRA anyway.
107 Add Basque transation (Piarres Beobide).
109 Entering ~ as the first character in the Goto: entry goes to the users
110 home directory (Stephen Watson, suggested by james).
111 Install script now installs MIME run actions into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
116 Change the way that ROX-Session runs ROX-Filer. It now uses the -S option to
117 open the default Panel and Pinboard, with the configuration of panel and
118 pinboard in ROX-Filer options (Stephen Watson).
119 Fixed error in tooltip in bulk rename box (Vincent Lefèvre).
123 Type changes for 64-bit compatibility (Tony Houghton).
125 Tests whether dnotify_wakeup_flag is set instead of dnotify_wakeup which is a
126 function address (Tony Houghton).
130 Selecting an entry from the bookmarks menu can open a new window, depending
131 on the mouse button used and the 'New window on button 1' setting
136 World-writable directories can't be app dirs (Thomas Leonard).
140 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
141 Fixed missing argument in remote.c (Pär Forsling).
145 When using the drag-and-drop menu, give the choice of creating relative or
146 absolute symlinks. For Ctrl-Shift-Drag, always make relative links rather
147 than absolute ones (Thomas Leonard; requested by Peter Prohaska).
151 If we can't find getopt_long, try looking in libgnugetopt (Stephen Watson).
155 Bugfix: Broke get_xdg_data_dirs while writing choices_list_xdg_dirs (Stephen
156 Watson, reported by Pär Forsling).
157 Bugfix: Don't try to move directories that aren't there, but make symbolic
158 links for them anyway (Stephen Watson, reported by Thomas Leonard).
159 Old choices_find_path_load/save now static, use new XDG functions exclusively
164 Change over from CHOICESPATH to XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (Stephen
169 Try to cope with BadWindow errors (Thomas Leonard; suggested by Kacper Wysock).
173 Bugfix: Replacing an existing display settings would erase all the other
174 existing settings (Stephen Watson, reported by Henrik Jacobsson).
178 Bugfix: Expired thumbnails were not being purged from the memory cache
179 because of a reference counting issue (Stephen Watson).
183 Updated Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
187 Simplify code to set minibuffer text to red on error (Dennis). Also set
188 background to white, in case a theme's colour clashes with red (Thomas
193 Option in list view to show the full MIME-Type comment rather than
194 just "File" (Stephen Watson).
198 When building the SendTo menu, allow nested subdirectories more than one
199 level deep (Jonatan Liljedahl).
200 Add 'Customise Menu...' to New submenu (Thomas Leonard, suggested by Jesse
202 Can specify panel item arguments and short cut when adding via SOAP
204 Also for pinboard items (and fixed bugs related to pinboard_add_with_args)
209 Bugfix: Progress bar for count operation didn't finish when the count did
210 (Stephen Watson, reported by Alexander Wagner).
214 Look out for new line character when reading EA MIME type under Solaris
219 Added Estonian translation (Teet Tärno).
223 Removed copy of GTK icon theme system. We now depend on GTK 2.4, which
224 includes it (Thomas Leonard).
225 Renamed 'Before' and 'After' in the bulk rename box to 'Old name' and
226 'New name', as they were causing problems for translators (reported by
228 Bugfix: The help for the "Set Type..." box wasn't translated (reported
233 Defer re-generating a thumbnail until 5 seconds after the timestamp on
234 the old one (Stephen Watson).
235 Bugfix: A file could be added many times to the thumbnail queue, causing
236 the progress bar to behave strangely (Stephen Watson).
237 More changes for installing onto NFS mounted directory (Stephen Watson).
241 Fixed a compiler warning by removing an unnecessary extra tooltips object
246 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
248 29-Jan-2005 (Release 2.2.0)
250 Added Finnish translation (Jari Rahkonen).
254 Bugfix: More crashes due to Japanese characters; last patch didn't fix all
255 the problems (Thomas Leonard; reported by Lewis Denizen).
257 23-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.6)
259 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
260 Bugfix: Japanese digit characters crashed the filer, because some code thought
261 they were digits, and anothers thought they weren't (Thomas Leonard;
262 reported by Lewis Denizen).
266 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
270 Bugfix: If, when building, objcopy exits with an error then don't strip
271 the binary (Stephen Watson).
275 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
279 Bugfix: Don't show the permissions in the properties window for
280 symbolic links as they don't behave as you might expect
281 (Stephen Watson, reported by Max Power).
285 Fixed some spelling errors and made some messages easier to translate
288 15-Jan-2005 (Release 2.1.5)
290 Bugfix: An extra arrow had appeared in the Find box (Thomas Leonard).
291 Bugfix: We were inconsistent about when filenames were escaped. Eg, creating
292 a directory called "a%20b" actually created "a b" (Thomas Leonard).
293 Bugfix: Panel icons with no label displayed an empty tooltip (Thomas Leonard).
294 Bugfix: Selecting a pinboard icon only redrew the text path (Thomas Leonard).
298 Updated Japanese translation (Hiroaki Tanaka).
302 Slight change to install script for when the installation directory is
303 on an NFS mount (Stephen Watson).
307 Can now disable use of extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
311 Allow renaming multiple files at once. This opens the Bulk Rename window,
312 which allows manual editing of the names, as well as regular-expression
313 based transformations (Thomas Leonard).
315 Rename buttons in Set Run Action box so that they make sense (Thomas Leonard;
316 reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
318 Bugfix: Filer would crash when the screen was resized if there was no
319 pinboard (Thomas Leonard).
320 Bugfix: Xinerama support had broken panel repositioning in response to
321 XRANDR screen resizing events (Thomas Leonard).
325 Set the name for filer windows to 'rox-filer'. This allows theming the fonts
326 just for ROX-Filer (Lucas Hazel).
330 If an item has extended attributes, report that before checking whether they
331 are supported (Thomas Leonard).
332 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
333 Bugfix: Pressing Escape now closes the Properties box (reported by Arnaud
338 Bugfix: Test for presence of extended attributes on Solaris gave wrong
339 answer when they were not supported (Stephen Watson).
343 The icons for mount point and symbolic link are now side-by-side, not
344 one on top of the other, and a new icon is used to mark files with
345 extended attributes (Stephen Watson).
349 Bugfix: Use gtk_selection_data_set_text instead of gtk_selection_data_set when
350 pasting filenames so that other applications know the string is UTF-8
351 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Dennis).
355 Better extended attribute detection under Solaris (Stephen Watson).
359 More extended attribute support. The "Set Type..." menu item should be
360 disabled if not supported by the system or FS (Stephen Watson).
364 Method of scaling pinboard images is now an option, as the default could
365 produce poor results on some systems (Stephen Watson).
369 Updated it.po and Manual-it.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
373 Bugfix: Dragging a lasso box above the top of the window in details mode
374 selected all the items outside the box (Thomas Leonard; reported by
379 Only show executable files in green if clicking would actually run them, not
380 just because they have the execute bit set (Thomas Leonard).
384 Much faster thumbnail generation (Ken Hayber, reported by Anthony DiSante).
388 When closing a filer window showing a directory under a user-mounted
389 mount-point, offer to unmount the device if no other filer window also shows
390 that mount point (requested by Tony Houghton and others). Also do this check
391 when changing to a parent directory.
392 Scale iconified window icons on the pinboard down to normal size (Ken Hayber).
396 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
400 Work on the action box, including a progress bar (Stephen Watson).
404 Added PinboardRemove() SOAP call (Stephen Watson).
406 20-Oct-2004 (Release 2.1.4)
408 Added Portuguese translation (Rodrigo Cesar Herefeld).
412 Some improvements to saved display settings (Takuo Yonezawa and Stephen
414 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
418 Allow multiple arguments for executable pinboard and panel icons (Thomas
420 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
424 Use a higher quality setting when scaling the backdrop image (Ken Hayber).
428 Added PanelRemove() SOAP call (Sabin Iacob).
429 Bugfix: Mounting a directory that was accessed through a symlinked directory
430 used the symbolic path, confusing the mount command (Thomas Leonard;
431 reported by Anthony DiSante).
435 Force panel to not take focus when using GTK 2.4 (Thomas Leonard).
439 Minimum width of toolbar now an option (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
443 Only examine items that are actually displayed, not all items in a directory.
444 Saves checking hidden files, which typically speeds up opening the home
445 directory. Removed an unnecessary extra scan when opening a directory
446 with the default filter setting. Removed the double scan when clicking Refresh
447 and two windows show the same directory (Thomas Leonard).
451 Added option to make panels have the type _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK (Tony
452 Houghton). Metacity needs this.
456 If we can't guess a file's type from its name or extended attribute, try
457 looking at its contents too, if we have gnomevfs 2.8.0 or later available
462 Panel and pinboard icons can now have a single argument set for them.
463 If you need more than one argument, consider creating a wrapper
468 Added --massif option for profiling memory usage (Thomas Leonard).
469 Warn about missing libsm in configure.in (reported by fedewico).
473 When resizing a window, only warp the pointer as much as necessary to keep
474 it inside the window (Thomas Leonard).
478 Ensure that a panel applet's properties are set before starting the applet
479 (reported by Tony Houghton).
483 Fixed panel menu positioning for multiple monitors with different resolutions
485 Use _NET_WM_STATE_BELOW to raise and lower the panel (Tony Houghton). Not
486 changing to type DOCK yet as it breaks some WMs.
490 Use new GTK 2.2 functions to set window hints now that we don't support 2.0
491 anymore (Guido Schimmels).
495 Plug a memory leak when loading SVG type icons (Stephen Watson).
499 Fix for the Solaris extended attribute support (Stephen Watson).
503 Set minimum width of toolbar so that all buttons are visible (Stephen Watson).
507 When adding an entry to the Recently Visited menu, remove its parent directory.
508 This stops the list filling up with near-duplicates when you have deeply
509 nested directories (Thomas Leonard).
513 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
517 For debugging, show the failed URI when dragging to the pinboard (Thomas
522 Use Help icon instead of Info icon for popup help buttons (Thomas Leonard).
526 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
528 01-Aug-2004 (Release 2.1.3)
530 Build in ROX-Filer/build, not ~/build/ROX-Filer.
534 Renamed Cancel to Close in the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
535 Updated some calls to use newer APIs, and allow compilation on systems where
536 deprecated widgets are disabled by default (reported by Vincent Lefèvre and
538 Bugfix: Panel icons were no longer shown highlighted when selected.
542 Bugfix: When opening a new directory with saved settings, the filer would
543 print a warning and then crash.
547 Changed email address given as the one to send bugs to when using
548 --help to the rox-devel list (Stephen Watson).
549 Thumbnail generation now handles files with UTF-8 characters (Anatoly
554 Removed action window screenshot from manual to save space.
558 Proper check for the stat[v]fs headers (Stephen Watson, reported by
563 Added firefox to list of default browsers (suggested by eugene).
567 Added Romanian translation (Cosma Florin).
571 Can now set "Brief" option on the Copy and Move action windows (Stephen
573 Properties window handles mount points specially when calculating their size
578 Bugfix: On Linux, the filer called setxattr instead of getxattr, thus
579 preventing setting filetypes with extended attributes from working.
580 Bugfix: Copy and Move now obey the "Brief" option (Stephen Watson, reported
585 Bugfix: On multi-monitor setups, filer windows always opened on the top/left
586 monitor (reported by Kacper Wysocki). Now they open on the monitor
591 Icons of minimized windows remember their positions on the pinboard (Stephen
593 Filer now officially requires GTK 2.2.0 or later (wasn't working with 2.0
594 anyway, and noone had complained).
595 Bugfix: A race in the code for updating iconified window titles could cause
596 the filer to crash with a BadWindow error.
600 Another Properties window fix: if there is no output from the du command
601 then put a message indicating an error (Stephen Watson).
602 Can now compile without Xinerama support on GTK+ < 2.2.0 (Tony Houghton).
606 Let the panel autoscroll during a drag (Stephen Watson).
610 Fix another bug when closing Properties window before it has finished
611 scanning the directory (Stephen Watson).
615 Improved Xinerama support: now works for tooltips and action windows; filer
616 windows are no longer prone to leaving their borders overlapping; panel uses
617 _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL so it only affects the monitor it's on (Tony Houghton).
621 Make ignoring executable files with known extensions the default setting
622 (suggested by Daniel Poersch). Freedesktop.org is discussing a plan to mark
623 individual MIME types as executable, which may be a better long-term
625 Option to prevent maximising windows from covering the panels (requested
626 by Simon Templer and others).
630 Type specific Send To entries now shown for multiple files when they
631 are all of the same type (Stephen Watson).
632 Can now drag icons to the very end of the panel (Stephen Watson).
636 Another place to look for apsymbols.h (Stephen Watson).
640 More fixes for the new build system (Stephen Watson).
644 Fix portability of new build system and ensure configure can find the
645 version number again (Stephen Watson).
649 Build object files in ~/build/ROX-Filer, in case source directory is read-only.
650 This also reduces the risk of distributing the object files by accident.
654 Don't allow toolbar buttons to focus (needed for GTK 2.4).
658 Fix loss of bookmark name when re-ordering (Rahsheen Porter).
659 Removed installation of thumbnail handlers via the Set Icon dialog. It was
660 never documented and all the thumbnailers use the mime_handler installation
661 anyway (Stephen Watson).
665 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
669 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
673 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
675 30-Apr-2004 (Release 2.1.2)
677 Removed toolbar hint type from panel. It caused too many problems.
681 Added 'Download handler' to drag and drop options. This program is invoked
682 when a URI is dragged to the filer (eg, from a web-browser). The default
683 command runs wget to download the file (Andrew Flegg).
687 Bugfix: URIs received through drag-and-drop were unescaped twice, causing
688 problems with names containing the '%' character (spotted by Jonatan
693 Cope with spaces in ROX-Filer's path.
694 Added a load of default keys, since many GTK setups now make it almost
695 impossible to change shortcuts.
696 Added --leaks option to run ROX-Filer through valgrind with the memory
697 leak option checking on (Stephen Watson).
701 Added Xinerama support (Tony Houghton).
702 Set window type hint = toolbar for panel to prevent it appearing in pagers etc
707 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
708 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
709 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
713 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
714 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
715 to the functions being missing.
719 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
723 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
727 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
731 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
735 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
736 worries people for no reason.
740 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
744 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
745 files selected (Peter Geer).
749 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
750 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
754 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
758 Added 'Select by Name'.
762 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
766 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
771 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
775 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
777 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
779 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
780 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
784 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
788 Misc changes for next release.
792 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
793 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
797 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
798 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
799 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
800 Watson, reported on #rox).
804 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
805 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
809 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
810 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
814 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
815 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
819 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
820 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
825 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
829 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
831 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
836 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
840 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
841 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
845 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
846 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
850 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
854 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
859 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
860 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
862 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
863 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
867 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
868 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
872 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
877 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
878 or opening a menu). This also prevents a flickering problem with Openbox 3.
882 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
883 support not being detected (igla).
887 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
891 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
892 dialog (Stephen Watson).
896 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
900 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
901 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
902 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
903 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
906 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
908 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
909 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
913 New icon for selection ops.
917 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
921 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
925 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
929 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
930 Added icon theme selector.
934 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
938 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
942 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
943 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
947 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
948 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
949 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
953 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
954 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
958 Allow ejecting mounted media.
962 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
963 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
964 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
968 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
972 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
973 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
978 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
979 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
983 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
984 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
988 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
989 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
993 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
997 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
998 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
999 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
1003 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
1007 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
1008 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
1009 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
1010 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
1014 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
1015 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
1017 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
1021 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1025 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
1026 bits (Stephen Watson).
1030 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
1034 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
1038 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
1039 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1043 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
1047 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
1048 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
1053 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
1054 forward them explicitly.
1058 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
1059 help from Götz Waschk).
1063 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
1064 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
1065 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
1069 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1073 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
1077 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1081 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
1082 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
1084 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
1086 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1090 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1092 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
1094 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1098 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
1099 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
1100 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1101 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1105 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1109 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1113 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1117 Minor updates to the manual.
1118 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
1119 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
1123 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
1124 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1126 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
1128 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
1129 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
1133 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
1134 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
1135 reduce flickering effect.
1139 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
1143 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
1145 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
1149 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
1150 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
1151 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
1152 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
1153 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1157 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
1158 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1162 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
1166 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
1171 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
1172 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
1176 Winking now works in List view.
1180 Lasso selections now work in List view.
1184 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
1185 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
1189 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
1190 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
1192 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
1194 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1198 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1202 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
1203 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
1205 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1209 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
1210 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
1214 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
1216 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
1220 Centre the image for iconified windows.
1221 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
1225 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
1227 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
1231 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
1235 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
1236 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
1241 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
1242 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
1244 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
1246 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
1248 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1252 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1256 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
1257 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1261 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
1266 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
1267 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
1271 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
1273 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
1275 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1276 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
1281 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
1285 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
1286 (suggested by Michael Adams).
1287 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
1288 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
1289 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
1290 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
1291 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
1293 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
1297 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
1302 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1303 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
1307 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
1308 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
1309 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
1310 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
1315 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
1316 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
1317 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
1318 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
1319 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
1320 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
1321 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
1322 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
1323 talent can do something better?
1324 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
1325 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1329 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
1330 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
1331 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
1336 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
1338 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
1339 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
1340 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
1341 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
1342 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
1343 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
1344 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
1345 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
1346 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
1347 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
1348 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
1349 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
1350 label wasn't hidden / shown.
1354 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
1355 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
1356 allow fine repositioning.
1357 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
1358 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
1359 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
1360 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
1362 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
1363 changing the aspect ratio.
1367 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
1371 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
1375 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
1376 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
1377 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1381 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
1385 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
1390 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
1391 make sharing icons easier.
1392 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1396 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
1397 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
1401 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
1405 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
1407 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
1411 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
1416 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
1421 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1422 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
1424 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
1425 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
1426 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
1427 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
1431 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
1432 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
1436 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1440 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
1442 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
1443 Brian Langenberger).
1447 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
1448 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
1450 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
1454 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
1455 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1457 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
1459 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
1463 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1464 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
1469 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1473 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
1474 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1475 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1479 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1480 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1484 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
1488 Preserve selection when changing view type.
1489 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
1493 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
1494 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
1495 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
1499 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
1503 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
1504 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
1505 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
1506 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
1508 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
1509 the information in the tooltips anyway.
1513 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
1514 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
1518 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
1523 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
1524 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
1528 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
1532 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
1533 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
1534 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
1535 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
1540 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
1541 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
1542 Always use case-insensitive sort.
1546 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1550 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
1551 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
1555 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
1556 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
1557 since it didn't include the contents.
1558 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
1559 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
1563 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1567 Style improvements to options window.
1571 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1575 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
1577 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
1579 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
1584 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
1585 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
1586 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
1587 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
1591 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
1595 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
1599 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1600 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
1604 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
1606 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
1611 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
1615 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1616 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
1617 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
1622 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
1626 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
1630 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
1634 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
1638 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
1639 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
1640 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
1644 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
1645 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
1649 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
1650 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
1655 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
1659 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
1663 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
1668 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
1669 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
1673 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
1674 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
1679 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
1680 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
1684 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
1685 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
1686 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
1690 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1694 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
1695 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
1696 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
1697 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
1698 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1702 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1703 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1707 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1708 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1712 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1716 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1717 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1718 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1719 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1720 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1721 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1725 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1726 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1727 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1731 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1732 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1737 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1741 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1743 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1745 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1750 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1754 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1758 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1759 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1764 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1768 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1772 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1773 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1774 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1778 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1782 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1787 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1791 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1792 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1793 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1794 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1798 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1802 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1803 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1807 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1808 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1809 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1813 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1817 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1821 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1822 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1823 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1824 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1825 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1826 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1830 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1831 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1835 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1836 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1837 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1841 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1842 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1846 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1850 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1851 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1852 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1853 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1855 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1857 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1861 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1862 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1863 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1867 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1871 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1872 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1877 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1881 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1885 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1886 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1890 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1891 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1892 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1896 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1897 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1901 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1902 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1906 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1907 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1911 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1915 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1916 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1920 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1922 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1924 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1928 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1932 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1933 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1937 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1941 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1945 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1946 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1947 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1948 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1949 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1950 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1954 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1958 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1960 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1961 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1965 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1966 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1970 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1974 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1975 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1976 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1977 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1979 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1981 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1985 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1986 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1990 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1991 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1992 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1996 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1997 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1998 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1999 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
2000 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2001 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2002 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2006 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
2007 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
2011 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2015 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2019 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
2024 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
2028 Options to set iconification layout policy.
2029 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
2030 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
2034 Pinboard background colour option works again.
2035 Position iconified windows sensibly.
2036 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
2040 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
2041 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
2042 (requested by Ryan Harris).
2046 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
2047 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
2051 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
2056 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
2057 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
2058 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
2059 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
2060 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
2062 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
2063 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
2067 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
2071 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
2072 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
2073 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
2074 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
2078 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2079 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
2080 Many improvements to the pinboard:
2081 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
2082 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
2083 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
2087 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
2091 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
2092 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
2096 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
2097 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2098 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
2099 restart (Olli Helenius).
2103 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
2107 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
2108 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
2109 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
2114 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
2119 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
2120 Small and Large sizes.
2124 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
2128 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
2129 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
2133 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
2134 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
2135 (requested by Gregory Spath).
2136 Don't quit while Options window is open.
2140 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
2141 the window (requested by Ashwin).
2142 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
2147 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
2152 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
2153 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2157 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2158 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
2163 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
2165 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
2167 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
2171 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
2175 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
2177 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
2179 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2183 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
2185 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
2186 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
2190 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
2191 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
2195 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
2196 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
2200 Various speed improvements.
2201 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
2205 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
2206 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
2210 Slight speed increase when starting.
2214 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
2218 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
2219 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
2220 button is no longer supported.
2224 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2228 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
2232 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
2237 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
2238 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
2242 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
2243 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
2244 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
2248 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
2249 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
2250 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
2251 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2255 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
2256 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
2257 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
2259 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
2264 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
2265 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
2270 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
2274 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
2275 and converted to new dialog style.
2279 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
2280 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
2284 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
2285 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
2289 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
2293 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
2295 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
2299 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
2303 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
2304 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
2305 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
2309 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
2310 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
2314 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
2319 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
2323 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
2324 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
2328 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
2329 and Cancel is now Revert.
2330 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
2331 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
2335 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
2339 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
2340 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
2342 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
2343 (reported by Serban Udrea).
2344 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
2345 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
2349 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
2351 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
2352 labels display them.
2353 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
2356 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
2360 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
2362 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
2366 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
2367 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
2368 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
2372 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2373 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2375 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
2377 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
2381 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
2382 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2386 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
2387 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
2388 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
2389 (requested by Andras Mohari).
2393 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2397 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
2398 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2402 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
2403 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
2408 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
2409 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2413 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2414 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
2415 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
2419 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2420 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
2424 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
2425 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
2426 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
2427 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
2429 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
2434 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
2435 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
2437 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
2439 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2443 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
2444 any image (saves time).
2445 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
2446 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
2447 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
2448 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
2450 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2451 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
2455 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
2456 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
2458 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
2459 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
2461 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
2466 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
2467 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
2468 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
2469 has stopped accepting STRING.
2473 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
2474 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
2478 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
2483 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
2484 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
2486 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
2487 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
2488 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
2492 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
2493 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
2494 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
2495 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
2496 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
2497 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
2501 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
2502 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
2503 Allow '~' in globicons file.
2504 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
2505 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
2506 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
2511 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
2512 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
2513 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
2514 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
2519 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2520 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
2524 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
2525 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
2527 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
2529 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
2530 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
2531 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2535 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
2536 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
2537 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2541 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
2542 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
2546 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
2547 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
2551 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
2553 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
2558 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2559 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2563 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
2564 their menus correctly.
2565 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
2570 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
2571 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
2572 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
2576 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2577 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2581 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2585 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
2588 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
2590 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2591 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
2592 the toggle menu items from working!
2596 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
2598 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
2604 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
2605 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
2609 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2610 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
2611 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
2612 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
2613 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
2614 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
2618 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
2622 File groups are now saved (automatically).
2623 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
2627 Added Version SOAP RPC.
2628 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
2629 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
2633 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
2634 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
2639 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
2641 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
2645 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
2646 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
2647 bar is displayed in the filer window.
2648 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
2652 Improved error reporting.
2653 Improved sizing code when details are on.
2657 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
2658 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
2659 check box and does 'Yes'.
2663 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
2664 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
2665 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
2666 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
2671 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
2673 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2674 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
2676 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
2678 Internal changes to options system:
2679 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
2680 filer is fully initialised).
2681 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
2683 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
2685 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
2686 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
2687 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
2688 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
2692 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
2693 now reclaims the selection.
2694 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
2695 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
2700 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2701 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2702 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2703 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2704 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2708 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2709 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2711 Code tidying in various places.
2715 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2716 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2721 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2722 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2726 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2727 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2728 edit the file, not the file itself!
2729 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2733 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2734 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2735 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2736 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2737 of the SOAP working draft.
2738 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2739 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2740 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2745 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2746 it was in the displayed area before.
2748 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2751 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2752 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2756 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2757 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2758 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2760 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2761 selection (Andras Mohari).
2765 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2769 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2773 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2774 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2775 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2779 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2783 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2785 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2786 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2787 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2791 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2792 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2797 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2798 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2799 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2803 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2807 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2811 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2812 replaced by a Restart button.
2816 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2817 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2821 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2825 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2829 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2830 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2831 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2835 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2836 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2838 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2839 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2840 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2844 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2845 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2850 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2852 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2853 (requested by Graham Borland).
2854 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2855 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2856 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2860 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2861 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2862 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2863 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2867 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2868 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2869 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2870 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2871 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2872 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2873 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2874 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2875 - Lots of code tidying.
2880 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2881 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2885 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2887 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2889 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2893 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2894 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2898 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2899 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2903 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2904 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2908 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2909 option to access it directly.
2913 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2914 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2915 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2919 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2920 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2921 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2922 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2923 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2924 when the filer is run.
2928 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2929 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2930 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2935 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2939 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2940 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2944 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2946 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2950 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2954 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2955 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2956 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2961 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2962 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2963 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2964 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2965 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2966 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2967 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2971 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2975 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2976 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2980 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2981 of possible actions (Taras).
2982 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2984 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2985 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2989 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2994 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2998 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
3001 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
3002 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
3006 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
3007 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3009 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
3011 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
3012 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
3013 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
3014 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
3018 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
3022 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
3026 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
3030 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
3035 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
3036 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
3037 the first one found.
3038 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
3042 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
3046 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
3047 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
3048 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
3052 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
3053 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
3054 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
3059 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
3060 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
3061 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
3065 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
3067 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
3072 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
3077 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
3081 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
3082 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
3086 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
3088 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3089 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
3093 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
3097 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
3098 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
3102 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
3103 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
3107 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
3108 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
3110 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
3112 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3116 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
3120 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
3121 (requested by Jim Knoble).
3125 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
3129 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
3134 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
3135 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
3139 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
3143 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
3147 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
3149 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
3150 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3154 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
3155 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
3159 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
3160 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
3161 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
3165 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3166 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
3170 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
3171 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
3173 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
3175 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3179 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
3180 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
3181 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
3183 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
3184 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
3186 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
3188 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
3189 and the default size with no details.
3193 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
3194 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
3198 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
3203 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
3208 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
3212 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
3217 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
3218 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3222 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
3226 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
3227 the button to run it does.
3228 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
3229 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
3230 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
3234 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
3235 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
3236 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
3240 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
3244 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
3245 and panels into icon.c.
3249 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
3250 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
3251 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
3252 and Vincent Lefèvre).
3256 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
3258 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
3260 Updated the documentation.
3264 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
3265 up if they're too small.
3269 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
3271 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
3272 (Christopher Arndt).
3273 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
3278 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
3279 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
3283 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
3284 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
3288 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
3289 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
3290 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
3295 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
3300 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3304 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
3305 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
3310 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
3315 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
3316 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
3320 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
3321 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
3325 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
3329 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
3333 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
3337 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
3338 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
3341 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
3342 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
3347 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
3348 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
3349 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3350 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
3355 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
3356 held over the item (Denis Manente).
3358 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
3360 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
3361 for non-applications.
3365 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
3366 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
3371 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
3375 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
3376 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
3378 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
3382 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
3383 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
3387 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
3388 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
3392 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
3393 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
3397 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
3398 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
3400 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
3401 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
3405 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
3406 standard output (Stephen Watson).
3408 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
3412 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
3413 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
3416 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
3420 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
3421 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
3425 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
3429 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
3430 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
3433 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
3434 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
3438 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
3442 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
3447 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3451 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
3452 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
3457 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
3462 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
3466 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
3468 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
3470 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
3471 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
3473 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
3475 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
3476 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
3480 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
3481 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
3482 were used (Diego Zamboni).
3484 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
3485 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
3489 Many internal changes to the Options system.
3493 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
3494 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
3498 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
3502 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
3503 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
3505 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
3508 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
3509 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
3510 lines in the form 'option Text'.
3514 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
3515 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
3520 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
3525 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3527 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
3530 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
3532 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
3533 sensible shape itself now.
3535 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
3536 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
3537 file at all, just a reused inode!
3538 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
3539 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
3540 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
3544 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
3548 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
3549 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
3554 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
3555 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
3559 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
3563 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
3564 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
3568 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
3573 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
3577 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
3578 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3582 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
3583 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3584 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
3585 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
3586 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
3590 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
3591 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
3592 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
3593 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
3594 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
3598 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
3599 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
3600 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
3604 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
3606 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
3607 python's portable system.
3608 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
3609 set the LANG variable.
3613 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
3614 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
3616 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
3618 Made a few updates to the manual.
3622 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
3623 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
3625 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
3627 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
3628 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
3632 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
3633 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
3637 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
3638 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
3643 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
3644 by Wilbert Berendsen).
3645 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
3649 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
3650 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
3654 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
3655 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
3659 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
3660 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
3662 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
3663 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
3664 open... (Denis Manente).
3668 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3672 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
3674 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
3675 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
3676 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
3678 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
3680 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
3682 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
3683 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
3688 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
3689 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
3690 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
3694 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
3695 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
3699 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3703 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3707 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3708 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3709 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3713 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3714 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3715 between pinboards...
3717 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3718 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3719 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3723 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3726 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3727 window (Denis Manente).
3729 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3730 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3734 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3735 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3736 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3740 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3743 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3744 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3746 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3751 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3752 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3754 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3758 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3759 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3761 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3763 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3768 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3769 the icon points to as well as its name.
3771 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3772 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3776 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3777 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3778 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3779 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3783 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3787 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3788 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3789 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3793 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3794 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3796 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3797 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3800 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3801 the item after the drag.
3803 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3804 showing where the file really is.
3808 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3809 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3814 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3815 warning is displayed if so.
3817 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3821 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3822 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3823 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3824 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3827 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3828 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3829 works like the panels.
3833 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3834 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3835 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3836 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3837 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3841 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3842 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3843 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3844 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3846 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3851 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3855 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3856 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3859 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3860 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3862 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3865 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3866 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3867 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3868 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3870 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3872 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3873 slightly. Updated the manual.
3875 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3876 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3879 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3880 or bottom panel to make room.
3884 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3889 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3890 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3891 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3892 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3893 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3897 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3899 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3900 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3902 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3906 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3907 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3911 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3915 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3917 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3922 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3923 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3925 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3929 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3930 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3931 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3935 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3936 rewriting the panel system.
3940 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3943 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3944 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3948 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3949 (suggested by James Kermode).
3953 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3954 than as a full path.
3956 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3958 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3959 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3960 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3964 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3965 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3969 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3970 rename something onto another filesystem.
3974 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3976 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3977 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3981 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3985 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3988 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3989 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3991 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3994 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3999 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
4000 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
4001 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
4003 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
4004 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
4006 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
4007 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
4012 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
4013 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
4018 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
4019 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
4020 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
4022 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
4023 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
4024 of the 'missing image' image.
4028 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
4030 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
4032 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
4037 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
4038 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
4039 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
4040 its name into another program.
4042 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
4046 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
4048 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
4049 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
4050 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
4052 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
4053 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
4054 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
4057 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
4058 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
4062 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
4063 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
4064 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
4068 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
4069 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
4070 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
4074 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
4075 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
4076 and position the icons directly.
4080 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
4085 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
4086 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
4087 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
4091 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
4095 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
4096 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
4100 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
4105 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
4109 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
4110 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
4111 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
4112 some versions of GTK+.
4116 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
4121 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
4122 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
4123 from a sub-sub-menu.
4125 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
4126 drawn on a log scale.
4130 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
4131 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
4132 happy with the UI yet though...
4134 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
4135 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
4136 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
4140 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
4141 by Stephen Harrison).
4143 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
4145 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
4146 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
4147 standard types are in Choices.
4148 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
4150 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
4151 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
4152 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
4157 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
4158 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
4159 shell command minibuffer.
4163 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
4164 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
4165 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
4166 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
4167 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
4169 Default search path for Choices is now:
4170 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
4172 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
4173 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
4174 buffering so all this will get changed then...
4178 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
4179 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
4183 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
4184 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
4185 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
4190 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
4191 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
4192 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
4195 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
4197 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
4198 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
4199 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
4201 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
4202 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
4206 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
4207 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
4208 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
4209 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
4214 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
4215 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
4216 an empty directory caused odd effects.
4218 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
4220 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
4221 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
4225 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
4226 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
4227 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
4232 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
4233 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
4236 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
4238 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
4243 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
4248 Added GNU gettext support.
4249 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
4253 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
4255 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
4257 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
4262 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
4266 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
4267 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
4269 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
4270 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
4275 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
4276 onto the directory and winks the file.
4280 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
4281 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
4282 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
4284 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
4285 instead of random values.
4286 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
4288 Applied Bernard's patch:
4289 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
4290 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
4291 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
4292 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
4293 it the RISC OS way...
4294 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
4295 alignment corrected.
4296 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
4301 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
4305 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
4306 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
4310 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
4311 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
4312 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
4313 - Option to only display one window per directory.
4314 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
4315 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
4316 - Errors in options are only reported once.
4317 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
4318 in the file(1) says... box).
4321 Before the Changes file
4322 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4323 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
4325 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
4326 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
4327 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
4328 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
4329 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD