2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
12 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
16 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
17 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
21 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
23 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
24 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
28 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
32 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
33 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
37 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
38 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
42 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
43 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
45 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
47 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
51 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
55 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
56 (requested by Jim Knoble).
60 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
64 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
69 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
70 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
74 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
78 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
82 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
84 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
85 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
89 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
90 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
94 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
95 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
96 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
100 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
101 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
105 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
106 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
108 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
110 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
114 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
115 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
116 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
118 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
119 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
121 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
123 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
124 and the default size with no details.
128 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
129 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
133 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
138 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
143 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
147 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
152 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
153 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
157 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
161 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
162 the button to run it does.
163 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
164 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
165 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
169 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
170 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
171 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
175 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
179 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
180 and panels into icon.c.
184 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
185 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
186 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
187 and Vincent Lefèvre).
191 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
193 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
195 Updated the documentation.
199 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
200 up if they're too small.
204 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
206 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
208 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
213 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
214 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
218 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
219 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
223 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
224 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
225 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
230 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
235 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
239 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
240 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
245 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
250 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
251 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
255 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
256 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
260 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
264 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
268 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
272 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
273 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
276 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
277 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
282 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
283 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
284 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
285 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
290 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
291 held over the item (Denis Manente).
293 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
295 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
296 for non-applications.
300 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
301 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
306 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
310 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
311 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
313 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
317 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
318 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
322 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
323 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
327 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
328 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
332 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
333 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
335 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
336 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
340 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
341 standard output (Stephen Watson).
343 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
347 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
348 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
351 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
355 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
356 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
360 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
364 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
365 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
368 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
369 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
373 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
377 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
382 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
386 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
387 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
392 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
397 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
401 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
403 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
405 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
406 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
408 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
410 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
411 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
415 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
416 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
417 were used (Diego Zamboni).
419 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
420 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
424 Many internal changes to the Options system.
428 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
429 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
433 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
437 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
438 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
440 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
443 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
444 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
445 lines in the form 'option Text'.
449 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
450 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
455 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
460 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
462 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
465 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
467 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
468 sensible shape itself now.
470 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
471 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
472 file at all, just a reused inode!
473 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
474 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
475 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
479 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
483 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
484 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
489 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
490 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
494 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
498 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
499 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
503 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
508 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
512 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
513 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
517 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
518 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
519 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
520 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
521 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
525 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
526 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
527 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
528 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
529 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
533 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
534 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
535 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
539 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
541 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
542 python's portable system.
543 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
544 set the LANG variable.
548 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
549 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
551 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
553 Made a few updates to the manual.
557 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
558 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
560 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
562 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
563 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
567 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
568 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
572 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
573 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
578 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
579 by Wilbert Berendsen).
580 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
584 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
585 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
589 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
590 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
594 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
595 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
597 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
598 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
599 open... (Denis Manente).
603 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
607 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
609 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
610 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
611 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
613 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
615 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
617 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
618 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
623 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
624 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
625 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
629 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
630 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
634 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
638 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
642 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
643 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
644 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
648 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
649 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
652 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
653 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
654 background - seems to be necessary :-(
658 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
661 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
662 window (Denis Manente).
664 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
665 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
669 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
670 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
671 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
675 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
678 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
679 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
681 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
686 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
687 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
689 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
693 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
694 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
696 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
698 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
703 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
704 the icon points to as well as its name.
706 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
707 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
711 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
712 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
713 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
714 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
718 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
722 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
723 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
724 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
728 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
729 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
731 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
732 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
735 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
736 the item after the drag.
738 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
739 showing where the file really is.
743 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
744 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
749 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
750 warning is displayed if so.
752 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
756 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
757 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
758 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
759 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
762 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
763 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
764 works like the panels.
768 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
769 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
770 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
771 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
772 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
776 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
777 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
778 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
779 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
781 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
786 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
790 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
791 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
794 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
795 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
797 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
800 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
801 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
802 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
803 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
805 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
807 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
808 slightly. Updated the manual.
810 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
811 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
814 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
815 or bottom panel to make room.
819 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
824 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
825 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
826 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
827 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
828 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
832 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
834 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
835 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
837 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
841 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
842 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
846 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
850 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
852 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
857 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
858 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
860 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
864 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
865 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
866 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
870 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
871 rewriting the panel system.
875 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
878 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
879 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
883 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
884 (suggested by James Kermode).
888 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
891 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
893 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
894 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
895 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
899 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
900 mounted/unmounted state changed.
904 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
905 rename something onto another filesystem.
909 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
911 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
912 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
916 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
920 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
923 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
924 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
926 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
929 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
934 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
935 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
936 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
938 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
939 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
941 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
942 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
947 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
948 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
953 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
954 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
955 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
957 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
958 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
959 of the 'missing image' image.
963 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
965 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
967 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
972 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
973 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
974 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
975 its name into another program.
977 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
981 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
983 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
984 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
985 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
987 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
988 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
989 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
992 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
993 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
997 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
998 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
999 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1003 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1004 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1005 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1009 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1010 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1011 and position the icons directly.
1015 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1020 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1021 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1022 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1026 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1030 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1031 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1035 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1040 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1044 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1045 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1046 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1047 some versions of GTK+.
1051 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1056 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1057 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1058 from a sub-sub-menu.
1060 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1061 drawn on a log scale.
1065 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1066 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1067 happy with the UI yet though...
1069 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1070 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1071 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1075 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1076 by Stephen Harrison).
1078 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1080 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1081 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1082 standard types are in Choices.
1083 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1085 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1086 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1087 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1092 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1093 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1094 shell command minibuffer.
1098 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1099 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1100 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1101 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1102 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1104 Default search path for Choices is now:
1105 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1107 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1108 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1109 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1113 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1114 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1118 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
1119 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
1120 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
1125 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
1126 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
1127 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
1130 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
1132 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
1133 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
1134 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
1136 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
1137 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
1141 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
1142 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
1143 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
1144 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
1149 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
1150 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
1151 an empty directory caused odd effects.
1153 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
1155 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
1156 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
1160 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
1161 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
1162 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
1167 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
1168 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
1171 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
1173 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
1178 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
1183 Added GNU gettext support.
1184 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
1188 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
1190 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
1192 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
1197 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
1201 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
1202 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
1204 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
1205 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
1210 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
1211 onto the directory and winks the file.
1215 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
1216 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
1217 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
1219 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
1220 instead of random values.
1221 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
1223 Applied Bernard's patch:
1224 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
1225 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
1226 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
1227 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
1228 it the RISC OS way...
1229 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
1230 alignment corrected.
1231 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
1236 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
1240 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
1241 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
1245 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
1246 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
1247 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
1248 - Option to only display one window per directory.
1249 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
1250 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
1251 - Errors in options are only reported once.
1252 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
1253 in the file(1) says... box).
1256 Before the Changes file
1257 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1258 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
1260 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
1261 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
1262 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
1263 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
1264 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD