2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
11 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
12 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
17 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
18 forward them explicitly.
22 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
23 help from Götz Waschk).
27 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
28 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
29 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
33 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
37 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
41 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
45 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
46 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
48 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
50 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
54 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
56 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
58 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
62 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
63 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
64 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
65 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
69 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
73 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
77 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
81 Minor updates to the manual.
82 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
83 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
87 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
88 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
90 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
92 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
93 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
97 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
98 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
99 reduce flickering effect.
103 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
107 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
109 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
113 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
114 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
115 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
116 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
117 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
121 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
122 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
126 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
130 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
135 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
136 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
140 Winking now works in List view.
144 Lasso selections now work in List view.
148 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
149 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
153 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
154 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
156 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
158 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
162 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
166 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
167 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
169 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
173 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
174 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
178 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
180 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
184 Centre the image for iconified windows.
185 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
189 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
191 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
195 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
199 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
200 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
205 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
206 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
208 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
210 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
212 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
216 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
220 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
221 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
225 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
230 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
231 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
235 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
237 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
239 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
240 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
245 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
249 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
250 (suggested by Michael Adams).
251 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
252 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
253 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
254 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
255 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
257 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
261 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
266 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
267 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
271 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
272 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
273 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
274 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
279 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
280 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
281 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
282 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
283 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
284 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
285 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
286 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
287 talent can do something better?
288 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
289 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
293 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
294 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
295 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
300 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
302 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
303 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
304 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
305 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
306 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
307 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
308 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
309 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
310 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
311 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
312 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
313 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
314 label wasn't hidden / shown.
318 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
319 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
320 allow fine repositioning.
321 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
322 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
323 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
324 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
326 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
327 changing the aspect ratio.
331 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
335 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
339 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
340 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
341 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
345 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
349 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
354 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
355 make sharing icons easier.
356 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
360 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
361 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
365 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
369 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
371 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
375 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
380 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
385 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
386 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
388 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
389 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
390 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
391 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
395 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
396 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
400 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
404 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
406 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
411 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
412 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
414 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
418 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
419 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
421 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
423 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
427 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
428 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
433 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
437 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
438 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
439 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
443 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
444 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
448 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
452 Preserve selection when changing view type.
453 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
457 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
458 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
459 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
463 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
467 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
468 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
469 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
470 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
472 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
473 the information in the tooltips anyway.
477 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
478 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
482 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
487 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
488 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
492 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
496 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
497 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
498 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
499 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
504 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
505 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
506 Always use case-insensitive sort.
510 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
514 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
515 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
519 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
520 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
521 since it didn't include the contents.
522 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
523 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
527 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
531 Style improvements to options window.
535 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
539 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
541 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
543 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
548 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
549 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
550 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
551 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
555 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
559 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
563 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
564 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
568 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
570 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
575 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
579 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
580 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
581 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
586 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
590 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
594 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
598 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
602 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
603 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
604 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
608 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
609 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
613 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
614 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
619 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
623 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
627 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
632 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
633 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
637 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
638 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
643 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
644 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
648 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
649 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
650 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
654 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
658 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
659 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
660 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
661 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
662 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
666 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
667 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
671 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
672 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
676 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
680 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
681 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
682 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
683 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
684 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
685 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
689 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
690 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
691 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
695 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
696 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
701 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
705 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
707 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
709 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
714 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
718 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
722 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
723 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
728 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
732 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
736 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
737 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
738 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
742 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
746 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
751 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
755 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
756 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
757 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
758 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
762 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
766 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
767 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
771 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
772 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
773 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
777 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
781 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
785 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
786 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
787 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
788 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
789 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
790 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
794 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
795 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
799 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
800 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
801 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
805 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
806 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
810 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
814 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
815 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
816 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
817 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
819 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
821 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
825 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
826 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
827 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
831 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
835 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
836 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
841 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
845 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
849 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
850 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
854 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
855 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
856 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
860 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
861 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
865 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
866 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
870 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
871 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
875 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
879 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
880 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
884 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
886 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
888 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
892 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
896 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
897 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
901 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
905 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
909 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
910 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
911 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
912 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
913 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
914 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
918 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
922 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
924 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
925 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
929 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
930 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
934 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
938 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
939 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
940 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
941 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
943 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
945 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
949 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
950 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
954 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
955 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
956 disappeared at the wrong moment.
960 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
961 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
962 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
963 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
964 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
965 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
966 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
970 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
971 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
975 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
979 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
983 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
988 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
992 Options to set iconification layout policy.
993 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
994 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
998 Pinboard background colour option works again.
999 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1000 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1004 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1005 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1006 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1010 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1011 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1015 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1020 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1021 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1022 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1023 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1024 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1026 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1027 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1031 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1035 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1036 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1037 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1038 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1042 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1043 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1044 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1045 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1046 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1047 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1051 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1055 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1056 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1060 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1061 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1062 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1063 restart (Olli Helenius).
1067 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1071 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1072 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1073 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1078 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1083 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1084 Small and Large sizes.
1088 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1092 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1093 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1097 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1098 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1099 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1100 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1104 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1105 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1106 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1111 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1116 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1117 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1121 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1122 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1127 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1129 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1131 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1135 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1139 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1141 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1143 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1147 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1149 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1150 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1154 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1155 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1159 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1160 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1164 Various speed improvements.
1165 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1169 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1170 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1174 Slight speed increase when starting.
1178 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1182 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1183 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1184 button is no longer supported.
1188 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1192 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1196 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1201 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1202 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1206 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1207 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1208 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1212 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1213 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1214 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1215 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1219 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1220 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1221 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1223 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1228 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1229 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1234 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1238 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1239 and converted to new dialog style.
1243 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1244 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1248 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1249 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1253 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1257 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1259 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1263 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1267 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1268 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1269 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1273 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1274 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1278 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1283 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1287 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1288 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1292 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1293 and Cancel is now Revert.
1294 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1295 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1299 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1303 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1304 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1306 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1307 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1308 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1309 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1313 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1315 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1316 labels display them.
1317 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1320 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1324 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1326 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1330 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1331 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1332 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1336 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1337 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1339 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1341 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1345 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1346 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1350 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1351 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1352 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1353 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1357 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1361 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1362 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1366 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1367 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1372 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1373 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1377 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1378 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1379 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1383 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1384 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1388 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1389 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1390 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1391 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1393 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1398 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1399 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1401 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1403 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1407 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1408 any image (saves time).
1409 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1410 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1411 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1412 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1414 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1415 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1419 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1420 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1422 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1423 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1425 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1430 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1431 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1432 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1433 has stopped accepting STRING.
1437 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1438 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1442 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1447 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1448 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1450 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1451 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1452 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1456 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1457 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1458 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1459 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1460 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1461 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1465 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1466 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1467 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1468 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1469 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1470 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1475 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1476 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1477 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1478 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1483 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1484 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1488 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1489 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1491 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1493 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1494 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1495 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1499 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1500 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1501 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1505 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1506 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1510 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1511 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1515 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1517 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1522 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1523 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1527 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1528 their menus correctly.
1529 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1534 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1535 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1536 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1540 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1541 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1545 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1549 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1552 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1554 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1555 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1556 the toggle menu items from working!
1560 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1562 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1568 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1569 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1573 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1574 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1575 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1576 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1577 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1578 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1582 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1586 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1587 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1591 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1592 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1593 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1597 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1598 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1603 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1605 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1609 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1610 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1611 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1612 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1616 Improved error reporting.
1617 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1621 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1622 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1623 check box and does 'Yes'.
1627 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1628 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1629 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1630 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1635 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1637 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1638 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1640 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1642 Internal changes to options system:
1643 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1644 filer is fully initialised).
1645 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1647 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1649 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1650 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1651 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1652 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1656 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1657 now reclaims the selection.
1658 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1659 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1664 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1665 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1666 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1667 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1668 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1672 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1673 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1675 Code tidying in various places.
1679 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1680 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1685 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1686 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1690 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1691 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1692 edit the file, not the file itself!
1693 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1697 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1698 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1699 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1700 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1701 of the SOAP working draft.
1702 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1703 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1704 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1709 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1710 it was in the displayed area before.
1712 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1715 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1716 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1720 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1721 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1722 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1724 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1725 selection (Andras Mohari).
1729 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1733 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1737 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1738 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1739 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1743 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1747 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1749 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1750 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1751 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1755 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1756 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1761 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1762 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1763 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1767 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1771 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1775 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1776 replaced by a Restart button.
1780 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1781 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1785 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1789 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1793 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1794 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1795 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1799 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1800 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1802 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1803 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1804 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1808 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1809 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1814 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1816 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1817 (requested by Graham Borland).
1818 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1819 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1820 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1824 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1825 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1826 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1827 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1831 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1832 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1833 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1834 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1835 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1836 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1837 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1838 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1839 - Lots of code tidying.
1844 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1845 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1849 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1851 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1853 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1857 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1858 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1862 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1863 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1867 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1868 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1872 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1873 option to access it directly.
1877 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1878 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1879 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1883 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1884 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1885 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1886 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1887 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1888 when the filer is run.
1892 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1893 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1894 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1899 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1903 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1904 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1908 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1910 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1914 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1918 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1919 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1920 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1925 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1926 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1927 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1928 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1929 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1930 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1931 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1935 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1939 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1940 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1944 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1945 of possible actions (Taras).
1946 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1948 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1949 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1953 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1958 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1962 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1965 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1966 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1970 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1971 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1973 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1975 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1976 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1977 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1978 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1982 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1986 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1990 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1994 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1999 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2000 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2001 the first one found.
2002 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2006 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2010 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2011 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2012 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2016 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2017 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2018 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2023 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2024 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2025 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2029 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2031 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2036 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2041 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2045 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2046 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2050 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2052 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2053 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2057 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2061 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2062 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2066 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2067 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2071 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2072 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2074 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2076 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2080 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2084 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2085 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2089 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2093 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2098 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2099 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2103 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2107 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2111 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2113 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2114 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2118 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2119 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2123 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2124 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2125 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2129 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2130 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2134 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2135 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2137 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2139 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2143 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2144 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2145 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2147 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2148 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2150 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2152 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2153 and the default size with no details.
2157 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2158 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2162 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2167 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2172 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2176 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2181 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2182 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2186 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2190 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2191 the button to run it does.
2192 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2193 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2194 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2198 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2199 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2200 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2204 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2208 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2209 and panels into icon.c.
2213 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2214 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2215 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2216 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2220 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2222 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2224 Updated the documentation.
2228 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2229 up if they're too small.
2233 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2235 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2236 (Christopher Arndt).
2237 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2242 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2243 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2247 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2248 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2252 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2253 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2254 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2259 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2264 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2268 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2269 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2274 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2279 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2280 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2284 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2285 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2289 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2293 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2297 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2301 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2302 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2305 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2306 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2311 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2312 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2313 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2314 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2319 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2320 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2322 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2324 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2325 for non-applications.
2329 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2330 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2335 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2339 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2340 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2342 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2346 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2347 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2351 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2352 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2356 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2357 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2361 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2362 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2364 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2365 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2369 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2370 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2372 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2376 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2377 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2380 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2384 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2385 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2389 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2393 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2394 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2397 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2398 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2402 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2406 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2411 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2415 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2416 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2421 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2426 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2430 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2432 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2434 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2435 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2437 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2439 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2440 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2444 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2445 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2446 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2448 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2449 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2453 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2457 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2458 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2462 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2466 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2467 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2469 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2472 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2473 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2474 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2478 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2479 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2484 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2489 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2491 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2494 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2496 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2497 sensible shape itself now.
2499 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2500 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2501 file at all, just a reused inode!
2502 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2503 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2504 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2508 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2512 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2513 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2518 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2519 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2523 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2527 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2528 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2532 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2537 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2541 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2542 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2546 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2547 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2548 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2549 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2550 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2554 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2555 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2556 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2557 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2558 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2562 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2563 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2564 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2568 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2570 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2571 python's portable system.
2572 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2573 set the LANG variable.
2577 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2578 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2580 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2582 Made a few updates to the manual.
2586 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2587 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2589 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2591 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2592 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2596 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2597 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2601 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2602 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2607 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2608 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2609 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2613 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2614 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2618 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2619 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2623 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2624 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2626 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2627 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2628 open... (Denis Manente).
2632 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2636 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2638 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2639 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2640 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2642 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2644 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2646 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2647 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2652 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2653 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2654 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2658 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2659 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2663 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2667 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2671 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2672 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2673 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2677 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2678 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2679 between pinboards...
2681 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2682 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2683 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2687 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2690 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2691 window (Denis Manente).
2693 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2694 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2698 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2699 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2700 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2704 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2707 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2708 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2710 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2715 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2716 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2718 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2722 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2723 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2725 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2727 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2732 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2733 the icon points to as well as its name.
2735 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2736 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2740 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2741 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2742 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2743 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2747 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2751 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2752 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2753 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2757 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2758 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2760 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2761 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2764 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2765 the item after the drag.
2767 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2768 showing where the file really is.
2772 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2773 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2778 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2779 warning is displayed if so.
2781 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2785 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2786 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2787 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2788 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2791 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2792 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2793 works like the panels.
2797 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2798 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2799 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2800 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2801 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2805 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2806 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2807 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2808 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2810 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2815 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2819 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2820 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2823 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2824 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2826 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2829 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2830 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2831 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2832 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2834 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2836 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2837 slightly. Updated the manual.
2839 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2840 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2843 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2844 or bottom panel to make room.
2848 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2853 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2854 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2855 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2856 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2857 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2861 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2863 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2864 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2866 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2870 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2871 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2875 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2879 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2881 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2886 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2887 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2889 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2893 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2894 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2895 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2899 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2900 rewriting the panel system.
2904 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2907 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2908 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2912 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2913 (suggested by James Kermode).
2917 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2918 than as a full path.
2920 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2922 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2923 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2924 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2928 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2929 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2933 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2934 rename something onto another filesystem.
2938 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2940 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2941 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2945 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2949 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2952 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2953 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2955 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2958 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2963 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2964 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2965 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2967 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2968 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2970 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2971 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2976 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2977 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2982 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2983 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2984 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2986 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2987 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2988 of the 'missing image' image.
2992 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2994 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2996 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3001 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3002 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3003 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3004 its name into another program.
3006 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3010 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3012 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3013 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3014 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3016 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3017 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3018 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3021 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3022 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3026 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3027 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3028 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3032 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3033 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3034 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3038 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3039 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3040 and position the icons directly.
3044 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3049 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3050 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3051 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3055 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3059 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3060 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3064 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3069 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3073 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3074 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3075 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3076 some versions of GTK+.
3080 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3085 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3086 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3087 from a sub-sub-menu.
3089 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3090 drawn on a log scale.
3094 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3095 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3096 happy with the UI yet though...
3098 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3099 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3100 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3104 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3105 by Stephen Harrison).
3107 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3109 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3110 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3111 standard types are in Choices.
3112 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3114 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3115 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3116 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3121 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3122 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3123 shell command minibuffer.
3127 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3128 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3129 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3130 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3131 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3133 Default search path for Choices is now:
3134 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3136 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3137 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3138 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3142 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3143 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3147 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3148 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3149 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3154 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3155 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3156 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3159 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3161 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3162 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3163 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3165 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3166 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3170 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3171 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3172 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3173 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3178 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3179 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3180 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3182 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3184 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3185 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3189 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3190 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3191 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3196 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3197 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3200 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3202 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3207 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3212 Added GNU gettext support.
3213 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3217 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3219 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3221 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3226 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3230 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3231 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3233 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3234 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3239 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3240 onto the directory and winks the file.
3244 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3245 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3246 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3248 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3249 instead of random values.
3250 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3252 Applied Bernard's patch:
3253 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3254 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3255 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3256 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3257 it the RISC OS way...
3258 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3259 alignment corrected.
3260 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3265 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3269 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3270 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3274 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3275 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3276 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3277 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3278 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3279 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3280 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3281 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3282 in the file(1) says... box).
3285 Before the Changes file
3286 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3287 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3289 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3290 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3291 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3292 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3293 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD