2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
11 Style improvements to options window.
15 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
19 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
21 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
23 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
28 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
29 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
30 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
31 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
35 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
39 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
43 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
44 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
48 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
50 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
55 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
59 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
60 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
61 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
66 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
70 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
74 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
78 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
82 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
83 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
84 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
88 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
89 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
93 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
94 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
99 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
103 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
107 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
112 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
113 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
117 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
118 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
123 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
124 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
128 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
129 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
130 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
134 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
138 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
139 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
140 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
141 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
142 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
146 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
147 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
151 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
152 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
156 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
160 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
161 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
162 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
163 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
164 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
165 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
169 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
170 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
171 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
175 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
176 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
181 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
185 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
187 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
189 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
194 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
198 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
202 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
203 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
208 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
212 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
216 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
217 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
218 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
222 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
226 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
231 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
235 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
236 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
237 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
238 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
242 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
246 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
247 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
251 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
252 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
253 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
257 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
261 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
265 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
266 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
267 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
268 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
269 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
270 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
274 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
275 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
279 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
280 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
281 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
285 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
286 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
290 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
294 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
295 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
296 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
297 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
299 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
301 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
305 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
306 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
307 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
311 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
315 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
316 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
321 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
325 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
329 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
330 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
334 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
335 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
336 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
340 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
341 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
345 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
346 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
350 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
351 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
355 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
359 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
360 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
364 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
366 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
368 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
372 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
376 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
377 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
381 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
385 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
389 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
390 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
391 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
392 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
393 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
394 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
398 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
402 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
404 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
405 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
409 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
410 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
414 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
418 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
419 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
420 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
421 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
423 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
425 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
429 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
430 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
434 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
435 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
436 disappeared at the wrong moment.
440 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
441 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
442 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
443 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
444 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
445 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
446 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
450 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
451 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
455 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
459 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
463 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
468 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
472 Options to set iconification layout policy.
473 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
474 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
478 Pinboard background colour option works again.
479 Position iconified windows sensibly.
480 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
484 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
485 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
486 (requested by Ryan Harris).
490 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
491 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
495 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
500 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
501 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
502 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
503 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
504 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
506 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
507 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
511 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
515 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
516 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
517 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
518 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
522 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
523 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
524 Many improvements to the pinboard:
525 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
526 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
527 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
531 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
535 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
536 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
540 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
541 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
542 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
543 restart (Olli Helenius).
547 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
551 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
552 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
553 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
558 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
563 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
564 Small and Large sizes.
568 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
572 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
573 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
577 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
578 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
579 (requested by Gregory Spath).
580 Don't quit while Options window is open.
584 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
585 the window (requested by Ashwin).
586 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
591 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
596 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
597 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
601 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
602 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
607 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
609 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
611 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
615 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
619 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
621 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
623 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
627 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
629 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
630 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
634 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
635 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
639 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
640 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
644 Various speed improvements.
645 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
649 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
650 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
654 Slight speed increase when starting.
658 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
662 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
663 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
664 button is no longer supported.
668 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
672 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
676 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
681 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
682 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
686 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
687 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
688 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
692 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
693 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
694 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
695 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
699 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
700 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
701 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
703 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
708 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
709 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
714 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
718 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
719 and converted to new dialog style.
723 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
724 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
728 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
729 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
733 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
737 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
739 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
743 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
747 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
748 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
749 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
753 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
754 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
758 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
763 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
767 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
768 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
772 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
773 and Cancel is now Revert.
774 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
775 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
779 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
783 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
784 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
786 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
787 (reported by Serban Udrea).
788 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
789 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
793 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
795 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
797 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
800 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
804 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
806 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
810 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
811 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
812 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
816 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
817 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
819 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
821 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
825 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
826 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
830 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
831 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
832 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
833 (requested by Andras Mohari).
837 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
841 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
842 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
846 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
847 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
852 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
853 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
857 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
858 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
859 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
863 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
864 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
868 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
869 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
870 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
871 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
873 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
878 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
879 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
881 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
883 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
887 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
888 any image (saves time).
889 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
890 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
891 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
892 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
894 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
895 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
899 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
900 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
902 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
903 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
905 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
910 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
911 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
912 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
913 has stopped accepting STRING.
917 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
918 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
922 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
927 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
928 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
930 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
931 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
932 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
936 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
937 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
938 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
939 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
940 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
941 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
945 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
946 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
947 Allow '~' in globicons file.
948 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
949 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
950 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
955 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
956 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
957 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
958 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
963 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
964 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
968 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
969 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
971 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
973 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
974 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
975 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
979 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
980 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
981 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
985 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
986 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
990 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
991 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
995 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
997 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1002 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1003 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1007 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1008 their menus correctly.
1009 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1014 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1015 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1016 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1020 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1021 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1025 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1029 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1032 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1034 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1035 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1036 the toggle menu items from working!
1040 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1042 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1048 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1049 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1053 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1054 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1055 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1056 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1057 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1058 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1062 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1066 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1067 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1071 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1072 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1073 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1077 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1078 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1083 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1085 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1089 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1090 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1091 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1092 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1096 Improved error reporting.
1097 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1101 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1102 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1103 check box and does 'Yes'.
1107 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1108 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1109 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
1110 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1115 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1117 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1118 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1120 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1122 Internal changes to options system:
1123 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1124 filer is fully initialised).
1125 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1127 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1129 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1130 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1131 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1132 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1136 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1137 now reclaims the selection.
1138 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1139 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1144 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1145 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1146 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1147 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1148 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1152 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1153 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1155 Code tidying in various places.
1159 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1160 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1165 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1166 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1170 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1171 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1172 edit the file, not the file itself!
1173 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1177 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1178 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1179 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1180 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1181 of the SOAP working draft.
1182 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1183 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1184 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1189 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1190 it was in the displayed area before.
1192 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1195 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1196 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1200 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1201 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1202 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1204 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1205 selection (Andras Mohari).
1209 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1213 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1217 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1218 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1219 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1223 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1227 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1229 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1230 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1231 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1235 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1236 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1241 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1242 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1243 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1247 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1251 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1255 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1256 replaced by a Restart button.
1260 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1261 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1265 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1269 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1273 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1274 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1275 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1279 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1280 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1282 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1283 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1284 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1288 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1289 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1294 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1296 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1297 (requested by Graham Borland).
1298 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1299 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1300 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1304 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1305 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1306 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1307 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1311 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1312 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1313 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1314 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1315 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1316 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1317 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1318 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1319 - Lots of code tidying.
1324 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1325 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1329 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1331 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1333 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1337 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1338 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1342 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1343 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1347 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1348 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1352 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1353 option to access it directly.
1357 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1358 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1359 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1363 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1364 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1365 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1366 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1367 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1368 when the filer is run.
1372 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1373 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1374 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1379 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1383 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1384 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1388 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1390 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1394 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1398 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1399 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1400 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1405 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1406 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1407 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1408 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1409 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1410 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1411 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1415 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1419 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1420 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1424 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1425 of possible actions (Taras).
1426 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1428 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1429 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1433 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1438 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1442 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1445 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1446 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1450 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1451 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1453 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1455 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1456 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1457 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1458 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1462 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1466 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1470 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1474 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1479 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1480 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1481 the first one found.
1482 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1486 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1490 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1491 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1492 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1496 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1497 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1498 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1503 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1504 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1505 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1509 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1511 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1516 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1521 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1525 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1526 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1530 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1532 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1533 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1537 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1541 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1542 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1546 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1547 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1551 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1552 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1554 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1556 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1560 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1564 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1565 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1569 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1573 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1578 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1579 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1583 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1587 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1591 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1593 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1594 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1598 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1599 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1603 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1604 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1605 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1609 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1610 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1614 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1615 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1617 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1619 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1623 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1624 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1625 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1627 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1628 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1630 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1632 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1633 and the default size with no details.
1637 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1638 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1642 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1647 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1652 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1656 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1661 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1662 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1666 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1670 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1671 the button to run it does.
1672 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1673 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1674 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1678 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1679 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1680 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1684 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1688 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1689 and panels into icon.c.
1693 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1694 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1695 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1696 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1700 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1702 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1704 Updated the documentation.
1708 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1709 up if they're too small.
1713 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1715 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1716 (Christopher Arndt).
1717 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1722 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1723 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1727 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1728 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1732 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1733 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1734 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1739 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1744 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1748 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1749 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1754 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1759 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1760 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1764 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1765 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1769 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1773 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1777 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1781 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1782 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1785 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1786 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1791 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1792 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1793 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1794 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1799 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1800 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1802 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1804 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1805 for non-applications.
1809 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1810 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1815 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1819 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1820 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1822 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1826 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1827 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1831 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1832 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1836 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1837 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1841 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1842 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1844 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1845 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1849 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1850 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1852 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1856 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1857 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1860 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1864 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1865 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1869 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1873 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1874 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1877 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1878 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1882 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1886 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1891 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1895 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1896 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1901 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1906 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1910 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1912 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1914 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1915 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1917 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1919 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1920 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1924 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1925 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1926 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1928 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1929 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1933 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1937 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1938 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1942 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1946 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1947 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1949 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1952 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1953 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1954 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1958 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1959 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1964 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1969 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1971 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1974 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1976 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1977 sensible shape itself now.
1979 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1980 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1981 file at all, just a reused inode!
1982 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1983 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1984 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1988 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1992 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1993 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1998 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1999 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2003 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2007 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2008 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2012 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2017 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2021 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2022 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2026 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2027 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2028 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2029 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2030 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2034 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2035 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2036 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2037 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2038 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2042 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2043 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2044 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2048 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2050 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2051 python's portable system.
2052 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2053 set the LANG variable.
2057 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2058 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2060 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2062 Made a few updates to the manual.
2066 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2067 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2069 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2071 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2072 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2076 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2077 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2081 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2082 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2087 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2088 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2089 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2093 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2094 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2098 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2099 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2103 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2104 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2106 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2107 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2108 open... (Denis Manente).
2112 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2116 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2118 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2119 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2120 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2122 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2124 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2126 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2127 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2132 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2133 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2134 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2138 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2139 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2143 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2147 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2151 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2152 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2153 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2157 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2158 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2159 between pinboards...
2161 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2162 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2163 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2167 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2170 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2171 window (Denis Manente).
2173 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2174 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2178 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2179 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2180 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2184 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2187 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2188 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2190 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2195 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2196 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2198 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2202 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2203 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2205 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2207 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2212 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2213 the icon points to as well as its name.
2215 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2216 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2220 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2221 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2222 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2223 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2227 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2231 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2232 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2233 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2237 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2238 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2240 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2241 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2244 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2245 the item after the drag.
2247 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2248 showing where the file really is.
2252 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2253 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2258 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2259 warning is displayed if so.
2261 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2265 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2266 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2267 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2268 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2271 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2272 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2273 works like the panels.
2277 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2278 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2279 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2280 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2281 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2285 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2286 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2287 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2288 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2290 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2295 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2299 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2300 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2303 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2304 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2306 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2309 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2310 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2311 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2312 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2314 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2316 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2317 slightly. Updated the manual.
2319 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2320 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2323 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2324 or bottom panel to make room.
2328 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2333 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2334 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2335 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2336 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2337 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2341 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2343 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2344 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2346 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2350 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2351 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2355 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2359 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2361 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2366 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2367 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2369 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2373 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2374 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2375 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2379 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2380 rewriting the panel system.
2384 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2387 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2388 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2392 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2393 (suggested by James Kermode).
2397 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2398 than as a full path.
2400 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2402 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2403 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2404 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2408 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2409 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2413 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2414 rename something onto another filesystem.
2418 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2420 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2421 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2425 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2429 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2432 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2433 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2435 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2438 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2443 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2444 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2445 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2447 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2448 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2450 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2451 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2456 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2457 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2462 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2463 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2464 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2466 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2467 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2468 of the 'missing image' image.
2472 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2474 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2476 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2481 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2482 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2483 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2484 its name into another program.
2486 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2490 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2492 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2493 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2494 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2496 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2497 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2498 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2501 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2502 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2506 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2507 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2508 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2512 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2513 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2514 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2518 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2519 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2520 and position the icons directly.
2524 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2529 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2530 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2531 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2535 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2539 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2540 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2544 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2549 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2553 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2554 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2555 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2556 some versions of GTK+.
2560 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2565 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2566 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2567 from a sub-sub-menu.
2569 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2570 drawn on a log scale.
2574 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2575 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2576 happy with the UI yet though...
2578 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2579 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2580 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2584 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2585 by Stephen Harrison).
2587 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2589 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2590 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2591 standard types are in Choices.
2592 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2594 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2595 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2596 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2601 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2602 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2603 shell command minibuffer.
2607 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2608 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2609 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2610 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2611 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2613 Default search path for Choices is now:
2614 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2616 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2617 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2618 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2622 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2623 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2627 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2628 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2629 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2634 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2635 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2636 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2639 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2641 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2642 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2643 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2645 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2646 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2650 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2651 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2652 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2653 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2658 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2659 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2660 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2662 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2664 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2665 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2669 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2670 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2671 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2676 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2677 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2680 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2682 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2687 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2692 Added GNU gettext support.
2693 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2697 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2699 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2701 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2706 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2710 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2711 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2713 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2714 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2719 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2720 onto the directory and winks the file.
2724 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2725 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2726 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2728 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2729 instead of random values.
2730 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2732 Applied Bernard's patch:
2733 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2734 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2735 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2736 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2737 it the RISC OS way...
2738 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2739 alignment corrected.
2740 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2745 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2749 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2750 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2754 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2755 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2756 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2757 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2758 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2759 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2760 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2761 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2762 in the file(1) says... box).
2765 Before the Changes file
2766 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2767 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2769 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2770 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2771 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2772 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2773 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD