2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
11 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
16 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
17 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
21 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
25 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
26 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
27 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
28 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
33 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
34 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
35 Always use case-insensitive sort.
39 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
43 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
44 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
48 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
49 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
50 since it didn't include the contents.
51 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
52 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
56 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
60 Style improvements to options window.
64 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
68 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
70 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
72 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
77 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
78 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
79 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
80 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
84 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
88 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
92 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
93 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
97 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
99 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
104 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
108 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
109 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
110 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
115 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
119 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
123 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
127 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
131 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
132 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
133 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
137 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
138 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
142 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
143 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
148 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
152 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
156 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
161 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
162 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
166 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
167 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
172 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
173 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
177 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
178 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
179 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
183 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
187 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
188 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
189 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
190 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
191 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
195 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
196 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
200 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
201 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
205 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
209 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
210 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
211 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
212 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
213 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
214 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
218 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
219 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
220 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
224 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
225 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
230 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
234 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
236 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
238 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
243 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
247 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
251 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
252 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
257 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
261 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
265 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
266 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
267 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
271 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
275 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
280 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
284 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
285 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
286 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
287 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
291 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
295 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
296 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
300 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
301 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
302 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
306 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
310 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
314 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
315 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
316 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
317 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
318 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
319 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
323 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
324 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
328 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
329 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
330 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
334 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
335 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
339 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
343 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
344 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
345 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
346 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
348 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
350 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
354 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
355 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
356 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
360 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
364 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
365 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
370 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
374 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
378 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
379 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
383 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
384 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
385 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
389 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
390 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
394 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
395 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
399 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
400 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
404 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
408 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
409 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
413 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
415 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
417 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
421 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
425 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
426 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
430 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
434 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
438 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
439 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
440 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
441 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
442 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
443 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
447 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
451 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
453 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
454 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
458 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
459 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
463 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
467 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
468 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
469 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
470 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
472 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
474 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
478 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
479 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
483 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
484 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
485 disappeared at the wrong moment.
489 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
490 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
491 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
492 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
493 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
494 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
495 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
499 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
500 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
504 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
508 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
512 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
517 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
521 Options to set iconification layout policy.
522 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
523 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
527 Pinboard background colour option works again.
528 Position iconified windows sensibly.
529 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
533 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
534 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
535 (requested by Ryan Harris).
539 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
540 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
544 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
549 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
550 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
551 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
552 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
553 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
555 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
556 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
560 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
564 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
565 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
566 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
567 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
571 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
572 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
573 Many improvements to the pinboard:
574 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
575 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
576 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
580 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
584 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
585 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
589 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
590 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
591 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
592 restart (Olli Helenius).
596 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
600 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
601 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
602 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
607 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
612 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
613 Small and Large sizes.
617 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
621 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
622 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
626 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
627 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
628 (requested by Gregory Spath).
629 Don't quit while Options window is open.
633 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
634 the window (requested by Ashwin).
635 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
640 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
645 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
646 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
650 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
651 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
656 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
658 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
660 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
664 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
668 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
670 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
672 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
676 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
678 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
679 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
683 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
684 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
688 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
689 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
693 Various speed improvements.
694 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
698 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
699 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
703 Slight speed increase when starting.
707 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
711 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
712 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
713 button is no longer supported.
717 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
721 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
725 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
730 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
731 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
735 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
736 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
737 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
741 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
742 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
743 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
744 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
748 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
749 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
750 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
752 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
757 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
758 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
763 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
767 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
768 and converted to new dialog style.
772 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
773 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
777 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
778 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
782 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
786 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
788 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
792 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
796 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
797 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
798 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
802 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
803 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
807 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
812 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
816 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
817 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
821 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
822 and Cancel is now Revert.
823 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
824 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
828 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
832 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
833 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
835 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
836 (reported by Serban Udrea).
837 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
838 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
842 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
844 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
846 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
849 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
853 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
855 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
859 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
860 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
861 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
865 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
866 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
868 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
870 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
874 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
875 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
879 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
880 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
881 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
882 (requested by Andras Mohari).
886 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
890 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
891 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
895 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
896 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
901 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
902 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
906 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
907 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
908 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
912 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
913 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
917 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
918 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
919 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
920 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
922 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
927 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
928 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
930 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
932 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
936 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
937 any image (saves time).
938 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
939 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
940 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
941 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
943 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
944 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
948 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
949 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
951 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
952 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
954 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
959 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
960 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
961 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
962 has stopped accepting STRING.
966 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
967 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
971 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
976 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
977 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
979 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
980 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
981 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
985 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
986 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
987 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
988 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
989 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
990 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
994 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
995 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
996 Allow '~' in globicons file.
997 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
998 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
999 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1004 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1005 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1006 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1007 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1012 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1013 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1017 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1018 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1020 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1022 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1023 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1024 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1028 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1029 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1030 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1034 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1035 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1039 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1040 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1044 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1046 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1051 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1052 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1056 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1057 their menus correctly.
1058 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1063 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1064 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1065 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1069 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1070 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1074 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1078 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1081 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1083 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1084 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1085 the toggle menu items from working!
1089 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1091 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1097 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1098 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1102 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1103 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1104 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1105 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1106 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1107 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1111 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1115 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1116 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1120 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1121 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1122 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1126 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1127 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1132 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1134 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1138 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1139 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1140 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1141 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1145 Improved error reporting.
1146 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1150 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1151 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1152 check box and does 'Yes'.
1156 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1157 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1158 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
1159 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1164 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1166 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1167 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1169 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1171 Internal changes to options system:
1172 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1173 filer is fully initialised).
1174 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1176 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1178 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1179 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1180 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1181 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1185 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1186 now reclaims the selection.
1187 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1188 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1193 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1194 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1195 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1196 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1197 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1201 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1202 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1204 Code tidying in various places.
1208 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1209 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1214 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1215 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1219 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1220 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1221 edit the file, not the file itself!
1222 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1226 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1227 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1228 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1229 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1230 of the SOAP working draft.
1231 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1232 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1233 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1238 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1239 it was in the displayed area before.
1241 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1244 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1245 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1249 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1250 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1251 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1253 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1254 selection (Andras Mohari).
1258 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1262 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1266 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1267 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1268 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1272 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1276 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1278 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1279 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1280 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1284 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1285 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1290 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1291 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1292 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1296 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1300 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1304 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1305 replaced by a Restart button.
1309 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1310 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1314 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1318 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1322 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1323 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1324 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1328 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1329 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1331 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1332 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1333 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1337 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1338 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1343 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1345 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1346 (requested by Graham Borland).
1347 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1348 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1349 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1353 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1354 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1355 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1356 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1360 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1361 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1362 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1363 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1364 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1365 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1366 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1367 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1368 - Lots of code tidying.
1373 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1374 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1378 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1380 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1382 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1386 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1387 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1391 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1392 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1396 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1397 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1401 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1402 option to access it directly.
1406 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1407 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1408 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1412 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1413 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1414 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1415 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1416 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1417 when the filer is run.
1421 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1422 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1423 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1428 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1432 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1433 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1437 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1439 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1443 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1447 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1448 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1449 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1454 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1455 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1456 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1457 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1458 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1459 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1460 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1464 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1468 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1469 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1473 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1474 of possible actions (Taras).
1475 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1477 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1478 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1482 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1487 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1491 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1494 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1495 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1499 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1500 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1502 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1504 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1505 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1506 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1507 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1511 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1515 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1519 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1523 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1528 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1529 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1530 the first one found.
1531 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1535 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1539 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1540 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1541 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1545 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1546 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1547 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1552 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1553 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1554 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1558 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1560 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1565 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1570 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1574 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1575 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1579 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1581 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1582 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1586 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1590 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1591 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1595 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1596 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1600 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1601 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1603 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1605 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1609 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1613 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1614 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1618 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1622 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1627 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1628 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1632 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1636 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1640 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1642 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1643 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1647 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1648 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1652 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1653 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1654 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1658 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1659 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1663 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1664 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1666 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1668 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1672 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1673 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1674 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1676 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1677 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1679 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1681 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1682 and the default size with no details.
1686 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1687 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1691 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1696 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1701 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1705 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1710 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1711 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1715 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1719 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1720 the button to run it does.
1721 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1722 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1723 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1727 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1728 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1729 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1733 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1737 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1738 and panels into icon.c.
1742 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1743 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1744 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1745 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1749 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1751 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1753 Updated the documentation.
1757 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1758 up if they're too small.
1762 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1764 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1765 (Christopher Arndt).
1766 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1771 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1772 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1776 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1777 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1781 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1782 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1783 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1788 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1793 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1797 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1798 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1803 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1808 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1809 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1813 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1814 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1818 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1822 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1826 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1830 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1831 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1834 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1835 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1840 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1841 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1842 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1843 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1848 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1849 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1851 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1853 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1854 for non-applications.
1858 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1859 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1864 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1868 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1869 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1871 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1875 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1876 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1880 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1881 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1885 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1886 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1890 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1891 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1893 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1894 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1898 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1899 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1901 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1905 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1906 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1909 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1913 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1914 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1918 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1922 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1923 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1926 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1927 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1931 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1935 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1940 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1944 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1945 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1950 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1955 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1959 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1961 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1963 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1964 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1966 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1968 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1969 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1973 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1974 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1975 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1977 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1978 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1982 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1986 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1987 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1991 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1995 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1996 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1998 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2001 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2002 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2003 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2007 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2008 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2013 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2018 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2020 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2023 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2025 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2026 sensible shape itself now.
2028 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2029 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2030 file at all, just a reused inode!
2031 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2032 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2033 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2037 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2041 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2042 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2047 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2048 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2052 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2056 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2057 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2061 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2066 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2070 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2071 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2075 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2076 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2077 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2078 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2079 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2083 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2084 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2085 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2086 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2087 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2091 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2092 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2093 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2097 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2099 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2100 python's portable system.
2101 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2102 set the LANG variable.
2106 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2107 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2109 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2111 Made a few updates to the manual.
2115 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2116 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2118 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2120 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2121 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2125 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2126 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2130 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2131 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2136 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2137 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2138 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2142 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2143 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2147 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2148 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2152 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2153 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2155 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2156 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2157 open... (Denis Manente).
2161 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2165 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2167 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2168 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2169 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2171 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2173 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2175 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2176 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2181 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2182 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2183 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2187 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2188 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2192 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2196 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2200 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2201 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2202 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2206 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2207 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2208 between pinboards...
2210 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2211 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2212 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2216 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2219 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2220 window (Denis Manente).
2222 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2223 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2227 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2228 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2229 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2233 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2236 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2237 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2239 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2244 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2245 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2247 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2251 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2252 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2254 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2256 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2261 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2262 the icon points to as well as its name.
2264 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2265 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2269 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2270 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2271 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2272 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2276 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2280 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2281 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2282 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2286 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2287 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2289 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2290 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2293 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2294 the item after the drag.
2296 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2297 showing where the file really is.
2301 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2302 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2307 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2308 warning is displayed if so.
2310 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2314 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2315 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2316 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2317 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2320 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2321 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2322 works like the panels.
2326 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2327 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2328 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2329 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2330 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2334 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2335 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2336 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2337 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2339 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2344 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2348 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2349 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2352 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2353 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2355 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2358 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2359 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2360 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2361 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2363 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2365 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2366 slightly. Updated the manual.
2368 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2369 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2372 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2373 or bottom panel to make room.
2377 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2382 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2383 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2384 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2385 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2386 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2390 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2392 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2393 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2395 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2399 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2400 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2404 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2408 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2410 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2415 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2416 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2418 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2422 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2423 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2424 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2428 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2429 rewriting the panel system.
2433 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2436 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2437 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2441 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2442 (suggested by James Kermode).
2446 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2447 than as a full path.
2449 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2451 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2452 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2453 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2457 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2458 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2462 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2463 rename something onto another filesystem.
2467 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2469 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2470 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2474 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2478 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2481 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2482 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2484 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2487 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2492 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2493 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2494 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2496 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2497 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2499 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2500 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2505 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2506 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2511 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2512 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2513 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2515 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2516 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2517 of the 'missing image' image.
2521 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2523 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2525 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2530 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2531 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2532 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2533 its name into another program.
2535 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2539 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2541 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2542 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2543 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2545 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2546 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2547 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2550 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2551 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2555 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2556 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2557 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2561 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2562 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2563 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2567 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2568 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2569 and position the icons directly.
2573 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2578 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2579 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2580 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2584 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2588 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2589 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2593 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2598 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2602 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2603 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2604 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2605 some versions of GTK+.
2609 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2614 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2615 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2616 from a sub-sub-menu.
2618 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2619 drawn on a log scale.
2623 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2624 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2625 happy with the UI yet though...
2627 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2628 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2629 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2633 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2634 by Stephen Harrison).
2636 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2638 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2639 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2640 standard types are in Choices.
2641 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2643 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2644 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2645 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2650 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2651 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2652 shell command minibuffer.
2656 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2657 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2658 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2659 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2660 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2662 Default search path for Choices is now:
2663 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2665 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2666 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2667 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2671 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2672 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2676 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2677 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2678 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2683 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2684 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2685 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2688 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2690 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2691 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2692 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2694 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2695 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2699 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2700 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2701 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2702 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2707 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2708 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2709 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2711 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2713 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2714 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2718 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2719 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2720 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2725 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2726 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2729 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2731 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2736 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2741 Added GNU gettext support.
2742 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2746 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2748 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2750 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2755 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2759 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2760 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2762 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2763 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2768 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2769 onto the directory and winks the file.
2773 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2774 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2775 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2777 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2778 instead of random values.
2779 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2781 Applied Bernard's patch:
2782 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2783 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2784 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2785 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2786 it the RISC OS way...
2787 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2788 alignment corrected.
2789 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2794 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2798 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2799 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2803 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2804 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2805 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2806 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2807 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2808 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2809 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2810 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2811 in the file(1) says... box).
2814 Before the Changes file
2815 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2816 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2818 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2819 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2820 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2821 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2822 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD