2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
11 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
12 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
14 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
16 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
20 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
21 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
26 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
30 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
31 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
32 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
36 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
37 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
41 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
45 Preserve selection when changing view type.
46 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
50 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
51 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
52 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
56 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
60 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
61 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
62 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
63 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
65 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
66 the information in the tooltips anyway.
70 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
71 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
75 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
80 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
81 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
85 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
89 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
90 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
91 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
92 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
97 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
98 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
99 Always use case-insensitive sort.
103 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
107 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
108 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
112 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
113 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
114 since it didn't include the contents.
115 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
116 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
120 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
124 Style improvements to options window.
128 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
132 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
134 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
136 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
141 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
142 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
143 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
144 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
148 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
152 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
156 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
157 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
161 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
163 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
168 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
172 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
173 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
174 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
179 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
183 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
187 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
191 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
195 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
196 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
197 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
201 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
202 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
206 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
207 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
212 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
216 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
220 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
225 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
226 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
230 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
231 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
236 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
237 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
241 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
242 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
243 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
247 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
251 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
252 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
253 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
254 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
255 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
259 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
260 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
264 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
265 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
269 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
273 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
274 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
275 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
276 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
277 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
278 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
282 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
283 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
284 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
288 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
289 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
294 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
298 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
300 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
302 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
307 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
311 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
315 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
316 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
321 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
325 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
329 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
330 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
331 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
335 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
339 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
344 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
348 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
349 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
350 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
351 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
355 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
359 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
360 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
364 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
365 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
366 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
370 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
374 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
378 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
379 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
380 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
381 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
382 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
383 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
387 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
388 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
392 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
393 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
394 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
398 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
399 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
403 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
407 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
408 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
409 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
410 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
412 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
414 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
418 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
419 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
420 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
424 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
428 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
429 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
434 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
438 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
442 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
443 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
447 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
448 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
449 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
453 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
454 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
458 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
459 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
463 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
464 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
468 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
472 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
473 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
477 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
479 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
481 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
485 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
489 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
490 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
494 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
498 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
502 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
503 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
504 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
505 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
506 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
507 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
511 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
515 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
517 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
518 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
522 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
523 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
527 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
531 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
532 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
533 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
534 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
536 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
538 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
542 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
543 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
547 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
548 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
549 disappeared at the wrong moment.
553 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
554 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
555 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
556 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
557 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
558 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
559 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
563 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
564 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
568 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
572 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
576 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
581 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
585 Options to set iconification layout policy.
586 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
587 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
591 Pinboard background colour option works again.
592 Position iconified windows sensibly.
593 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
597 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
598 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
599 (requested by Ryan Harris).
603 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
604 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
608 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
613 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
614 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
615 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
616 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
617 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
619 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
620 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
624 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
628 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
629 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
630 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
631 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
635 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
636 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
637 Many improvements to the pinboard:
638 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
639 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
640 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
644 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
648 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
649 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
653 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
654 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
655 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
656 restart (Olli Helenius).
660 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
664 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
665 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
666 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
671 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
676 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
677 Small and Large sizes.
681 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
685 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
686 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
690 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
691 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
692 (requested by Gregory Spath).
693 Don't quit while Options window is open.
697 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
698 the window (requested by Ashwin).
699 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
704 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
709 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
710 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
714 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
715 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
720 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
722 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
724 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
728 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
732 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
734 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
736 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
740 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
742 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
743 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
747 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
748 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
752 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
753 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
757 Various speed improvements.
758 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
762 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
763 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
767 Slight speed increase when starting.
771 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
775 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
776 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
777 button is no longer supported.
781 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
785 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
789 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
794 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
795 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
799 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
800 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
801 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
805 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
806 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
807 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
808 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
812 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
813 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
814 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
816 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
821 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
822 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
827 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
831 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
832 and converted to new dialog style.
836 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
837 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
841 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
842 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
846 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
850 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
852 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
856 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
860 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
861 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
862 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
866 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
867 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
871 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
876 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
880 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
881 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
885 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
886 and Cancel is now Revert.
887 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
888 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
892 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
896 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
897 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
899 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
900 (reported by Serban Udrea).
901 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
902 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
906 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
908 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
910 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
913 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
917 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
919 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
923 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
924 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
925 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
929 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
930 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
932 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
934 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
938 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
939 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
943 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
944 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
945 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
946 (requested by Andras Mohari).
950 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
954 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
955 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
959 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
960 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
965 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
966 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
970 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
971 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
972 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
976 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
977 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
981 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
982 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
983 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
984 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
986 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
991 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
992 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
994 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
996 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1000 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1001 any image (saves time).
1002 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1003 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1004 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1005 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1007 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1008 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1012 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1013 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1015 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1016 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1018 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1023 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1024 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1025 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1026 has stopped accepting STRING.
1030 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1031 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1035 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1040 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1041 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1043 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1044 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1045 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1049 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1050 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1051 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1052 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1053 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1054 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1058 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1059 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1060 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1061 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1062 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1063 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1068 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1069 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1070 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1071 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1076 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1077 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1081 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1082 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1084 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1086 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1087 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1088 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1092 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1093 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1094 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1098 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1099 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1103 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1104 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1108 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1110 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1115 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1116 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1120 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1121 their menus correctly.
1122 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1127 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1128 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1129 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1133 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1134 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1138 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1142 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1145 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1147 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1148 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1149 the toggle menu items from working!
1153 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1155 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1161 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1162 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1166 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1167 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1168 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1169 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1170 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1171 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1175 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1179 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1180 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1184 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1185 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1186 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1190 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1191 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1196 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1198 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1202 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1203 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1204 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1205 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1209 Improved error reporting.
1210 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1214 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1215 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1216 check box and does 'Yes'.
1220 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1221 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1222 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
1223 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1228 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1230 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1231 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1233 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1235 Internal changes to options system:
1236 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1237 filer is fully initialised).
1238 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1240 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1242 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1243 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1244 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1245 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1249 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1250 now reclaims the selection.
1251 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1252 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1257 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1258 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1259 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1260 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1261 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1265 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1266 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1268 Code tidying in various places.
1272 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1273 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1278 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1279 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1283 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1284 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1285 edit the file, not the file itself!
1286 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1290 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1291 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1292 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1293 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1294 of the SOAP working draft.
1295 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1296 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1297 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1302 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1303 it was in the displayed area before.
1305 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1308 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1309 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1313 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1314 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1315 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1317 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1318 selection (Andras Mohari).
1322 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1326 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1330 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1331 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1332 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1336 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1340 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1342 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1343 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1344 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1348 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1349 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1354 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1355 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1356 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1360 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1364 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1368 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1369 replaced by a Restart button.
1373 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1374 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1378 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1382 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1386 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1387 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1388 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1392 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1393 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1395 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1396 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1397 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1401 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1402 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1407 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1409 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1410 (requested by Graham Borland).
1411 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1412 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1413 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1417 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1418 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1419 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1420 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1424 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1425 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1426 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1427 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1428 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1429 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1430 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1431 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1432 - Lots of code tidying.
1437 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1438 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1442 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1444 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1446 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1450 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1451 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1455 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1456 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1460 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1461 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1465 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1466 option to access it directly.
1470 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1471 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1472 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1476 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1477 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1478 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1479 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1480 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1481 when the filer is run.
1485 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1486 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1487 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1492 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1496 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1497 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1501 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1503 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1507 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1511 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1512 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1513 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1518 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1519 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1520 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1521 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1522 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1523 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1524 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1528 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1532 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1533 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1537 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1538 of possible actions (Taras).
1539 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1541 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1542 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1546 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1551 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1555 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1558 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1559 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1563 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1564 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1566 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1568 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1569 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1570 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1571 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1575 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1579 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1583 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1587 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1592 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1593 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1594 the first one found.
1595 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1599 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1603 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1604 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1605 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1609 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1610 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1611 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1616 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1617 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1618 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1622 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1624 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1629 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1634 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1638 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1639 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1643 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1645 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1646 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1650 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1654 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1655 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1659 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1660 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1664 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1665 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1667 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1669 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1673 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1677 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1678 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1682 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1686 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1691 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1692 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1696 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1700 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1704 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1706 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1707 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1711 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1712 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1716 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1717 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1718 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1722 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1723 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1727 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1728 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1730 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1732 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1736 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1737 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1738 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1740 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1741 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1743 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1745 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1746 and the default size with no details.
1750 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1751 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1755 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1760 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1765 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1769 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1774 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1775 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1779 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1783 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1784 the button to run it does.
1785 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1786 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1787 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1791 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1792 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1793 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1797 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1801 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1802 and panels into icon.c.
1806 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1807 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1808 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1809 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1813 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1815 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1817 Updated the documentation.
1821 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1822 up if they're too small.
1826 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1828 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1829 (Christopher Arndt).
1830 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1835 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1836 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1840 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1841 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1845 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1846 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1847 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1852 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1857 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1861 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1862 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1867 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1872 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1873 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1877 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1878 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1882 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1886 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1890 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1894 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1895 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1898 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1899 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1904 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1905 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1906 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1907 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1912 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1913 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1915 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1917 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1918 for non-applications.
1922 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1923 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1928 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1932 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1933 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1935 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1939 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1940 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1944 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1945 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1949 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1950 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1954 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1955 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1957 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1958 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1962 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1963 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1965 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1969 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1970 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1973 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1977 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1978 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1982 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1986 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1987 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1990 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1991 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1995 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1999 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2004 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2008 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2009 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2014 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2019 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2023 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2025 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2027 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2028 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2030 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2032 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2033 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2037 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2038 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2039 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2041 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2042 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2046 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2050 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2051 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2055 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2059 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2060 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2062 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2065 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2066 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2067 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2071 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2072 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2077 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2082 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2084 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2087 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2089 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2090 sensible shape itself now.
2092 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2093 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2094 file at all, just a reused inode!
2095 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2096 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2097 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2101 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2105 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2106 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2111 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2112 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2116 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2120 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2121 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2125 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2130 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2134 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2135 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2139 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2140 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2141 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2142 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2143 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2147 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2148 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2149 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2150 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2151 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2155 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2156 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2157 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2161 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2163 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2164 python's portable system.
2165 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2166 set the LANG variable.
2170 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2171 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2173 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2175 Made a few updates to the manual.
2179 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2180 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2182 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2184 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2185 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2189 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2190 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2194 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2195 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2200 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2201 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2202 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2206 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2207 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2211 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2212 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2216 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2217 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2219 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2220 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2221 open... (Denis Manente).
2225 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2229 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2231 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2232 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2233 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2235 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2237 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2239 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2240 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2245 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2246 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2247 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2251 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2252 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2256 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2260 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2264 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2265 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2266 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2270 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2271 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2272 between pinboards...
2274 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2275 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2276 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2280 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2283 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2284 window (Denis Manente).
2286 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2287 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2291 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2292 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2293 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2297 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2300 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2301 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2303 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2308 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2309 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2311 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2315 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2316 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2318 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2320 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2325 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2326 the icon points to as well as its name.
2328 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2329 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2333 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2334 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2335 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2336 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2340 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2344 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2345 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2346 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2350 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2351 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2353 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2354 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2357 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2358 the item after the drag.
2360 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2361 showing where the file really is.
2365 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2366 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2371 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2372 warning is displayed if so.
2374 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2378 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2379 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2380 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2381 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2384 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2385 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2386 works like the panels.
2390 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2391 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2392 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2393 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2394 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2398 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2399 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2400 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2401 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2403 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2408 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2412 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2413 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2416 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2417 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2419 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2422 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2423 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2424 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2425 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2427 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2429 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2430 slightly. Updated the manual.
2432 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2433 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2436 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2437 or bottom panel to make room.
2441 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2446 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2447 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2448 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2449 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2450 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2454 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2456 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2457 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2459 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2463 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2464 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2468 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2472 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2474 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2479 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2480 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2482 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2486 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2487 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2488 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2492 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2493 rewriting the panel system.
2497 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2500 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2501 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2505 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2506 (suggested by James Kermode).
2510 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2511 than as a full path.
2513 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2515 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2516 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2517 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2521 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2522 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2526 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2527 rename something onto another filesystem.
2531 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2533 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2534 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2538 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2542 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2545 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2546 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2548 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2551 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2556 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2557 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2558 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2560 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2561 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2563 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2564 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2569 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2570 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2575 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2576 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2577 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2579 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2580 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2581 of the 'missing image' image.
2585 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2587 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2589 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2594 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2595 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2596 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2597 its name into another program.
2599 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2603 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2605 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2606 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2607 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2609 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2610 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2611 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2614 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2615 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2619 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2620 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2621 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2625 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2626 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2627 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2631 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2632 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2633 and position the icons directly.
2637 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2642 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2643 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2644 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2648 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2652 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2653 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2657 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2662 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2666 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2667 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2668 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2669 some versions of GTK+.
2673 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2678 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2679 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2680 from a sub-sub-menu.
2682 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2683 drawn on a log scale.
2687 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2688 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2689 happy with the UI yet though...
2691 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2692 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2693 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2697 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2698 by Stephen Harrison).
2700 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2702 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2703 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2704 standard types are in Choices.
2705 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2707 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2708 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2709 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2714 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2715 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2716 shell command minibuffer.
2720 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2721 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2722 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2723 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2724 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2726 Default search path for Choices is now:
2727 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2729 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2730 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2731 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2735 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2736 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2740 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2741 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2742 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2747 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2748 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2749 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2752 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2754 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2755 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2756 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2758 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2759 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2763 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2764 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2765 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2766 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2771 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2772 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2773 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2775 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2777 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2778 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2782 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2783 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2784 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2789 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2790 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2793 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2795 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2800 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2805 Added GNU gettext support.
2806 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2810 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2812 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2814 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2819 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2823 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2824 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2826 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2827 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2832 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2833 onto the directory and winks the file.
2837 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2838 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2839 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2841 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2842 instead of random values.
2843 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2845 Applied Bernard's patch:
2846 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2847 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2848 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2849 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2850 it the RISC OS way...
2851 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2852 alignment corrected.
2853 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2858 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2862 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2863 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2867 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2868 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2869 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2870 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2871 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2872 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2873 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2874 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2875 in the file(1) says... box).
2878 Before the Changes file
2879 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2880 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2882 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2883 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2884 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2885 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2886 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD