2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
8 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
12 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
16 Various speed improvements.
17 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
21 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
22 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
26 Slight speed increase when starting.
30 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
34 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
35 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
36 button is no longer supported.
40 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
44 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
48 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
53 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
54 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
58 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
59 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
60 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
64 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
65 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
66 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
67 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
71 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
72 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
73 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
75 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
80 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
81 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
86 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
90 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
91 and converted to new dialog style.
95 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
96 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
100 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
101 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
105 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
109 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
111 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
115 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
119 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
120 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
121 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
125 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
126 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
130 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
135 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
139 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
140 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
144 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
145 and Cancel is now Revert.
146 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
147 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
151 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
155 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
156 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
158 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
159 (reported by Serban Udrea).
160 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
161 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
165 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
167 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
169 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
172 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
176 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
178 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
182 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
183 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
184 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
188 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
189 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
191 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
193 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
197 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
198 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
202 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
203 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
204 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
205 (requested by Andras Mohari).
209 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
213 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
214 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
218 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
219 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
224 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
225 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
229 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
230 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
231 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
235 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
236 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
240 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
241 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
242 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
243 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
245 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
250 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
251 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
253 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
255 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
259 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
260 any image (saves time).
261 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
262 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
263 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
264 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
266 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
267 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
271 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
272 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
274 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
275 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
277 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
282 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
283 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
284 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
285 has stopped accepting STRING.
289 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
290 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
294 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
299 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
300 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
302 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
303 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
304 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
308 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
309 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
310 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
311 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
312 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
313 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
317 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
318 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
319 Allow '~' in globicons file.
320 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
321 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
322 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
327 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
328 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
329 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
330 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
335 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
336 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
340 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
341 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
343 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
345 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
346 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
347 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
351 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
352 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
353 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
357 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
358 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
362 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
363 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
367 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
369 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
374 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
375 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
379 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
380 their menus correctly.
381 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
386 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
387 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
388 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
392 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
393 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
397 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
401 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
404 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
406 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
407 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
408 the toggle menu items from working!
412 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
414 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
420 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
421 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
425 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
426 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
427 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
428 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
429 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
430 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
434 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
438 File groups are now saved (automatically).
439 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
443 Added Version SOAP RPC.
444 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
445 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
449 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
450 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
455 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
457 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
461 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
462 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
463 bar is displayed in the filer window.
464 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
468 Improved error reporting.
469 Improved sizing code when details are on.
473 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
474 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
475 check box and does 'Yes'.
479 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
480 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
481 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
482 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
487 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
489 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
490 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
492 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
494 Internal changes to options system:
495 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
496 filer is fully initialised).
497 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
499 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
501 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
502 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
503 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
504 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
508 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
509 now reclaims the selection.
510 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
511 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
516 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
517 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
518 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
519 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
520 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
524 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
525 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
527 Code tidying in various places.
531 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
532 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
537 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
538 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
542 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
543 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
544 edit the file, not the file itself!
545 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
549 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
550 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
551 (recommended by Jens Finke).
552 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
553 of the SOAP working draft.
554 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
555 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
556 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
561 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
562 it was in the displayed area before.
564 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
567 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
568 winking effect until the window actually appears.
572 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
573 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
574 Kristian A. Rink and others).
576 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
577 selection (Andras Mohari).
581 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
585 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
589 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
590 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
591 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
595 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
599 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
601 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
602 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
603 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
607 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
608 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
613 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
614 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
615 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
619 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
623 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
627 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
628 replaced by a Restart button.
632 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
633 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
637 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
641 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
645 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
646 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
647 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
651 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
652 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
654 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
655 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
656 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
660 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
661 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
666 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
668 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
669 (requested by Graham Borland).
670 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
671 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
672 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
676 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
677 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
678 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
679 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
683 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
684 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
685 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
686 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
687 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
688 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
689 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
690 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
691 - Lots of code tidying.
696 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
697 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
701 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
703 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
705 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
709 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
710 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
714 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
715 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
719 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
720 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
724 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
725 option to access it directly.
729 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
730 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
731 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
735 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
736 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
737 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
738 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
739 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
740 when the filer is run.
744 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
745 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
746 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
751 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
755 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
756 title bar (Stephen Watson).
760 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
762 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
766 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
770 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
771 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
772 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
777 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
778 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
779 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
780 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
781 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
782 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
783 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
787 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
791 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
792 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
796 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
797 of possible actions (Taras).
798 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
800 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
801 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
805 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
810 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
814 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
817 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
818 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
822 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
823 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
825 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
827 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
828 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
829 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
830 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
834 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
838 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
842 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
846 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
851 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
852 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
854 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
858 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
862 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
863 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
864 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
868 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
869 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
870 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
875 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
876 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
877 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
881 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
883 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
888 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
893 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
897 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
898 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
902 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
904 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
905 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
909 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
913 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
914 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
918 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
919 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
923 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
924 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
926 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
928 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
932 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
936 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
937 (requested by Jim Knoble).
941 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
945 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
950 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
951 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
955 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
959 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
963 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
965 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
966 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
970 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
971 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
975 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
976 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
977 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
981 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
982 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
986 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
987 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
989 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
991 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
995 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
996 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
997 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
999 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1000 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1002 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1004 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1005 and the default size with no details.
1009 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1010 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1014 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1019 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1024 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1028 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1033 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1034 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1038 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1042 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1043 the button to run it does.
1044 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1045 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1046 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1050 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1051 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1052 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1056 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1060 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1061 and panels into icon.c.
1065 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1066 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1067 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1068 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1072 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1074 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1076 Updated the documentation.
1080 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1081 up if they're too small.
1085 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1087 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1088 (Christopher Arndt).
1089 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1094 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1095 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1099 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1100 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1104 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1105 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1106 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1111 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1116 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1120 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1121 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1126 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1131 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1132 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1136 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1137 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1141 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1145 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1149 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1153 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1154 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1157 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1158 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1163 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1164 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1165 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1166 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1171 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1172 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1174 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1176 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1177 for non-applications.
1181 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1182 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1187 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1191 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1192 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1194 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1198 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1199 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1203 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1204 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1208 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1209 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1213 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1214 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1216 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1217 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1221 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1222 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1224 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1228 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1229 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1232 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1236 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1237 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1241 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1245 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1246 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1249 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1250 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1254 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1258 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1263 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1267 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1268 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1273 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1278 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1282 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1284 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1286 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1287 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1289 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1291 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1292 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1296 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1297 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1298 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1300 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1301 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1305 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1309 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1310 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1314 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1318 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1319 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1321 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1324 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1325 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1326 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1330 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1331 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1336 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1341 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1343 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1346 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1348 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1349 sensible shape itself now.
1351 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1352 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1353 file at all, just a reused inode!
1354 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1355 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1356 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1360 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1364 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1365 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1370 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1371 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1375 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1379 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1380 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1384 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1389 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1393 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1394 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1398 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1399 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1400 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1401 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1402 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1406 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1407 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1408 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1409 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1410 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1414 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1415 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1416 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1420 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1422 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1423 python's portable system.
1424 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1425 set the LANG variable.
1429 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1430 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1432 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1434 Made a few updates to the manual.
1438 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1439 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1441 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1443 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1444 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1448 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1449 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1453 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1454 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1459 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1460 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1461 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1465 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1466 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1470 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1471 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1475 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1476 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1478 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1479 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1480 open... (Denis Manente).
1484 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1488 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1490 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1491 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1492 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1494 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1496 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1498 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1499 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1504 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1505 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1506 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1510 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1511 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1515 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1519 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1523 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1524 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1525 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1529 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1530 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1531 between pinboards...
1533 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1534 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1535 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1539 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1542 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1543 window (Denis Manente).
1545 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1546 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1550 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1551 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1552 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1556 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1559 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1560 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1562 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1567 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1568 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1570 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1574 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1575 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1577 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1579 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1584 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1585 the icon points to as well as its name.
1587 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1588 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1592 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1593 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1594 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1595 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1599 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1603 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1604 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1605 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1609 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1610 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1612 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1613 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1616 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1617 the item after the drag.
1619 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1620 showing where the file really is.
1624 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1625 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1630 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1631 warning is displayed if so.
1633 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1637 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1638 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1639 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1640 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1643 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1644 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1645 works like the panels.
1649 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1650 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1651 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1652 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1653 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1657 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1658 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1659 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1660 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1662 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1667 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1671 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1672 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1675 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1676 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1678 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1681 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1682 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1683 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1684 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1686 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1688 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1689 slightly. Updated the manual.
1691 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1692 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1695 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1696 or bottom panel to make room.
1700 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1705 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1706 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1707 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1708 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1709 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1713 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1715 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1716 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1718 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1722 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1723 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1727 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1731 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1733 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1738 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1739 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1741 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1745 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1746 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1747 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1751 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1752 rewriting the panel system.
1756 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1759 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1760 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1764 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1765 (suggested by James Kermode).
1769 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1770 than as a full path.
1772 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1774 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1775 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1776 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1780 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1781 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1785 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1786 rename something onto another filesystem.
1790 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1792 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1793 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1797 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1801 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1804 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1805 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1807 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1810 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1815 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1816 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1817 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1819 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1820 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1822 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1823 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1828 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1829 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1834 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1835 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1836 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1838 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1839 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1840 of the 'missing image' image.
1844 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1846 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1848 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
1853 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
1854 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
1855 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
1856 its name into another program.
1858 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
1862 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
1864 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
1865 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
1866 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
1868 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
1869 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
1870 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
1873 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
1874 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
1878 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
1879 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
1880 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1884 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1885 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1886 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1890 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1891 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1892 and position the icons directly.
1896 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1901 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1902 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1903 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1907 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1911 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1912 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1916 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1921 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1925 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1926 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1927 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1928 some versions of GTK+.
1932 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1937 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1938 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1939 from a sub-sub-menu.
1941 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1942 drawn on a log scale.
1946 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1947 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1948 happy with the UI yet though...
1950 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1951 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1952 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1956 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1957 by Stephen Harrison).
1959 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1961 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1962 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1963 standard types are in Choices.
1964 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1966 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1967 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1968 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1973 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1974 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1975 shell command minibuffer.
1979 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1980 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1981 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1982 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1983 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1985 Default search path for Choices is now:
1986 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1988 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1989 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1990 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1994 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1995 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1999 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2000 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2001 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2006 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2007 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2008 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2011 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2013 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2014 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2015 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2017 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2018 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2022 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2023 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2024 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2025 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2030 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2031 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2032 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2034 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2036 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2037 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2041 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2042 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2043 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2048 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2049 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2052 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2054 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2059 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2064 Added GNU gettext support.
2065 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2069 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2071 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2073 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2078 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2082 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2083 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2085 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2086 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2091 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2092 onto the directory and winks the file.
2096 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2097 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2098 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2100 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2101 instead of random values.
2102 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2104 Applied Bernard's patch:
2105 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2106 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2107 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2108 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2109 it the RISC OS way...
2110 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2111 alignment corrected.
2112 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2117 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2121 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2122 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2126 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2127 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2128 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2129 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2130 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2131 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2132 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2133 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2134 in the file(1) says... box).
2137 Before the Changes file
2138 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2139 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2141 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2142 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2143 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2144 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2145 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD