2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added method of saving display settings for directories. Mostly working,
8 but bugs remain related to size and position (Stephen Watson).
12 Load extended attribute functions dynamically. This should mean that compiling
13 ROX-Filer with a new glibc won't make it stop working with older versions due
14 to the functions being missing.
18 Use * as a synonym for unfiltered (Stephen Watson).
22 Bookmarks can be given titles (Stephen Watson).
26 Fix memory leak in thumbnails code (Stephen Watson).
30 Fixed bug in details mode for showing hidden files (Stephen Watson).
34 Don't display an error box when installing the ROX icon theme. It just
35 worries people for no reason.
39 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
43 Option to make the File menu appear directly when the menu is opened with
44 files selected (Peter Geer).
48 Added an arrow to the comparison area of the action box so you can see
49 which file overwrites the other (Stephen Watson).
53 Sort by user/group now uses the name, not the number (Stephen Watson).
57 Added 'Select by Name'.
61 Cope with XRandR screen resizing (Geoff Youngs and Tom Morton).
65 Can now filter files by name, using normal shell (glob) patterns (Stephen
70 Updated it.po and Manual-it (Yuri Bongiorno).
74 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
76 24-Jan-2004 (Release 2.1.1)
78 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
79 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
83 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
87 Misc changes for next release.
91 Accept Mozilla's alternative to the standard text/uri-list target during
92 drag-and-drop (Andrew Flegg).
96 Bugfix: Icon shortcuts with out modifier keys didn't work if NumLock,
97 CapsLock, etc were turned on (reported by Peter Geer).
98 Bugfix: Handle case when the output of uname -m contains spaces (Stephen
99 Watson, reported on #rox).
103 Renamed some functions stolen from Gtk to avoid possible conflicts with
104 the Gtk-2.3 series (reported by Stu Tissimus).
108 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
109 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
113 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
114 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
118 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
119 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
124 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
128 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (suggested by Arnaud
130 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
135 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
139 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
140 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
144 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
145 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
149 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
153 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
158 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
159 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
161 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
162 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
166 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
167 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
171 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
176 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
181 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
182 support not being detected (igla).
186 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
190 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
191 dialog (Stephen Watson).
195 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
199 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
200 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
201 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
202 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
205 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
207 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
208 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
212 New icon for selection ops.
216 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
220 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
224 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
228 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
229 Added icon theme selector.
233 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
237 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
241 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
242 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
246 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
247 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
248 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
252 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
253 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
257 Allow ejecting mounted media.
261 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
262 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
263 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
267 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
271 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
272 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
277 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
278 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
282 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
283 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
287 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
288 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
292 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
296 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
297 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
298 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
302 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
306 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
307 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
308 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
309 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
313 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
314 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
316 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
320 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
324 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
325 bits (Stephen Watson).
329 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
333 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
337 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
338 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
342 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
346 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
347 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
352 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
353 forward them explicitly.
357 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
358 help from Götz Waschk).
362 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
363 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
364 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
368 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
372 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
376 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
380 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
381 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
383 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
385 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
389 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
391 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
393 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
397 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
398 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
399 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
400 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
404 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
408 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
412 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
416 Minor updates to the manual.
417 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
418 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
422 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
423 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
425 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
427 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
428 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
432 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
433 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
434 reduce flickering effect.
438 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
442 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
444 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
448 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
449 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
450 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
451 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
452 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
456 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
457 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
461 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
465 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
470 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
471 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
475 Winking now works in List view.
479 Lasso selections now work in List view.
483 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
484 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
488 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
489 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
491 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
493 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
497 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
501 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
502 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
504 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
508 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
509 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
513 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
515 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
519 Centre the image for iconified windows.
520 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
524 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
526 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
530 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
534 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
535 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
540 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
541 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
543 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
545 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
547 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
551 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
555 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
556 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
560 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
565 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
566 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
570 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
572 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
574 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
575 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
580 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
584 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
585 (suggested by Michael Adams).
586 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
587 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
588 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
589 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
590 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
592 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
596 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
601 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
602 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
606 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
607 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
608 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
609 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
614 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
615 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
616 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
617 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
618 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
619 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
620 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
621 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
622 talent can do something better?
623 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
624 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
628 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
629 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
630 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
635 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
637 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
638 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
639 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
640 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
641 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
642 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
643 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
644 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
645 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
646 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
647 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
648 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
649 label wasn't hidden / shown.
653 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
654 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
655 allow fine repositioning.
656 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
657 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
658 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
659 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
661 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
662 changing the aspect ratio.
666 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
670 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
674 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
675 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
676 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
680 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
684 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
689 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
690 make sharing icons easier.
691 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
695 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
696 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
700 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
704 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
706 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
710 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
715 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
720 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
721 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
723 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
724 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
725 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
726 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
730 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
731 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
735 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
739 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
741 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
746 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
747 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
749 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
753 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
754 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
756 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
758 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
762 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
763 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
768 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
772 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
773 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
774 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
778 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
779 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
783 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
787 Preserve selection when changing view type.
788 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
792 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
793 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
794 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
798 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
802 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
803 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
804 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
805 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
807 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
808 the information in the tooltips anyway.
812 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
813 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
817 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
822 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
823 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
827 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
831 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
832 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
833 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
834 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
839 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
840 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
841 Always use case-insensitive sort.
845 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
849 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
850 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
854 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
855 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
856 since it didn't include the contents.
857 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
858 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
862 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
866 Style improvements to options window.
870 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
874 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
876 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
878 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
883 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
884 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
885 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
886 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
890 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
894 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
898 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
899 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
903 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
905 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
910 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
914 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
915 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
916 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
921 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
925 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
929 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
933 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
937 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
938 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
939 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
943 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
944 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
948 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
949 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
954 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
958 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
962 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
967 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
968 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
972 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
973 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
978 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
979 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
983 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
984 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
985 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
989 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
993 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
994 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
995 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
996 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
997 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
1001 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
1002 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1006 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1007 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1011 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1015 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
1016 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
1017 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
1018 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1019 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
1020 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
1024 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1025 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1026 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
1030 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
1031 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
1036 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1040 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1042 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
1044 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
1049 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
1053 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
1057 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
1058 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
1063 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
1067 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1071 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
1072 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
1073 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1077 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1081 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
1086 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1090 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
1091 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
1092 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
1093 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1097 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
1101 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1102 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1106 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1107 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1108 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1112 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1116 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1120 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1121 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1122 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1123 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1124 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1125 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1129 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1130 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1134 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1135 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1136 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1140 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1141 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1145 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1149 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1150 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1151 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1152 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1154 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1156 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1160 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1161 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1162 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1166 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1170 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1171 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1176 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1180 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1184 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1185 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1189 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1190 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1191 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1195 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1196 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1200 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1201 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1205 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1206 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1210 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1214 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1215 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1219 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1221 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1223 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1227 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1231 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1232 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1236 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1240 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1244 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1245 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1246 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1247 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1248 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1249 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1253 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1257 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1259 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1260 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1264 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1265 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1269 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1273 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1274 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1275 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1276 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1278 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1280 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1284 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1285 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1289 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1290 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1291 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1295 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1296 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1297 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1298 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1299 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1300 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1301 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1305 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1306 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1310 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1314 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1318 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1323 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1327 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1328 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1329 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1333 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1334 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1335 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1339 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1340 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1341 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1345 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1346 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1350 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1355 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1356 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1357 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1358 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1359 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1361 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1362 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1366 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1370 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1371 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1372 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1373 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1377 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1378 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1379 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1380 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1381 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1382 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1386 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1390 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1391 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1395 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1396 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1397 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1398 restart (Olli Helenius).
1402 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1406 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1407 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1408 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1413 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1418 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1419 Small and Large sizes.
1423 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1427 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1428 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1432 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1433 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1434 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1435 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1439 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1440 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1441 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1446 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1451 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1452 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1456 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1457 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1462 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1464 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1466 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1470 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1474 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1476 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1478 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1482 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1484 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1485 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1489 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1490 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1494 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1495 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1499 Various speed improvements.
1500 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1504 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1505 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1509 Slight speed increase when starting.
1513 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1517 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1518 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1519 button is no longer supported.
1523 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1527 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1531 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1536 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1537 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1541 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1542 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1543 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1547 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1548 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1549 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1550 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1554 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1555 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1556 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1558 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1563 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1564 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1569 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1573 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1574 and converted to new dialog style.
1578 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1579 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1583 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1584 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1588 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1592 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1594 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1598 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1602 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1603 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1604 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1608 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1609 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1613 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1618 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1622 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1623 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1627 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1628 and Cancel is now Revert.
1629 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1630 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1634 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1638 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1639 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1641 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1642 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1643 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1644 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1648 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1650 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1651 labels display them.
1652 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1655 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1659 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1661 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1665 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1666 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1667 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1671 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1672 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1674 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1676 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1680 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1681 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1685 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1686 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1687 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1688 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1692 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1696 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1697 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1701 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1702 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1707 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1708 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1712 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1713 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1714 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1718 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1719 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1723 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1724 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1725 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1726 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1728 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1733 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1734 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1736 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1738 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1742 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1743 any image (saves time).
1744 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1745 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1746 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1747 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1749 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1750 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1754 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1755 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1757 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1758 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1760 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1765 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1766 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1767 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1768 has stopped accepting STRING.
1772 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1773 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1777 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1782 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1783 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1785 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1786 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1787 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1791 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1792 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1793 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1794 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1795 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1796 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1800 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1801 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1802 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1803 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1804 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1805 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1810 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1811 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1812 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1813 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1818 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1819 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1823 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1824 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1826 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1828 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1829 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1830 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1834 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1835 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1836 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1840 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1841 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1845 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1846 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1850 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1852 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1857 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1858 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1862 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1863 their menus correctly.
1864 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1869 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1870 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1871 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1875 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1876 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1880 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1884 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1887 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1889 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1890 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1891 the toggle menu items from working!
1895 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1897 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1903 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1904 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1908 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1909 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1910 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1911 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1912 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1913 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1917 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1921 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1922 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1926 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1927 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1928 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1932 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1933 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1938 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1940 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1944 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1945 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1946 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1947 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1951 Improved error reporting.
1952 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1956 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1957 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1958 check box and does 'Yes'.
1962 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1963 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1964 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1965 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1970 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1972 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1973 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1975 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1977 Internal changes to options system:
1978 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1979 filer is fully initialised).
1980 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1982 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1984 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1985 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1986 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1987 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1991 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1992 now reclaims the selection.
1993 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1994 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1999 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
2000 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
2001 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
2002 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
2003 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
2007 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
2008 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
2010 Code tidying in various places.
2014 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
2015 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
2020 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
2021 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
2025 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
2026 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
2027 edit the file, not the file itself!
2028 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
2032 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2033 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
2034 (recommended by Jens Finke).
2035 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
2036 of the SOAP working draft.
2037 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
2038 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
2039 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
2044 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
2045 it was in the displayed area before.
2047 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
2050 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
2051 winking effect until the window actually appears.
2055 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
2056 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
2057 Kristian A. Rink and others).
2059 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
2060 selection (Andras Mohari).
2064 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
2068 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
2072 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
2073 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
2074 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
2078 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
2082 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
2084 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
2085 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
2086 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
2090 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
2091 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
2096 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
2097 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
2098 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2102 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2106 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2110 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2111 replaced by a Restart button.
2115 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2116 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2120 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2124 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2128 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2129 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2130 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2134 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2135 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2137 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2138 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2139 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2143 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2144 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2149 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2151 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2152 (requested by Graham Borland).
2153 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2154 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2155 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2159 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2160 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2161 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2162 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2166 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2167 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2168 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2169 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2170 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2171 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2172 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2173 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2174 - Lots of code tidying.
2179 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2180 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2184 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2186 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2188 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2192 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2193 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2197 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2198 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2202 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2203 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2207 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2208 option to access it directly.
2212 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2213 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2214 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2218 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2219 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2220 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2221 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2222 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2223 when the filer is run.
2227 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2228 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2229 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2234 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2238 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2239 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2243 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2245 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2249 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2253 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2254 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2255 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2260 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2261 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2262 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2263 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2264 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2265 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2266 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2270 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2274 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2275 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2279 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2280 of possible actions (Taras).
2281 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2283 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2284 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2288 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2293 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2297 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2300 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2301 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2305 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2306 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2308 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2310 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2311 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2312 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2313 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2317 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2321 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2325 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2329 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2334 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2335 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2336 the first one found.
2337 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2341 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2345 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2346 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2347 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2351 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2352 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2353 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2358 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2359 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2360 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2364 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2366 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2371 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2376 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2380 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2381 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2385 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2387 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2388 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2392 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2396 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2397 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2401 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2402 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2406 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2407 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2409 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2411 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2415 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2419 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2420 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2424 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2428 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2433 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2434 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2438 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2442 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2446 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2448 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2449 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2453 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2454 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2458 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2459 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2460 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2464 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2465 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2469 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2470 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2472 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2474 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2478 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2479 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2480 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2482 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2483 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2485 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2487 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2488 and the default size with no details.
2492 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2493 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2497 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2502 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2507 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2511 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2516 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2517 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2521 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2525 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2526 the button to run it does.
2527 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2528 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2529 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2533 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2534 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2535 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2539 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2543 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2544 and panels into icon.c.
2548 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2549 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2550 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2551 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2555 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2557 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2559 Updated the documentation.
2563 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2564 up if they're too small.
2568 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2570 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2571 (Christopher Arndt).
2572 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2577 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2578 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2582 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2583 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2587 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2588 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2589 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2594 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2599 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2603 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2604 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2609 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2614 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2615 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2619 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2620 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2624 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2628 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2632 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2636 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2637 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2640 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2641 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2646 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2647 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2648 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2649 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2654 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2655 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2657 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2659 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2660 for non-applications.
2664 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2665 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2670 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2674 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2675 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2677 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2681 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2682 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2686 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2687 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2691 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2692 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2696 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2697 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2699 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2700 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2704 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2705 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2707 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2711 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2712 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2715 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2719 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2720 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2724 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2728 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2729 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2732 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2733 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2737 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2741 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2746 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2750 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2751 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2756 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2761 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2765 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2767 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2769 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2770 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2772 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2774 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2775 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2779 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2780 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2781 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2783 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2784 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2788 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2792 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2793 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2797 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2801 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2802 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2804 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2807 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2808 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2809 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2813 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2814 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2819 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2824 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2826 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2829 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2831 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2832 sensible shape itself now.
2834 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2835 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2836 file at all, just a reused inode!
2837 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2838 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2839 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2843 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2847 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2848 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2853 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2854 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2858 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2862 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2863 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2867 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2872 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2876 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2877 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2881 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2882 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2883 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2884 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2885 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2889 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2890 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2891 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2892 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2893 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2897 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2898 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2899 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2903 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2905 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2906 python's portable system.
2907 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2908 set the LANG variable.
2912 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2913 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2915 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2917 Made a few updates to the manual.
2921 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2922 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2924 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2926 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2927 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2931 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2932 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2936 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2937 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2942 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2943 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2944 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2948 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2949 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2953 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2954 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2958 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2959 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2961 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2962 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2963 open... (Denis Manente).
2967 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2971 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2973 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2974 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2975 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2977 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2979 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2981 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2982 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2987 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2988 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2989 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2993 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2994 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2998 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
3002 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
3006 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
3007 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
3008 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
3012 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
3013 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
3014 between pinboards...
3016 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
3017 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
3018 background - seems to be necessary :-(
3022 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
3025 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
3026 window (Denis Manente).
3028 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
3029 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
3033 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
3034 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
3035 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
3039 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
3042 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
3043 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
3045 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
3050 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
3051 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
3053 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
3057 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
3058 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
3060 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
3062 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
3067 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
3068 the icon points to as well as its name.
3070 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
3071 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
3075 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
3076 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
3077 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
3078 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
3082 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3086 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
3087 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
3088 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
3092 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
3093 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
3095 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
3096 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
3099 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
3100 the item after the drag.
3102 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3103 showing where the file really is.
3107 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3108 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3113 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3114 warning is displayed if so.
3116 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3120 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3121 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3122 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3123 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3126 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3127 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3128 works like the panels.
3132 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3133 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3134 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3135 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3136 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3140 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3141 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3142 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3143 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3145 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3150 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3154 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3155 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3158 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3159 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3161 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3164 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3165 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3166 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3167 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3169 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3171 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3172 slightly. Updated the manual.
3174 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3175 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3178 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3179 or bottom panel to make room.
3183 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3188 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3189 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3190 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3191 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3192 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3196 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3198 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3199 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3201 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3205 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3206 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3210 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3214 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3216 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3221 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3222 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3224 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3228 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3229 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3230 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3234 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3235 rewriting the panel system.
3239 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3242 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3243 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3247 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3248 (suggested by James Kermode).
3252 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3253 than as a full path.
3255 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3257 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3258 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3259 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3263 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3264 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3268 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3269 rename something onto another filesystem.
3273 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3275 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3276 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3280 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3284 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3287 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3288 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3290 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3293 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3298 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3299 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3300 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3302 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3303 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3305 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3306 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3311 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3312 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3317 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3318 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3319 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3321 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3322 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3323 of the 'missing image' image.
3327 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3329 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3331 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3336 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3337 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3338 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3339 its name into another program.
3341 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3345 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3347 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3348 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3349 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3351 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3352 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3353 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3356 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3357 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3361 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3362 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3363 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3367 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3368 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3369 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3373 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3374 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3375 and position the icons directly.
3379 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3384 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3385 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3386 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3390 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3394 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3395 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3399 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3404 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3408 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3409 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3410 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3411 some versions of GTK+.
3415 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3420 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3421 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3422 from a sub-sub-menu.
3424 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3425 drawn on a log scale.
3429 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3430 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3431 happy with the UI yet though...
3433 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3434 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3435 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3439 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3440 by Stephen Harrison).
3442 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3444 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3445 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3446 standard types are in Choices.
3447 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3449 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3450 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3451 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3456 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3457 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3458 shell command minibuffer.
3462 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3463 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3464 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3465 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3466 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3468 Default search path for Choices is now:
3469 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3471 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3472 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3473 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3477 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3478 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3482 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3483 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3484 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3489 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3490 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3491 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3494 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3496 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3497 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3498 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3500 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3501 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3505 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3506 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3507 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3508 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3513 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3514 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3515 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3517 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3519 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3520 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3524 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3525 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3526 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3531 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3532 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3535 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3537 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3542 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3547 Added GNU gettext support.
3548 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3552 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3554 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3556 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3561 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3565 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3566 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3568 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3569 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3574 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3575 onto the directory and winks the file.
3579 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3580 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3581 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3583 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3584 instead of random values.
3585 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3587 Applied Bernard's patch:
3588 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3589 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3590 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3591 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3592 it the RISC OS way...
3593 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3594 alignment corrected.
3595 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3600 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3604 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3605 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3609 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3610 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3611 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3612 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3613 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3614 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3615 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3616 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3617 in the file(1) says... box).
3620 Before the Changes file
3621 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3622 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3624 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3625 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3626 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3627 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3628 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD