2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Make the Ctrl-button-3 menu pointer appear at the same place regardless
8 of the number of custom entries (Stephen Watson).
12 Make Ctrl-button-3 open the menu slightly higher, so Delete isn't under the
13 pointer (suggested by Ryan Pavlik).
17 Allow non image/* thumbnails in details mode. Label next to the combo
18 in the Set Type action dialog is now "Type" and not "Command" (Stephen
23 Work out which include file we need for getxattr (Stephen Watson).
27 Allow editing a symlink's target from the Properties box (Arnaud Calvo).
28 Experimental extended attributes support for setting MIME types (Stephen
33 More drag and drop fixes relating to escaped URI's (Stephen Watson).
37 Added 'Specify the prefix' install option (Ryan Pavlik).
38 Updated Russian translation (Vladimir Popov).
42 Bugfix: Cancelling the info window with a du process still running could
43 crash the filer (reported by Peter Geer).
47 Renamed 'Info' menu item to 'Properties'.
51 If a panel icon has an empty label, show it full size (requested by Stephen
56 Use apsymbols.h (from autopackage.org) if possible for binary compatibility
57 with older glibc versions. Use g_ascii_* functions instead of the ctypes ones
59 Bugfix: Files with '&' in their names couldn't be saved in groups (reported
60 by Nils-Erik Svangård).
64 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
65 Resizing by double clicking on background now optional (Stephen Watson).
69 Added optional top and bottom margines for iconized window placement
74 Don't lower the panel due when the pointer 'leaves' due to a grab (eg, clicking
79 Bugfix: FreeBSD reported file sizes with units of 'null' due to large file
80 support not being detected (igla).
84 Larger default size for bookmarks editor (requested by Matthew Weier OPhinney).
88 Let the thumbnail helpers be app dirs, plus can be set from the Set Icon
89 dialog (Stephen Watson).
93 Improved socket icon (taken from Howard Shane's new theme).
97 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
98 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
99 Offer Eject even for unmounted disks (reported by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
100 Try to load icons at 'huge' size, so SVG icons get the chance to scale up
103 07-Oct-2003 (Release 2.1.0)
105 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
106 Removed some dead code, memory leaks, etc that had crept in.
110 New icon for selection ops.
114 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
118 Minor fix to German translation (Daniel Pörsch).
122 Update error message about missing MIME database to give the new URI.
126 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
127 Added icon theme selector.
131 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
135 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
139 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
140 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
144 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
145 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
146 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
150 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
151 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
155 Allow ejecting mounted media.
159 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
160 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
161 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
165 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
169 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
170 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
175 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
176 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
180 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
181 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
185 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
186 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
190 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
194 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
195 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
196 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
200 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
204 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
205 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
206 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
207 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
211 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
212 enable them from Options->Tools if you want them (Stephen Watson).
214 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations (Stephen Watson).
218 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
222 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
223 bits (Stephen Watson).
227 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
231 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
235 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
236 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
240 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
244 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
245 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
250 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
251 forward them explicitly.
255 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
256 help from Götz Waschk).
260 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
261 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
262 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
266 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
270 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
274 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
278 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
279 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
281 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
283 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
287 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
289 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
291 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
295 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
296 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
297 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
298 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
302 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
306 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
310 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
314 Minor updates to the manual.
315 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
316 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
320 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
321 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
323 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
325 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
326 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
330 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
331 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
332 reduce flickering effect.
336 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
340 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
342 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
346 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
347 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
348 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
349 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
350 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
354 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
355 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
359 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
363 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
368 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
369 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
373 Winking now works in List view.
377 Lasso selections now work in List view.
381 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
382 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
386 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
387 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
389 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
391 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
395 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
399 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
400 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
402 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
406 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
407 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
411 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
413 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
417 Centre the image for iconified windows.
418 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
422 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
424 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
428 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
432 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
433 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
438 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
439 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
441 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
443 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
445 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
449 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
453 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
454 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
458 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
463 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
464 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
468 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
470 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
472 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
473 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
478 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
482 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
483 (suggested by Michael Adams).
484 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
485 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
486 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
487 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
488 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
490 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
494 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
499 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
500 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
504 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
505 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
506 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
507 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
512 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
513 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
514 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
515 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
516 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
517 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
518 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
519 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
520 talent can do something better?
521 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
522 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
526 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
527 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
528 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
533 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
535 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
536 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
537 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
538 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
539 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
540 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
541 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
542 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
543 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
544 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
545 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
546 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
547 label wasn't hidden / shown.
551 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
552 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
553 allow fine repositioning.
554 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
555 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
556 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
557 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
559 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
560 changing the aspect ratio.
564 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
568 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
572 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
573 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
574 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
578 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
582 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
587 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
588 make sharing icons easier.
589 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
593 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
594 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
598 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
602 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
604 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
608 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
613 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
618 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
619 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
621 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
622 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
623 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
624 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
628 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
629 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
633 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
637 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
639 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
644 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
645 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
647 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
651 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
652 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
654 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
656 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
660 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
661 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
666 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
670 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
671 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
672 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
676 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
677 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
681 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
685 Preserve selection when changing view type.
686 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
690 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
691 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
692 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
696 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
700 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
701 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
702 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
703 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
705 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
706 the information in the tooltips anyway.
710 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
711 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
715 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
720 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
721 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
725 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
729 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
730 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
731 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
732 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
737 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
738 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
739 Always use case-insensitive sort.
743 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
747 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
748 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
752 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
753 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
754 since it didn't include the contents.
755 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
756 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
760 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
764 Style improvements to options window.
768 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
772 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
774 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
776 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
781 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
782 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
783 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
784 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
788 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
792 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
796 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
797 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
801 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
803 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
808 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
812 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
813 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
814 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
819 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
823 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
827 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
831 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
835 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
836 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
837 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
841 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
842 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
846 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
847 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
852 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
856 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
860 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
865 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
866 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
870 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
871 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
876 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
877 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
881 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
882 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
883 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
887 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
891 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
892 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
893 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
894 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
895 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
899 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
900 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
904 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
905 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
909 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
913 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
914 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
915 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
916 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
917 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
918 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
922 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
923 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
924 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
928 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
929 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
934 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
938 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
940 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
942 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
947 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
951 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
955 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
956 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
961 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
965 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
969 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
970 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
971 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
975 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
979 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
984 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
988 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
989 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
990 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
991 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
995 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
999 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1000 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
1004 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
1005 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
1006 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
1010 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
1014 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
1018 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
1019 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
1020 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
1021 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
1022 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
1023 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
1027 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
1028 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
1032 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
1033 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
1034 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
1038 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
1039 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
1043 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
1047 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1048 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1049 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
1050 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
1052 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
1054 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
1058 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
1059 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
1060 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1064 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
1068 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
1069 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
1074 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
1078 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
1082 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
1083 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1087 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1088 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
1089 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
1093 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
1094 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
1098 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
1099 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
1103 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
1104 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
1108 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
1112 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
1113 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
1117 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
1119 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1121 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1125 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1129 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1130 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1134 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1138 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1142 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1143 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1144 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1145 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1146 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1147 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1151 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1155 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1157 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1158 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1162 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1163 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1167 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1171 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1172 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1173 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1174 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1176 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1178 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1182 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1183 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1187 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1188 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1189 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1193 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1194 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1195 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1196 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1197 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1198 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1199 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1203 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1204 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1208 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1212 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1216 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1221 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1225 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1226 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1227 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1231 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1232 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1233 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1237 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1238 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1239 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1243 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1244 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1248 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1253 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1254 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1255 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1256 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1257 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1259 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1260 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1264 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1268 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1269 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1270 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1271 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1275 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1276 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1277 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1278 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1279 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1280 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1284 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1288 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1289 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1293 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1294 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1295 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1296 restart (Olli Helenius).
1300 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1304 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1305 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1306 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1311 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1316 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1317 Small and Large sizes.
1321 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1325 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1326 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1330 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1331 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1332 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1333 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1337 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1338 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1339 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1344 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1349 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1350 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1354 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1355 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1360 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1362 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1364 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1368 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1372 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1374 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1376 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1380 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1382 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1383 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1387 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1388 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1392 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1393 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1397 Various speed improvements.
1398 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1402 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1403 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1407 Slight speed increase when starting.
1411 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1415 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1416 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1417 button is no longer supported.
1421 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1425 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1429 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1434 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1435 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1439 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1440 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1441 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1445 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1446 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1447 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1448 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1452 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1453 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1454 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1456 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1461 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1462 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1467 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1471 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1472 and converted to new dialog style.
1476 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1477 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1481 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1482 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1486 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1490 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1492 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1496 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1500 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1501 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1502 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1506 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1507 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1511 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1516 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1520 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1521 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1525 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1526 and Cancel is now Revert.
1527 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1528 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1532 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1536 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1537 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1539 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1540 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1541 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1542 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1546 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1548 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1549 labels display them.
1550 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1553 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1557 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1559 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1563 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1564 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1565 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1569 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1570 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1572 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1574 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1578 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1579 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1583 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1584 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1585 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1586 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1590 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1594 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1595 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1599 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1600 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1605 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1606 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1610 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1611 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1612 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1616 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1617 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1621 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1622 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1623 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1624 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1626 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1631 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1632 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1634 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1636 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1640 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1641 any image (saves time).
1642 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1643 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1644 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1645 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1647 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1648 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1652 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1653 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1655 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1656 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1658 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1663 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1664 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1665 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1666 has stopped accepting STRING.
1670 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1671 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1675 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1680 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1681 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1683 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1684 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1685 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1689 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1690 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1691 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1692 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1693 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1694 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1698 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1699 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1700 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1701 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1702 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1703 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1708 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1709 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1710 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1711 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1716 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1717 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1721 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1722 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1724 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1726 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1727 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1728 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1732 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1733 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1734 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1738 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1739 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1743 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1744 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1748 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1750 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1755 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1756 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1760 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1761 their menus correctly.
1762 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1767 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1768 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1769 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1773 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1774 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1778 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1782 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1785 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1787 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1788 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1789 the toggle menu items from working!
1793 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1795 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1801 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1802 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1806 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1807 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1808 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1809 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1810 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1811 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1815 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1819 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1820 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1824 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1825 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1826 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1830 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1831 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1836 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1838 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1842 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1843 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1844 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1845 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1849 Improved error reporting.
1850 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1854 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1855 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1856 check box and does 'Yes'.
1860 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1861 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1862 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1863 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1868 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1870 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1871 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1873 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1875 Internal changes to options system:
1876 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1877 filer is fully initialised).
1878 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1880 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1882 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1883 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1884 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1885 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1889 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1890 now reclaims the selection.
1891 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1892 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1897 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1898 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1899 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1900 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1901 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1905 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1906 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1908 Code tidying in various places.
1912 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1913 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1918 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1919 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1923 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1924 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1925 edit the file, not the file itself!
1926 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1930 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1931 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1932 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1933 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1934 of the SOAP working draft.
1935 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1936 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1937 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1942 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1943 it was in the displayed area before.
1945 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1948 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1949 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1953 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1954 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1955 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1957 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1958 selection (Andras Mohari).
1962 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1966 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1970 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1971 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1972 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1976 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1980 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1982 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1983 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1984 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1988 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1989 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1994 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1995 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1996 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
2000 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
2004 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
2008 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
2009 replaced by a Restart button.
2013 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
2014 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
2018 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
2022 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
2026 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
2027 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
2028 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
2032 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
2033 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
2035 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
2036 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
2037 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
2041 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
2042 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
2047 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
2049 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
2050 (requested by Graham Borland).
2051 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
2052 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
2053 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
2057 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
2058 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
2059 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
2060 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
2064 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
2065 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
2066 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
2067 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
2068 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
2069 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
2070 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
2071 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
2072 - Lots of code tidying.
2077 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
2078 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2082 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2084 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
2086 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
2090 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
2091 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
2095 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
2096 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2100 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
2101 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
2105 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
2106 option to access it directly.
2110 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
2111 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
2112 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
2116 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
2117 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
2118 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
2119 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2120 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2121 when the filer is run.
2125 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2126 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2127 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2132 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2136 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2137 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2141 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2143 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2147 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2151 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2152 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2153 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2158 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2159 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2160 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2161 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2162 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2163 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2164 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2168 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2172 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2173 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2177 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2178 of possible actions (Taras).
2179 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2181 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2182 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2186 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2191 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2195 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2198 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2199 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2203 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2204 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2206 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2208 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2209 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2210 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2211 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2215 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2219 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2223 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2227 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2232 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2233 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2234 the first one found.
2235 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2239 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2243 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2244 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2245 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2249 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2250 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2251 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2256 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2257 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2258 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2262 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2264 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2269 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2274 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2278 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2279 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2283 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2285 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2286 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2290 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2294 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2295 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2299 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2300 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2304 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2305 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2307 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2309 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2313 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2317 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2318 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2322 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2326 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2331 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2332 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2336 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2340 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2344 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2346 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2347 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2351 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2352 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2356 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2357 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2358 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2362 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2363 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2367 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2368 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2370 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2372 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2376 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2377 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2378 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2380 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2381 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2383 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2385 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2386 and the default size with no details.
2390 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2391 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2395 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2400 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2405 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2409 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2414 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2415 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2419 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2423 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2424 the button to run it does.
2425 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2426 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2427 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2431 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2432 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2433 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2437 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2441 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2442 and panels into icon.c.
2446 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2447 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2448 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2449 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2453 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2455 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2457 Updated the documentation.
2461 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2462 up if they're too small.
2466 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2468 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2469 (Christopher Arndt).
2470 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2475 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2476 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2480 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2481 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2485 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2486 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2487 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2492 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2497 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2501 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2502 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2507 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2512 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2513 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2517 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2518 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2522 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2526 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2530 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2534 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2535 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2538 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2539 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2544 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2545 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2546 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2547 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2552 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2553 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2555 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2557 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2558 for non-applications.
2562 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2563 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2568 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2572 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2573 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2575 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2579 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2580 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2584 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2585 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2589 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2590 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2594 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2595 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2597 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2598 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2602 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2603 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2605 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2609 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2610 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2613 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2617 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2618 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2622 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2626 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2627 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2630 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2631 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2635 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2639 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2644 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2648 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2649 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2654 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2659 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2663 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2665 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2667 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2668 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2670 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2672 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2673 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2677 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2678 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2679 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2681 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2682 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2686 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2690 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2691 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2695 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2699 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2700 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2702 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2705 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2706 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2707 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2711 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2712 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2717 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2722 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2724 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2727 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2729 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2730 sensible shape itself now.
2732 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2733 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2734 file at all, just a reused inode!
2735 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2736 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2737 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2741 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2745 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2746 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2751 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2752 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2756 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2760 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2761 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2765 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2770 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2774 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2775 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2779 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2780 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2781 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2782 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2783 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2787 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2788 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2789 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2790 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2791 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2795 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2796 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2797 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2801 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2803 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2804 python's portable system.
2805 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2806 set the LANG variable.
2810 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2811 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2813 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2815 Made a few updates to the manual.
2819 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2820 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2822 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2824 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2825 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2829 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2830 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2834 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2835 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2840 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2841 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2842 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2846 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2847 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2851 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2852 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2856 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2857 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2859 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2860 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2861 open... (Denis Manente).
2865 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2869 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2871 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2872 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2873 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2875 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2877 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2879 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2880 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2885 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2886 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2887 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2891 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2892 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2896 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2900 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2904 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2905 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2906 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2910 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2911 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2912 between pinboards...
2914 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2915 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2916 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2920 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2923 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2924 window (Denis Manente).
2926 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2927 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2931 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2932 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2933 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2937 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2940 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2941 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2943 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2948 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2949 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2951 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2955 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2956 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2958 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2960 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2965 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2966 the icon points to as well as its name.
2968 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2969 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2973 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2974 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2975 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2976 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2980 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2984 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2985 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2986 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2990 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2991 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2993 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2994 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2997 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2998 the item after the drag.
3000 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
3001 showing where the file really is.
3005 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
3006 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
3011 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
3012 warning is displayed if so.
3014 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
3018 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
3019 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
3020 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
3021 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
3024 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
3025 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
3026 works like the panels.
3030 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
3031 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
3032 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
3033 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
3034 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
3038 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
3039 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
3040 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
3041 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
3043 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
3048 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
3052 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
3053 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
3056 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
3057 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
3059 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
3062 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
3063 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
3064 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
3065 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3067 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
3069 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
3070 slightly. Updated the manual.
3072 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
3073 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
3076 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
3077 or bottom panel to make room.
3081 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
3086 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
3087 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
3088 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
3089 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
3090 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
3094 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
3096 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
3097 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
3099 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
3103 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
3104 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
3108 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
3112 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
3114 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
3119 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3120 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3122 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3126 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3127 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3128 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3132 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3133 rewriting the panel system.
3137 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3140 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3141 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3145 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3146 (suggested by James Kermode).
3150 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3151 than as a full path.
3153 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3155 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3156 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3157 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3161 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3162 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3166 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3167 rename something onto another filesystem.
3171 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3173 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3174 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3178 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3182 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3185 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3186 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3188 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3191 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3196 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3197 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3198 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3200 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3201 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3203 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3204 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3209 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3210 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3215 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3216 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3217 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3219 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3220 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3221 of the 'missing image' image.
3225 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3227 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3229 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3234 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3235 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3236 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3237 its name into another program.
3239 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3243 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3245 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3246 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3247 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3249 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3250 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3251 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3254 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3255 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3259 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3260 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3261 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3265 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3266 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3267 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3271 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3272 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3273 and position the icons directly.
3277 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3282 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3283 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3284 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3288 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3292 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3293 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3297 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3302 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3306 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3307 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3308 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3309 some versions of GTK+.
3313 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3318 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3319 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3320 from a sub-sub-menu.
3322 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3323 drawn on a log scale.
3327 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3328 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3329 happy with the UI yet though...
3331 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3332 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3333 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3337 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3338 by Stephen Harrison).
3340 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3342 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3343 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3344 standard types are in Choices.
3345 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3347 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3348 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3349 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3354 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3355 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3356 shell command minibuffer.
3360 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3361 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3362 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3363 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3364 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3366 Default search path for Choices is now:
3367 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3369 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3370 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3371 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3375 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3376 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3380 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3381 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3382 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3387 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3388 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3389 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3392 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3394 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3395 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3396 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3398 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3399 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3403 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3404 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3405 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3406 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3411 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3412 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3413 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3415 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3417 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3418 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3422 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3423 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3424 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3429 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3430 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3433 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3435 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3440 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3445 Added GNU gettext support.
3446 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3450 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3452 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3454 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3459 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3463 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3464 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3466 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3467 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3472 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3473 onto the directory and winks the file.
3477 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3478 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3479 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3481 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3482 instead of random values.
3483 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3485 Applied Bernard's patch:
3486 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3487 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3488 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3489 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3490 it the RISC OS way...
3491 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3492 alignment corrected.
3493 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3498 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3502 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3503 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3507 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3508 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3509 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3510 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3511 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3512 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3513 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3514 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3515 in the file(1) says... box).
3518 Before the Changes file
3519 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3520 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3522 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3523 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3524 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3525 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3526 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD