2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
8 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
12 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
13 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
14 disappeared at the wrong moment.
18 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
19 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
20 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
21 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
22 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
23 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
24 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
28 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
29 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
33 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
37 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
41 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
46 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
50 Options to set iconification layout policy.
51 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
52 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
56 Pinboard background colour option works again.
57 Position iconified windows sensibly.
58 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
62 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
63 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
64 (requested by Ryan Harris).
68 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
69 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
73 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
78 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
79 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
80 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
81 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
82 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
84 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
85 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
89 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
93 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
94 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
95 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
96 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
100 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
101 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
102 Many improvements to the pinboard:
103 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
104 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
105 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
109 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
113 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
114 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
118 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
119 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
120 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
121 restart (Olli Helenius).
125 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
129 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
130 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
131 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
136 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
141 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
142 Small and Large sizes.
146 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
150 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
151 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
155 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
156 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
157 (requested by Gregory Spath).
158 Don't quit while Options window is open.
162 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
163 the window (requested by Ashwin).
164 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
169 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
174 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
175 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
179 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
180 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
185 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
187 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
189 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
193 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
197 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
199 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
201 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
205 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
207 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
208 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
212 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
213 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
217 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
218 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
222 Various speed improvements.
223 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
227 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
228 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
232 Slight speed increase when starting.
236 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
240 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
241 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
242 button is no longer supported.
246 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
250 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
254 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
259 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
260 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
264 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
265 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
266 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
270 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
271 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
272 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
273 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
277 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
278 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
279 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
281 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
286 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
287 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
292 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
296 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
297 and converted to new dialog style.
301 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
302 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
306 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
307 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
311 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
315 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
317 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
321 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
325 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
326 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
327 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
331 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
332 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
336 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
341 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
345 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
346 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
350 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
351 and Cancel is now Revert.
352 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
353 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
357 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
361 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
362 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
364 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
365 (reported by Serban Udrea).
366 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
367 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
371 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
373 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
375 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
378 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
382 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
384 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
388 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
389 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
390 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
394 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
395 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
397 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
399 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
403 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
404 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
408 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
409 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
410 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
411 (requested by Andras Mohari).
415 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
419 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
420 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
424 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
425 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
430 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
431 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
435 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
436 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
437 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
441 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
442 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
446 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
447 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
448 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
449 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
451 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
456 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
457 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
459 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
461 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
465 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
466 any image (saves time).
467 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
468 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
469 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
470 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
472 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
473 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
477 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
478 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
480 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
481 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
483 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
488 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
489 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
490 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
491 has stopped accepting STRING.
495 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
496 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
500 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
505 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
506 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
508 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
509 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
510 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
514 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
515 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
516 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
517 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
518 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
519 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
523 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
524 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
525 Allow '~' in globicons file.
526 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
527 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
528 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
533 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
534 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
535 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
536 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
541 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
542 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
546 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
547 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
549 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
551 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
552 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
553 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
557 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
558 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
559 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
563 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
564 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
568 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
569 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
573 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
575 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
580 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
581 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
585 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
586 their menus correctly.
587 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
592 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
593 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
594 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
598 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
599 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
603 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
607 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
610 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
612 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
613 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
614 the toggle menu items from working!
618 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
620 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
626 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
627 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
631 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
632 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
633 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
634 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
635 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
636 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
640 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
644 File groups are now saved (automatically).
645 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
649 Added Version SOAP RPC.
650 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
651 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
655 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
656 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
661 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
663 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
667 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
668 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
669 bar is displayed in the filer window.
670 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
674 Improved error reporting.
675 Improved sizing code when details are on.
679 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
680 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
681 check box and does 'Yes'.
685 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
686 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
687 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
688 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
693 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
695 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
696 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
698 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
700 Internal changes to options system:
701 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
702 filer is fully initialised).
703 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
705 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
707 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
708 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
709 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
710 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
714 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
715 now reclaims the selection.
716 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
717 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
722 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
723 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
724 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
725 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
726 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
730 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
731 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
733 Code tidying in various places.
737 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
738 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
743 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
744 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
748 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
749 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
750 edit the file, not the file itself!
751 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
755 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
756 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
757 (recommended by Jens Finke).
758 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
759 of the SOAP working draft.
760 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
761 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
762 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
767 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
768 it was in the displayed area before.
770 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
773 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
774 winking effect until the window actually appears.
778 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
779 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
780 Kristian A. Rink and others).
782 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
783 selection (Andras Mohari).
787 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
791 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
795 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
796 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
797 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
801 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
805 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
807 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
808 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
809 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
813 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
814 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
819 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
820 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
821 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
825 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
829 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
833 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
834 replaced by a Restart button.
838 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
839 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
843 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
847 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
851 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
852 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
853 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
857 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
858 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
860 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
861 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
862 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
866 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
867 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
872 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
874 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
875 (requested by Graham Borland).
876 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
877 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
878 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
882 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
883 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
884 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
885 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
889 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
890 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
891 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
892 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
893 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
894 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
895 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
896 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
897 - Lots of code tidying.
902 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
903 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
907 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
909 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
911 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
915 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
916 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
920 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
921 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
925 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
926 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
930 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
931 option to access it directly.
935 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
936 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
937 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
941 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
942 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
943 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
944 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
945 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
946 when the filer is run.
950 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
951 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
952 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
957 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
961 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
962 title bar (Stephen Watson).
966 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
968 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
972 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
976 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
977 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
978 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
983 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
984 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
985 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
986 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
987 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
988 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
989 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
993 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
997 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
998 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1002 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1003 of possible actions (Taras).
1004 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1006 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1007 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1011 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1016 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1020 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1023 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1024 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1028 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1029 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1031 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1033 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1034 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1035 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1036 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1040 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1044 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1048 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1052 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1057 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1058 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1059 the first one found.
1060 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1064 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1068 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1069 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1070 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1074 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1075 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1076 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1081 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1082 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1083 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1087 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1089 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1094 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1099 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1103 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1104 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1108 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1110 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1111 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1115 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1119 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1120 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1124 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1125 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1129 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1130 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1132 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1134 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1138 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1142 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1143 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1147 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1151 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1156 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1157 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1161 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1165 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1169 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1171 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1172 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1176 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1177 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1181 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1182 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1183 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1187 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1188 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1192 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1193 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1195 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1197 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1201 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1202 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1203 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1205 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1206 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1208 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1210 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1211 and the default size with no details.
1215 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1216 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1220 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1225 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1230 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1234 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1239 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1240 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1244 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1248 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1249 the button to run it does.
1250 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1251 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1252 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1256 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1257 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1258 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1262 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1266 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1267 and panels into icon.c.
1271 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1272 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1273 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1274 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1278 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1280 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1282 Updated the documentation.
1286 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1287 up if they're too small.
1291 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1293 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1294 (Christopher Arndt).
1295 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1300 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1301 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1305 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1306 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1310 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1311 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1312 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1317 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1322 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1326 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1327 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1332 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1337 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1338 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1342 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1343 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1347 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1351 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1355 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1359 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1360 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1363 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1364 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1369 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1370 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1371 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1372 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1377 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1378 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1380 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1382 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1383 for non-applications.
1387 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1388 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1393 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1397 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1398 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1400 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1404 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1405 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1409 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1410 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1414 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1415 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1419 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1420 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1422 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1423 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1427 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1428 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1430 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1434 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1435 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1438 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1442 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1443 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1447 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1451 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1452 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1455 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1456 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1460 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1464 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1469 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1473 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1474 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1479 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1484 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1488 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1490 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1492 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1493 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1495 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1497 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1498 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1502 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1503 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1504 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1506 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1507 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1511 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1515 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1516 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1520 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1524 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1525 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1527 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1530 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1531 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1532 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1536 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1537 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1542 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1547 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1549 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1552 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1554 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1555 sensible shape itself now.
1557 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1558 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1559 file at all, just a reused inode!
1560 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1561 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1562 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1566 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1570 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1571 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1576 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1577 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1581 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1585 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1586 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1590 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1595 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1599 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1600 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1604 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1605 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1606 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1607 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1608 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1612 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1613 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1614 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1615 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1616 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1620 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1621 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1622 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1626 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1628 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1629 python's portable system.
1630 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1631 set the LANG variable.
1635 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1636 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1638 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1640 Made a few updates to the manual.
1644 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1645 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1647 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1649 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1650 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1654 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1655 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1659 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1660 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1665 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1666 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1667 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1671 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1672 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1676 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1677 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1681 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1682 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1684 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1685 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1686 open... (Denis Manente).
1690 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1694 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1696 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1697 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1698 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1700 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1702 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1704 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1705 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1710 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1711 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1712 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1716 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1717 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1721 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1725 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1729 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1730 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1731 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1735 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1736 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1737 between pinboards...
1739 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1740 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1741 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1745 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1748 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1749 window (Denis Manente).
1751 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1752 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1756 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1757 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1758 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1762 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1765 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1766 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1768 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1773 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1774 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1776 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1780 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1781 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1783 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1785 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1790 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1791 the icon points to as well as its name.
1793 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1794 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1798 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1799 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1800 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1801 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1805 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1809 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1810 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1811 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1815 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1816 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1818 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1819 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1822 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1823 the item after the drag.
1825 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1826 showing where the file really is.
1830 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1831 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1836 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1837 warning is displayed if so.
1839 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1843 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1844 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1845 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1846 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1849 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1850 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1851 works like the panels.
1855 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1856 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1857 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1858 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1859 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1863 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1864 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1865 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1866 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1868 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1873 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1877 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1878 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1881 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1882 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1884 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1887 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1888 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1889 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1890 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1892 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1894 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1895 slightly. Updated the manual.
1897 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1898 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1901 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1902 or bottom panel to make room.
1906 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1911 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1912 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1913 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1914 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1915 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1919 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1921 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1922 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1924 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1928 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1929 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1933 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1937 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1939 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1944 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1945 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1947 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1951 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1952 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1953 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1957 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1958 rewriting the panel system.
1962 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1965 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1966 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1970 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1971 (suggested by James Kermode).
1975 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1976 than as a full path.
1978 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1980 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1981 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1982 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1986 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1987 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1991 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1992 rename something onto another filesystem.
1996 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1998 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1999 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2003 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2007 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2010 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2011 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2013 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2016 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2021 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2022 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2023 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2025 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2026 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2028 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2029 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2034 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2035 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2040 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2041 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2042 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2044 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2045 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2046 of the 'missing image' image.
2050 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2052 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2054 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2059 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2060 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2061 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2062 its name into another program.
2064 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2068 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2070 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2071 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2072 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2074 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2075 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2076 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2079 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2080 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2084 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2085 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2086 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2090 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2091 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2092 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2096 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2097 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2098 and position the icons directly.
2102 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2107 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2108 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2109 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2113 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2117 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2118 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2122 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2127 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2131 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2132 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2133 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2134 some versions of GTK+.
2138 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2143 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2144 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2145 from a sub-sub-menu.
2147 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2148 drawn on a log scale.
2152 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2153 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2154 happy with the UI yet though...
2156 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2157 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2158 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2162 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2163 by Stephen Harrison).
2165 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2167 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2168 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2169 standard types are in Choices.
2170 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2172 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2173 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2174 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2179 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2180 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2181 shell command minibuffer.
2185 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2186 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2187 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2188 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2189 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2191 Default search path for Choices is now:
2192 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2194 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2195 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2196 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2200 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2201 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2205 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2206 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2207 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2212 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2213 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2214 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2217 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2219 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2220 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2221 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2223 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2224 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2228 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2229 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2230 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2231 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2236 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2237 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2238 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2240 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2242 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2243 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2247 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2248 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2249 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2254 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2255 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2258 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2260 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2265 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2270 Added GNU gettext support.
2271 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2275 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2277 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2279 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2284 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2288 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2289 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2291 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2292 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2297 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2298 onto the directory and winks the file.
2302 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2303 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2304 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2306 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2307 instead of random values.
2308 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2310 Applied Bernard's patch:
2311 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2312 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2313 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2314 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2315 it the RISC OS way...
2316 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2317 alignment corrected.
2318 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2323 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2327 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2328 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2332 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2333 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2334 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2335 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2336 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2337 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2338 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2339 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2340 in the file(1) says... box).
2343 Before the Changes file
2344 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2345 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2347 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2348 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2349 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2350 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2351 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD