2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
6 08-Jul-2002 (Release 1.2.2)
8 Fixed libxml compile problem (reported by Keith Hopper).
9 Check that libpng includes the functions we need, as Slackware's default
10 version is missing some (reported by Serban Udrea).
12 Backported changes from 1.3.x series:
13 - Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
14 - Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
16 02-Jul-2002 (Release 1.2.1)
18 Backported fixes from 1.3.x series:
20 - Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable world-writeable
21 (spotted by alexander).
22 - Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio Hugo
24 - Fixed compile problem with libxml's parser.h.
25 - More robust approach to SOAP errors.
26 - Drop Gtk+-2.0 support (didn't work with stable Gtk+ release anyway; use
27 ROX-Filer 1.3.x instead).
28 - When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
29 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
31 - Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
32 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
34 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
38 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
40 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
44 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
45 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
46 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
50 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
51 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
53 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
55 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
59 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
60 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
64 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
65 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
66 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
67 (requested by Andras Mohari).
71 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
75 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
76 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
80 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
81 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
86 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
87 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
91 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
92 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
93 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
97 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
98 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
102 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
103 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
104 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
105 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
107 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
112 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
113 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
115 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
117 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
121 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
122 any image (saves time).
123 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
124 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
125 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
126 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
128 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
129 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
133 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
134 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
136 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
137 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
139 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
144 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
145 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
146 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
147 has stopped accepting STRING.
151 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
152 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
156 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
161 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
162 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
164 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
165 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
166 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
170 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
171 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
172 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
173 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
174 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
175 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
179 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
180 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
181 Allow '~' in globicons file.
182 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
183 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
184 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
189 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
190 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
191 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
192 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
197 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
198 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
202 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
203 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
205 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
207 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
208 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
209 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
213 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
214 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
215 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
219 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
220 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
224 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
225 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
229 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
231 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
236 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
237 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
241 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
242 their menus correctly.
243 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
248 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
249 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
250 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
254 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
255 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
259 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
263 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
266 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
268 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
269 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
270 the toggle menu items from working!
274 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
276 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
282 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
283 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
287 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
288 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
289 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
290 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
291 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
292 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
296 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
300 File groups are now saved (automatically).
301 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
305 Added Version SOAP RPC.
306 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
307 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
311 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
312 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
317 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
319 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
323 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
324 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
325 bar is displayed in the filer window.
326 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
330 Improved error reporting.
331 Improved sizing code when details are on.
335 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
336 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
337 check box and does 'Yes'.
341 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
342 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
343 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
344 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
349 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
351 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
352 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
354 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
356 Internal changes to options system:
357 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
358 filer is fully initialised).
359 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
361 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
363 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
364 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
365 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
366 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
370 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
371 now reclaims the selection.
372 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
373 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
378 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
379 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
380 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
381 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
382 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
386 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
387 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
389 Code tidying in various places.
393 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
394 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
399 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
400 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
404 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
405 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
406 edit the file, not the file itself!
407 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
411 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
412 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
413 (recommended by Jens Finke).
414 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
415 of the SOAP working draft.
416 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
417 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
418 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
423 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
424 it was in the displayed area before.
426 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
429 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
430 winking effect until the window actually appears.
434 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
435 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
436 Kristian A. Rink and others).
438 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
439 selection (Andras Mohari).
443 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
447 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
451 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
452 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
453 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
457 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
461 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
463 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
464 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
465 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
469 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
470 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
475 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
476 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
477 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
481 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
485 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
489 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
490 replaced by a Restart button.
494 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
495 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
499 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
503 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
507 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
508 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
509 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
513 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
514 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
516 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
517 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
518 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
522 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
523 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
528 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
530 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
531 (requested by Graham Borland).
532 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
533 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
534 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
538 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
539 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
540 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
541 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
545 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
546 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
547 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
548 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
549 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
550 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
551 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
552 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
553 - Lots of code tidying.
558 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
559 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
563 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
565 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
567 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
571 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
572 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
576 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
577 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
581 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
582 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
586 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
587 option to access it directly.
591 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
592 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
593 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
597 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
598 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
599 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
600 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
601 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
602 when the filer is run.
606 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
607 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
608 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
613 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
617 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
618 title bar (Stephen Watson).
622 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
624 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
628 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
632 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
633 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
634 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
639 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
640 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
641 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
642 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
643 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
644 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
645 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
649 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
653 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
654 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
658 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
659 of possible actions (Taras).
660 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
662 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
663 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
667 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
672 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
676 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
679 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
680 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
684 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
685 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
687 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
689 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
690 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
691 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
692 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
696 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
700 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
704 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
708 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
713 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
714 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
716 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
720 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
724 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
725 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
726 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
730 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
731 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
732 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
737 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
738 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
739 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
743 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
745 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
750 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
755 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
759 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
760 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
764 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
766 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
767 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
771 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
775 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
776 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
780 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
781 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
785 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
786 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
788 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
790 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
794 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
798 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
799 (requested by Jim Knoble).
803 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
807 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
812 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
813 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
817 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
821 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
825 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
827 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
828 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
832 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
833 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
837 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
838 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
839 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
843 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
844 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
848 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
849 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
851 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
853 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
857 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
858 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
859 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
861 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
862 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
864 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
866 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
867 and the default size with no details.
871 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
872 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
876 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
881 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
886 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
890 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
895 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
896 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
900 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
904 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
905 the button to run it does.
906 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
907 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
908 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
912 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
913 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
914 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
918 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
922 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
923 and panels into icon.c.
927 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
928 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
929 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
930 and Vincent Lefèvre).
934 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
936 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
938 Updated the documentation.
942 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
943 up if they're too small.
947 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
949 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
951 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
956 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
957 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
961 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
962 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
966 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
967 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
968 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
973 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
978 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
982 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
983 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
988 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
993 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
994 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
998 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
999 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1003 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1007 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1011 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1015 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1016 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1019 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1020 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1025 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1026 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1027 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1028 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1033 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1034 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1036 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1038 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1039 for non-applications.
1043 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1044 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1049 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1053 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1054 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1056 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1060 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1061 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1065 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1066 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1070 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1071 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1075 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1076 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1078 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1079 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1083 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1084 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1086 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1090 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1091 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1094 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1098 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1099 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1103 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1107 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1108 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1111 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1112 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1116 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1120 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1125 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1129 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1130 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1135 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1140 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1144 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1146 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1148 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1149 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1151 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1153 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1154 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1158 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1159 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1160 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1162 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1163 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1167 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1171 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1172 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1176 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1180 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1181 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1183 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1186 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1187 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1188 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1192 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1193 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1198 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1203 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1205 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1208 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1210 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1211 sensible shape itself now.
1213 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1214 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1215 file at all, just a reused inode!
1216 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1217 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1218 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1222 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1226 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1227 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1232 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1233 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1237 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1241 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1242 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1246 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1251 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1255 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1256 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1260 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1261 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1262 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1263 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1264 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1268 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1269 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1270 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1271 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1272 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1276 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1277 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1278 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1282 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1284 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1285 python's portable system.
1286 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1287 set the LANG variable.
1291 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1292 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1294 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1296 Made a few updates to the manual.
1300 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1301 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1303 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1305 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1306 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1310 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1311 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1315 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1316 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1321 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1322 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1323 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1327 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1328 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1332 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1333 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1337 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1338 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1340 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1341 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1342 open... (Denis Manente).
1346 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1350 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1352 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1353 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1354 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1356 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1358 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1360 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1361 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1366 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1367 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1368 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1372 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1373 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1377 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1381 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1385 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1386 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1387 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1391 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1392 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1393 between pinboards...
1395 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1396 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1397 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1401 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1404 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1405 window (Denis Manente).
1407 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1408 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1412 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1413 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1414 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1418 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1421 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1422 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1424 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1429 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1430 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1432 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1436 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1437 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1439 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1441 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1446 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1447 the icon points to as well as its name.
1449 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1450 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1454 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1455 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1456 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1457 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1461 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1465 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1466 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1467 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1471 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1472 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1474 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1475 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1478 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1479 the item after the drag.
1481 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1482 showing where the file really is.
1486 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1487 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1492 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1493 warning is displayed if so.
1495 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1499 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1500 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1501 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1502 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1505 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1506 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1507 works like the panels.
1511 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1512 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1513 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1514 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1515 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1519 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1520 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1521 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1522 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1524 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1529 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1533 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1534 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1537 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1538 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1540 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1543 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1544 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1545 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1546 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1548 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1550 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1551 slightly. Updated the manual.
1553 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1554 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1557 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1558 or bottom panel to make room.
1562 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1567 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1568 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1569 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1570 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1571 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1575 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1577 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1578 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1580 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1584 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1585 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1589 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1593 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1595 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1600 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1601 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1603 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1607 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1608 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1609 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1613 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1614 rewriting the panel system.
1618 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1621 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1622 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1626 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1627 (suggested by James Kermode).
1631 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1632 than as a full path.
1634 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1636 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1637 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1638 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1642 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1643 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1647 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1648 rename something onto another filesystem.
1652 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1654 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1655 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1659 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1663 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1666 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1667 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1669 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1672 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1677 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1678 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1679 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1681 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1682 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1684 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1685 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1690 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1691 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1696 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1697 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1698 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1700 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1701 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1702 of the 'missing image' image.
1706 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
1708 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
1710 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
1715 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
1716 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
1717 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
1718 its name into another program.
1720 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
1724 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
1726 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
1727 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
1728 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
1730 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
1731 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
1732 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
1735 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
1736 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
1740 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
1741 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
1742 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
1746 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
1747 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
1748 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
1752 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
1753 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
1754 and position the icons directly.
1758 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
1763 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
1764 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
1765 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
1769 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
1773 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
1774 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
1778 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
1783 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
1787 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
1788 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
1789 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
1790 some versions of GTK+.
1794 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
1799 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
1800 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
1801 from a sub-sub-menu.
1803 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
1804 drawn on a log scale.
1808 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
1809 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
1810 happy with the UI yet though...
1812 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
1813 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
1814 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
1818 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
1819 by Stephen Harrison).
1821 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
1823 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
1824 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
1825 standard types are in Choices.
1826 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
1828 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
1829 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
1830 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
1835 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
1836 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
1837 shell command minibuffer.
1841 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
1842 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
1843 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
1844 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
1845 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1847 Default search path for Choices is now:
1848 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
1850 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
1851 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
1852 buffering so all this will get changed then...
1856 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
1857 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
1861 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
1862 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
1863 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
1868 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
1869 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
1870 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
1873 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
1875 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
1876 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
1877 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
1879 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
1880 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
1884 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
1885 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
1886 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
1887 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
1892 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
1893 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
1894 an empty directory caused odd effects.
1896 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
1898 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
1899 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
1903 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
1904 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
1905 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
1910 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
1911 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
1914 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
1916 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
1921 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
1926 Added GNU gettext support.
1927 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
1931 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
1933 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
1935 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
1940 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
1944 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
1945 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
1947 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
1948 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
1953 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
1954 onto the directory and winks the file.
1958 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
1959 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
1960 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
1962 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
1963 instead of random values.
1964 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
1966 Applied Bernard's patch:
1967 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
1968 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
1969 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
1970 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
1971 it the RISC OS way...
1972 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
1973 alignment corrected.
1974 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
1979 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
1983 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
1984 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
1988 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
1989 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
1990 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
1991 - Option to only display one window per directory.
1992 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
1993 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
1994 - Errors in options are only reported once.
1995 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
1996 in the file(1) says... box).
1999 Before the Changes file
2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2001 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2003 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2004 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2005 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2006 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2007 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD