Added 'testall' script to run all the unit tests together (Thomas Leonard).

[rox-lib/lack.git] / Help / Changes

                        ROX-Lib2
                        Shared code for ROX applications
                        by Thomas Leonard
                        http://rox.sourceforge.net

01-Apr-2005
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Added 'testall' script to run all the unit tests together (Thomas Leonard).

23-Mar-2005 (Release 1.9.18)
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German translation (Guido Schimmels).

13-Mar-2005
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Added TODO file to track bugs and changes needed for 2.0.0 release.

10-Mar-2005
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Bugfix: Set default in Options box to OK to avoid triggering a GTK bug
        (Thomas Leonard, reported by Guido Schimmels).

16-Jan-2005 (Release 1.9.17)
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Added OutputBlocker, which works in a similar way to InputBlocker (Thomas
Leonard).

15-Jan-2005
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Be consistent about URI escaping. set_uri() is now always passed an unescaped
UTF-8 string (Thomas Leonard).

03-Jan-2004
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Added fixedlist and varlist widgets to OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).

31-Dec-2004
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Added MIME type matching by file contents (Stephen Watson).

29-Dec-2004
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If a 'rox' module is in PYTHONPATH, use that without any searching (Thomas
Leonard).

23-Dec-2004
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Added Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).

11-Dec-2004
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Suppress warning when we use GtkItemFactory under pygtk 2.4 (Stephen Watson).

25-Nov-2004
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Added tasks.InputBlocker, which triggers when an input source becomes
readable (Thomas Leonard).

21-Nov-2004
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Bugfix: Use only text nodes when getting the tool tip from the Options.xml
        file (Stephen Watson).

22-Oct-2004
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Bugfix: Theme subdirectories are separated by ',' not ';' (reported by
        Denis Prost).

20-Oct-2004
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Bugfix: When a menu has more than one toggle item, only one is updated
        correctly (Ken Hayber).

07-Oct-2004
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Replace g.mainloop() and g.mainquit() with g.main() and g.main_quit() as
recommended since pygtk 2.0.0 to avoid warnings with pygtk 2.4.0 (Stephen 
Watson).

03-Oct-2004
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Added options.ListOption to support multi-valued option widgets, such as
lists (Stephen Watson).

02-Oct-2004 (Release 1.9.16)
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Cope better with user cancelling su operation. New interface to replace
create_su_proxy (Thomas Leonard).

27-Sep-2004
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The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().

26-Sep-2004
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Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
(Thomas Leonard):

- Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
- You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
- Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
  value of the function is returned.
- Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
  replaced with a 'result' property.
- Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
  means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.

Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.

22-Sep-2004
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Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
file (Thomas Leonard).

08-Sep-2004
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Bugfix: Failed to call the parent constructor to AbortSave correctly.

06-Sep-2004
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Simplified su code and interface.
New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).

29-Aug-2004
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Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).

27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
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Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.

08-Aug-2004
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If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
(reported by Guido Schimmels).

30-Jun-2004
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Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.

11-Jun-2004
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Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).

10-Jun-2004
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Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
another asynchronously.
Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
manually.

07-Jun-2004
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Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).

30-May-2004
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Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.

24-May-2004
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mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).

04-May-2004
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Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).

26-Apr-2004
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Added <slider> widget to options.

25-Apr-2004
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Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
elements so that their labels all appear the same width.

20-Apr-2004
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Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
        (Jonatan Liljedahl).

17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
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Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).

15-Apr-2004
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Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.

20-Mar-2004
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Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
the options box (Rene Ejury).

17-Mar-2004
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Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.

16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
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Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
        (reported by Thomas Zajic).

15-Mar-2004
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Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
        so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).

14-Mar-2004
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Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.

Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
        be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
        saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).

12-Mar-2004
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Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).

06-Mar-2004
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Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).

26-Feb-2004
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Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).

22-Feb-2004
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Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
the arguments to the callback function.
If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).

20-Feb-2004
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Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).

10-Feb-2004
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New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.

07-Feb-2004
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Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
(reported by Martin Lucina).

02-Feb-2004
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Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).

30-Jan-2004
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Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).

28-Jan-2004
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Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).

22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
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Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
        was wrong.

02-Jan-2004
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Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).

13-Dec-2003
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Translate text in Options box.

28-Dec-2003
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Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
made a few changes to the XML syntax.

24-Dec-2003
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Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).

27-Nov-2003
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Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).

26-Nov-2003
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Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
Peter Geer).
Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.

11-Nov-2003
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If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.

05-Nov-2003
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Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).

31-Oct-2003
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Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
is no longer supported.
In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
to make overriding the behaviour easier.
findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
a version too old to have a version number).

29-Oct-2003
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Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
        by Christopher Haines).
New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
converted to use it (Stephen Watson).

15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
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Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
        Hansson).

13-Oct-2003
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Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
changes).

09-Oct-2003
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Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.

08-Oct-2003
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Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).

03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
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Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).

28-Sep-2003
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Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
directly.

22-Sep-2003
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New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.

15-Sep-2003
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The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting 
icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).

25-Aug-2003
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Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).

24-Aug-2003
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Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).

24-Aug-2003
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Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen 
Watson).

20-Aug-2003
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Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).

18-Aug-2003
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Better way to set the default icon.

16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
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Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).

01-Aug-2003
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Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.

25-Jul-2003
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Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.

22-Jul-2003
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Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).

19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
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Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
Allow stock icons in menus.

18-Jul-2003
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Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.

17-Jul-2003
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Cope with % escaped URIs.

04-Jul-2003
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Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)

26-Jun-2003
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When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
xds_load_from_stream().

04-Jun-2003
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Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.

26-May-2003
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Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
(Richard Boulton).
Changed savebox module to use it.

16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
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New icon (Geoff Youngs).
Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.

06-May-2003
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Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).

27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
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Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
        would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
        process quit (reported by joehill).
Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
        Leonard).

22-Jan-2003
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If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
Ensure that True and False are defined.

16-Dec-2002
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Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
from working.

12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
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Upgrade Options box to new style.

11-Dec-2002
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Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
        (reported by Stephen Watson).

05-Dec-2002
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Cope with missing input_add_full.

25-Oct-2002
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Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.

20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
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More warnings about old pygtk versions.
Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).

15-Oct-2002
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Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
error message.

10-Oct-2002
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Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).

25-Aug-2002
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Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!

25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
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Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).

19-Aug-2002
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Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
subprocesses easier.

14-Aug-2002
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Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
        changed since 1.2).

08-Aug-2002
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Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.

07-Aug-2002
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Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.

05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
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Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
        widgets with their own implementation!

31-Jul-2002
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Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
evaluated in the context of any frame.
Added StringSaver class.

25-Jul-2002
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Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.

24-Jul-2002
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Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).

21-Jul-2002
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If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
Loading files from remote filers works now.
Added much improved exception reporting system.

19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
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Added support for translations.

18-Jul-2002
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License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
Added AbortSave exception.

14-Jul-2002
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Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
exception will still work with 1.9.0).
toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
handler.

12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
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First release for Gtk+-2.0.