2 Shared code for ROX applications
4 http://rox.sourceforge.net
8 The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
9 settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
10 basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().
14 Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
17 - Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
18 - You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
19 - Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
20 value of the function is returned.
21 - Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
22 replaced with a 'result' property.
23 - Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
24 means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.
26 Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.
30 Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
31 file (Thomas Leonard).
35 Simplified su code and interface.
36 New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
37 just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).
41 Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
42 need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).
44 27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
46 Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.
50 If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
51 (reported by Guido Schimmels).
55 Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.
59 Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).
63 Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
64 another asynchronously.
65 Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
70 Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).
74 Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.
78 mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).
82 Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).
86 Added <slider> widget to options.
90 Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
91 elements so that their labels all appear the same width.
95 Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
98 17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
100 Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).
104 Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.
108 Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
109 the options box (Rene Ejury).
113 Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
114 Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.
116 16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
118 Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
119 (reported by Thomas Zajic).
123 Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
124 so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).
128 Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
129 new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.
131 Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
132 be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
133 saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).
137 Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).
141 Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
145 Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).
149 Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
150 the arguments to the callback function.
151 If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
152 loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
153 variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
157 Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).
161 New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
162 can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.
166 Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
167 (reported by Martin Lucina).
171 Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
175 Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
179 Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
181 22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
183 Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
184 Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
189 Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
190 the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).
194 Translate text in Options box.
198 Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
199 Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
200 of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
201 which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
202 Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
203 made a few changes to the XML syntax.
207 Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).
211 Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).
215 Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
217 Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
218 Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.
222 If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.
226 Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
227 actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).
231 Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
232 processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
233 is no longer supported.
234 In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
235 of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
236 to make overriding the behaviour easier.
237 findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
238 a version too old to have a version number).
242 Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
243 Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
244 by Christopher Haines).
245 New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
246 converted to use it (Stephen Watson).
248 15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
250 Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
255 Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
260 Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
261 from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.
265 Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).
267 03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
269 Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).
273 Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
278 New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.
282 The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting
283 icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).
287 Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).
291 Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).
295 Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen
300 Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
304 Better way to set the default icon.
306 16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
308 Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).
312 Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.
316 Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.
320 Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
321 applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).
323 19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
325 Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
326 Allow stock icons in menus.
330 Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.
334 Cope with % escaped URIs.
338 Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
342 When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
343 xds_load_from_stream().
347 Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.
351 Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
353 Changed savebox module to use it.
355 16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
357 New icon (Geoff Youngs).
358 Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.
362 Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).
364 27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
366 Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
367 'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
368 Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
369 would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
370 process quit (reported by joehill).
371 Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
376 If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
377 Ensure that True and False are defined.
381 Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
384 12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
386 Upgrade Options box to new style.
390 Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
391 (reported by Stephen Watson).
395 Cope with missing input_add_full.
399 Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
400 remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.
402 20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
404 More warnings about old pygtk versions.
405 Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).
409 Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
414 Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).
418 Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!
420 25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
422 Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).
426 Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
431 Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
436 Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.
440 Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.
442 05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
444 Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
445 Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
446 Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
447 widgets with their own implementation!
451 Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
452 evaluated in the context of any frame.
453 Added StringSaver class.
457 Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.
461 Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).
465 If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
466 Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
467 save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
468 Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
469 replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
470 Loading files from remote filers works now.
471 Added much improved exception reporting system.
473 19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
475 Added support for translations.
479 License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
480 Added AbortSave exception.
484 Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
485 than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
486 exception will still work with 1.9.0).
487 toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
490 12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
492 First release for Gtk+-2.0.