2 Shared code for ROX applications
4 http://rox.sourceforge.net
8 Added mime.get_type_handler(), which uses the same algorithm as ROX-Filer to
9 find the handler for a file (Ken Hayber and Thomas Leonard).
13 New class Setting in rox.session is an option tied to a ROX-Session setting
18 Added rox.session module for communicating with ROX-Session.
19 Added method for applets to determine the panel orientation (Stephen Watson).
23 Set sys.excepthook to our graphical exception explorer so that untrapped
24 exceptions are reported nicely.
28 Save box now selects icon from same icon theme as ROX-Filer (Stephen Watson).
32 When saving a file to a FAT filesystem, the chmod would fail. Log a warning
33 instead of aborting (Thomas Leonard; reported by QS Computing).
37 Better detection of the MIME-types/MIME-thumb location when installing
38 type handlers (Stephen Watson).
42 Added rox.isappdir() function to test the validity of an AppDir (Stephen
44 EXPERIMENTAL code for installing MIME handlers via 0launch (Stephen Watson).
48 Changed the doc string in Menu.py to prefer the new MenuItem based method
49 of defining menus not the old tuple method (Stephen Watson).
53 Added Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
57 Made message in AppRun translatable (Andras Mohari).
61 Added launch module, which allows running programs easily using the injector,
62 and made filer.py use 0launch if available (Thomas Leonard; requested by
64 Double-click on a line in the stack-trace display of an error to open the
65 source file in Edit (Thomas Leonard).
69 If pygtk is found, but not gtk, give a better error (Thomas Leonard; reported
74 If 'xterm' isn't available, give a sensible error message when using the
75 su module (Thomas Leonard; reported by Vincent Lefevre).
79 Added ROX-Lib.xml file, which makes it easy to register a CVS copy of ROX-Lib
80 with the 0launch, using '0launch --add-feed' (Thomas Leonard).
82 25-Jul-2005 (Release 2.0.2)
84 Bugfix: Installing MIME handlers under the XDG base dir system didn't
85 work (Stephen Watson).
87 17-Jun-2005 (Release 2.0.1)
89 Send deprecation warnings to stdout, not stderr, so only developers will
90 see them (Thomas Leonard).
94 Fixed deprecation warning in processes.py (Thomas Leonard).
98 Avoid apparent PyGTK bug related to icon themes, may result in a
99 memory leak but probably won't (Stephen Watson).
103 Clean up of icon theme handling (Stephen Watson).
107 Compatability with PyGTK 2.4 retaining backwards compatability with
108 2.2 at least (Ken Hayber, Stephen Watson).
112 Updated Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
116 Added Portuguese translation (José Carlos do Nascimento).
120 Don't try to get pygtk through Zero Install. The injector can be used to
121 choose the implementation of pygtk to use, including a version in Zero
122 Install if desired (Thomas Leonard).
126 MIME handler install now uses basedir (Stephen Watson).
127 Tests use gtk.main() instead of the deprecated gtk.mainloop() (Stephen Watson).
131 Some versions of GTK silently remove '-' from sys.argv (GTK bug #303166).
132 Added a work-around (Thomas Leonard).
136 Put "root" back in su command, but detect what the exact string should be, as
137 Solaris needs something here (reported by Stephen Watson).
141 The default SaveArea.confirm_new_path() now shows an error if the target
142 exists as a directory, instead of asking if you want to overwrite it (Thomas
143 Leonard; reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
144 Remove "root" from the su command, as some systems call user 0 something else
145 (Thomas Leonard; reported by Jonatan Liljedahl).
149 When getting an icon for saving, specify the size if PyGTK is recent enough.
150 This prevents SVG icons from appearing in huge sizes (Thomas Leonard;
151 requested by John Pettigrew).
152 Bugfix: Theme index parser failed to cope with comments at the start of the
153 file (Thomas Leonard).
157 Compatability fixes for the su module (Stephen Watson).
161 Fixed Zero Install version test in findrox.py (Thomas Leonard).
163 16-Apr-2005 (Release 2.0.0)
165 Run unit tests in alphabetical order as it fixes a strange interaction between them (Stephen Watson).
169 Added unit tests for processes module, based on old tests in Archive (Thomas
174 Changed MakeDist to allow use of other SourceForge accounts (Stephen Watson).
178 Added 'testall' script to run all the unit tests together (Thomas Leonard).
180 23-Mar-2005 (Release 1.9.18)
182 German translation (Guido Schimmels).
186 Added TODO file to track bugs and changes needed for 2.0.0 release.
190 Bugfix: Set default in Options box to OK to avoid triggering a GTK bug
191 (Thomas Leonard, reported by Guido Schimmels).
193 16-Jan-2005 (Release 1.9.17)
195 Added OutputBlocker, which works in a similar way to InputBlocker (Thomas
200 Be consistent about URI escaping. set_uri() is now always passed an unescaped
201 UTF-8 string (Thomas Leonard).
205 Added fixedlist and varlist widgets to OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
209 Added MIME type matching by file contents (Stephen Watson).
213 If a 'rox' module is in PYTHONPATH, use that without any searching (Thomas
218 Added Chinese translation (Babyfai Cheung).
222 Suppress warning when we use GtkItemFactory under pygtk 2.4 (Stephen Watson).
226 Added tasks.InputBlocker, which triggers when an input source becomes
227 readable (Thomas Leonard).
231 Bugfix: Use only text nodes when getting the tool tip from the Options.xml
232 file (Stephen Watson).
236 Bugfix: Theme subdirectories are separated by ',' not ';' (reported by
241 Bugfix: When a menu has more than one toggle item, only one is updated
242 correctly (Ken Hayber).
246 Replace g.mainloop() and g.mainquit() with g.main() and g.main_quit() as
247 recommended since pygtk 2.0.0 to avoid warnings with pygtk 2.4.0 (Stephen
252 Added options.ListOption to support multi-valued option widgets, such as
253 lists (Stephen Watson).
255 02-Oct-2004 (Release 1.9.16)
257 Cope better with user cancelling su operation. New interface to replace
258 create_su_proxy (Thomas Leonard).
262 The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
263 settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
264 basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().
268 Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
271 - Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
272 - You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
273 - Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
274 value of the function is returned.
275 - Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
276 replaced with a 'result' property.
277 - Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
278 means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.
280 Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.
284 Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
285 file (Thomas Leonard).
289 Bugfix: Failed to call the parent constructor to AbortSave correctly.
293 Simplified su code and interface.
294 New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
295 just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).
299 Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
300 need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).
302 27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
304 Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.
308 If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
309 (reported by Guido Schimmels).
313 Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.
317 Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).
321 Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
322 another asynchronously.
323 Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
328 Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).
332 Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.
336 mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).
340 Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).
344 Added <slider> widget to options.
348 Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
349 elements so that their labels all appear the same width.
353 Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
356 17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
358 Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).
362 Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.
366 Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
367 the options box (Rene Ejury).
371 Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
372 Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.
374 16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
376 Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
377 (reported by Thomas Zajic).
381 Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
382 so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).
386 Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
387 new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.
389 Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
390 be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
391 saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).
395 Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).
399 Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
403 Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).
407 Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
408 the arguments to the callback function.
409 If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
410 loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
411 variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
415 Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).
419 New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
420 can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.
424 Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
425 (reported by Martin Lucina).
429 Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
433 Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
437 Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
439 22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
441 Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
442 Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
447 Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
448 the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).
452 Translate text in Options box.
456 Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
457 Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
458 of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
459 which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
460 Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
461 made a few changes to the XML syntax.
465 Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).
469 Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).
473 Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
475 Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
476 Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.
480 If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.
484 Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
485 actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).
489 Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
490 processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
491 is no longer supported.
492 In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
493 of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
494 to make overriding the behaviour easier.
495 findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
496 a version too old to have a version number).
500 Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
501 Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
502 by Christopher Haines).
503 New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
504 converted to use it (Stephen Watson).
506 15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
508 Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
513 Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
518 Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
519 from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.
523 Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).
525 03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
527 Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).
531 Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
536 New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.
540 The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting
541 icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).
545 Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).
549 Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).
553 Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen
558 Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
562 Better way to set the default icon.
564 16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
566 Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).
570 Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.
574 Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.
578 Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
579 applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).
581 19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
583 Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
584 Allow stock icons in menus.
588 Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.
592 Cope with % escaped URIs.
596 Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
600 When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
601 xds_load_from_stream().
605 Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.
609 Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
611 Changed savebox module to use it.
613 16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
615 New icon (Geoff Youngs).
616 Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.
620 Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).
622 27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
624 Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
625 'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
626 Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
627 would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
628 process quit (reported by joehill).
629 Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
634 If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
635 Ensure that True and False are defined.
639 Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
642 12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
644 Upgrade Options box to new style.
648 Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
649 (reported by Stephen Watson).
653 Cope with missing input_add_full.
657 Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
658 remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.
660 20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
662 More warnings about old pygtk versions.
663 Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).
667 Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
672 Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).
676 Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!
678 25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
680 Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).
684 Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
689 Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
694 Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.
698 Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.
700 05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
702 Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
703 Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
704 Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
705 widgets with their own implementation!
709 Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
710 evaluated in the context of any frame.
711 Added StringSaver class.
715 Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.
719 Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).
723 If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
724 Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
725 save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
726 Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
727 replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
728 Loading files from remote filers works now.
729 Added much improved exception reporting system.
731 19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
733 Added support for translations.
737 License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
738 Added AbortSave exception.
742 Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
743 than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
744 exception will still work with 1.9.0).
745 toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
748 12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
750 First release for Gtk+-2.0.