2 Shared code for ROX applications
4 http://rox.sourceforge.net
8 Cope better with user cancelling su operation. New interface to replace
9 create_su_proxy (Thomas Leonard).
13 The choices module is now deprecated. You can use choices.migrate() to move
14 settings over to the basedir system (Thomas Leonard). Also added
15 basedir.load_first_config(), which works like the old choices.load().
19 Several incompatible changes to the experimental proxy API to make it simpler
22 - Create_su_proxy now returns the MasterObject directly, not the MasterProxy.
23 - You can call finish on the MasterObject (so the MasterProxy isn't needed).
24 - Slave methods no longer take a 'request' argument. Instead, the return
25 value of the function is returned.
26 - Methods can only return one value. dequeue and dequeue_last have been
27 replaced with a 'result' property.
28 - Methods on MasterObject now return a RequestBlocker, not a Queue. This
29 means you just yield the object itself, not object.blocker.
31 Tasks API is no longer experimental, but proxy API is.
35 Added a Help button to the exception dialog, which opens the new Help/Errors
36 file (Thomas Leonard).
40 Simplified su code and interface.
41 New suchild methods: open, close, read, write, chmod and rename, which work
42 just like their normal Python counterparts (Thomas Leonard).
46 Removed code to turn off the separator in the debug dialog. GTK 2.4 doesn't
47 need it, and generates a warning if you use it (Thomas Leonard).
49 27-Aug-2004 (Release 1.9.15)
51 Added spawnvpe and waitpid methods to suchild.
55 If the unit field for a <numentry> option is blank, don't try to translate it
56 (reported by Guido Schimmels).
60 Added 'su' module for performing operations as root.
64 Allow "" as a valid value in a OptionsBox menu (reported by Guido Schimmels).
68 Added 'proxy' module. This allows one Python process to invoke methods on
69 another asynchronously.
70 Added rox.UserAbort exception, to be raised when users cancel something
75 Fix syntax error I caused when I added a docstring (Stephen Watson).
79 Get update-mime-database command through Zero Install, if possible.
83 mime_handler can now uninstall (Stephen Watson).
87 Translate menu items in options (Guido Schimmels).
91 Added <slider> widget to options.
95 Added 'size-group' attribute to Options.xml elements. This allows grouping
96 elements so that their labels all appear the same width.
100 Bugfix: Colour buttons in the Options boxes didn't work with some themes
103 17-Apr-2004 (Release 1.9.14)
105 Added ToggleItem (based on a patch from Ken Hayber).
109 Better <label> widgets (wrapping and icon). Taken from LookAndFeel.
113 Stop themes from overriding the display of the colour-picker buttons in
114 the options box (Rene Ejury).
118 Warn about old versions of findrox.py.
119 Bugfix: Bug in new menu API prevented submenus from working.
121 16-Mar-2004 (Release 1.9.13)
123 Bugfix: Icon themes didn't work with python versions older than 2.2.2
124 (reported by Thomas Zajic).
128 Bugfix: Use filer module to show ROX-Lib help, rather than using os.system,
129 so that it works with Zero Install (reported by Keith Hopper).
133 Added widget_registry to OptionsBox, to provide an easy way to register
134 new option types. Removed build_button in favour of this method.
136 Bugfix: If an error occurred loading the ROX theme at startup it could not
137 be reported, because icon_theme wants debug, debug wants saving, and
138 saving wants icon_theme (reported by Thomas Zajic).
142 Cope with pygtk2.2 API change (Stephen Watson, reported by Guido Schimmels).
146 Added secretentry and button options to the OptionsBox (Stephen Watson).
150 Cope with option values split into multiple DOM text nodes (Rene Ejury).
154 Allow a list of values to be stored in each menu Action. These are used as
155 the arguments to the callback function.
156 If a file's details were recorded (in document.save_last_stat) when it was
157 loaded, make sure they haven't changed when saving. Saving also updates this
158 variable (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
162 Updated examples in documentation for new findrox (Yuri Bongiorno).
166 New API for menus. Instead of passing tuples for menu items, python classes
167 can be used. The old tuple interface is still supported.
171 Don't stop DnD working in the savebox just because no icon can be found
172 (reported by Martin Lucina).
176 Added French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
180 Also translate <label> elements in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
184 Also translate section names in the Options box (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
186 22-Jan-2004 (Release 1.9.12)
188 Added 'tasks' module to provide a light-weight alternative to threads.
189 Bugfix: On non-zero-install systems, the sense of the version check in findrox
194 Added method to MIMEtype to fetch its icon. Install list window for
195 the MIME handler installation uses it (Stephen Watson).
199 Translate text in Options box.
203 Allow ROXLIB_DISABLE_ZEROINSTALL to override looking for ROX-Lib in Zero
204 Install (useful for ROX-Lib developers). Prefer a locally installed version
205 of ROX-Filer to the Zero Install version; this also allows users to select
206 which Zero Install version they want (eg, stable or developer).
207 Moved MIME handler installation into a separate module (mime_handler) and
208 made a few changes to the XML syntax.
212 Added <menu> OptionMenu widget for Options box (Chris Shaffer).
216 Fixed bug in findrox when not using Zero Install (Lionel Bringuier).
220 Escape and unescape URIs, as required by ROX-Filer 2.1.0 (reported by
222 Note that the xds_load_uris() method is now called with escaped URIs.
223 Try to run the filer through Zero Install, if possible.
227 If we can't get pygtk through Zero Install, try the local copy.
231 Added support in mime.py for an application to set MIME-type run
232 actions and thumbnail programs (Stephen Watson).
236 Simplified implementation of saving.SaveFilter by using the new
237 processes.PipeThroughCommand class. The child_run() method of SaveFilter
238 is no longer supported.
239 In processes.PipeThroughCommand, a None input stream gets /dev/null instead
240 of inheriting its parent's stream. The class has a new run_child_with_streams
241 to make overriding the behaviour easier.
242 findrox.py script now warns if ROX-Lib2 version is too old (unless requesting
243 a version too old to have a version number).
247 Changed 'Dismiss' to 'Close' (Chris Shaffer).
248 Bugfix: Error reporting in mime.py failed to import the _ function (reported
249 by Christopher Haines).
250 New AppInfo.py for parsing AppInfo.xml files (Christopher Arndt), InfoWin
251 converted to use it (Stephen Watson).
253 15-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.11)
255 Bugfix: Python 2.3's new bool type broke options saving (reported by Lars
260 Added PipeThroughCommand class (copied from Archive, with some minor
265 Allow event to be None for Menu.popup. This allows the menu to be activated
266 from the keyboard, using the 'popup-menu' signal.
270 Added French translation in AppInfo.xml (Vincent Lefèvre).
272 03-Oct-2003 (Release 1.9.10)
274 Added support for icon themes (doesn't do inheritance yet).
278 Added some version information to the dialog you get when you run ROX-Lib
283 New bug() function to quickly bring up a debugging prompt.
287 The glob patterns in mime.py are now sorted longest first. Fix for setting
288 icon in the old way when there was no icon (Stephen Watson).
292 Try to cope better with bad hostname setup (reported by Nathan Howell).
296 Added InfoWin.py to provide standardized information window (Stephen Watson).
300 Fall back to old way of setting default icon for older pygtk's (Stephen
305 Added Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
309 Better way to set the default icon.
311 16-Aug-2003 (Release 1.9.9)
313 Give windows a default icon from .DirIcon (Chris Shaffer).
317 Try to get pygtk through ZeroInstall.
321 Updated findrox to use ZeroInstall, if possible.
325 Work out correct application name even if invoked via a symlink. This stops
326 applications from calling themselves 'text_plain', etc (reported by Joe Hill).
328 19-Jul-2003 (Release 1.9.8)
330 Make default menu positioning function keep the pointer inside the menu.
331 Allow stock icons in menus.
335 Added position_fn argument to rox.Menu.popup.
339 Cope with % escaped URIs.
343 Added italian translation in AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno)
347 When loading data from another application, pass the suggested leafname to
348 xds_load_from_stream().
352 Code tidying, thanks to pychecker.
356 Added fileutils module, which provides an interactive makedirs() function
358 Changed savebox module to use it.
360 16-May-2003 (Release 1.9.7)
362 New icon (Geoff Youngs).
363 Added 'basedir' module for freedesktop.org Base Directory specification.
367 Added functions to read MIME database (Stephen Watson).
369 27-Jan-2003 (Release 1.9.6)
371 Make the default window class the name of the application directory, not
372 'AppRun' (suggested by Albert Wagner).
373 Bugfix: With pygtk-1.99.14, only the first error message from a process
374 would be detected; this meant that ROX-Lib wouldn't detect when the
375 process quit (reported by joehill).
376 Bugfix: <hbox> and <vbox> layouts didn't work in the options box (Allen
381 If python is too old, raise SystemExit instead of quitting.
382 Ensure that True and False are defined.
386 Work around bug in some versions of pygtk that stopped the options window
389 12-Dec-2002 (Release 1.9.5)
391 Upgrade Options box to new style.
395 Bugfix: If an option had an empty value, an exception was thrown on loading
396 (reported by Stephen Watson).
400 Cope with missing input_add_full.
404 Pygtk 1.99.12 seems to more-or-less work now (according to Alastair Porter), so
405 remove the warning for that so we can support RedHat 8.0.
407 20-Oct-2002 (Release 1.9.4)
409 More warnings about old pygtk versions.
410 Added Dialog class (does ref-counting, like Window).
414 Trying to use ROX-Lib2 with earlier versions of python now gives a sensible
419 Make clicking on ROX-Lib itself work again (Christopher Arndt).
423 Updated findrox.py to use pygtk 1.99.13 -- update your programs!
425 25-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.3)
427 Switch to use new pygtk versioning system (requires pygtk 1.99.13).
431 Added 'processes' module, based on code in Archive, which makes controlling
436 Bugfix: Changing the keys lost any builtin shortcuts (Gtk behaviour has
441 Trap exceptions when activating menu items and report nicely.
445 Bugfix: Remember to call drop_finish() after a drag-and-drop operation.
447 05-Aug-2002 (Release 1.9.2)
449 Renamed XDSLoader module to 'loading' (like 'saving').
450 Added 'mime' module for installing extra MIME information.
451 Bugfix: XDSLoader didn't handle the drag-drop signal, and so only worked for
452 widgets with their own implementation!
456 Show local variables in report_exception, and allow expressions to be
457 evaluated in the context of any frame.
458 Added StringSaver class.
462 Added applet module for creating ROX panel applets.
466 Bugfix: saving code didn't cope with missing images (reported by Musus Umbra).
470 If 'gtk2' isn't available, see if 'gtk' is actually the 2.0 version.
471 Added save_set_permissions to Saveable interface, allowing the default
472 save_to_file to preserve file permissions.
473 Changes to XDSLoader: xds_load_from_stream(name, type, stream)
474 replaces the old xds_load_data(data).
475 Loading files from remote filers works now.
476 Added much improved exception reporting system.
478 19-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.1)
480 Added support for translations.
484 License change to the LGPL (allows commercial programs to use this library).
485 Added AbortSave exception.
489 Saveable.save_to_file() should raise an exception when saving fails, rather
490 than returning 0. The return value is now ignored (note that raising an
491 exception will still work with 1.9.0).
492 toplevel_unref() ignores any arguments, so it is easier to use as a signal
495 12-Jul-2002 (Release 1.9.0)
497 First release for Gtk+-2.0.