2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
11 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
15 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
16 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
21 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
25 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
29 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
30 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
31 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
35 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
39 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
44 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
48 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
49 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
50 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
51 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
55 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
59 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
60 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
64 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
65 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
66 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
70 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
74 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
78 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
79 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
80 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
81 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
82 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
83 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
87 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
88 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
92 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
93 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
94 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
98 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
99 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
103 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
107 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
108 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
109 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
110 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
112 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
114 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
118 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
119 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
120 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
124 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
128 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
129 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
134 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
138 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
142 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
143 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
147 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
148 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
149 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
153 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
154 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
158 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
159 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
163 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
164 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
168 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
172 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
173 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
177 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
179 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
181 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
185 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
189 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
190 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
194 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
198 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
202 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
203 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
204 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
205 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
206 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
207 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
211 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
215 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
217 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
218 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
222 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
223 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
227 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
231 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
232 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
233 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
234 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
236 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
238 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
242 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
243 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
247 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
248 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
249 disappeared at the wrong moment.
253 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
254 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
255 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
256 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
257 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
258 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
259 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
263 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
264 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
268 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
272 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
276 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
281 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
285 Options to set iconification layout policy.
286 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
287 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
291 Pinboard background colour option works again.
292 Position iconified windows sensibly.
293 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
297 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
298 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
299 (requested by Ryan Harris).
303 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
304 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
308 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
313 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
314 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
315 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
316 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
317 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
319 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
320 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
324 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
328 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
329 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
330 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
331 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
335 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
336 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
337 Many improvements to the pinboard:
338 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
339 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
340 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
344 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
348 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
349 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
353 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
354 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
355 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
356 restart (Olli Helenius).
360 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
364 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
365 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
366 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
371 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
376 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
377 Small and Large sizes.
381 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
385 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
386 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
390 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
391 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
392 (requested by Gregory Spath).
393 Don't quit while Options window is open.
397 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
398 the window (requested by Ashwin).
399 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
404 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
409 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
410 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
414 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
415 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
420 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
422 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
424 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
428 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
432 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
434 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
436 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
440 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
442 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
443 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
447 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
448 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
452 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
453 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
457 Various speed improvements.
458 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
462 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
463 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
467 Slight speed increase when starting.
471 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
475 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
476 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
477 button is no longer supported.
481 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
485 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
489 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
494 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
495 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
499 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
500 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
501 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
505 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
506 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
507 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
508 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
512 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
513 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
514 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
516 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
521 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
522 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
527 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
531 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
532 and converted to new dialog style.
536 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
537 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
541 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
542 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
546 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
550 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
552 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
556 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
560 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
561 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
562 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
566 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
567 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
571 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
576 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
580 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
581 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
585 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
586 and Cancel is now Revert.
587 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
588 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
592 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
596 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
597 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
599 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
600 (reported by Serban Udrea).
601 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
602 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
606 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
608 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
610 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
613 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
617 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
619 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
623 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
624 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
625 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
629 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
630 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
632 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
634 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
638 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
639 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
643 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
644 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
645 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
646 (requested by Andras Mohari).
650 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
654 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
655 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
659 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
660 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
665 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
666 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
670 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
671 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
672 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
676 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
677 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
681 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
682 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
683 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
684 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
686 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
691 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
692 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
694 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
696 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
700 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
701 any image (saves time).
702 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
703 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
704 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
705 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
707 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
708 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
712 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
713 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
715 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
716 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
718 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
723 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
724 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
725 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
726 has stopped accepting STRING.
730 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
731 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
735 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
740 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
741 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
743 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
744 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
745 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
749 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
750 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
751 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
752 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
753 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
754 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
758 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
759 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
760 Allow '~' in globicons file.
761 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
762 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
763 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
768 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
769 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
770 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
771 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
776 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
777 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
781 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
782 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
784 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
786 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
787 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
788 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
792 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
793 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
794 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
798 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
799 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
803 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
804 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
808 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
810 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
815 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
816 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
820 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
821 their menus correctly.
822 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
827 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
828 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
829 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
833 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
834 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
838 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
842 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
845 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
847 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
848 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
849 the toggle menu items from working!
853 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
855 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
861 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
862 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
866 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
867 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
868 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
869 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
870 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
871 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
875 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
879 File groups are now saved (automatically).
880 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
884 Added Version SOAP RPC.
885 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
886 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
890 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
891 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
896 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
898 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
902 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
903 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
904 bar is displayed in the filer window.
905 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
909 Improved error reporting.
910 Improved sizing code when details are on.
914 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
915 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
916 check box and does 'Yes'.
920 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
921 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
922 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
923 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
928 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
930 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
931 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
933 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
935 Internal changes to options system:
936 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
937 filer is fully initialised).
938 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
940 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
942 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
943 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
944 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
945 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
949 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
950 now reclaims the selection.
951 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
952 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
957 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
958 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
959 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
960 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
961 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
965 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
966 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
968 Code tidying in various places.
972 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
973 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
978 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
979 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
983 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
984 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
985 edit the file, not the file itself!
986 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
990 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
991 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
992 (recommended by Jens Finke).
993 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
994 of the SOAP working draft.
995 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
996 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
997 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1002 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1003 it was in the displayed area before.
1005 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1008 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1009 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1013 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1014 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1015 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1017 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1018 selection (Andras Mohari).
1022 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1026 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1030 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1031 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1032 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1036 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1040 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1042 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1043 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1044 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1048 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1049 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1054 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1055 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1056 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1060 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1064 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1068 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1069 replaced by a Restart button.
1073 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1074 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1078 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1082 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1086 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1087 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1088 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1092 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1093 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1095 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1096 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1097 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1101 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1102 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1107 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1109 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1110 (requested by Graham Borland).
1111 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1112 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1113 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1117 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1118 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1119 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1120 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1124 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1125 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1126 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1127 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1128 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1129 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1130 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1131 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1132 - Lots of code tidying.
1137 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1138 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1142 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1144 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1146 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1150 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1151 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1155 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1156 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1160 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1161 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1165 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1166 option to access it directly.
1170 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1171 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1172 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1176 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1177 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1178 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1179 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1180 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1181 when the filer is run.
1185 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1186 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1187 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1192 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1196 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1197 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1201 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1203 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1207 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1211 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1212 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1213 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1218 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1219 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1220 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1221 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1222 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1223 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1224 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1228 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1232 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1233 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1237 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1238 of possible actions (Taras).
1239 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1241 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1242 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1246 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1251 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1255 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1258 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1259 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1263 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1264 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1266 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1268 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1269 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1270 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1271 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1275 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1279 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1283 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1287 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1292 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1293 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1294 the first one found.
1295 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1299 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1303 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1304 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1305 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1309 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1310 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1311 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1316 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1317 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1318 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1322 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1324 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1329 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1334 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1338 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1339 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1343 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1345 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1346 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1350 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1354 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1355 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1359 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1360 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1364 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1365 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1367 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1369 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1373 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1377 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1378 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1382 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1386 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1391 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1392 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1396 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1400 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1404 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1406 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1407 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1411 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1412 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1416 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1417 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1418 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1422 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1423 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1427 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1428 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1430 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1432 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1436 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1437 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1438 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1440 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1441 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1443 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1445 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1446 and the default size with no details.
1450 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1451 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1455 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1460 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1465 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1469 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1474 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1475 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1479 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1483 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1484 the button to run it does.
1485 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1486 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1487 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1491 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1492 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1493 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1497 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1501 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1502 and panels into icon.c.
1506 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1507 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1508 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1509 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1513 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1515 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1517 Updated the documentation.
1521 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1522 up if they're too small.
1526 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1528 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1529 (Christopher Arndt).
1530 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1535 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1536 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1540 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1541 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1545 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1546 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1547 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1552 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1557 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1561 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1562 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1567 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1572 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1573 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1577 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1578 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1582 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1586 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1590 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1594 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1595 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1598 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1599 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1604 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1605 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1606 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1607 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1612 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1613 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1615 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1617 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1618 for non-applications.
1622 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1623 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1628 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1632 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1633 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1635 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1639 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1640 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1644 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1645 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1649 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1650 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1654 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1655 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1657 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1658 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1662 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1663 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1665 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1669 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1670 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1673 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1677 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1678 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1682 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1686 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1687 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1690 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1691 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1695 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1699 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1704 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1708 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1709 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1714 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1719 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1723 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1725 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1727 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1728 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1730 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1732 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1733 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1737 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1738 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1739 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1741 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1742 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1746 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1750 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1751 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1755 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1759 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1760 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1762 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1765 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1766 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1767 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1771 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1772 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1777 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1782 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1784 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1787 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1789 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1790 sensible shape itself now.
1792 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1793 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1794 file at all, just a reused inode!
1795 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1796 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1797 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1801 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1805 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1806 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1811 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1812 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1816 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1820 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1821 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1825 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1830 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1834 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1835 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1839 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1840 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1841 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1842 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1843 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1847 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1848 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1849 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1850 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1851 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1855 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1856 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1857 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1861 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1863 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1864 python's portable system.
1865 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1866 set the LANG variable.
1870 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1871 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1873 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1875 Made a few updates to the manual.
1879 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1880 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1882 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1884 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1885 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1889 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1890 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1894 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1895 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1900 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1901 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1902 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1906 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1907 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1911 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1912 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1916 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1917 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1919 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1920 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1921 open... (Denis Manente).
1925 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1929 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1931 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1932 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1933 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1935 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1937 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1939 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1940 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1945 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1946 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1947 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1951 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1952 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1956 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1960 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1964 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1965 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1966 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1970 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1971 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1972 between pinboards...
1974 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1975 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1976 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1980 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1983 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1984 window (Denis Manente).
1986 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1987 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1991 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1992 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1993 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1997 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2000 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2001 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2003 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2008 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2009 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2011 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2015 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2016 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2018 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2020 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2025 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2026 the icon points to as well as its name.
2028 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2029 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2033 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2034 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2035 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2036 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2040 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2044 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2045 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2046 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2050 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2051 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2053 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2054 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2057 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2058 the item after the drag.
2060 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2061 showing where the file really is.
2065 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2066 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2071 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2072 warning is displayed if so.
2074 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2078 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2079 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2080 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2081 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2084 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2085 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2086 works like the panels.
2090 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2091 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2092 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2093 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2094 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2098 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2099 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2100 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2101 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2103 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2108 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2112 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2113 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2116 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2117 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2119 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2122 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2123 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2124 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2125 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2127 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2129 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2130 slightly. Updated the manual.
2132 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2133 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2136 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2137 or bottom panel to make room.
2141 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2146 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2147 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2148 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2149 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2150 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2154 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2156 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2157 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2159 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2163 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2164 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2168 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2172 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2174 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2179 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2180 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2182 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2186 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2187 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2188 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2192 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2193 rewriting the panel system.
2197 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2200 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2201 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2205 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2206 (suggested by James Kermode).
2210 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2211 than as a full path.
2213 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2215 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2216 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2217 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2221 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2222 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2226 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2227 rename something onto another filesystem.
2231 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2233 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2234 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2238 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2242 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2245 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2246 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2248 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2251 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2256 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2257 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2258 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2260 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2261 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2263 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2264 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2269 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2270 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2275 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2276 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2277 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2279 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2280 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2281 of the 'missing image' image.
2285 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2287 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2289 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2294 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2295 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2296 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2297 its name into another program.
2299 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2303 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2305 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2306 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2307 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2309 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2310 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2311 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2314 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2315 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2319 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2320 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2321 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2325 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2326 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2327 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2331 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2332 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2333 and position the icons directly.
2337 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2342 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2343 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2344 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2348 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2352 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2353 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2357 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2362 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2366 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2367 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2368 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2369 some versions of GTK+.
2373 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2378 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2379 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2380 from a sub-sub-menu.
2382 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2383 drawn on a log scale.
2387 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2388 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2389 happy with the UI yet though...
2391 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2392 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2393 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2397 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2398 by Stephen Harrison).
2400 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2402 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2403 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2404 standard types are in Choices.
2405 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2407 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2408 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2409 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2414 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2415 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2416 shell command minibuffer.
2420 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2421 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2422 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2423 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2424 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2426 Default search path for Choices is now:
2427 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2429 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2430 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2431 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2435 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2436 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2440 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2441 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2442 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2447 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2448 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2449 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2452 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2454 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2455 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2456 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2458 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2459 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2463 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2464 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2465 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2466 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2471 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2472 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2473 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2475 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2477 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2478 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2482 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2483 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2484 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2489 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2490 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2493 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2495 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2500 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2505 Added GNU gettext support.
2506 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2510 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2512 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2514 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2519 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2523 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2524 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2526 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2527 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2532 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2533 onto the directory and winks the file.
2537 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2538 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2539 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2541 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2542 instead of random values.
2543 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2545 Applied Bernard's patch:
2546 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2547 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2548 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2549 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2550 it the RISC OS way...
2551 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2552 alignment corrected.
2553 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2558 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2562 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2563 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2567 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2568 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2569 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2570 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2571 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2572 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2573 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2574 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2575 in the file(1) says... box).
2578 Before the Changes file
2579 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2580 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2582 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2583 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2584 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2585 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2586 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD