2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Pinboard background colour option works again.
11 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
12 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
13 (requested by Ryan Harris).
17 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
18 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
22 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
27 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
28 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
29 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
30 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
31 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
33 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
34 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
38 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
42 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
43 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
44 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
45 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
49 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
50 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
51 Many improvements to the pinboard:
52 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
53 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
54 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
58 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
62 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
63 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
67 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
68 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
69 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
70 restart (Olli Helenius).
74 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
78 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
79 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
80 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
85 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
90 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
91 Small and Large sizes.
95 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
99 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
100 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
104 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
105 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
106 (requested by Gregory Spath).
107 Don't quit while Options window is open.
111 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
112 the window (requested by Ashwin).
113 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
118 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
123 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
124 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
128 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
129 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
134 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
136 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
138 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
142 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
146 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
148 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
150 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
154 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
156 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
157 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
161 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
162 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
166 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
167 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
171 Various speed improvements.
172 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
176 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
177 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
181 Slight speed increase when starting.
185 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
189 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
190 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
191 button is no longer supported.
195 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
199 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
203 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
208 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
209 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
213 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
214 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
215 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
219 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
220 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
221 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
222 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
226 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
227 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
228 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
230 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
235 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
236 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
241 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
245 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
246 and converted to new dialog style.
250 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
251 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
255 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
256 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
260 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
264 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
266 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
270 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
274 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
275 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
276 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
280 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
281 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
285 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
290 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
294 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
295 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
299 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
300 and Cancel is now Revert.
301 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
302 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
306 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
310 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
311 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
313 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
314 (reported by Serban Udrea).
315 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
316 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
320 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
322 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
324 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
327 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
331 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
333 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
337 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
338 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
339 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
343 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
344 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
346 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
348 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
352 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
353 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
357 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
358 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
359 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
360 (requested by Andras Mohari).
364 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
368 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
369 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
373 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
374 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
379 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
380 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
384 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
385 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
386 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
390 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
391 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
395 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
396 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
397 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
398 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
400 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
405 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
406 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
408 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
410 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
414 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
415 any image (saves time).
416 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
417 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
418 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
419 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
421 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
422 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
426 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
427 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
429 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
430 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
432 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
437 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
438 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
439 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
440 has stopped accepting STRING.
444 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
445 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
449 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
454 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
455 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
457 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
458 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
459 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
463 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
464 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
465 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
466 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
467 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
468 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
472 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
473 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
474 Allow '~' in globicons file.
475 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
476 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
477 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
482 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
483 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
484 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
485 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
490 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
491 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
495 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
496 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
498 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
500 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
501 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
502 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
506 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
507 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
508 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
512 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
513 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
517 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
518 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
522 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
524 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
529 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
530 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
534 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
535 their menus correctly.
536 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
541 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
542 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
543 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
547 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
548 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
552 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
556 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
559 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
561 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
562 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
563 the toggle menu items from working!
567 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
569 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
575 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
576 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
580 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
581 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
582 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
583 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
584 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
585 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
589 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
593 File groups are now saved (automatically).
594 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
598 Added Version SOAP RPC.
599 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
600 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
604 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
605 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
610 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
612 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
616 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
617 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
618 bar is displayed in the filer window.
619 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
623 Improved error reporting.
624 Improved sizing code when details are on.
628 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
629 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
630 check box and does 'Yes'.
634 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
635 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
636 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
637 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
642 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
644 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
645 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
647 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
649 Internal changes to options system:
650 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
651 filer is fully initialised).
652 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
654 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
656 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
657 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
658 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
659 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
663 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
664 now reclaims the selection.
665 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
666 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
671 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
672 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
673 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
674 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
675 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
679 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
680 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
682 Code tidying in various places.
686 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
687 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
692 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
693 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
697 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
698 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
699 edit the file, not the file itself!
700 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
704 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
705 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
706 (recommended by Jens Finke).
707 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
708 of the SOAP working draft.
709 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
710 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
711 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
716 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
717 it was in the displayed area before.
719 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
722 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
723 winking effect until the window actually appears.
727 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
728 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
729 Kristian A. Rink and others).
731 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
732 selection (Andras Mohari).
736 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
740 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
744 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
745 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
746 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
750 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
754 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
756 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
757 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
758 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
762 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
763 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
768 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
769 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
770 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
774 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
778 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
782 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
783 replaced by a Restart button.
787 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
788 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
792 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
796 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
800 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
801 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
802 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
806 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
807 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
809 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
810 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
811 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
815 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
816 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
821 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
823 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
824 (requested by Graham Borland).
825 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
826 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
827 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
831 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
832 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
833 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
834 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
838 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
839 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
840 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
841 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
842 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
843 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
844 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
845 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
846 - Lots of code tidying.
851 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
852 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
856 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
858 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
860 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
864 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
865 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
869 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
870 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
874 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
875 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
879 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
880 option to access it directly.
884 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
885 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
886 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
890 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
891 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
892 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
893 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
894 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
895 when the filer is run.
899 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
900 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
901 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
906 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
910 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
911 title bar (Stephen Watson).
915 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
917 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
921 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
925 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
926 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
927 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
932 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
933 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
934 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
935 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
936 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
937 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
938 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
942 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
946 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
947 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
951 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
952 of possible actions (Taras).
953 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
955 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
956 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
960 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
965 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
969 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
972 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
973 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
977 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
978 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
980 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
982 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
983 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
984 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
985 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
989 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
993 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
997 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1001 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1006 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1007 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1008 the first one found.
1009 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1013 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1017 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1018 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1019 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1023 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1024 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1025 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1030 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1031 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1032 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1036 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1038 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1043 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1048 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1052 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1053 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1057 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1059 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1060 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1064 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1068 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1069 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1073 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1074 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1078 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1079 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1081 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1083 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1087 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1091 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1092 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1096 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1100 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1105 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1106 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1110 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1114 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1118 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1120 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1121 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1125 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1126 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1130 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1131 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1132 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1136 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1137 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1141 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1142 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1144 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1146 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1150 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1151 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1152 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1154 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1155 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1157 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1159 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1160 and the default size with no details.
1164 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1165 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1169 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1174 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1179 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1183 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1188 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1189 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1193 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1197 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1198 the button to run it does.
1199 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1200 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1201 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1205 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1206 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1207 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1211 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1215 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1216 and panels into icon.c.
1220 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1221 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1222 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1223 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1227 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1229 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1231 Updated the documentation.
1235 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1236 up if they're too small.
1240 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1242 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1243 (Christopher Arndt).
1244 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1249 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1250 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1254 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1255 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1259 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1260 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1261 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1266 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1271 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1275 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1276 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1281 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1286 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1287 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1291 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1292 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1296 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1300 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1304 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1308 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1309 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1312 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1313 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1318 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1319 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1320 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1321 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1326 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1327 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1329 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1331 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1332 for non-applications.
1336 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1337 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1342 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1346 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1347 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1349 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1353 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1354 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1358 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1359 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1363 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1364 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1368 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1369 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1371 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1372 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1376 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1377 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1379 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1383 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1384 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1387 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1391 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1392 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1396 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1400 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1401 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1404 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1405 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1409 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1413 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1418 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1422 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1423 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1428 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1433 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1437 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1439 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1441 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1442 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1444 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1446 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1447 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1451 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1452 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1453 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1455 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1456 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1460 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1464 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1465 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1469 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1473 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1474 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1476 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1479 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1480 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1481 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1485 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1486 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1491 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1496 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1498 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1501 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1503 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1504 sensible shape itself now.
1506 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1507 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1508 file at all, just a reused inode!
1509 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1510 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1511 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1515 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1519 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1520 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1525 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1526 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1530 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1534 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1535 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1539 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1544 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1548 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1549 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1553 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1554 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1555 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1556 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1557 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1561 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1562 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1563 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1564 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1565 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1569 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1570 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1571 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1575 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1577 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1578 python's portable system.
1579 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1580 set the LANG variable.
1584 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1585 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1587 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1589 Made a few updates to the manual.
1593 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1594 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1596 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1598 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1599 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1603 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1604 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1608 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1609 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1614 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1615 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1616 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1620 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1621 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1625 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1626 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1630 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1631 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1633 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1634 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1635 open... (Denis Manente).
1639 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1643 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1645 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1646 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1647 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1649 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1651 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1653 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1654 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1659 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1660 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1661 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1665 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1666 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1670 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1674 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1678 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1679 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1680 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1684 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1685 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1686 between pinboards...
1688 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1689 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1690 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1694 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1697 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1698 window (Denis Manente).
1700 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1701 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1705 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1706 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1707 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1711 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1714 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1715 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1717 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1722 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1723 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1725 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1729 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1730 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1732 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1734 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1739 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1740 the icon points to as well as its name.
1742 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1743 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1747 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1748 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1749 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1750 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1754 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1758 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1759 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1760 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1764 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1765 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1767 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1768 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1771 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1772 the item after the drag.
1774 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1775 showing where the file really is.
1779 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1780 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1785 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1786 warning is displayed if so.
1788 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1792 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1793 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1794 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1795 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1798 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1799 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1800 works like the panels.
1804 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1805 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1806 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1807 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1808 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1812 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1813 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1814 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1815 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1817 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1822 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1826 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1827 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1830 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1831 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1833 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1836 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1837 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1838 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1839 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1841 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1843 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1844 slightly. Updated the manual.
1846 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1847 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1850 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1851 or bottom panel to make room.
1855 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1860 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1861 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1862 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1863 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1864 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1868 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
1870 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
1871 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
1873 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
1877 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
1878 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
1882 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
1886 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
1888 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
1893 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
1894 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
1896 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
1900 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
1901 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
1902 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
1906 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
1907 rewriting the panel system.
1911 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
1914 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
1915 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
1919 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
1920 (suggested by James Kermode).
1924 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
1925 than as a full path.
1927 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
1929 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
1930 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
1931 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
1935 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
1936 mounted/unmounted state changed.
1940 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
1941 rename something onto another filesystem.
1945 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
1947 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
1948 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
1952 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
1956 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
1959 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
1960 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
1962 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
1965 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
1970 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
1971 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
1972 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
1974 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
1975 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
1977 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
1978 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
1983 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
1984 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
1989 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
1990 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
1991 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
1993 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
1994 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
1995 of the 'missing image' image.
1999 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2001 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2003 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2008 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2009 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2010 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2011 its name into another program.
2013 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2017 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2019 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2020 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2021 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2023 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2024 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2025 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2028 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2029 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2033 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2034 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2035 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2039 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2040 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2041 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2045 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2046 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2047 and position the icons directly.
2051 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2056 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2057 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2058 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2062 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2066 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2067 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2071 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2076 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2080 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2081 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2082 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2083 some versions of GTK+.
2087 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2092 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2093 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2094 from a sub-sub-menu.
2096 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2097 drawn on a log scale.
2101 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2102 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2103 happy with the UI yet though...
2105 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2106 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2107 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2111 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2112 by Stephen Harrison).
2114 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2116 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2117 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2118 standard types are in Choices.
2119 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2121 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2122 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2123 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2128 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2129 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2130 shell command minibuffer.
2134 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2135 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2136 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2137 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2138 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2140 Default search path for Choices is now:
2141 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2143 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2144 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2145 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2149 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2150 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2154 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2155 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2156 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2161 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2162 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2163 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2166 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2168 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2169 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2170 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2172 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2173 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2177 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2178 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2179 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2180 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2185 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2186 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2187 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2189 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2191 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2192 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2196 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2197 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2198 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2203 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2204 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2207 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2209 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2214 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2219 Added GNU gettext support.
2220 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2224 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2226 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2228 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2233 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2237 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2238 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2240 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2241 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2246 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2247 onto the directory and winks the file.
2251 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2252 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2253 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2255 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2256 instead of random values.
2257 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2259 Applied Bernard's patch:
2260 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2261 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2262 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2263 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2264 it the RISC OS way...
2265 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2266 alignment corrected.
2267 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2272 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2276 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2277 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2281 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2282 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2283 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2284 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2285 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2286 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2287 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2288 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2289 in the file(1) says... box).
2292 Before the Changes file
2293 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2294 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2296 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2297 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2298 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2299 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2300 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD