2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
8 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
12 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
16 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
17 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
21 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
23 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
25 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
29 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
33 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
34 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
38 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
42 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
46 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
47 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
48 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
49 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
50 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
51 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
55 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
59 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
61 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
62 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
66 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
67 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
71 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
75 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
76 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
77 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
78 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
80 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
82 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
86 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
87 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
91 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
92 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
93 disappeared at the wrong moment.
97 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
98 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
99 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
100 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
101 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
102 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
103 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
107 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
108 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
112 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
116 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
120 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
125 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
129 Options to set iconification layout policy.
130 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
131 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
135 Pinboard background colour option works again.
136 Position iconified windows sensibly.
137 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
141 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
142 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
143 (requested by Ryan Harris).
147 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
148 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
152 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
157 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
158 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
159 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
160 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
161 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
163 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
164 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
168 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
172 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
173 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
174 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
175 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
179 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
180 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
181 Many improvements to the pinboard:
182 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
183 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
184 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
188 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
192 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
193 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
197 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
198 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
199 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
200 restart (Olli Helenius).
204 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
208 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
209 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
210 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
215 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
220 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
221 Small and Large sizes.
225 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
229 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
230 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
234 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
235 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
236 (requested by Gregory Spath).
237 Don't quit while Options window is open.
241 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
242 the window (requested by Ashwin).
243 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
248 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
253 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
254 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
258 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
259 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
264 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
266 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
268 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
272 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
276 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
278 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
280 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
284 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
286 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
287 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
291 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
292 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
296 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
297 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
301 Various speed improvements.
302 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
306 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
307 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
311 Slight speed increase when starting.
315 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
319 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
320 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
321 button is no longer supported.
325 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
329 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
333 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
338 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
339 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
343 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
344 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
345 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
349 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
350 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
351 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
352 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
356 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
357 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
358 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
360 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
365 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
366 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
371 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
375 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
376 and converted to new dialog style.
380 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
381 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
385 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
386 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
390 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
394 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
396 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
400 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
404 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
405 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
406 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
410 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
411 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
415 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
420 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
424 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
425 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
429 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
430 and Cancel is now Revert.
431 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
432 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
436 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
440 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
441 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
443 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
444 (reported by Serban Udrea).
445 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
446 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
450 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
452 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
454 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
457 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
461 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
463 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
467 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
468 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
469 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
473 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
474 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
476 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
478 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
482 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
483 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
487 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
488 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
489 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
490 (requested by Andras Mohari).
494 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
498 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
499 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
503 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
504 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
509 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
510 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
514 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
515 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
516 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
520 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
521 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
525 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
526 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
527 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
528 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
530 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
535 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
536 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
538 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
540 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
544 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
545 any image (saves time).
546 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
547 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
548 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
549 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
551 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
552 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
556 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
557 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
559 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
560 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
562 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
567 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
568 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
569 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
570 has stopped accepting STRING.
574 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
575 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
579 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
584 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
585 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
587 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
588 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
589 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
593 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
594 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
595 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
596 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
597 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
598 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
602 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
603 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
604 Allow '~' in globicons file.
605 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
606 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
607 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
612 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
613 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
614 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
615 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
620 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
621 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
625 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
626 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
628 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
630 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
631 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
632 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
636 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
637 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
638 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
642 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
643 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
647 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
648 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
652 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
654 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
659 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
660 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
664 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
665 their menus correctly.
666 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
671 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
672 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
673 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
677 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
678 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
682 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
686 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
689 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
691 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
692 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
693 the toggle menu items from working!
697 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
699 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
705 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
706 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
710 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
711 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
712 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
713 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
714 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
715 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
719 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
723 File groups are now saved (automatically).
724 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
728 Added Version SOAP RPC.
729 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
730 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
734 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
735 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
740 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
742 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
746 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
747 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
748 bar is displayed in the filer window.
749 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
753 Improved error reporting.
754 Improved sizing code when details are on.
758 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
759 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
760 check box and does 'Yes'.
764 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
765 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
766 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Couderc Damien).
767 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
772 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
774 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
775 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
777 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
779 Internal changes to options system:
780 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
781 filer is fully initialised).
782 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
784 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
786 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
787 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
788 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
789 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
793 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
794 now reclaims the selection.
795 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
796 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
801 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
802 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
803 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
804 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
805 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
809 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
810 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
812 Code tidying in various places.
816 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
817 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
822 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
823 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
827 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
828 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
829 edit the file, not the file itself!
830 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
834 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
835 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
836 (recommended by Jens Finke).
837 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
838 of the SOAP working draft.
839 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
840 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
841 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
846 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
847 it was in the displayed area before.
849 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
852 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
853 winking effect until the window actually appears.
857 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
858 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
859 Kristian A. Rink and others).
861 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
862 selection (Andras Mohari).
866 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
870 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
874 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
875 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
876 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
880 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
884 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
886 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
887 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
888 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
892 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
893 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
898 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
899 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
900 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
904 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
908 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
912 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
913 replaced by a Restart button.
917 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
918 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
922 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
926 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
930 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
931 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
932 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
936 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
937 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
939 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
940 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
941 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
945 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
946 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
951 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
953 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
954 (requested by Graham Borland).
955 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
956 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
957 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
961 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
962 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
963 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
964 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
968 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
969 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
970 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
971 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
972 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
973 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
974 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
975 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
976 - Lots of code tidying.
981 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
982 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
986 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
988 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
990 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
994 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
995 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
999 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1000 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1004 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1005 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1009 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1010 option to access it directly.
1014 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1015 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1016 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1020 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1021 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1022 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1023 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1024 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1025 when the filer is run.
1029 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1030 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1031 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1036 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1040 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1041 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1045 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1047 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1051 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1055 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1056 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1057 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1062 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1063 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1064 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1065 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1066 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1067 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1068 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1072 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1076 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1077 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1081 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1082 of possible actions (Taras).
1083 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1085 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1086 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1090 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1095 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1099 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1102 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1103 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1107 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1108 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1110 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1112 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1113 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1114 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1115 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1119 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1123 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1127 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1131 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1136 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1137 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1138 the first one found.
1139 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1143 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1147 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1148 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1149 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1153 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1154 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1155 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1160 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1161 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1162 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1166 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1168 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1173 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1178 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1182 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1183 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1187 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1189 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1190 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1194 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1198 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1199 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1203 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1204 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1208 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1209 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1211 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1213 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1217 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1221 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1222 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1226 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1230 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1235 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1236 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1240 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1244 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1248 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1250 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1251 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1255 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1256 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1260 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1261 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1262 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1266 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1267 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1271 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1272 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1274 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1276 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1280 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1281 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1282 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
1284 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
1285 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
1287 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
1289 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
1290 and the default size with no details.
1294 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
1295 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
1299 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
1304 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
1309 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
1313 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
1318 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
1319 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1323 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
1327 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
1328 the button to run it does.
1329 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
1330 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
1331 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
1335 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
1336 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
1337 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
1341 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
1345 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
1346 and panels into icon.c.
1350 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
1351 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
1352 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
1353 and Vincent Lefèvre).
1357 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
1359 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
1361 Updated the documentation.
1365 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
1366 up if they're too small.
1370 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
1372 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
1373 (Christopher Arndt).
1374 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
1379 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
1380 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
1384 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
1385 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
1389 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
1390 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
1391 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
1396 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
1401 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1405 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
1406 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
1411 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
1416 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
1417 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
1421 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
1422 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
1426 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
1430 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1434 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
1438 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
1439 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
1442 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
1443 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
1448 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
1449 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1450 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1451 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
1456 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
1457 held over the item (Denis Manente).
1459 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
1461 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
1462 for non-applications.
1466 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
1467 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
1472 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1476 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
1477 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
1479 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
1483 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
1484 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
1488 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
1489 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
1493 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
1494 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
1498 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
1499 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
1501 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
1502 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
1506 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
1507 standard output (Stephen Watson).
1509 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
1513 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
1514 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
1517 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1521 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
1522 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
1526 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
1530 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
1531 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
1534 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
1535 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
1539 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
1543 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
1548 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1552 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
1553 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
1558 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
1563 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
1567 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
1569 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
1571 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
1572 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
1574 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
1576 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
1577 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
1581 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
1582 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
1583 were used (Diego Zamboni).
1585 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
1586 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
1590 Many internal changes to the Options system.
1594 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
1595 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
1599 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
1603 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
1604 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
1606 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
1609 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
1610 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
1611 lines in the form 'option Text'.
1615 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
1616 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
1621 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
1626 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1628 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
1631 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
1633 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
1634 sensible shape itself now.
1636 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
1637 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
1638 file at all, just a reused inode!
1639 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
1640 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
1641 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
1645 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
1649 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
1650 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
1655 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
1656 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
1660 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
1664 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
1665 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
1669 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
1674 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
1678 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
1679 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1683 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
1684 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1685 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
1686 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
1687 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
1691 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
1692 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
1693 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1694 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
1695 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
1699 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
1700 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
1701 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
1705 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
1707 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
1708 python's portable system.
1709 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
1710 set the LANG variable.
1714 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
1715 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
1717 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
1719 Made a few updates to the manual.
1723 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
1724 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
1726 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
1728 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
1729 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
1733 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
1734 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
1738 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
1739 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
1744 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
1745 by Wilbert Berendsen).
1746 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
1750 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
1751 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
1755 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
1756 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
1760 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
1761 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1763 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
1764 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
1765 open... (Denis Manente).
1769 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1773 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1775 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
1776 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
1777 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
1779 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
1781 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
1783 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
1784 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
1789 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
1790 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
1791 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
1795 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
1796 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
1800 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
1804 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1808 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
1809 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
1810 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
1814 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
1815 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
1816 between pinboards...
1818 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
1819 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
1820 background - seems to be necessary :-(
1824 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
1827 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
1828 window (Denis Manente).
1830 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
1831 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
1835 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
1836 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
1837 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
1841 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
1844 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
1845 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
1847 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
1852 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
1853 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
1855 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
1859 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
1860 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
1862 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
1864 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
1869 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
1870 the icon points to as well as its name.
1872 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
1873 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
1877 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
1878 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
1879 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
1880 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
1884 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1888 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
1889 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
1890 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
1894 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
1895 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
1897 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
1898 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
1901 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
1902 the item after the drag.
1904 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
1905 showing where the file really is.
1909 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
1910 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
1915 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
1916 warning is displayed if so.
1918 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
1922 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
1923 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
1924 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
1925 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
1928 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
1929 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
1930 works like the panels.
1934 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
1935 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
1936 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
1937 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
1938 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
1942 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
1943 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
1944 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
1945 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
1947 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
1952 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
1956 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
1957 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
1960 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
1961 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
1963 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
1966 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
1967 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
1968 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
1969 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
1971 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
1973 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
1974 slightly. Updated the manual.
1976 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
1977 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
1980 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
1981 or bottom panel to make room.
1985 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
1990 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
1991 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
1992 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
1993 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
1994 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
1998 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2000 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2001 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2003 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2007 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2008 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2012 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2016 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2018 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2023 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2024 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2026 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2030 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2031 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2032 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2036 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2037 rewriting the panel system.
2041 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2044 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2045 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2049 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2050 (suggested by James Kermode).
2054 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2055 than as a full path.
2057 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2059 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2060 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2061 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2065 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2066 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2070 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2071 rename something onto another filesystem.
2075 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2077 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2078 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2082 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2086 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2089 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2090 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2092 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2095 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2100 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2101 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2102 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2104 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2105 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2107 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2108 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2113 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2114 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2119 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2120 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2121 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2123 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2124 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2125 of the 'missing image' image.
2129 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2131 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2133 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2138 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2139 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2140 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2141 its name into another program.
2143 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2147 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2149 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2150 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2151 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2153 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2154 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2155 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2158 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2159 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2163 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2164 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2165 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2169 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2170 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2171 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2175 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2176 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2177 and position the icons directly.
2181 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2186 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2187 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2188 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2192 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2196 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2197 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2201 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2206 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2210 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2211 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2212 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2213 some versions of GTK+.
2217 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2222 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2223 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2224 from a sub-sub-menu.
2226 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2227 drawn on a log scale.
2231 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2232 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2233 happy with the UI yet though...
2235 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2236 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2237 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2241 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2242 by Stephen Harrison).
2244 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2246 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2247 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2248 standard types are in Choices.
2249 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2251 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2252 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2253 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2258 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2259 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2260 shell command minibuffer.
2264 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2265 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2266 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2267 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2268 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2270 Default search path for Choices is now:
2271 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2273 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2274 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2275 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2279 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2280 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
2284 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
2285 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
2286 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
2291 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
2292 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
2293 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
2296 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
2298 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
2299 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
2300 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
2302 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
2303 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
2307 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
2308 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
2309 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
2310 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
2315 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
2316 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
2317 an empty directory caused odd effects.
2319 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
2321 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
2322 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
2326 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
2327 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
2328 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
2333 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
2334 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
2337 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
2339 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
2344 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
2349 Added GNU gettext support.
2350 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
2354 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
2356 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
2358 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
2363 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
2367 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
2368 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
2370 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
2371 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
2376 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
2377 onto the directory and winks the file.
2381 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
2382 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
2383 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
2385 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
2386 instead of random values.
2387 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
2389 Applied Bernard's patch:
2390 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
2391 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
2392 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
2393 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
2394 it the RISC OS way...
2395 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
2396 alignment corrected.
2397 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
2402 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
2406 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
2407 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
2411 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
2412 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
2413 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
2414 - Option to only display one window per directory.
2415 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
2416 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
2417 - Errors in options are only reported once.
2418 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
2419 in the file(1) says... box).
2422 Before the Changes file
2423 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2424 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
2426 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
2427 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
2428 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
2429 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
2430 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD