2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Added Japanese translation (UTUMI Hirosi).
8 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
9 reduce flickering effect.
13 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
17 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
19 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
23 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
24 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
25 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
26 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
27 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
31 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
36 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
40 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
45 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
46 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
50 Winking now works in List view.
54 Lasso selections now work in List view.
58 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
59 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
63 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
64 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
66 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
68 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
72 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
76 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
77 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
79 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
83 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
84 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
88 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
90 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
94 Centre the image for iconified windows.
95 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
99 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
101 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
105 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
109 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
110 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
115 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
116 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
118 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
120 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
122 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
126 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
130 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
131 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
135 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
140 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
141 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
145 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
147 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
149 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
150 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
155 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
159 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
160 (suggested by Michael Adams).
161 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
162 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
163 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
164 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
165 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
167 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
171 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
176 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
177 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
181 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
182 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
183 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
184 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
189 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
190 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
191 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
192 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
193 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
194 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
195 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
196 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
197 talent can do something better?
198 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
199 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
203 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
204 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
205 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
210 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
212 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
213 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
214 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
215 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
216 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
217 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
218 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
219 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
220 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
221 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
222 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
223 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
224 label wasn't hidden / shown.
228 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
229 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
230 allow fine repositioning.
231 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
232 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
233 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
234 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
236 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
237 changing the aspect ratio.
241 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
245 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
249 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
250 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
251 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
255 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
259 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
264 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
265 make sharing icons easier.
266 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
270 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
271 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
275 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
279 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
281 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
285 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
290 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
295 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
296 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
298 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
299 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
300 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
301 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
305 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
306 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
310 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
314 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
316 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
321 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
322 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
324 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
328 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
329 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
331 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
333 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
337 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
338 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
343 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
347 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
348 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
349 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
353 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
354 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
358 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
362 Preserve selection when changing view type.
363 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
367 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
368 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
369 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
373 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
377 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
378 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
379 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
380 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
382 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
383 the information in the tooltips anyway.
387 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
388 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
392 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
397 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
398 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
402 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
406 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
407 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
408 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
409 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
414 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
415 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
416 Always use case-insensitive sort.
420 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
424 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
425 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
429 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
430 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
431 since it didn't include the contents.
432 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
433 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
437 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
441 Style improvements to options window.
445 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
449 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
451 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
453 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
458 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
459 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
460 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
461 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
465 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
469 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
473 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
474 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
478 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
480 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
485 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
489 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
490 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
491 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
496 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
500 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
504 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
508 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
512 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
513 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
514 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
518 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
519 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
523 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
524 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
529 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
533 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
537 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
542 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
543 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
547 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
548 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
553 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
554 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
558 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
559 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
560 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
564 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
568 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
569 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
570 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
571 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
572 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
576 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
577 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
581 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
582 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
586 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
590 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
591 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
592 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
593 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
594 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
595 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
599 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
600 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
601 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
605 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
606 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
611 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
615 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
617 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
619 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
624 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
628 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
632 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
633 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
638 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
642 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
646 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
647 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
648 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
652 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
656 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
661 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
665 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
666 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
667 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
668 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
672 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
676 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
677 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
681 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
682 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
683 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
687 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
691 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
695 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
696 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
697 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
698 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
699 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
700 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
704 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
705 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
709 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
710 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
711 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
715 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
716 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
720 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
724 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
725 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
726 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
727 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
729 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
731 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
735 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
736 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
737 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
741 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
745 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
746 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
751 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
755 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
759 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
760 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
764 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
765 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
766 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
770 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
771 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
775 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
776 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
780 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
781 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
785 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
789 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
790 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
794 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
796 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
798 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
802 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
806 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
807 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
811 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
815 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
819 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
820 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
821 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
822 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
823 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
824 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
828 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
832 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
834 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
835 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
839 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
840 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
844 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
848 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
849 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
850 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
851 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
853 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
855 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
859 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
860 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
864 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
865 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
866 disappeared at the wrong moment.
870 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
871 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
872 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
873 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
874 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
875 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
876 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
880 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
881 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
885 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
889 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
893 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
898 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
902 Options to set iconification layout policy.
903 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
904 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
908 Pinboard background colour option works again.
909 Position iconified windows sensibly.
910 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
914 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
915 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
916 (requested by Ryan Harris).
920 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
921 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
925 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
930 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
931 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
932 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
933 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
934 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
936 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
937 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
941 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
945 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
946 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
947 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
948 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
952 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
953 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
954 Many improvements to the pinboard:
955 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
956 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
957 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
961 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
965 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
966 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
970 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
971 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
972 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
973 restart (Olli Helenius).
977 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
981 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
982 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
983 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
988 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
993 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
994 Small and Large sizes.
998 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1002 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1003 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1007 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1008 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1009 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1010 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1014 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1015 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1016 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1021 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1026 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1027 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1031 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1032 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1037 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1039 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1041 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1045 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1049 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1051 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1053 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1057 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1059 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1060 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1064 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1065 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1069 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1070 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1074 Various speed improvements.
1075 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1079 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1080 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1084 Slight speed increase when starting.
1088 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1092 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1093 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1094 button is no longer supported.
1098 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1102 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1106 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1111 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1112 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1116 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1117 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1118 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1122 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1123 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1124 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1125 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1129 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1130 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1131 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1133 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1138 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1139 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1144 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1148 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1149 and converted to new dialog style.
1153 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1154 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1158 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1159 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1163 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1167 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1169 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1173 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1177 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1178 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1179 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1183 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1184 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1188 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1193 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1197 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1198 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1202 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1203 and Cancel is now Revert.
1204 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1205 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1209 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1213 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1214 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1216 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1217 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1218 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1219 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1223 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1225 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1226 labels display them.
1227 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1230 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1234 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1236 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1240 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1241 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1242 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1246 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1247 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1249 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1251 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1255 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1256 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1260 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1261 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1262 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1263 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1267 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1271 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1272 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1276 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1277 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1282 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1283 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1287 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1288 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1289 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1293 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1294 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1298 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1299 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1300 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1301 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1303 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1308 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1309 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1311 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1313 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1317 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1318 any image (saves time).
1319 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1320 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1321 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1322 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1324 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1325 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1329 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1330 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1332 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1333 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1335 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1340 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1341 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1342 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1343 has stopped accepting STRING.
1347 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1348 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1352 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1357 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1358 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1360 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1361 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1362 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1366 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1367 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1368 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1369 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1370 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1371 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1375 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1376 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1377 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1378 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1379 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1380 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1385 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1386 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1387 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1388 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1393 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1394 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1398 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1399 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1401 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1403 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1404 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1405 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1409 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1410 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1411 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1415 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1416 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1420 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1421 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1425 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1427 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1432 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1433 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1437 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1438 their menus correctly.
1439 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1444 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1445 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1446 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1450 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1451 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1455 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1459 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1462 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1464 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1465 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1466 the toggle menu items from working!
1470 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1472 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1478 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1479 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1483 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1484 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1485 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1486 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1487 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1488 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1492 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1496 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1497 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1501 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1502 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1503 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1507 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1508 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1513 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1515 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1519 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1520 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1521 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1522 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1526 Improved error reporting.
1527 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1531 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1532 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1533 check box and does 'Yes'.
1537 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1538 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1539 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1540 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1545 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1547 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1548 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1550 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1552 Internal changes to options system:
1553 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1554 filer is fully initialised).
1555 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1557 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1559 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1560 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1561 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1562 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1566 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1567 now reclaims the selection.
1568 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1569 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1574 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1575 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1576 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1577 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1578 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1582 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1583 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1585 Code tidying in various places.
1589 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1590 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1595 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1596 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1600 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1601 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1602 edit the file, not the file itself!
1603 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1607 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1608 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1609 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1610 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1611 of the SOAP working draft.
1612 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1613 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1614 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1619 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1620 it was in the displayed area before.
1622 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1625 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1626 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1630 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1631 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1632 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1634 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1635 selection (Andras Mohari).
1639 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1643 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1647 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1648 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1649 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1653 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1657 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1659 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1660 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1661 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1665 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1666 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1671 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1672 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1673 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1677 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1681 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1685 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1686 replaced by a Restart button.
1690 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1691 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1695 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1699 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1703 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1704 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1705 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1709 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1710 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1712 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1713 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1714 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1718 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1719 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1724 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1726 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1727 (requested by Graham Borland).
1728 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1729 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1730 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1734 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1735 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1736 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1737 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1741 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1742 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1743 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1744 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1745 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1746 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1747 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1748 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1749 - Lots of code tidying.
1754 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1755 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1759 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1761 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1763 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1767 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1768 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1772 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1773 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1777 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1778 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1782 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1783 option to access it directly.
1787 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1788 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1789 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1793 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1794 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1795 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1796 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1797 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1798 when the filer is run.
1802 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1803 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1804 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1809 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1813 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1814 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1818 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1820 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1824 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1828 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1829 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1830 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1835 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1836 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1837 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1838 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1839 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1840 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1841 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1845 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1849 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1850 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1854 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1855 of possible actions (Taras).
1856 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1858 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1859 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1863 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1868 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1872 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1875 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1876 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1880 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1881 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1883 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1885 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1886 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1887 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1888 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1892 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1896 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1900 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1904 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1909 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1910 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1911 the first one found.
1912 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1916 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1920 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1921 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1922 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1926 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1927 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1928 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1933 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1934 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1935 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1939 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1941 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1946 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1951 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1955 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1956 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1960 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1962 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1963 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1967 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1971 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1972 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1976 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1977 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1981 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1982 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1984 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1986 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1990 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1994 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1995 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1999 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2003 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2008 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2009 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2013 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2017 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2021 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2023 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2024 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2028 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2029 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2033 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2034 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2035 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2039 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2040 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2044 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2045 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2047 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2049 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2053 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2054 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2055 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2057 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2058 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2060 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2062 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2063 and the default size with no details.
2067 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2068 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2072 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2077 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2082 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2086 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2091 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2092 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2096 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2100 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2101 the button to run it does.
2102 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2103 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2104 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2108 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2109 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2110 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2114 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2118 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2119 and panels into icon.c.
2123 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2124 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2125 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2126 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2130 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2132 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2134 Updated the documentation.
2138 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2139 up if they're too small.
2143 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2145 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2146 (Christopher Arndt).
2147 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2152 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2153 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2157 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2158 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2162 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2163 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2164 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2169 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2174 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2178 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2179 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2184 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2189 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2190 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2194 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2195 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2199 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2203 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2207 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2211 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2212 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2215 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2216 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2221 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2222 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2223 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2224 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2229 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2230 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2232 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2234 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2235 for non-applications.
2239 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2240 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2245 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2249 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2250 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2252 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2256 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2257 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2261 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2262 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2266 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2267 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2271 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2272 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2274 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2275 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2279 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2280 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2282 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2286 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2287 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2290 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2294 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2295 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2299 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2303 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2304 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2307 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2308 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2312 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2316 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2321 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2325 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2326 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2331 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2336 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2340 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2342 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2344 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2345 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2347 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2349 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2350 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2354 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2355 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2356 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2358 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2359 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2363 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2367 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2368 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2372 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2376 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2377 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2379 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2382 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2383 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2384 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2388 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2389 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2394 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2399 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2401 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2404 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2406 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2407 sensible shape itself now.
2409 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2410 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2411 file at all, just a reused inode!
2412 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2413 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2414 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2418 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2422 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2423 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2428 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2429 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2433 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2437 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2438 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2442 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2447 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2451 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2452 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2456 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2457 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2458 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2459 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2460 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2464 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2465 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2466 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2467 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2468 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2472 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2473 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2474 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2478 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2480 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2481 python's portable system.
2482 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2483 set the LANG variable.
2487 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2488 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2490 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2492 Made a few updates to the manual.
2496 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2497 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2499 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2501 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2502 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2506 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2507 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2511 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2512 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2517 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2518 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2519 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2523 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2524 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2528 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2529 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2533 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2534 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2536 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2537 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2538 open... (Denis Manente).
2542 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2546 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2548 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2549 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2550 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2552 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2554 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2556 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2557 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2562 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2563 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2564 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2568 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2569 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2573 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2577 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2581 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2582 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2583 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2587 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2588 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2589 between pinboards...
2591 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2592 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2593 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2597 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2600 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2601 window (Denis Manente).
2603 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2604 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2608 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2609 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2610 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2614 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2617 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2618 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2620 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2625 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2626 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2628 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2632 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2633 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2635 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2637 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2642 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2643 the icon points to as well as its name.
2645 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2646 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2650 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2651 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2652 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2653 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2657 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2661 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2662 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2663 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2667 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2668 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2670 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2671 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2674 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2675 the item after the drag.
2677 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2678 showing where the file really is.
2682 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2683 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2688 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2689 warning is displayed if so.
2691 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2695 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2696 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2697 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2698 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2701 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2702 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2703 works like the panels.
2707 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2708 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2709 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2710 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2711 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2715 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2716 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2717 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2718 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2720 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2725 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2729 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2730 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2733 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2734 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2736 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2739 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2740 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2741 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2742 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2744 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2746 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2747 slightly. Updated the manual.
2749 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2750 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2753 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2754 or bottom panel to make room.
2758 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2763 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2764 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2765 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2766 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2767 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2771 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2773 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2774 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2776 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2780 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2781 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2785 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2789 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2791 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2796 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2797 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2799 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2803 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2804 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2805 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2809 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2810 rewriting the panel system.
2814 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2817 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2818 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2822 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2823 (suggested by James Kermode).
2827 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2828 than as a full path.
2830 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2832 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2833 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2834 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2838 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2839 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2843 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2844 rename something onto another filesystem.
2848 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2850 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2851 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2855 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2859 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2862 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2863 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2865 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2868 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2873 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2874 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2875 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2877 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2878 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2880 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2881 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2886 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2887 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2892 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2893 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2894 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2896 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2897 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2898 of the 'missing image' image.
2902 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2904 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2906 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2911 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2912 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2913 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2914 its name into another program.
2916 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2920 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2922 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2923 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2924 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2926 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2927 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2928 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2931 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2932 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2936 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2937 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2938 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2942 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2943 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2944 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2948 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2949 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2950 and position the icons directly.
2954 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2959 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2960 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2961 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2965 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2969 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2970 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2974 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2979 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2983 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2984 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2985 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2986 some versions of GTK+.
2990 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2995 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2996 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2997 from a sub-sub-menu.
2999 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3000 drawn on a log scale.
3004 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3005 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3006 happy with the UI yet though...
3008 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3009 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3010 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3014 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3015 by Stephen Harrison).
3017 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3019 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3020 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3021 standard types are in Choices.
3022 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3024 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3025 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3026 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3031 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3032 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3033 shell command minibuffer.
3037 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3038 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3039 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3040 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3041 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3043 Default search path for Choices is now:
3044 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3046 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3047 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3048 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3052 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3053 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3057 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3058 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3059 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3064 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3065 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3066 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3069 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3071 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3072 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3073 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3075 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3076 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3080 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3081 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3082 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3083 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3088 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3089 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3090 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3092 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3094 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3095 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3099 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3100 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3101 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3106 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3107 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3110 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3112 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3117 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3122 Added GNU gettext support.
3123 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3127 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3129 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3131 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3136 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3140 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3141 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3143 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3144 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3149 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3150 onto the directory and winks the file.
3154 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3155 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3156 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3158 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3159 instead of random values.
3160 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3162 Applied Bernard's patch:
3163 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3164 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3165 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3166 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3167 it the RISC OS way...
3168 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3169 alignment corrected.
3170 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3175 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3179 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3180 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3184 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3185 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3186 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3187 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3188 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3189 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3190 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3191 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3192 in the file(1) says... box).
3195 Before the Changes file
3196 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3197 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3199 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3200 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3201 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3202 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3203 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD