2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
8 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
10 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
12 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
16 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
20 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
21 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
23 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
27 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
28 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
32 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
34 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
38 Centre the image for iconified windows.
39 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
43 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
45 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
49 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
53 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
54 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
59 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
60 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
62 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
64 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
66 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
70 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
74 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
75 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
79 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
84 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
85 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
89 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
91 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
93 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
94 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
99 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
103 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
104 (suggested by Michael Adams).
105 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
106 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
107 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
108 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
109 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
111 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
115 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
120 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
121 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
125 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
126 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
127 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
128 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
133 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
134 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
135 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
136 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
137 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
138 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
139 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
140 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
141 talent can do something better?
142 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
143 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
147 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
148 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
149 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
154 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
156 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
157 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
158 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
159 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
160 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
161 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
162 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
163 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
164 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
165 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
166 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
167 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
168 label wasn't hidden / shown.
172 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
173 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
174 allow fine repositioning.
175 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
176 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
177 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
178 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
180 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
181 changing the aspect ratio.
185 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
189 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
193 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
194 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
195 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
199 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
203 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
208 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
209 make sharing icons easier.
210 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
214 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
215 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
219 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
223 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
225 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
229 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
234 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
239 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
240 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
242 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
243 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
244 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
245 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
249 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
250 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
254 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
258 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
260 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
265 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
266 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
268 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
272 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
273 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
275 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
277 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
281 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
282 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
287 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
291 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
292 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
293 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
297 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
298 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
302 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
306 Preserve selection when changing view type.
307 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
311 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
312 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
313 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
317 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
321 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
322 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
323 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
324 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
326 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
327 the information in the tooltips anyway.
331 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
332 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
336 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
341 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
342 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
346 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
350 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
351 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
352 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
353 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
358 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
359 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
360 Always use case-insensitive sort.
364 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
368 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
369 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
373 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
374 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
375 since it didn't include the contents.
376 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
377 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
381 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
385 Style improvements to options window.
389 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
393 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
395 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
397 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
402 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
403 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
404 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
405 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
409 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
413 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
417 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
418 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
422 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
424 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
429 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
433 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
434 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
435 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
440 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
444 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
448 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
452 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
456 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
457 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
458 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
462 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
463 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
467 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
468 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
473 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
477 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
481 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
486 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
487 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
491 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
492 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
497 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
498 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
502 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
503 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
504 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
508 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
512 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
513 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
514 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
515 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
516 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
520 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
521 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
525 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
526 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
530 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
534 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
535 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
536 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
537 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
538 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
539 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
543 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
544 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
545 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
549 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
550 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
555 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
559 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
561 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
563 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
568 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
572 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
576 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
577 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
582 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
586 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
590 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
591 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
592 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
596 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
600 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
605 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
609 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
610 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
611 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
612 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
616 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
620 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
621 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
625 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
626 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
627 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
631 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
635 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
639 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
640 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
641 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
642 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
643 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
644 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
648 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
649 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
653 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
654 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
655 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
659 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
660 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
664 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
668 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
669 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
670 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
671 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
673 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
675 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
679 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
680 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
681 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
685 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
689 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
690 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
695 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
699 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
703 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
704 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
708 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
709 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
710 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
714 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
715 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
719 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
720 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
724 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
725 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
729 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
733 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
734 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
738 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
740 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
742 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
746 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
750 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
751 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
755 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
759 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
763 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
764 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
765 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
766 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
767 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
768 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
772 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
776 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
778 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
779 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
783 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
784 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
788 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
792 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
793 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
794 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
795 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
797 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
799 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
803 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
804 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
808 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
809 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
810 disappeared at the wrong moment.
814 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
815 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
816 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
817 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
818 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
819 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
820 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
824 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
825 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
829 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
833 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
837 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
842 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
846 Options to set iconification layout policy.
847 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
848 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
852 Pinboard background colour option works again.
853 Position iconified windows sensibly.
854 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
858 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
859 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
860 (requested by Ryan Harris).
864 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
865 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
869 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
874 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
875 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
876 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
877 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
878 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
880 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
881 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
885 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
889 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
890 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
891 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
892 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
896 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
897 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
898 Many improvements to the pinboard:
899 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
900 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
901 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
905 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
909 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
910 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
914 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
915 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
916 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
917 restart (Olli Helenius).
921 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
925 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
926 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
927 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
932 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
937 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
938 Small and Large sizes.
942 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
946 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
947 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
951 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
952 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
953 (requested by Gregory Spath).
954 Don't quit while Options window is open.
958 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
959 the window (requested by Ashwin).
960 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
965 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
970 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
971 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
975 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
976 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
981 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
983 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
985 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
989 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
993 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
995 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
997 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1001 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1003 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1004 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1008 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1009 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1013 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1014 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1018 Various speed improvements.
1019 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1023 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1024 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1028 Slight speed increase when starting.
1032 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1036 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1037 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1038 button is no longer supported.
1042 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1046 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1050 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1055 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1056 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1060 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1061 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1062 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1066 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1067 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1068 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1069 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1073 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1074 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1075 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1077 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1082 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1083 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1088 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1092 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1093 and converted to new dialog style.
1097 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1098 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1102 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1103 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1107 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1111 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1113 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1117 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1121 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1122 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1123 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1127 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1128 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1132 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1137 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1141 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1142 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1146 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1147 and Cancel is now Revert.
1148 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1149 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1153 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1157 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1158 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1160 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1161 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1162 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1163 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1167 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1169 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1170 labels display them.
1171 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1174 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1178 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1180 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1184 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1185 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1186 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1190 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1191 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1193 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1195 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1199 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1200 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1204 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1205 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1206 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1207 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1211 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1215 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1216 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1220 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1221 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1226 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1227 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1231 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1232 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1233 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1237 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1238 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1242 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1243 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1244 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1245 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1247 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1252 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1253 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1255 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1257 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1261 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1262 any image (saves time).
1263 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1264 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1265 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1266 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1268 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1269 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1273 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1274 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1276 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1277 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1279 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1284 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1285 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1286 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1287 has stopped accepting STRING.
1291 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1292 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1296 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1301 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1302 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1304 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1305 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1306 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1310 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1311 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1312 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1313 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1314 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1315 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1319 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1320 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1321 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1322 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1323 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1324 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1329 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1330 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1331 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1332 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1337 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1338 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1342 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1343 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1345 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1347 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1348 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1349 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1353 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1354 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1355 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1359 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1360 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1364 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1365 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1369 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1371 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1376 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1377 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1381 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1382 their menus correctly.
1383 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1388 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1389 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1390 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1394 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1395 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1399 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1403 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1406 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1408 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1409 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1410 the toggle menu items from working!
1414 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1416 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1422 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1423 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1427 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1428 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1429 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1430 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1431 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1432 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1436 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1440 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1441 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1445 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1446 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1447 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1451 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1452 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1457 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1459 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1463 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1464 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1465 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1466 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1470 Improved error reporting.
1471 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1475 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1476 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1477 check box and does 'Yes'.
1481 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1482 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1483 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1484 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1489 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1491 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1492 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1494 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1496 Internal changes to options system:
1497 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1498 filer is fully initialised).
1499 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1501 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1503 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1504 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1505 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1506 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1510 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1511 now reclaims the selection.
1512 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1513 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1518 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1519 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1520 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1521 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1522 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1526 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1527 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1529 Code tidying in various places.
1533 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1534 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1539 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1540 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1544 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1545 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1546 edit the file, not the file itself!
1547 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1551 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1552 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1553 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1554 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1555 of the SOAP working draft.
1556 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1557 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1558 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1563 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1564 it was in the displayed area before.
1566 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1569 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1570 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1574 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1575 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1576 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1578 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1579 selection (Andras Mohari).
1583 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1587 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1591 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1592 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1593 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1597 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1601 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1603 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1604 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1605 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1609 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1610 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1615 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1616 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1617 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1621 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1625 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1629 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1630 replaced by a Restart button.
1634 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1635 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1639 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1643 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1647 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1648 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1649 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1653 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1654 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1656 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1657 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1658 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1662 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1663 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1668 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1670 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1671 (requested by Graham Borland).
1672 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1673 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1674 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1678 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1679 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1680 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1681 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1685 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1686 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1687 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1688 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1689 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1690 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1691 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1692 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1693 - Lots of code tidying.
1698 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1699 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1703 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1705 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1707 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1711 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1712 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1716 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1717 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1721 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1722 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1726 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1727 option to access it directly.
1731 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1732 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1733 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1737 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1738 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1739 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1740 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
1741 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
1742 when the filer is run.
1746 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
1747 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
1748 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
1753 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
1757 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
1758 title bar (Stephen Watson).
1762 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
1764 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
1768 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
1772 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
1773 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
1774 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
1779 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1780 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
1781 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
1782 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
1783 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
1784 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
1785 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
1789 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
1793 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
1794 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
1798 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
1799 of possible actions (Taras).
1800 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
1802 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
1803 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
1807 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
1812 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
1816 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
1819 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
1820 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
1824 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
1825 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1827 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
1829 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
1830 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
1831 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
1832 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
1836 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
1840 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
1844 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
1848 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
1853 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
1854 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
1855 the first one found.
1856 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
1860 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
1864 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
1865 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
1866 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
1870 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
1871 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
1872 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
1877 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
1878 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
1879 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
1883 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
1885 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
1890 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
1895 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
1899 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
1900 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
1904 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
1906 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1907 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
1911 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
1915 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
1916 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
1920 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
1921 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
1925 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
1926 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1928 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
1930 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1934 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
1938 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
1939 (requested by Jim Knoble).
1943 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
1947 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
1952 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
1953 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
1957 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
1961 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
1965 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
1967 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
1968 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
1972 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
1973 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
1977 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
1978 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
1979 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
1983 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1984 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
1988 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
1989 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
1991 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
1993 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1997 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
1998 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
1999 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2001 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2002 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2004 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2006 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2007 and the default size with no details.
2011 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2012 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2016 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2021 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2026 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2030 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2035 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2036 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2040 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2044 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2045 the button to run it does.
2046 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2047 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2048 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2052 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2053 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2054 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2058 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2062 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2063 and panels into icon.c.
2067 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2068 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2069 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2070 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2074 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2076 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2078 Updated the documentation.
2082 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2083 up if they're too small.
2087 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2089 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2090 (Christopher Arndt).
2091 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2096 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2097 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2101 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2102 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2106 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2107 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2108 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2113 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2118 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2122 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2123 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2128 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2133 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2134 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2138 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2139 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2143 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2147 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2151 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2155 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2156 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2159 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2160 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2165 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2166 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2167 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2168 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2173 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2174 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2176 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2178 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2179 for non-applications.
2183 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2184 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2189 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2193 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2194 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2196 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2200 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2201 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2205 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2206 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2210 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2211 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2215 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2216 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2218 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2219 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2223 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2224 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2226 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2230 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2231 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2234 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2238 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2239 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2243 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2247 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2248 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2251 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2252 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2256 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2260 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2265 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2269 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2270 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2275 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2280 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2284 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2286 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2288 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2289 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2291 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2293 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2294 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2298 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2299 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2300 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2302 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2303 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2307 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2311 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2312 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2316 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2320 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2321 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2323 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2326 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2327 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2328 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2332 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2333 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2338 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2343 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2345 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2348 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2350 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2351 sensible shape itself now.
2353 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2354 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2355 file at all, just a reused inode!
2356 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2357 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2358 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2362 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2366 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2367 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2372 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2373 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2377 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2381 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2382 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2386 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2391 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2395 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2396 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2400 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2401 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2402 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2403 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2404 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2408 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2409 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2410 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2411 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2412 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2416 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2417 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2418 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2422 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2424 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2425 python's portable system.
2426 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2427 set the LANG variable.
2431 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2432 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2434 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2436 Made a few updates to the manual.
2440 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2441 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2443 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2445 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2446 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2450 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2451 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2455 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2456 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2461 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2462 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2463 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2467 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2468 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2472 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2473 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2477 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2478 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2480 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2481 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2482 open... (Denis Manente).
2486 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2490 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2492 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2493 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2494 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2496 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2498 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2500 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2501 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2506 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2507 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2508 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2512 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2513 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2517 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2521 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2525 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2526 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2527 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2531 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2532 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2533 between pinboards...
2535 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2536 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2537 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2541 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2544 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2545 window (Denis Manente).
2547 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2548 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2552 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2553 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2554 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2558 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2561 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2562 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2564 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2569 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2570 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2572 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2576 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2577 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2579 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2581 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2586 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2587 the icon points to as well as its name.
2589 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2590 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2594 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2595 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2596 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2597 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2601 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2605 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2606 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2607 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2611 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2612 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2614 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2615 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2618 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2619 the item after the drag.
2621 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2622 showing where the file really is.
2626 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2627 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2632 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2633 warning is displayed if so.
2635 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2639 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2640 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2641 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2642 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2645 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2646 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2647 works like the panels.
2651 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2652 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2653 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2654 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2655 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2659 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2660 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2661 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2662 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2664 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2669 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2673 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2674 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2677 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2678 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2680 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2683 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2684 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2685 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2686 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2688 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2690 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2691 slightly. Updated the manual.
2693 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2694 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2697 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2698 or bottom panel to make room.
2702 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2707 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2708 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2709 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2710 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2711 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2715 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2717 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2718 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2720 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2724 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2725 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2729 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2733 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2735 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2740 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
2741 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
2743 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
2747 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
2748 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
2749 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
2753 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
2754 rewriting the panel system.
2758 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
2761 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
2762 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
2766 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
2767 (suggested by James Kermode).
2771 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
2772 than as a full path.
2774 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
2776 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
2777 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
2778 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
2782 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
2783 mounted/unmounted state changed.
2787 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
2788 rename something onto another filesystem.
2792 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
2794 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
2795 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
2799 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
2803 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
2806 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
2807 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
2809 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
2812 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
2817 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
2818 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
2819 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
2821 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
2822 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
2824 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
2825 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
2830 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
2831 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
2836 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
2837 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
2838 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
2840 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
2841 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
2842 of the 'missing image' image.
2846 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
2848 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
2850 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
2855 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
2856 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
2857 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
2858 its name into another program.
2860 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
2864 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
2866 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
2867 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
2868 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
2870 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
2871 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
2872 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
2875 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
2876 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
2880 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
2881 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
2882 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
2886 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
2887 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
2888 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
2892 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
2893 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
2894 and position the icons directly.
2898 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
2903 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
2904 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
2905 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
2909 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
2913 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
2914 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
2918 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
2923 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
2927 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
2928 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
2929 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
2930 some versions of GTK+.
2934 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
2939 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
2940 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
2941 from a sub-sub-menu.
2943 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
2944 drawn on a log scale.
2948 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
2949 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
2950 happy with the UI yet though...
2952 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
2953 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
2954 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
2958 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
2959 by Stephen Harrison).
2961 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
2963 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
2964 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
2965 standard types are in Choices.
2966 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
2968 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
2969 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
2970 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
2975 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
2976 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
2977 shell command minibuffer.
2981 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
2982 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
2983 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
2984 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
2985 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2987 Default search path for Choices is now:
2988 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
2990 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
2991 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
2992 buffering so all this will get changed then...
2996 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
2997 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3001 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3002 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3003 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3008 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3009 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3010 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3013 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3015 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3016 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3017 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3019 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3020 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3024 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3025 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3026 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3027 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3032 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3033 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3034 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3036 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3038 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3039 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3043 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3044 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3045 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3050 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3051 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3054 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3056 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3061 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3066 Added GNU gettext support.
3067 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3071 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3073 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3075 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3080 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3084 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3085 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3087 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3088 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3093 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3094 onto the directory and winks the file.
3098 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3099 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3100 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3102 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3103 instead of random values.
3104 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3106 Applied Bernard's patch:
3107 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3108 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3109 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3110 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3111 it the RISC OS way...
3112 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3113 alignment corrected.
3114 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3119 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3123 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3124 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3128 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3129 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3130 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3131 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3132 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3133 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3134 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3135 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3136 in the file(1) says... box).
3139 Before the Changes file
3140 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3141 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3143 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3144 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3145 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3146 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3147 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD