2 A RISCOS-like filer for X
5 This is a list of features that should/will be added when I have time (or
6 when someone sends patches!).
10 Selecting a pinboard icon only redraws the text (by highlights all of it!).
12 Creating/renaming/etc a file with %2e (etc) in the name expands it!
14 Size and position settings don't work on new windows.
16 Odd things to investigate:
17 - foreach_remove in filer settings.
18 - newChild -> newChildText?
19 - Remove Filter regexp code.
21 ROX has an implementation of GtkIconTheme copied from GTK 2.3. GTK 2.4
22 also has its own copy. Both copies scan the theme directories when
23 initialised, which is a waste of time. ROX should use the GTK version
28 The Set Type interface confuses people, because it usually doesn't work.
30 Saved settings for display size and position make the window flicker when
35 Windows should include the toolbar size when autosizing, but still allow the
36 window to be resized smaller. Remove the current option.
38 Going Up in List View loses the focus and scroll position.
40 Better errors from SOAP messages.
42 If you set an icon view with some details turned on (like "sizes" or
43 "permissions") a maximum width value is silently ignored.
45 Info box should close on Escape.
47 Shift+Menu on the Up button should show the Send To menu.
49 Sorting by group/user should use name (Bernard Jungen).
51 File2.html comes before File.html. Also, very large numbers aren't handled.
53 Mounting/unmounting via a symlink doesn't update the display automatically.
55 When the minibuffer is highlighted in red, scanning more items should recheck.
57 Text beside icons style is too wide.
61 - Short name for bookmarks (you can assign names to items, so instead of
62 seeing "/usr/share/doc" in the menu, you see "Documentation").
65 - Show selection groups?
66 - Auto-add recent operations
68 Iconified directories show the directory's icon (Marcus Lundblad)?
70 Some way to process the files found by Find.
72 Auto-unmount when last directory is closed.
74 Active icons in iconified windows (Christian V. J. Brüssow).
76 When all selected items have the same type, show handlers for that type on
77 the SendTo menu (Arnaud Calvo)?
79 Use XFS extended attribute to store MIME types.
81 Tab completion in save boxes.
83 Order icons vertically or horizontally (option)?
85 Rescanning sometimes causes the display to scroll (automounter problem).
87 Allow command-line arguments for executation pinboard/panel icons.
89 Opening an AVFS directory with left-click should reuse the same window.
91 Deleting / moving files should update the globicons?
93 'Edit Item' doesn't make much sense for applets...
95 Make Find expressions easier for beginners.
97 Individual sliders for max window horizontal and vertical sizes?
99 Winking of items should be an option?
101 Shell / Select If history menu.
103 Shift-click on symlink should open the file. Add a 'Follow link' submenu.
105 Option to make menu-click over a file open the File submenu only?
107 Key bindings in the New File menu don't work (move to dialog box?).
109 All leafnames to be truncated, even when details are displayed.
110 Use condensed fonts for long names?
112 Use an environment variable to override the platform-name guessing in
115 Provide a way to set the display style on a per-directory basis
116 (shell glob patterns?) Also remember window size?
118 Right-most icon in the last row should extend to the far right of the window,
119 even if it isn't in the last column.
121 Allow filtering on any expression (not just Show Hidden).
123 Allow find expression with Permissions command...
129 Fully configurable toolbar?
133 Close Panel menu item?
135 Highlighting of icons as you drag a box around them, so it's clear what you
136 have caught in the box?
138 Enable (temporarily) single-click navigation when a special key is pressed?
140 In single click mode, beep when the user tries to double click?
142 Copying a relative symlink should make it absolute? Ask during the copy?
144 Recursive 'a-x' acts on the directory first and so can't then change the
145 permissions on the contents. chmod(1) has the same problem.
147 Option to disable open-file-and-close-window behaviour (sometimes happens
150 Remember last scroll position when returning to a directory?
152 'Edge folders' (panel items spring-open with zero delay when the pointer
153 is at the edge of the scree)?
155 SOAP calls to remove pinboard/panel icons?
157 AppInfo.xml (Christopher Arndt):
158 <Property name="x-on-drop-move" value="--move"/>
159 <Property name="x-on-drop-link" value="--link"/>
166 Use a separate process to access the filesystem. Prevents hanging when you
167 try to access a dead filesystem. Do this via gnome-vfs?
169 Allow user to change permissions to another user on the fly, by entering a
170 password. 'su' requires a tty - use xsu?