2 A RISC OS-like filer for X
7 Stock icons in panel and pinboard menus.
11 Added 'Customise Menu' to file menu. Use this to replace Format and Free.
15 Allow icons in Choices to override the theme.
19 Bugfix: If no pinboard or panel icons were present, the menu could not be
20 opened (reported by John Pettigrew).
24 Added italian manual, updated it.po (Yuri Bongiorno).
25 Implementation of Format, just as a user-defined command. Also mount
26 point menu items reflect mounted/not mounted status (Stephen Watson).
30 Implementation of Free Space (Stephen Watson). OpenDir SOAP message now
31 takes an optional Window element. Pass the same Window to re-use the window.
35 Allow ejecting mounted media.
39 Don't create a corrupted pinboard/panel file if a non-UTF8 pathname is
40 dragged to it (reported by Eugeni Andreechtchev).
41 Get file icons using freedesktop.org icon theme system.
45 Added Czech translation (Jan Provaznik).
49 Help, Format, Eject and Free Space now appear in the AppMenu section of the
50 menu. Help is only shown for applications, and the others only for mount
55 Added ability to call external programs to generate thumbnails for types
56 other than image/* (Stephen Watson).
60 If a string can't be converted from the local character set to UTF-8,
61 fallback to converting from iso-8859-1.
65 Get shared MIME database through Zero Install, if possible.
66 Bugfix: Didn't use XDG_DATA_DIRS to find type descriptions.
70 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
74 Allow types other than image/* to have thumbnails, although we can't
75 generate them yet (Stephen Watson).
76 Added Eject menu option for unmounted mount points (Stephen Watson).
80 Doing a Refresh in a directory under /uri/0install triggers a remote refresh.
84 Less frame-heavy look for info box (Thomas Leonard).
85 When mounting, force a refresh even if the mtime of the new disk is the same,
86 since some formats don't change it. Also, if mounting gives an error, check to
87 see if it worked anyway (Thomas Leonard).
91 Added sort and selection buttons to the toolbar. They start off disabled,
92 enable them from Options=>Tools if you want them. (Stephen Watson)
94 Escape text/uri-list for drag and drop operations. (Stephen Watson)
98 Don't show hidden files on the SendTo menu (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
102 Added CheckButtons to the info window to allow manipulation of permission
103 bits (Stephen Watson).
107 Added count of directory contents to info window (Stephen Watson).
111 Updated italian translation in AppInfo.xml and src/po/it.po (Yuri Bongiorno)
115 When renaming a non-UTF8 file, still assume the directory is valid UTF-8
116 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
120 Sort items on the SendTo menu (requested by John Pettigrew).
124 Removed the menu-on-button-2 option. It was too inconsistant with everything
125 else, including panel applets and window managers, to be useful. Edit bind.c if
130 Button-2 drags on panel applets always work now, even if the applet doesn't
131 forward them explicitly.
135 Fix scrolling problem with GTK+-2.2.2 (reported by Alastair Porter, with
136 help from Götz Waschk).
140 Bugfix: Resize on style change didn't do anything (Andy Hanton).
141 Bugfix: Dragging to panel and pinboard directories didn't offer the DnD
142 menu (reported by BluPhoenyx).
146 New SetBackdrop() SOAP method (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
150 Bugfix: Closing a window using the menu didn't offer to unmount (James Bursa).
154 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
158 Fix compiler warning when not using dnotify (reported by Damien Couderc).
159 Show files being operated upon in action windows (Stephen Watson).
161 30-May-2003 (Release 2.0.0)
163 Updated Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
167 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
169 28-May-2003 (Release 1.3.10)
171 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
175 When dragging a lasso box in List view, don't stop scrolling when the pointer
176 leaves the window (reported by Robert Davison).
177 Updated Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
178 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
182 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
186 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
190 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
194 Minor updates to the manual.
195 Bugfix: Using the Edit MIME types button in the Options window opened the
196 old directory. Refer people to the MIME-Editor application instead.
200 Fixed focussing problems in Icons View (reported by Andrzej Radecki).
201 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
203 16-May-2003 (Release 1.3.9)
205 New icon for the filer (Geoff Youngs).
206 Updated it.po and AppInfo.xml (Yuri Bongiorno).
210 Added Japanese translation (Hirosi Utumi).
211 When a directory change is detected, wait a little before rescanning to
212 reduce flickering effect.
216 Page Up and Page Down now work again in List View.
220 Updated install script to use new XDG Base Directory spec (reported by
222 Also install man pages under 'share/man'.
226 Close stdout when running child processes for users running startx from the
227 console, since some terminal applications try to read from the console,
228 freezing X (Keith R. John Warno).
229 Forward scroll events on pinboard to window manager, and add option to
230 workaround *box issues (Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
234 Using the bookmarks menu to open an unmounted mount point will mount it
235 (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
239 Updates for the new shared MIME database.
243 Refresh refreshed the directory twice (because updating the MIME info triggers
248 Remove default GtkTreeView keys (they conflicted with the menus).
249 Fixed some minor cursor problems in List view.
253 Winking now works in List view.
257 Lasso selections now work in List view.
261 The hack we have to use to draw pinboard icons on GTK+-2.0 doesn't work
262 on 2.2. Show a warning instead of crashing (reported by Keith R. John Warno).
266 Fix the message in install.sh, since there is no information toolbar icon
267 now (spotted by Albert Wagner).
269 29-Mar-2003 (Release 1.3.8)
271 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
275 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
279 Allow dragging a file into a GtkEntry to insert the filename.
280 Bugfix: Selections in List View didn't work properly (reported by Stephen
282 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
286 Fixed use of a GTK+-2.2-only function (Geoff Youngs).
287 New option to set the panel size (Geoff Youngs).
291 Scroll panels when the pointer is at the end, not by dragging the middle
293 Stop the pinboard from flickering when removing icons or iconfied windows.
297 Centre the image for iconified windows.
298 Double-buffer slightly larger areas.
302 Better way to implement selections in List View (suggested by Jonathan
304 Updated Italian translation (Yuri Bongiorno).
308 Bugfix: Never show the copy/move/link menu when dragging to an application.
312 Bugfix: Comments about a MIME type were loaded from the first file to contain
313 information about the type, not the first to contain a comment about
318 Don't mark widget documentation as translatable.
319 Make sure the tooltip for pinboard and panel icons is up-to-date (reported
321 Use pinboard backdrop colour for scaled and centred images (requested by
323 Shade the backdrop style buttons when an external program is being used to
325 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
329 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
333 Use stock icons in pinboard and panel menus.
334 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
338 Use stock icons in menus, and fix some possible problems in the menu code
343 Stop pinboard icons flickering when you move over them (Daniele Peri).
344 Use XSettings drag-and-drop threshold.
348 Bugfix: Backdrop image could be redrawn in the wrong place (Stephen Watson).
350 27-Feb-2003 (Release 1.3.7)
352 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
353 Allow an empty AppInfo translation so that a label can be translated without
358 Updated Russian translation (Alexey Lubimov).
362 When using the Rename and Link boxes, use the appropriate drag cursor
363 (suggested by Michael Adams).
364 Bugfix: A double-click which starts on one file and ends on another is now
365 ignored (reported by Michael Adams).
366 Bugfix: Test for valid sort-type in SOAP call was reserved, so you couldn't set
367 the sort type (reported by Damjan Bole).
368 Bugfix: Using a SOAP call to open a non-existant directory made the filer
370 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop raising on the panel didn't quite work (Daniele Peri).
374 Make Size toolbar icon only set the size. Use a second button to set automatic
379 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
380 Alpha blended pinboard icons now get clipped correctly even with GTK+-2.0.
384 Fixed some spelling errors (Marcelo Ramos).
385 Select the current style by default when opening the Set Backdrop box
386 (reported by Marcelo Ramos).
387 Fix problems with pinboard drawing of semi-transparent icons (fixed for
392 Merged Set Run Action, Set Icon and Set Backdrop dropboxes into a single
393 Ultimate DropBox widget, and made all three interfaces much nicer.
394 Dragging to the Home and Up toolbar tools now supports the menu-on-drag
395 option (reported by Laurent Moussault).
396 Allow changing the pinboard style without having to drag the image back in
397 (requested by Jesse Wagner).
398 Remove button style from iconified windows. Use a semi-transparent border
399 instead. The actual effect is flexible; perhaps someone with artistic
400 talent can do something better?
401 Double-buffer small pinboard updates.
402 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
406 Option to turn off column headings in List View (Adam Sampson).
407 Panel auto-raising also works during drag-and-drop.
408 Bugfix: Installing to /usr put the MIME files in the wrong place (reported
413 Allow dragging to a selected directory as long as it's not the source of the
415 If an error occurs opening a directory then don't report it in an error box if
416 a drag-and-drop operation is in progress.
417 Keep the title up-to-date for iconified windows.
418 Option to show menu on button-1 drags instead of copying.
419 Aborting an action window tries to kill all child processes, not just the
420 immediate child, and doesn't close the window until it has actually stopped.
421 Symlinks to mount points now work (reported by Daniele Peri).
422 Include textual description of types in various places (Stephen Watson).
423 Allow dragging directories to bookmarks edit window or toolbar icon, with
424 spring loading (suggested by Stephen Watson and George De Bruin).
425 Removed confusing Set Icon choice from DnD menu.
426 Bugfix: If a directory on the panel changed to/from being an application, the
427 label wasn't hidden / shown.
431 Changing the icon for a MIME type updates all filer windows.
432 When dragging a pinboard icon over itself, pretend the icon isn't there to
433 allow fine repositioning.
434 When an error prevents scanning a directory, show the error in the window
435 title bar, and only report it once in an error box.
436 Don't create thumbnails of thumbnails by checking if the image is in
437 ~/.thumbnails/normal. Before, the test was the size of the file, not its
439 Pinboard image style Scale is now called Stretch; Scale now scales without
440 changing the aspect ratio.
444 Auto-scrolling during drag-and-drop works again, and now in list view too.
448 Fixed clipping and wrapping problems with pinboard icon text.
452 Don't use double-buffering for the pinboard. This might make things flicker
453 slightly, but it's much faster on some systems.
454 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
458 Added Bookmarks 'Recently Visited' submenu (Stephen Watson).
462 Replaced some of the icons with some GNOME ones (slightly modified in some
467 Slightly adjusted the 'normal' icon height to be the same size as GNOME to
468 make sharing icons easier.
469 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
473 Bugfix: Symlinking to an application required the symlink, rather than the
474 target directory, to have the same owner as the AppRun (Keith Warno).
478 Bugfix: Hyper and Super modifiers didn't work properly as icon shortcuts.
482 Work around changes in Gtk+-2.2 that stopped the panel from appearing on all
484 Add scrollbars to bookmarks editor window (requested by George De Bruin).
488 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only the Bookmarks editor window was open (reported
493 New option to sort capitalised names first (requested by Paul Etchells and
498 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
499 Fixed wheel mouse scroll bug in List View (reported by Vincent Lefevre and
501 Attempt to improve the autosizing by examining the item with the longest name.
502 Don't scale icons up in Huge mode.
503 In translated <About> sections in AppInfo.xml files, allow a 'label=' attribute
504 to translate the key (requested by Guido Schimmels).
508 Added dnotify support, so that on Linux the filer now updates automatically
509 when a directory is changed (requested by Taras and Dave C).
513 Added icon to infobox (Geoff Youngs and Marcin Juszkiewicz).
517 Add GTK versions used for compiling and running to -v output (suggested by
519 Bugfix: Drag-and-drop in Icons View didn't work while scrolled (reported by
524 Change 'Type' to 'Types' (Vincent Lefèvre).
525 Don't resize when changing the view type if auto-resizing is off (Keith R. John
527 Added missing cast and detect long files on OpenBSD (Damien Couderc).
531 Remove -o from --help output (spotted by Karol Krenski).
532 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
534 09-Jan-2003 (Release 1.3.6)
536 Fix reference counting problem shown up by Gtk+-2.2.
540 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
541 Make toolbar extend the whole width of the window (suggested by Andrzej
546 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
550 Updated French translation and fixed untranslatable string (Vincent Lefèvre).
551 When using bigger/smaller, don't wrap at the end (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
552 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
556 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
557 Updated Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
561 Added button in options window to purge thumbnails cache.
565 Preserve selection when changing view type.
566 Shade selection when we don't have primary.
570 Show thumbnails in List view. Allow changing the icon size. If the size is
571 automatic, show thumbnails as Huge and everything else as Small.
572 Scroll wheel now works in List view.
576 Use bold style to indicate recent items (instead of the pink background).
580 Sort type is shared between Icon and List views. Sort order can be reversed.
581 Highlight recently changed items with a tasteful pink background.
582 When the bookmark editor window first opened, no item was selected. If the
583 user clicked on it to select it, editing mode started instead (reported by
585 Removed most of the options section of the manual, since it was just echoing
586 the information in the tooltips anyway.
590 Various fixes to new list view (reported by George De Bruin).
591 Mounting and unmounting auto-resizes the window.
595 Right-clicking the Size button switches to automatic mode and resizes the
600 Made 'Automatic' an icon size, rather than a separate option.
601 Size toolbar button shows a menu, including the new Automatic setting.
605 Rearranged menus and options for new List View mode.
609 Removed warning message from --new. It can be useful for a session manager...
610 Draw iconified windows with a background, so they don't get confused with other
611 icons (suggested by Joakim Andreasson).
612 Bugfix: Stupid bug stopped iconified windows from being removed and could
617 The 'Directories always come first' option now only applies to name sorts.
618 Sort by date and size default order has been reversed.
619 Always use case-insensitive sort.
623 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
627 Details toolbar button switches to the new (unfinished) details view.
628 Bugfix: Fix detection of new pango wrapping system (Richard Olsson)
632 Style improvements to Edit Icon box.
633 Don't show Size attribute for directories in the Info box. It was confusing,
634 since it didn't include the contents.
635 Bugfix: Right-clicking on the Bookmarks icon to edit the bookmarks would
636 cause a crash if the bookmarks were not yet loaded.
640 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
644 Style improvements to options window.
648 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
652 Updated German translation (Guido Schimmels).
654 04-Dec-2002 (Release 1.3.5)
656 Using the Close toolbar button also offers to unmount devices (spotted by
661 Clicking on a mount point auto-mounts. The shift action is now to open without
662 mounting. Closing a filer window showing a mount point offers to unmount it
663 (suggested by Guido Schimmels and others).
664 Use stock icons in more dialogs.
668 Allow editing the path for bookmarks.
672 Added 'Edit Bookmarks' dialog and 'Show Bookmarks' menu entry.
676 New mount icons (suggested by Marcin Juszkiewicz).
677 Don't show separator in bookmarks menu when there is nothing below it.
681 Added a default hander for HTML files, otherwise newbies can't read the
683 Bugfix: Pinboards without backdrop images didn't get the correct colour set
688 Better positioning of bookmarks menu.
692 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
693 Allow translation of About AppInfo section.
694 Bugfix: When using Metacity, some minimised windows weren't shown (reported by
699 More tooltips for the Set Icon dialog.
703 Use better wrapping system, if available (Richard Olsson).
707 Removed ASCII sort option. Useless, and didn't work with UTF-8 anyway.
711 New sorting system to cope with UTF-8 filenames.
715 Use stdout, not stderr, for --help and --version, and use xmllint instead of
716 nsgmls to check for valid DocBook (Eric Gillespie).
717 Updated Chinese translation (babyfai Cheung).
721 Added note about checking permissions to message complaining that the MIME
722 database can't be found (suggested by Keir Mierle).
726 Set hint to make panels appear on all workspaces, and support metacity-style
727 iconified windows (reported by Alastair Porter; suggested fix by Laurent
732 Added Bookmarks toolbar icon (Liav).
736 Removed some unused code and fixed a possible race condition.
740 Update error message to give correct version of MIME database (reported by
745 Make the Find and Permissions help windows look nicer.
746 Added support for shadowed labels on the pinboard (Andras Mohari).
750 Stop Metacity from complaining that it can't decide whether the pinboard is
751 resizable or not (reported by Alastair Porter, solution suggested by
756 Make it more obvious that --new is only for debugging.
757 Added Norwegian translation (Sigve Indregard).
761 Use our own stock icons for 'show hidden' and 'show details' toolbar buttons
762 (Stephen Watson). New details icon is a modified version of a Gtk stock
763 icon, while show hidden is taken from sawfish.
767 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
771 Switch button-1/2 on Help, as it was too annoying.
772 Create thumbnails at 128x128 to be in-line with current thumbnails spec.
773 Bugfix: When using the lasso box with the pinboard, select icons based on
774 where they actually are, not where they want to be (useful if you've
775 just changed to a lower resolution and they're all stuck at the side!).
779 Button-1 on Help shows the manual, other button opens the Help directory
780 (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
784 More checks to cope with invalid filenames (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
785 Updated Polish translation (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
789 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
793 Cope slightly better with invalid filenames in various places (reported by
794 Marcin Juszkiewicz and Andras Mohari).
795 Make panel menus appear nearer the edge of the screen for top, left and right
796 panels (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
797 Bugfix: When installing the binary release, don't warn the user that the source
798 is missing (reported by John Pettigrew).
802 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
803 Fixed broken links to citations in manual (reported by Bernard Jungen).
804 Renamed sp.po to es.po (requested by Quique).
808 Added Swedish translation (Marcus Lundblad).
809 Bugfix: Invert Selection failed to work correctly on the first item (spotted by
814 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
818 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
820 01-Oct-2002 (Release 1.3.4)
822 Require glib >= 2.0.3, or action windows leak file handles (reported by
827 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be repositioned at once.
831 Allow multiple pinboard icons to be selected by dragging a box around them.
835 Pinboard and panel icons can now have keyboard shortcuts assigned to them.
836 Bugfix: Fixed a couple of cursor positioning problems (reported by Andras
841 Replace -o command-line option with a toggle button in the options window.
845 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
849 Be more forceful about setting the pinboard backdrop; some themes were
850 overriding it (reported by Biju Chacko).
851 Use K, M and G consistantly (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
855 Shift Open had stopped working (spotted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
859 Changed default Set Run Action shell command from "$1" to "$@" (suggested by
864 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
868 New 'Class' parameter to Filer_OpenDir SOAP method allows setting the
869 WM_CLASS of a new window so that the window manager can treat it
870 specially, such as opening it in a certain place, or make it sticky
871 (requested by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
875 New option to set the pinboard font (Krzysztof Luks).
879 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
880 Updated Italian translation (Daniele Peri).
884 Increase time between updates while scanning from 0.5s to 1.5s. Now that the
885 names are all shown from the start, fast feedback here is less useful.
886 When resizing due to a key event, warp the pointer (for sloppy focus users).
890 Removed Re-read MIME types button. Use Refresh on the toolbar instead.
894 Internal changes: moved menu and toolbar over to View interface.
898 Open the menu on the 'popup-menu' signal. Allows you to use the default Gtk
899 keyboard shortcuts to open the menu.
900 Translated AppInfo menu entries into Hungarian (Andras Mohari) and
901 Spanish (Marcelo Ramos).
902 After dragging to a remote application which didn't respond, the filer
903 refused to gain the primary selection until the operation timed out.
907 Use stock icons for multi-file drag-and-drop, files with missing icons, and
908 files that can't be statted (Marcin Juszkiewicz).
912 Make --version's output convert to the local character set (Vincent Lefevre).
913 Make menu items in AppInfo.xml files translatable (requested by
914 Wilbert Berendsen, Andras Mohari and Marcelo Ramos).
918 Change pinboard option to forward button 3 to forward all buttons (requested
919 by Matthew Weier O'Phinney).
923 Use Gtk's new stock info icon instead of help icon for minibuffer, etc.
927 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
928 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
929 Using Edit MIME types in the Options box now opens the new 'packages'
930 directory instead of the old 'mime-info' one (reported by Goetz Waschk).
932 24-Jul-2002 (Release 1.3.3)
934 Updated to new shared MIME database format.
938 Alt-Return or Alt-Button-1 on a file works like clicking with button-2; it
939 opens a directory in a new window and closes the directory when opening a file
940 (suggested by Gregory Spath).
944 Use stock icons for toolbar, to make it themeable (requested by Michael Adams).
948 Made the stepper arrows in the scrollbars scroll by one item's height, fixed
949 an untranslatable string and fixed a slight error in the size calculation
954 Rearraged File menu (suggested by Tomas Berg).
958 Added support for Solaris 'Door' files (Stephen Watson).
962 Added Help menu with both About and Show Files entries, and a new entry to
963 load the corrent manual for the current locale (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
967 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
968 Changed 'Show ROX-Filer Help' to 'About ROX-Filer...'. This shows the Info
969 box, with a new 'Show Help Files' button (Geoff Youngs).
973 Don't close the Set Run Action box after showing the usage message if the user
974 enters an invalid command (spotted by krjw).
978 Bugfix: Changing the pinboard colours when iconfied windows were not in use
979 displayed a (harmless) warning message (reported by krjw).
983 Security fix: Set Run Action to a shell command would make the executable
984 world-writeable (spotted by alexander).
988 Bugfix: Tooltips for files sometimes didn't get displayed.
992 Added reminder about having NumLock on when using groups from the keypad
993 (suggested by Gombok Arthur).
997 Turned on more compiler warnings, and fixed some minor issues it threw up.
999 22-Jun-2002 (Release 1.3.2)
1001 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1005 Added 'Text beside icon' toolbar style (Michael Adams).
1009 Bugfix: Using another window in between entering target mode and selecting
1010 the target printed a warning instead of performing the operation.
1014 Fix problem with root menu positioning on icewm (reported by Bernard Jungen).
1018 More robust approach to SOAP errors.
1022 Require version 2.0.1 or later of Gtk, due to bugs in 2.0.0.
1023 Changing the pinboard font realigns the icons.
1024 Bugfix: Symlinked items in the SendTo menu didn't use globicons correctly
1025 (spotted by Arnaud Calvo).
1026 Bugfix: Filer sometimes failed to load the backdrop supplied by a program
1027 (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1031 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1035 Move Xterm Here to Window menu and add Switch to xterm (suggested by
1037 Bugfix: Some shortcuts didn't work properly on some keyboards (reported by
1038 Lorint and Musus Umbra).
1042 When installing without a manpage, just warn the user instead of aborting
1043 (suggested by Simon Britnell).
1047 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1051 Option to switch automatically between Large and Small icons (Stephen Watson).
1052 Allow blank icon names (suggested by Gregory Spath).
1053 Bugfix: Default icon for iconified windows wasn't found (Jimmy Olgeni).
1054 Bugfix: Sometimes the SOAP message sent to a running process got displayed.
1056 30-May-2002 (Release 1.3.1)
1058 Fix redraw bug with selected icons.
1062 Respect CHOICESPATH when installing (spotted by Vincent Lefevre).
1063 Set Icon now creates icons in PNG format (spotted by Wilbert Berendsen).
1067 Merged in icons from rox-base (converted to PNG format and renamed).
1068 Bugfix: When showing iconified windows, the filer could crash if a window
1069 disappeared at the wrong moment.
1073 Set _XROOTPMAP_ID property on root window so that Eterm and friends show
1074 the right backdrop (requested by Simon Britnell).
1075 Use .png icons in MIME-icons instead of .xpm (needed to change anyway as
1076 the new shared MIME database uses different types in many places).
1077 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1078 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1079 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1083 When using -d or -s options, don't follow symlinks in paths starting with '/'
1084 (suggested by Darrell Taylor).
1088 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1092 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1096 Setting the background colour doesn't lose the image (spotted by Jasper
1101 Iconified windows are shown with their own icon, if they have one.
1105 Options to set iconification layout policy.
1106 Fix compiler warnings on some systems (Stephen Watson).
1107 Added 'Follow Symbolic Links' menu item (Stephen Watson).
1111 Pinboard background colour option works again.
1112 Position iconified windows sensibly.
1113 Bugfix: Typing too fast into the minibuffer could miss characters.
1117 Wrap long icon names onto multiple lines.
1118 Options to forward button-3 clicks on the pinboard to the window manager
1119 (requested by Ryan Harris).
1123 Code tidying (Bernard Jungen).
1124 Bugfix: Ctrl-clicking on icons can unselect, not just select.
1128 Bugfix: Short form of '--client-id' option didn't work (reported by Julio
1133 Allow hidden subdirectories in <Choices>/SendTo which have their contents
1134 included only for certain MIME types (Geoff Youngs).
1135 When changing directory, remove any trailing /s from the path.
1136 Make sure panels never get lowered under the pinboard.
1137 Iconified windows are now displayed on the pinboard, not floating over
1139 Bugfix: Using a savebox when the pathname contained multi-byte characters
1140 caused the initial selected region to be positioned incorrectly.
1144 Initial support for showing iconified windows.
1148 Changed the way pinboard icons are implemented.
1149 Changed the way backdrop applications set the backdrop.
1150 Always use button-3 for the pinboard menu, as the window manager menu must
1151 be on button-2 (spotted by Geoff Youngs).
1155 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1156 Middle button clicks on the pinboard are passed to the window manager.
1157 Many improvements to the pinboard:
1158 - Changing font updates the pinboard icons.
1159 - Button-2 clicks are passed to window manager.
1160 - Drop highlight doesn't flicker.
1164 Improved highlighting of icons (Andras Mohari).
1168 The pinboard is now a screen-sized window. Faster and better looking.
1169 Setting the backdrop is now done from the filer.
1173 The Link box allows an existing symlink to be replaced, instead of
1174 complaining that the destination already exists (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1175 Bugfix: When editing a panel icon, the tooltip didn't update until the next
1176 restart (Olli Helenius).
1180 Added Sort to the OpenDir SOAP method (Stephen Watson).
1184 Alpha-blending for Small icons, too.
1185 Bugfix: When copying directories, ignore an error caused by filesystems,
1186 such as Samba shares, that don't support chmod fully (reported by
1191 SOAP method OpenDir now allows Style and Details to be specified
1196 Use alpha-blending in Large and Huge display modes. Limit icons in menus to
1197 Small and Large sizes.
1201 Return in Permissions box activates Quiet.
1205 MIME information is now read from the freedesktop.org shared database rather
1206 than the old Choices/MIME-info directories.
1210 Don't convert to `real' path when following symlinks, so that Up now returns
1211 to the directory containing the symlink, not the thing it linked to
1212 (requested by Gregory Spath).
1213 Don't quit while Options window is open.
1217 Allow panel style to be set from ~/.gtkrc-2.0, using 'rox-panel' to identify
1218 the window (requested by Ashwin).
1219 Merged OK and Save buttons in the Options box. Revert shades when it would
1224 'New ...' for a template always copies without confirming (suggested by
1229 Set-keybindings button in options box now checks that this feature is on,
1230 and explains what to do if not (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1234 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1235 Message in translation options switches language as you move through the
1240 Added Chinese translation (babyfai cheung).
1242 14-Apr-2002 (Release 1.3.0)
1244 Fixed a minor redraw box (a single pixel could get left after a lasso drag).
1248 Place action windows under pointer (suggested by txapela).
1252 Set collection style in the program. Choices/ROX-Filer/Styles is no longer
1254 Made background pixmaps for Collections work again (reported by Stephen
1256 Removed pinboard text background style option (it never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1260 Added units display to options and improved toolbar options layout (Andras
1262 When setting the icon for a directory, offer to create a .DirIcon
1263 (requested by Matjaz Mihelic).
1267 Much improved layout for Options box (Andras Mohari).
1268 Allow subdirectories in the Send To menu (Stephen Watson).
1272 Code tidying in various places (Bernard Jungen).
1273 Filer windows update automatically when the font or theme changes.
1277 Various speed improvements.
1278 Removed GNOME VFS option (never worked with Gtk+-2.0).
1282 Auto-raise panels when the pointer hits the side of the screen, and lower
1283 when it leaves the panel (Geoff Youngs).
1287 Slight speed increase when starting.
1291 Added Danish translation (Christian Storgaard).
1295 Internal tidy-up of the icon code: PinIcon and PanelIcon are now subclasses
1296 of Icon, which is now a GObject. Dragging pinboard icons with the middle
1297 button is no longer supported.
1301 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1305 New 'Short titlebar flags' option (requested by Andras Mohari).
1309 Fixed problem which allowed the panel to get the input focus (reported by
1314 Large (over 50K) image files are now loaded in a subprocess. Faster, less
1315 likely to crash due to bad images, and more responsive.
1319 Filenames which are not valid UTF-8 are shown in red. A tooltip explains the
1320 problem. CHARSET is used to try and render the name anyway, and the rename
1321 box can be used to fix it (reported by Christopher Arndt).
1325 Times weren't converted to UTF-8, causing errors in some locales (reported
1326 by Christopher Arndt and tracked down by Andras Mohari).
1327 Informational messages are now shown with the info icon, not the error symbol
1328 (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1332 Set _WIN_HINTS for pinboard and panel icons so that they don't appear on
1333 task-lists or get selected when Alt-Tabbing (Brendan McCarthy).
1334 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT target for pinboard and panels (allows pasting into
1336 The Path Entry minibuffer now highlights invalid paths in red, instead of
1341 Internal changes: MaskedPixmap, Directory and XMLwrapper types are now
1342 GObjects. FSCache now works on GObjects, and the interface is therefore
1347 Sorted out some focussing and defaulting behaviour in action windows.
1351 Split action window code, so that most of the GUI stuff is now in abox.c,
1352 and converted to new dialog style.
1356 Removed remaining support for the old libvfs.
1357 Updated lots of code to new Gtk+-2.0 style.
1361 Panel icons highlight when the pointer is over them.
1362 Fixed some untranslatable strings (Andras Mohari).
1366 Converted Set Run Action box to new style.
1370 New panel style; better looking, and sensitive right up to the edge of the
1372 Converted action window results list to use the new GtkTreeView widget.
1376 Converted Savebox widget to new Gtk style.
1380 Fix compile problems with Gtk+-2.0-rc1 (missing X libs and cflags).
1381 Added stock icons to Options box. The filer now requires Gtk+-2.0.
1382 Updated Infobox to use new GtkTreeView widget.
1386 Display action window questions in bold (suggested by Andras Mohari).
1387 Added PanelAdd and PinboardAdd SOAP methods (Stephen Watson).
1391 Fixed sensitive region of icons in large with details display (Bernard
1396 Added Newer option for Copy and Move operations (Stephen Watson).
1400 Centre colour selector on mouse, and close when options box closes.
1401 Got background pixmaps working with Gtk+-2.0.
1405 Changes to options now take effect instantly. The old Apply button is gone,
1406 and Cancel is now Revert.
1407 Fixed stupid bug in charset conversions (reported by Andras Mohari).
1408 Initial support for gnome-vfs (Mark Heily).
1412 Internal changes to the options system. See text at start of options.c.
1416 Changed 'Ignore case' option to 'Intelligent sorting'. A non-ASCII sort now
1417 handles numbers in a sensible way, so that 'file10' comes after 'file9', etc
1419 Fix possible type conversion problem in charset conversion code
1420 (reported by Serban Udrea).
1421 Allow xml:lang attribute in AppInfo files for translations; see
1422 ROX-Filer/AppInfo.xml for an example (suggested by Wilbert Berendsen).
1426 Try to compile against Gtk+-2.0 first, and only fallback to 1.2 if it's not
1428 In an Infobox, strip trailing newlines from file's output as Gtk+-2.0
1429 labels display them.
1430 Scroll in whole items with Gtk+-1.2, plus better cursor alignment (Bernard
1433 17-Feb-2002 (Release 1.2.0)
1437 13-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.14)
1439 Pressing Escape in a dialog box now closes the box.
1443 Fix compile problem if iconv.h is missing and allow CPPFLAGS settings to
1444 be used in Makefile (Jim Knoble).
1445 Undo 'double clicking unselects' change (requested by Andreas).
1449 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1450 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1452 08-Feb-2002 (Release 1.1.13)
1454 Use fixed font in minibuffer.
1458 Updated French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo).
1459 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1463 When dragging a lasso box around items, limit the allowed overlap (the
1464 space you can drag over the edge of the next item without selecting it)
1465 so that very wide items (eg, those with details) are easier to select
1466 (requested by Andras Mohari).
1470 Updated Italian translation (Denis Manente).
1474 Updated German translation (André Wyrwa).
1475 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1479 Updated to version 0.5 of the thumbnails standard. You should rename
1480 '~/.thumbnails/96x96' to '~/.thumbnails/normal' to avoid having to recreate
1485 Do UTF-8 conversions for globicons and file groups, as we now do for pinboards
1486 and panels (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1490 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1491 Double-clicking an item always clears the selection, removed extra newline
1492 from man-page and fixed a misplaced #endif (Bernard Jungen).
1496 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1497 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.13 (action window scrolling now works).
1501 OK and Cancel buttons in savebox can no longer be focussed. Fixes problem
1502 where opening a savebox put the focus on the last used button instead of
1503 the entry (reported by Karol Krenski).
1504 Added instructions for Window Maker pinboard icons to the manual
1506 Resizer now allows space for the 'Running as ...' message (reported by
1511 If conversion to 'ISO8859-1' doesn't work, try 'iso-8859-1' and 'UTF-8' instead
1512 of giving a warning (reported by Gregory Spath).
1514 24-Jan-2002 (Release 1.1.12)
1516 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
1520 Only check for thumbnails in the thumbnail scanning code, not when loading
1521 any image (saves time).
1522 Assume pathnames and labels for pinboards and panels are in the local charset
1523 for Gtk+-1.2, and in UTF-8 for Gtk+-2.0.
1524 When using 'Shell Command...' from the menu with an item selected by opening
1525 the menu, the item now remains selected when you enter the command.
1527 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1528 Updated Dutch translation (Wilbert Berendsen).
1532 _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property is now set on each GtkSocket window, rather than
1533 the panel, so that applets can find it more easiliy (requested by Stephen
1535 Only use Gtk+-2.0 if '--compile --with-gtk2' is used.
1536 Loading a thumbnail now stores the details when loading started, not
1538 Bugfix: Under Gtk+-2.0, the savebox focussed the OK button rather than the
1543 Changing the permission on a file failed to update the display (reported by
1544 Karol Krenski). Also made other updates more efficient.
1545 Allow COMPOUND_TEXT selection type (same as STRING for now), as gnome-terminal
1546 has stopped accepting STRING.
1550 Added a configure check for iconv.h.
1551 Use double instead of long for file sizes in find.c (Bernard Jungen).
1555 Thumbnails code failed to update images when they changed (reported by
1560 Use 'ISO8859-1' instead of 'iso-8859-1' and fallback to strdup if charset
1561 conversion fails (Stephen Watson).
1563 Deleting a symlink to a pinboard or panel icon showed a warning, even though
1564 there was no danger, because it followed the symlink. Trying to copy a symlink
1565 inside the directory it pointed to failed for the same reason.
1569 Big changes to internationalisation for pinboards and panels to fix problems
1570 with incompatible character sets (reported by Arnaud Calvo).
1571 When creating thumbnails, create to a temporary file and rename in case another
1572 program tries to write the save thumbnail at the same time.
1573 As a special case, running with just '-v' doesn't call gtk_init, allowing
1574 installing without an X server (requested by Michael Duelli).
1578 Converter for old-format config files now stops if the file looks like
1579 XML (probably from a failed conversion).
1580 Allow '~' in globicons file.
1581 Bugfix: When using spring-opening or following symlinks, trying to open
1582 a non-existant directory could cause a crash.
1583 Bugfix: The pinboard would highlight to accept any type of drop (not just
1588 Fixed some compile problems on Solaris (Andreas Dehmel).
1589 Clicking an unscanned item now scans it (instead of reporting an error).
1590 Dialog boxes in Gtk+-2.0 now set a default button.
1591 Number keys on the keypad couldn't be used for groups (reported by Arnaud
1596 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1597 Updated the French manual translation (Arnaud Calvo and Vincent Lefèvre).
1601 Converted French manual to DocBook (Arnaud Calvo).
1602 Fixed some compiler warnings (Vincent Lefèvre).
1604 09-Jan-2002 (Release-1.1.11)
1606 Mark action windows as dialogs (requested by Daniel Pittman).
1607 Reset the background colour when drawing, as the Xenophilia keeps changing
1608 it (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
1612 Changed == to = in make-mo script (Vincent Lefèvre).
1613 Added -lm to libpng linker flags (reported by Stephen Watson).
1614 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1618 Bugfix: Closing a filer window with a tooltip removes the tip now (before, the
1619 tooltip could get stuck on the screen).
1623 Bugfix: Options box didn't work unless options had already been saved
1624 (reported by Iain Stevenson).
1628 Stopped unnecessary redrawing of the display (when sorting an already-sorted
1630 Thumbnails can now also be saved using Gtk+-1.2, if libpng is available
1635 Fixed compile problem (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
1636 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1640 Added _ROX_PANEL_MENU_POS property on panel windows to help applets position
1641 their menus correctly.
1642 Bugfix: 'From LANG' translation setting had stopped working (reported by
1647 Saved pinboards and panels are now stored in an XML format. Old files should
1648 be converted automatically. Icon names may now contain the < and > characters
1649 (requested by Bernard Jungen).
1653 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1654 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1658 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1662 When changing directory, make more effort to wink or select the appropriate
1665 29-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.10)
1667 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1668 Bugfix: Using Shift to open the Send To menu without a selected file stopped
1669 the toggle menu items from working!
1673 With Gtk+-2.0, the effective permissions are now underlined (like they are
1675 Put all the flags in the options box on one line, along with the Quiet button
1681 Reorganised the Options box somewhat.
1682 Bugfix: Closing a window while creating thumbnails caused a crash.
1686 Icons are dragged from their corners again (requested by Liav Asseraf).
1687 Unknown SOAP methods now get a SOAP Fault response. Updated SOAP namespaces.
1688 Renamed '.DirIcon.png' to just '.DirIcon'.
1689 In action windows, standard error from moving, copying and mounting operations
1690 is captured and displayed, giving a more useful message (Stephen Watson).
1691 Support for Gtk+-1.3.12.
1695 Updated Polish translation (Krzysztof Krzy¿aniak).
1699 File groups are now saved (automatically).
1700 The old 'AppMenu' file is no longer checked for (use AppInfo.xml instead).
1704 Added Version SOAP RPC.
1705 With Gtk+-2.0 UTF-8 converstion, the filer now converts from the charset
1706 specified in the translation (was always using iso-8859-1).
1710 If thumbnailing is cancelled, it can be resumed later. Hiding thumbnails
1711 stops any scan in progress automatically. Added 'All' and 'Thumbs' status
1716 New 'Show image thumnails' option to set this as the default (requested by
1718 Got details working again with Gtk+-1.2 (spotted by Kristian Rink).
1722 New thumbnail system. 'Create Thumbs' is now 'Show Thumbnails' and can
1723 be turned on and off. Thumbnails are loaded in the background, and a progress
1724 bar is displayed in the filer window.
1725 Replaced old Gtk+-1.2.x text widget in action windows with new one.
1729 Improved error reporting.
1730 Improved sizing code when details are on.
1734 Updated to new version 0.4 of the thumbnails standard.
1735 Added 'Quiet' check box to action windows. Quiet button now turns on
1736 check box and does 'Yes'.
1740 Gtk+-2.0 uses UTF-8 for strings. Translation files are now converted to
1741 UTF-8 as they are loaded.
1742 Added a missing #ifdef for the regex code (Damien Couderc).
1743 All file leafnames now use AA fonts with Gtk+-2.0 (details are still
1748 Closing a window with a keypress caused warnings to appear (reported by
1750 Updated Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1751 New 'Single click nagivation on the pinboard' option (requested by
1753 Fix for compiling problem on NetBSD (Eric Gillespie, Jr.).
1755 Internal changes to options system:
1756 - Options can be used as soon as they are registered (not just once the
1757 filer is fully initialised).
1758 - New widget types can be registered in a modular fashion.
1760 13-Dec-2001 (Release 1.1.9)
1762 More fixes for panel resizing (reported by Stephen Watson).
1763 Target mode, dragging an unselected item, and auto-selecting an item when
1764 opening the menu now all work without grabbing the primary selection.
1765 Finished new scanning code (image == NULL is now OK everywhere).
1769 Clicking on an item which is selected, but not part of the primary selection,
1770 now reclaims the selection.
1771 Removed default minibuffer option for now.
1772 The dash forms in Find tests can be combined, eg '-rwx'.
1777 Additional window hints - pinboard and panels refuse focus and pinboard
1778 icons are marked as desktop features (requested by Laurent Moussault).
1779 Thumbnails are now stored using an md5 hash of their names.
1780 Pinboard icons can be repositioned by dragging with the left mouse button
1781 (middle button drag stopped working with sawfish, and this is easier anyway).
1785 New scanning system: blank items are added to the window first and then the
1786 icons and types get filled in later. Looks better and simplifies the sizing
1788 Code tidying in various places.
1792 Bugfix: Filer would quit if only Info boxes were open.
1793 Bugfix: Pinboard and panel windows didn't get the correct hints set under
1798 Many internal changes to Collection widget for Gtk+-2.0. Should be more
1799 efficient now, and easier to get aa fonts working...
1803 Fixed Gtk+-2.0 wheel mouse support.
1804 In the Info box, 'File says...' was reporting on the program used to
1805 edit the file, not the file itself!
1806 For glib-2.0, use the new spawn function and report errors nicely.
1810 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
1811 Thumbnail information in the PNG image is now namespaced to 'Thumb'
1812 (recommended by Jens Finke).
1813 FileType SOAP RPC return format has been updated to the latest version
1814 of the SOAP working draft.
1815 Added Large File Support: files over 4Gb now have their sizes detected
1816 correctly (Stephen Watson). Note: this disables libvfs support.
1817 New option to have the minibuffer open by default on new windows
1822 When resizing the collection, only ensure the cursor is still visible if
1823 it was in the displayed area before.
1825 When closing the Enter Path minibuffer, keep Show Hidden on if the cursor is
1828 When using --show with a hidden file, turn on Show Hidden. Also, delay the
1829 winking effect until the window actually appears.
1833 Support for new thumbnails spec; thumbnails are saved inside ~/.thumbnails
1834 so they redisplay quickly next time the filer is loaded (requested by
1835 Kristian A. Rink and others).
1837 Bugfix: Toggling the section with a middle button drag could lose the primary
1838 selection (Andras Mohari).
1842 Use gtk_set_locale instead of setlocale (Andras Mohari).
1846 Added 'Invert Selection' (Stephen Watson; suggested by Andras Mohari).
1850 Added a new root window property (_ROX_FILER_EUID_HOST) which points to
1851 the SOAP IPC window for a particular hostname and user ID. This makes it
1852 easier for other programs to talk to the filer.
1856 Added new SOAP methods Copy, Move, Link, Mount and FileType (Stephen Watson).
1860 Moved 'Select All', 'Clear Selection' and 'Select If...' to a new 'Select'
1862 The filer now closes stdin when it starts. This is to prevent child
1863 processes, such as auto-mounters, from trying to read a password from
1864 the console (Olivier Fourdan).
1868 Manpage is now generated automatically from DocBook source.
1869 Short forms for many find expressions, such as -d for IsDir (suggested by
1874 More Gtk+-1.3.11 support, including use of the new message dialog.
1875 When the filer loses the primary selection, display the selected items
1876 shaded, but don't unselect them (Andras Mohari).
1880 Updated to Gtk+-1.3.11.
1884 Show the current run action for a file in the Info box (Stephen Watson).
1888 If a panel applet quits then it is removed from the panel, instead of being
1889 replaced by a Restart button.
1893 With Gtk+-2.0 and the 'Unique windows' option on, reshow the existing window
1894 instead of destroying it and creating a new one (suggested by Greg Spath).
1898 Changes to the French translation (Thierry Godefroy and Vincent Lefevre).
1902 Code tidying in menu.c (Bernard Jungen).
1906 Opening a filer window from the Set Icon dialog turns thumbnails display
1907 on (suggested by Francesco Bochicchio).
1908 Right-clicking the Help toolbar button reuses the same window.
1912 Made some strings easier to translate, fixed a problem with translating a blank
1913 string, and changed the details toolbar button to leave the size alone (Andras
1915 Improved key handling (key presses were sometimes ignored).
1916 Bugfix: A very long and narrow icon could make the filer try to scale to a
1917 width or height of zero (Andras Mohari).
1921 Allow current directory and selection to be stored with Ctrl+[0-9] and
1922 retrieved by pressing [0-9] (suggested by Jakub Turski). The groups are not
1927 Don't use re_set_syntax() on systems that don't have it (reported by
1929 In action windows, the a long filename no longer makes the window get wider
1930 (requested by Graham Borland).
1931 Added 'Types' section to the Options window, allowing easy(ish) access
1932 to the MIME-info files, plus a reload button, and icons for MIME-types can
1933 be set from the 'Set Icon...' box (Stephen Watson).
1937 Added a menu to the 'Set Icon...' box which shows all directories currently
1938 used for icons (Francesco Bochicchio).
1939 Fix small error in German translation (Christopher Arndt).
1940 Bugfix: 'New Directory' didn't correctly select the leafname with Gtk+-2.0.
1944 Added Spanish translation (Marcelo Ramos).
1945 Applied Bernard Jungen's latest patch:
1946 - Disk usage forgot to count special files like pipes, etc.
1947 - Page up/down scrolls a window full at a time instead of 10 items.
1948 - Don't get icons from the cache if thumbnail mode is off anymore.
1949 - modechange.c: deleted useless stuff and fixed octal parsing to detect
1950 *all* illegal values (eg 010000000000000).
1951 - Added 'Show/hide hidden files' toolbar button.
1952 - Lots of code tidying.
1957 Holding the pointer over a symlink shows the target in a tooltip
1958 (Stephen Watson; suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
1962 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
1964 30-Oct-2001 (Release 1.1.8)
1966 Updated to support Gtk+-1.3.10.
1970 Slightly better positioning of filenames and details (Bernard Jungen).
1971 When resizing, only add space for an extra row in Small Icons mode.
1975 Make the Set Run Action box command box have the "$1" already filled in
1976 (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1980 Set the WM_CLASS for saveboxes, so that window managers can treat them
1981 specially, if required (Andrew Flegg).
1985 Changed internal format used to send to requests to SOAP, and added --RPC
1986 option to access it directly.
1990 Open new windows at the mouse position (suggested by Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson).
1991 Bugfix: If file doesn't accept the '-b' option then examining a file in
1992 the root directory didn't work (Stephen Watson).
1996 Use --version instead of 'which' to test for programs as not everyone has
1997 which (suggested by Vincent Lefevre).
1998 Bugfix: When setting an icon for a file with a space in the name, the
1999 setting wasn't saved correctly (spotted by Arnaud Calvo and Jakub
2000 Turski). The 'globicons' file should be converted automatically
2001 when the filer is run.
2005 Added support for the regex field in MIME-info. This allows files to be
2006 matched with patterns, not just on their extensions. For example, '.gtkrc'
2007 is now typed 'x-gtkrc' despite having no extension (Stephen Watson and
2012 Allow AppIcon.xpm and .DirIcon.png to be symlinks (Bernard Jungen).
2016 When running on a remote machine, display the remote host's name in the
2017 title bar (Stephen Watson).
2021 New option to control whether a middle button drag moves the files or
2023 Allow submenus in AppInfo.xml file (Stephen Watson).
2027 Now supports Gtk+-1.3.9, but not earlier developer releases.
2031 Disk Usage can cope with larger sizes, and reports the number of files and
2032 directories counted; new Show Hidden and Inherit Options options; new -D
2033 option to close directories; and changes to formatting of file sizes
2038 Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2039 Improved the filename colouring code so that colours are only allocated
2040 if needed (Andras Mohari) and fixed a colourmap problem (Stephen Watson).
2041 Bugfix: When sorting while winking an item, the filer would sometimes scroll
2042 to the wrong place (Andras Mohari).
2043 Bugfix: If all the selected files were deleted, then trying to paste the
2044 selection caused a crash (Fabien Coutant).
2048 Colour files by type (Andras Mohari).
2052 Added -p to mkdir in install scripts to create any missing parent
2053 directories (Michel Alexandre Salim).
2057 Dragging files with the middle button (or Button1+Alt) brings up a menu
2058 of possible actions (Taras).
2059 New option to control size of icons in `New' and `Send To' menus (Stephen
2061 Bugfix: Pinboard icons didn't draw correctly if their windows got resized
2062 (reported by Michel Alexandre Salim).
2066 Window positions can be saved and restored by a session manager (Anders
2071 Fixed an untranslated string (Andras Mohari).
2075 The style for pinboard and panel icon text can be set (requested by Greg
2078 widget "*.pinboard-icon" style "..."
2079 widget "*.panel-icon.*" style "..."
2083 Bugfix: Entering a blank expression in the 'Select If' minibuffer displayed
2084 a (harmless) warning message (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2086 03-Sep-2001 (Release 1.1.7)
2088 Added an option to control whether extensions take precedence over the
2089 executable bit of a file (requested by MJ Ray).
2090 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre and Arnaud Calvo).
2091 Disabled the UTF-8 conversion (doesn't work on older versions of Gtk).
2095 The options controlling when windows resize work again.
2099 Better guessing of window size for display styles with details.
2103 The 'src/po/dist' script now converts all text to UTF-8.
2107 Fixed some problems with the configure.in script and autoconf 2.50 (Richard
2112 Updated Dutch translation (Jasper Huijsmans).
2113 Send To menu lists contents of all Send To directories in Choices, not just
2114 the first one found.
2115 Fixed another XML compiling problem (Stephen Watson).
2119 Added Customise to `Send To' menu.
2123 Detached Send To menu from main menu structure. Allows key-binding to open
2124 the menu, at least. Main menu now opens quicker (no scanning of Send To dir).
2125 Shift+Menu brings up the menu directly.
2129 Fixed compiling problem with some versions of libxml (Stephen Watson).
2130 Changed a text message in the Options box (about binding keys to menus) into
2131 a button which shows the message in an alert box. Maybe people will read the
2136 Only use Gtk+ 2.0 if version 1.3.6 or later is installed.
2137 Scrolling using a wheel mouse now always goes at the same speed, whatever the
2138 display style (requested by aardvark joe).
2142 Added 'Send To' menu (Stephen Watson).
2144 Bugfix: Renaming a panel icon didn't update the display (reported by Andrew
2149 Fixed some minor compilation issues (reported by Jasper Huijsmans and Daniel
2154 Added French translation of the manual (Arnaud Calvo).
2158 Filer wouldn't compile or run if it was in a directory with spaces in the
2159 name (reported by Benjamin Munoz).
2163 Added options for default action window settings for Brief, Force and Recurse
2165 New default for sort type is Sort By Name (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2166 Bugfix: Clicking on a file with no run action set gave two error boxes.
2170 Make Enter in the minibuffer work like Return (requested by Arnaud Calvo).
2174 Added some more hints to pinboard and panel windows to comply with the new
2175 freedesktop.org window manger spec.
2179 New option to set the maximum size the auto-resizer will resize a window to
2180 (requested by Andreas Dehmel).
2184 When using the Set Run Action box, make the command default to the currently
2185 set command (suggested by Arnaud Calvo).
2187 12-Jul-2001 (Release 1.1.6)
2189 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2193 Renamed 'New File' submenu to 'New' and moved 'New Directory' into it.
2197 Use the user's preferred font for item filenames, not the Gtk default
2198 (requested by Jim Knoble).
2202 Redid text handling on the panel. Now uses nice fonts under Gtk+ 2.0.
2206 Don't show tooltips for applets as it causes problems (reported by Stephen
2211 Gtk+-2.0: Support for anti-aliased fonts on the pinboard (also word-wraps
2212 long names too). Fixed a crash-on-click problem on the root window.
2216 More work on Gtk+-2.0 -- seems to be usable now :-)
2220 Started work to support Gtk+-2.0.
2224 Moved 'relative link' option above the buttons in the Link box (Stephen
2226 Bugfix: Rescanning could sometimes make the cursor reappear, causing the
2227 display to scroll (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2231 Replaced 'New File...' menu item with a submenu generated from the contents
2232 of '<Choices>/Templates' (Stephen Watson).
2236 `Xterm here' command can contain arguments (Andras Mohari).
2237 Made the menu appear in a sensible place, so it's easy to get to the File
2238 submenu (suggested by André Wyrwa).
2242 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2243 Added a German translation (André Wyrwa).
2247 Added an extra option to control the resizing behaviour. Can be set to resize
2248 never, always, or only when the display style changes (requested by Andreas).
2250 07-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.5)
2252 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2256 Unless compiling with mc's libvfs for virtual filesystem support, change the
2257 menu structure for use with the newer AVFS system.
2258 (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/) (José Romildo Malaquias).
2260 Bug fix: Running the filer with a translation set would make it crash
2261 (reported by Dmitry Elfimov).
2263 04-Jun-2001 (Release 1.1.4)
2265 Added 'Details' toolbar icon. Toggles display between Small Icons with Summary
2266 and the default size with no details.
2270 Replaced Large/Small toolbar buttons with a single Size button which
2271 cycles through Small/Large/Huge (other button to reverse).
2275 Added Shift Open, Set Run Action and Set Icon to the pinboard and panel
2280 Long leafnames wrap onto multiple lines in Huge mode, like they do for
2285 Display tooltips for pinboard and panel icons, where needed.
2289 New option to show number of files / size of selected files in the toolbar
2294 New options section 'panel' allows icon text to be hidden for all icons, no
2295 icons, or just applications (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2299 Converted the options window to a tabbed notebook (Denis Manente).
2303 Pressing the mouse button down on an icon no longer winks it; only releasing
2304 the button to run it does.
2305 Added 'Show Info' to panel/pinboard menu.
2306 The File Info box grabs the primary selection when a row is selected
2307 (allows you to paste email addresses, URLs, etc).
2311 Opening a pinboard or panel menu over an icon no longer selects it -- this
2312 allows the selection to be passed to an application run using its AppMenu
2313 (requested by Christopher Arndt).
2317 In Large Icons display style, a file's name may wrap onto a second line.
2321 Merged code for handling selections and menus that was common to pinboards
2322 and panels into icon.c.
2326 When using 'From LANG', extract the language code from the string to get
2327 the filename, instead of using the whole string (Andras Mohari).
2328 Added support for very old versions of libxml (reported by Lukasz Stelmach
2329 and Vincent Lefèvre).
2333 Updated French (Vincent Lefevre) and Hungarian (Andras Mohari) translations.
2335 07-May-2001 (Release 1.1.3)
2337 Updated the documentation.
2341 Added 'Huge, With...' display styles. In huge mode, normal icons are scaled
2342 up if they're too small.
2346 Gtk styles can be overridden in <Choices>/ROX-Filer/Styles (suggested by
2348 Pinboards and panels should now work with IceWM without needing -o
2349 (Christopher Arndt).
2350 Allow text messages in the toolbar to go off the side (instead of resizing the
2355 Opening the shell minibuffer with a selection adds ' "$@' after the cursor.
2356 Without a selection, the name of the file under the cursor is added.
2360 Pressing the `\' key opens the menu (suggested by Christopher Arndt). Hold
2361 down Ctrl for the File submenu.
2365 Added a new 'About' section to AppInfo. Any elements in here are added
2366 into the info box. Added a 'Refresh' button to the info box.
2367 Added a ROX-Filer/Styles file for default colours (default filer background
2372 Rewrote the file info box. Looks a bit nicer, and it's easier to add extra
2377 Updated Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2381 AppInfo file may contain a <Summary> element - the text inside will be
2382 displayed in a tooltip if the mouse is held over the item in a filer
2387 Filer now looks for AppInfo.xml before AppMenu. This is for future
2392 Automatic resizing of windows when changing directory is now optional
2393 (requested by Paul E. Johnson and Andreas Thorn).
2397 The symlink box allows you to choose to create relative or absolute links
2398 (suggested by Stephen Watson).
2402 Fix some typos and untranslated strings (Andras Mohari).
2406 Added a Russian translation (Dmitry Elfimov).
2410 Fixed a couple of errors in the man-page (spotted by Damien Couderc).
2414 Winking an item in a directory makes it flash twice instead of once (easier
2415 to see). Also, creating a new file or directory from the menu winks the new
2418 Bugfix: When a directory was rescanned because of a move operation,
2419 the `Set Icon...' settings didn't work (reported by Damien
2424 New display style 'Huge Icons' to make viewing thumbnails easier.
2425 Added a Hungarian translation (Andras Mohari).
2426 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2427 Double clicking on a filer window's background resizes the window (Denis
2432 If an item's name is truncated, show it in a tooltip when the pointer is
2433 held over the item (Denis Manente).
2435 30-Mar-2001 (Release 1.1.2)
2437 Asking for help on a directory always tries to open <dir>/Help first, even
2438 for non-applications.
2442 If run without -n, the filer will put itself in the background. Thus,
2443 the 'rox' command behaves the same whether or not the filer is already
2448 Support for the new version of libxml (reported by Andreas Dehmel).
2452 Rewrote parser for options. Smaller and neater (hopefully this will fix
2453 the bugs reported by Andreas Dehmel and Ewan Mac Mahon).
2455 Bugfix: While scanning, the resizer could make the window too large.
2459 Moving the cursor down in the next-to-last row will move to the last
2460 item if there is nothing under the cursor (suggested by Graham Borland).
2464 When changing directory, only make the window larger (if needed), never
2465 smaller (suggested by Diego Zamboni).
2469 Changing directory autosizes the window automatically (Denis Manente).
2470 Internal changes to the way different layouts are handled.
2474 Pressing space (to select/unselect an item) now also moves the cursor to
2475 the next item (suggested by Anders Lundmark).
2477 Copying directories tries to preserve the timestamps, like it does for
2478 files (suggested by José Romildo Malaquias).
2482 Added '--mime-type FILE' option, which simply writes the type of FILE to
2483 standard output (Stephen Watson).
2485 Added 'Home Directory' to Window menu (requested by Graham Borland).
2489 Copying a directory which doesn't have user write permission will give it
2490 user write during the copy to avoid permission denied errors (suggested by
2493 New sort option - 'Directories always come first' (requested by Liav Asseraf).
2497 Dragging a lasso box with the middle button toggles the selected state
2498 of the items enclosed (Denis Manente).
2502 Changing the display style now resizes the window (Denis Manente).
2506 New pinboards get a 'Home' icon in the top left corner as new users often
2507 think the pinboard isn't working because it starts empty (suggested by
2510 Converted AppMenu file format to XML.
2511 Added AppMenu file with options to control the pinboard.
2515 Highlight invalid Find expressions in red (Anders Lundmark).
2519 When resizing windows, try to keep the window fully inside the screen area
2524 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2528 When mounting a device, the new window appears after mounting, not before.
2529 This means that it's more likely to get sized correctly (requested by
2534 Added two new options to control when minibuffer completion beeps (requested
2539 Added 'New File...' feature (James Kermode).
2543 Dropping icons on the pinboard positions them sensibly (Diego Zamboni).
2545 09-Feb-2001 (Release 1.1.1)
2547 Moving pinboard icons is nicer - it no longer assumes you dragged the middle
2548 of the text... (Diego Zamboni).
2550 Added a Polish translation (Andrzej Borsuk).
2552 Bugfix: Sometimes it wasn't possible to delete something that was on a
2553 pinboard or panel, even after confirming (reported by Diego Zamboni).
2557 Sliders in the options box can have a numerical value display (Diego Zamboni).
2558 Fixed a stray warning message displayed when non-default pinboard options
2559 were used (Diego Zamboni).
2561 New menu item 'Set Icon...' allows you to choose any icon for any file or
2562 directory. Also allow .DirIcon.png to set a directory's icon (Diego Zamboni).
2566 Many internal changes to the Options system.
2570 Bugfix: On filesystems which aren't case sensitive (eg DOS) it was possible
2571 to copy 'tmp' as 'Tmp' and lose it! (reported by Denis Manente)
2575 Added Diego Zamboni's patch to make configuring VFS easier.
2579 Improved compiling - now correctly reports an error if the file doesn't
2580 compile. If configure is missing then autoconf is run automatically.
2582 After a Find completes, you are given the option of doing the search again
2585 Applications can define a list of menu items to display on their menus
2586 (Diego Zamboni). The file should be called 'AppMenu' and contains a list of
2587 lines in the form 'option Text'.
2591 Added two new pinboard options - one to allow setting the grid step size
2592 and one to allow icons to go slightly off the side of the screen (Diego
2597 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds could cause a crash (reported by Diego
2602 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2604 Bugfix: The pixbuf stuff didn't work on some displays (reported by Stephen
2607 20-Jan-2001 (Release 1.1.0)
2609 Removed the 'Initial window height' option. The filer tries to pick a
2610 sensible shape itself now.
2612 Bugfix: If an image was moved to a directory which didn't generate thumbs
2613 then it would display, but never be updated. Even if it wasn't that
2614 file at all, just a reused inode!
2615 Bugfix: Changing the display style didn't always redraw the display.
2616 Bugfix: In 'Small, With...' display mode, clicking beyond the far right
2617 column acted like clicking on the far-right column.
2621 Changed background colour to be more compatible with the Gtk themes system.
2625 Removed all the message window stuff. ROX-Filer no longer grabs standard
2626 error from its child processes. Changed because ROX-Session now does a much
2631 Filer is more generous in what hostnames it considers local.
2632 Patch to include pixbuf headers correctly (Diego Zamboni).
2636 Bug fix: Didn't always use the fully qualified host name for DnD.
2640 If a file has a known extension then it is given the appropriate type even
2641 if the file is executable (Simon Britnell).
2645 Added a menu entry 'Resize Window' to set the window to a sensible size
2650 Try to open new windows at a sensible size for their contents (Denis Manente).
2654 Bugfix: When mounting or unmounting subdirectories of '/', the mount symbol
2655 wasn't updated (reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2659 Fixed a couple of memory leaks in the choices system (Diego Zamboni).
2660 Updated French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2661 Added new 'Create Thumbs' entry on the Display menu which tries to load
2662 every file in the directory as an image and use that image for the file
2663 (suggested by Sprague and Simon Britnell).
2667 Converted to use gdk-pixbuf instead of ImLib.
2668 Fixed a few compiler warnings and improved the error message displayed
2669 if you try to invoke rox on a missing file (reported by Vincent Lefèvre).
2670 Changed the -w, -W and -i flags to the simpler -x=FILE, which reexamines the
2671 given file, updating directory views and icons as needed.
2675 AppIcon.xpm must be a regular file (stops people trying to crash the
2676 filer by symlinking to /dev/...).
2677 Fixed a missing translation in the pinboard options (Denis Manente).
2681 Attempting to run the filer before compiling will now ask if you want
2683 Removed lots of platform-specific mount point code and replaced it with
2684 python's portable system.
2685 New options section allows you to choose a translation without having to
2686 set the LANG variable.
2690 Added '-w', '-i' and '-W' command line options for forcing icons or
2691 directories to be rescanned (Diego Zamboni).
2693 13-Dec-2000 (Release 1.0.0)
2695 Made a few updates to the manual.
2699 Fixes to make compiling easier on Solaris (Diego Zamboni). Also, after showing
2700 a pinboard icon, tries to send it to the back (might help with some WMs).
2702 04-Dec-2000 (Release 0.1.30)
2704 When a panel is used for the first time, put the user's home directory and
2705 the directory containing ROX-Filer on it instead of leaving it blank.
2709 Patch to make compiling easier under FreeBSD (Jimmy Olgeni).
2710 Added a #include for OSF1 (Vincent Lefevre).
2714 Bugfix: On many systems, the filer would fail to remove zombie processes
2715 due to a typo (spotted by Philip Hazel and tracked down by Stephen
2720 Bugfix: Removing an item from the panel now resizes the panel (reported
2721 by Wilbert Berendsen).
2722 Bugfix: Editing an icon's path failed to update its hash entry.
2726 If a case-sensitve match for an extension can't be found then try a
2727 case-insensitive match - so .BMP and similar work (Denis Manente).
2731 A few changes to remove some compiler warnings (reported by Vincent Lefevre).
2732 Added a VFS menu entry for .deb files (Vincent Ledda).
2736 Mounting or unmounting a directory forces mtab to be reread, even if the
2737 timestamp hasn't changed (problem reported by Wilbert Berendsen).
2739 When the 'Unique windows' option is on, remove the old window AFTER creating
2740 the new one, so that the filer doesn't quit because there are zero windows
2741 open... (Denis Manente).
2745 Updated the Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2749 Updated the French translation (Vincent Lefèvre).
2751 Using --version and --help options no longer requires an X server connection,
2752 the man-pages are more standard, and 'man ROX-Filer' is allowed as well as
2753 'man rox' (Bernard Jungen).
2755 Bugfix: A corrupted AppIcon.xpm could crash the filer.
2757 24-Oct-2000 (Release 0.1.29)
2759 Code tidying: Replaced an XLib call with a gdk one (Denis Manente) and amended
2760 the makedist script to remove the .cvsignore files (spotted by Andy
2765 Improved the install script so that it installs the man-page. Also made it
2766 easier to use. Updated the French translation and fixed a couple of
2767 typos (Vincent Lefèvre).
2771 Gtk+ doesn't always scroll entry widgets to show the selection - apply a
2772 workaround (Denis Manente) - this improves the Copy/Rename/etc boxes.
2776 Added a Dutch translation (Jan Wagemakers).
2780 Added an Italian translation (Denis Manente).
2784 Bugfix: If AppRun was a symlink, then the owner of the file was checked, not
2785 the owner of the symlink. Slight security risk, and also prevented
2786 users symlinking AppRun to their binaries...
2790 Bugfix: Deleting a pinboard icon while it was highlighted caused a crash.
2791 This means it is now possible to click on a pinboard icon to change
2792 between pinboards...
2794 Bugfix: Textured window backgrounds didn't redraw correctly when scrolled
2795 or resized. Now flickers when resizing if there's a textured
2796 background - seems to be necessary :-(
2800 Running as root now simply turns on the -u flag, rather than displaying
2803 The toolbar height is now correctly taken into account when sizing a new filer
2804 window (Denis Manente).
2806 When guessing file types from extensions, the filer now tries to find the
2807 longest extension that matches (eg .ps.gz, then .gz).
2811 The lasso box is now drawn so that the box will be in the foreground colour
2812 over the background, rather than by just inverting the pixel value and hoping
2813 it's visible (spotted by Philip Hazel).
2817 If the home directory is '/' then don't show it as '~' (suggested by
2820 Added '--show=FILE' option - this will be needed by other ROX
2821 applications, so it needs to be in version 1.0.0.
2823 Bugfix: -d option didn't use realpath before sending to an already-running
2828 The 'install.sh' script now uses 'printf' instead of 'echo -e' to suppress
2829 newlines (suggested by Bernard Jungen).
2831 Bugfix: Close tool was always disabled on startup (reported by Martin Ward).
2835 Added a man-page (Andy Piper).
2836 Changed `install.sh' from bash to sh (Bernard Jungen).
2838 18-Sep-2000 (Release 0.1.28)
2840 Bugfix: menu entries on the pinboard menu weren't being shaded and
2845 Changed 'Rename Item' to 'Edit Icon' and allowed changing the path that
2846 the icon points to as well as its name.
2848 All i?86 platforms are treated as being equivalent (so, if you compile
2849 on a 386 then it'll still run on a 486).
2853 Pinboard icons can also be renamed.
2854 Pinboard and panel icons can have '~' or '~/' at the start of their
2855 pathnames - this should make it easier to create a system-wide default
2856 panel or pinboard with icons relative to the user's home directory.
2860 Panel icons can now be renamed (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2864 Changing the toolbar options affects existing windows, not just new ones.
2865 Removed the 'Size Bars' display style and replaced it with 'Permissions',
2866 'Type' and 'Times' styles.
2870 With items that spread over their normal width because they're on the
2871 edge of the window, clicking on the extra bit now works.
2873 Added a size limit of 400K on application icons. This is to prevent
2874 someone trying to crash the filer by linking /tmp/MyApp/AppIcon.xpm
2877 Dragging an item with the middle button when none are selected unselects
2878 the item after the drag.
2880 Added 'Show Location' feature for pinboard and panels - opens a directory
2881 showing where the file really is.
2885 Allowed items in the far right column to spread right to the edge of the
2886 window. Fixed a bug which prevented Delete from working if there was
2891 Deleting items first checks if it will affect the pinboard or panel. A
2892 warning is displayed if so.
2894 Upgraded the query dialog (from ROX-Session) - looks nicer.
2898 'Unique filer windows' option now has no effect while the spring open
2899 feature is active (spotted by Andrew Booker). Also, when opening a new
2900 window, the old window is destroyed and a new one created (rather than
2901 reusing the old one). This ensures that the new window appears in the
2904 When a drag from the pinboard or a filer window ends, the selection is
2905 only cleared if the icon was selected by starting the drag. Thus, it now
2906 works like the panels.
2910 New Close toolbar button (requested by Martin Ward).
2911 Toolbar icons can be turned on and off from the Options box.
2912 Removed the 'Mount' menu entry, since 'Shift Open' does it too.
2913 Made the Shift Open menu text change depending on what is selected.
2914 Bugfix: dragging icons around no longer saved the new pinboard state!
2918 Running a second copy of the filer as another user will start a new copy
2919 instead of reusing the existing one. Added the '-u' option to display the
2920 name of the user running the filer in each window (also suppresses the
2921 normal don't-run-as-root warning).
2923 Added '-d', which opens a directory as a directory, even if it looks like
2928 Added Large and Small toolbar buttons. Right-clicking brings up a menu.
2932 Moved 'Set Run Action' to the file menu (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon), and
2933 made using it bring up a dialog rather than a minibuffer. Hopefully it is now
2936 Added much improved icons for executables and for applications without icons
2937 of their own (Victor Liu See-le).
2939 Allow '/' on the pinboard and panel (text wasn't displayed - spotted by
2942 Bugfix: auto-scrolling didn't always stop when a drag ended.
2943 Bugfix: creating a panel with the same name as a file in the current
2944 directory caused an error due to a throwback from when panels were
2945 directories (spotted by Ewan Mac Mahon).
2947 30-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.27)
2949 Increased the distance you have to move the pointer to start a drag
2950 slightly. Updated the manual.
2952 Panel icons can now be moved from one side to the other by simply moving
2953 over the gap in the middle. Previously, you had to jump over an icon on
2956 Left and right panels look better now. Also, they shrink if you add a top
2957 or bottom panel to make room.
2961 Dragging on the panel background allows you to slide the bar back and
2966 Fixed a slight bug with lasso boxes, which could cause them to be drawn in
2967 the wrong place. Install script no longer overwrites the default run
2968 actions; if the user has changed them leave them alone!
2969 (Martin Ward noted that symlinking to an executable would cause the
2970 executable to be destroyed on upgrade!)
2974 More improvements to the event handling. Seems to be working again at
2976 Made the toolbar buttons slightly larger, and added a textual display
2977 for 'Next Click' mode (eg 'Delete ... ?' when it's waiting for you to
2979 Moved the pinboard over to the new mouse binding code too.
2983 Started rewriting the event handling for filer windows to go through
2984 the new code in bind.c, like the panel handling does.
2988 You can now drag icons from the panel to other applications.
2992 Dragging panel icons with the middle button allows you to move them around.
2994 New option to set the default height for new filer windows (patch from
2999 Selecting panel icons now grabs the primary selection. Pasting pastes all
3000 selected file path names. Icons can now be added to either side of the panel.
3002 Bug fix: Moving a file didn't always update the source directory.
3006 Many improvements to the panel - drag and drop to icons, adding new icons,
3007 selections (doesn't grab the primary selection yet though), removing icons
3008 and automatically saving the panel when it's changed.
3012 Improved reference counting on images (hopefully!). Lots of work on
3013 rewriting the panel system.
3017 Made the timeout for the spring-open feature configurable (requested by
3020 Use short form of --version in install.sh and don't use unsetenv() if it
3021 isn't available (Mattias Engdegård).
3025 New options to set the pinboard text foreground and background colours
3026 (suggested by James Kermode).
3030 Your home directory is now displayed as '~' in the title bar, rather
3031 than as a full path.
3033 01-Aug-2000 (Release 0.1.26)
3035 Added a popup menu of commonly used chmod strings to the Permissions
3036 box. Bracketed text and spaces are now ignored in the commands.
3037 Bug fix: Only menu keys changed since the last load were saved!
3041 Bug fix: Mount points on the pinboard didn't always redraw when the
3042 mounted/unmounted state changed.
3046 Renaming now uses the action windows. This means that you can now
3047 rename something onto another filesystem.
3051 The menu key bindings are now only saved if they actually changed.
3053 Code tidying: Moved some typedefs to the new `global.h' file and
3054 thus removed the dependencies between header files :-)
3058 Tab and Shift-Tab move to next and previous selected item.
3062 The new display styles can now be saved as the defaults (bug spotted by
3065 When autoscrolling is used, prevent the last-highlighted directory
3066 from springing open. 'spring open' now defaults to off.
3068 The toolbar Up and Home buttons can act as drop targets (and spring open
3071 Options to set the pinboard text background style (suggested by James
3076 Added an option to control the spring-loading feature. Added tooltips
3077 to some of the options. Improved the rule for deciding whether to open
3078 a new window when you click on the toolbar buttons.
3080 Stopped the spring-open window moving while it's open (prevents a bug
3081 in GTK+ from causing problems). Please use GTK+ 1.2.8 or later now!
3083 Dragging near the edge of a window scrolls. Improved the lasso box drag
3084 to use the same system (so it scrolls without you having to move the
3089 Added 'spring-loaded' directories. If you drag a file over a directory and
3090 hold it there, the directory will spring open! (suggested by Barney
3095 In the path entry minibuffer, an exact match is favoured over any other
3096 match. So, if you enter '.xsession' and press Return you'll get it, not
3097 '.xsession-errors' or whatever!
3099 The filer now clears APP_DIR from the environment so that child processes
3100 don't get it. Fixed a bug which caused problems when using a small version
3101 of the 'missing image' image.
3105 Creating a new directory now makes sure the display is updated.
3107 18-Jul-2000 (Release 0.1.25)
3109 Prevent dragging from a pinboard selection to itself, or onto the desktop
3114 Clicking on the root window works (button-1 clears the selection,
3115 button-3 opens the pinboard menu). The pinboard can own the primary
3116 selection, which means that you can select something and then paste
3117 its name into another program.
3119 Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits.
3123 Changed the install script so that the CVS directories don't get installed.
3125 The 'rox' script now just calls AppRun directly.
3126 Panels can be created without starting a new copy of the filer.
3127 The pinboard can be changed or removed by using --pinboard a second time.
3129 Files can be given as arguments - they are opened as if they were clicked
3130 on in a filer window (suggested by Alex Holden). If no arguments are
3131 given then the default is now the current directory (not your home
3134 If you start the leafname in the path minibuffer with '.' then the Show
3135 Hidden feature is temporarily turned on.
3139 Ctrl-clicking selects and unselects pinboard icons. Menu clicking
3140 selects the icon clicked on while the menu is open. Pinned icons are
3141 now updated when the pointer moves over them, if necessary.
3145 Menu-clicking on a pinboard icon now brings up a menu.
3146 Clicks on the root window are still ignored though; need to support
3147 the GNOME-compliant window manager system for passing root clicks on...
3151 Files can now be dragged to pinboard icons, and they highlight nicely too!
3152 If the --override option is used, the filer will bypass the window manager
3153 and position the icons directly.
3157 Pinboard icons can now be dragged to filer windows or applications, just
3162 Changed the DnD code to make it easier for the pinboard code to use it.
3163 Up and Home buttons on the toolbar now use the 'New window on button 1'
3164 option setting (suggested by Vincent Lefèvre).
3168 Pinboard can have mount points and symlinks on it.
3172 Dragging with the Menu button moves icons around. Clicking with the
3173 other button removes icons from the pinboard.
3177 Dragging files to the pinboard adds them to it and automatically saves
3182 Pinboard is now loaded from a file specified on the command line.
3186 'Home' now appears on the background if you run it with --pinboard.
3187 Clicking opens your home directory. Doesn't do much else.
3188 Fixed a bug which prevented the minibuffer label from appearing on
3189 some versions of GTK+.
3193 First steps towards pinboard support (requested by P.S.S.Camp and
3198 Changed the Display menu layout - now there are four basic types (Large or
3199 Small, with or without details) and the type of detail desired is chosen
3200 from a sub-sub-menu.
3202 Added a new display style - bars showing the sizes of the files. The bars are
3203 drawn on a log scale.
3207 Changed the display menu - you can now choose large or small icons, with or
3208 without details. The details displayed can also be changed. I'm not quite
3209 happy with the UI yet though...
3211 Split the filer.c source file into two (filer.c and display.c) since it was
3212 becoming rather unwieldy. This means that some of the option names have
3213 changed because they've moved to a new section in the options window...
3217 Fixed a problem where ImLib support failed on multi-depth displays (reported
3218 by Stephen Harrison).
3220 06-Jun-2000 (Release 0.1.24)
3222 Added the install.sh script for easier installation.
3223 Removed 'MIME-info' file from ROX-Filer - now we always assume that the
3224 standard types are in Choices.
3225 Fixed a bug which could cause 'top' panels to appear in the wrong place
3227 Changed the sort order for Sort By Type so that directories come before
3228 files (suggested by Chris Garrett).
3229 `Single-click navigation' and 'Ignore case when sorting' now both default
3234 Improved the theme support to allow tiled background images.
3235 Fixed a bug which prevented tilde expansion from working in the
3236 shell command minibuffer.
3240 Made the help button look a bit nicer and changed the Find and Permissions
3241 action windows to use the icon instead of a text button.
3242 Removed the 3D borders from the help and toolbar buttons when not selected
3243 (looks much better!). Setting a run action by dragging to a symlink now
3244 dereferences the link (suggested by Ewan Mac Mahon).
3246 Default search path for Choices is now:
3247 ~/Choices:/usr/local/share/Choices:/usr/share/Choices
3249 Fixed (possibly) a bug which sometimes causes the redraw to miss bits. This
3250 probably slows everything down, but the next Gtk+ release should do double
3251 buffering so all this will get changed then...
3255 Added a Help icon to the toolbar, which does the same as choosing `Show
3256 ROX-Filer Help' from the menu.
3260 Started adding some code to truncate long filenames (not finished yet).
3261 Fixed a bug which could cause directories to appear empty when using VFS.
3262 Added the 'Select If' minibuffer, which selects all files matching the
3267 Moved most of the icons from pixmaps to MIME-icons (outside ROX-Filer).
3268 Updated several of the remaining icons by copying them from the GNOME
3269 desktop (suggested by Volker Braun).
3272 16-May-2000 (Release 0.1.23)
3274 Added the `Window->Set Run Action' menu item. This allows you to specify the
3275 default run action for a file by simply dragging the file into a program.
3276 You can also enter a shell command in the minibuffer to make that command
3278 The cursor is a bit nicer and usually appears where you want it to now. You
3279 can also get rid of it by pressing Escape.
3283 Applied Bernard's patch (a couple of cosmetic changes to the action windows).
3284 Applied Vincent's patch (minor updates to the Frech translation).
3285 Fixed a problem with the pixmap caching - the filer would detect that the
3286 file had changed and try to reload it, but ImLib would simply return its
3291 Removed a debugging message that had somehow got into the release version :-(
3292 Fixed a bug in the minibuffer code - pressing Return when the cursor was in
3293 an empty directory caused odd effects.
3295 24-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.22)
3297 When starting, the filer will check to see if it is already running.
3298 If it is then the arguments are passed to that copy.
3302 Bug fix: Attempting to open a Find preview window could cause a crash
3303 if the directory containing the item could not be opened.
3304 Button-3 clicking on the toolbar icons opens a new window.
3309 Added Vincent Lefevre's French translation. Changed to using my own
3310 gettext function because some platforms don't have it or implement
3313 18-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.21)
3315 Completed marking translatable strings. Dragging with the middle button
3320 Made lots of changes to the way menus are stored; this makes i18n of the
3325 Added GNU gettext support.
3326 Shell meta-characters in shell commands are escaped.
3330 Tab in the shell commands minibuffer does shell-style completion.
3332 14-Apr-2000 (Release 0.1.20)
3334 ImLib is used for rendering if possible. Small Icons super-samples the
3339 Copying from inside a VFS directory now works.
3343 Added the Shell Command feature to the minibuffer.
3344 Fixed a bug which causes unnecessary flickering when a hidden file was
3346 Removed 'Touch' from the menu; easy enough from the minibuffer now.
3347 Changed the type guessing system - scans all files in MIME-info directories
3352 Added a nice list displaying the found files. Clicking opens a preview window
3353 onto the directory and winks the file.
3357 Merged the MIME-Type and Special fields in the info window into a single
3358 Type field (since only one could be used at a time anyway).
3359 Made lots of changes to the panel menu. You can now remove things much more
3361 Unstat()able files now display the error message in the Full Info display,
3362 instead of random values.
3363 Check for copying a directory onto itself, as well as into itself.
3365 Applied Bernard's patch:
3366 - Copy (menu entry) now works with action window.
3367 - Deleted/moved directory displays are automatically hidden.
3368 - Added option not to allow run/copy when object
3369 dragged to filer (not panels) icons. Some people like
3370 it the RISC OS way...
3371 - Full info alignment of App objects and owner/group
3372 alignment corrected.
3373 - Info window: added special info for symlinks, apps
3378 Added support for mc's Virtual File System.
3382 New Window appears greyed out if Unique Windows is selected.
3383 Added 'Permissions' (chmod) feature.
3387 Added Bernard Jungen's patch:
3388 - Dates are displayed in a more RISC OS like format.
3389 - (Scanning) is shown in the titlebar during scans.
3390 - Option to only display one window per directory.
3391 - User and group names displayed in the Full Info view.
3392 - Open Parent in the root does nothing.
3393 - Errors in options are only reported once.
3394 - File does chdir() if -b isn't possible (prevents getting the full path
3395 in the file(1) says... box).
3398 Before the Changes file
3399 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3400 The following people added code before I started keeping this log:
3402 Jens Askengren GNOME-style toolbar
3403 Bernard Jungen lots of patches all over the place!
3404 Christiansen Merel initial support for ImLib
3405 Chris Sawer leafname field in the Info box
3406 Simon Truss support for mount points on NetBSD